Library Guides: HS1401: Health and Health Care in Australia Guide: Finding journal literature

Nursing and Midwifery Databases

Key databases
Other useful databases

Please see below for video tutorials on how to search Medline, CINAHL, Scopus and Informit, as well as a video lecture on the Basics of Searching.

CINAHL Complete
The authoritative abstract and index service (A&I) for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. It includes full-text journals, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, research instruments and clinical trials.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Limited to twenty concurrent users.
Emcare on Ovid
Emcare on Ovid covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions. Emcare includes international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.

Available to James Cook University users only. One Search coverage 100%
MEDLINE (Ovid)
MEDLINE ® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

Available to James Cook University users only.
One Search coverage 0%
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
PsycINFO is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature.

Available to James Cook University users only.
ClinicalKey
Comprised of Australian University Base package and Australian University Specialty packages, this is a clinical search engine that supports physicians and nurses in clinical decision making. Resources available include journals, ebooks, drug monographs, guidelines, multimedia, patient education and procedures consult. All users will be required to register for a personal account in order to download full-text book chapter PDFs; use the Presentation Maker; access Search History, Saved Searches and Saved Content; access ClinicalKey remotely and use the Mobile App.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to help people make well-informed decisions about healthcare and health policy, and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Available to James Cook University users only.

Anatomy.tv
Medically accurate and detailed 3D rendering of human anatomy based on imaging data. Includes anatomy, physiology, clinical content and therapies.

Available to James Cook University users only.
AusDI : Australian drug information for the health care professional
AusDI delivers rapid access to Australia's most comprehensive and up-to-date database of independent drug monographs, pharmaceutical company product information (PI), consumer medicine information (CMI) documents, product summaries, drug product images and Interactions and Safety monographs.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Australian Medicines Handbook
AMH provides a concise, up-to-date source of independent drug information to facilitate effective, rational, safe and economical prescribing and dispensing.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Limited to 3 concurrent users.
Biosis Citation Index
Indexing service covering references to the primary literature in life sciences and biomedical research. James Cook University has access to information from the period 1926-2015. Includes coverage of Biological Abstracts.

Available to James Cook University users only.
eTG complete
Peer-reviewed clinical therapeutic guidelines covering a range of topics. Includes drug information, patient information and calculators.

Available to James Cook University users only. One Search coverage 0%
Gale Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles covering the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, literature and many other subjects.

Includes Expanded Academic ASAP and Health Reference Center plus other databases.
Available to James Cook University users only.
Medline (Pubmed)
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine journal citation database providing over 22 million references to biomedical and life sciences journal articles dating back to 1946. It is a subset of the PubMed database which is freely available.
MIMS Online
MIMS is a leading supplier of trusted, quality, independent medicine information to Australian healthcare professionals.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Limited to 1 concurrent user
ProQuest platform
This is the starting point to access the multidisciplinary resources available on ProQuest, including journals, ebooks, newspapers and A&I services.

Available to James Cook University users only.
PsycARTICLES (ProQuest)
PsycARTICLES offers full text articles from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Psychiatry Online
PsychiatryOnline features DSM-5™ and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references which also includes access to journals, textbooks, self-assessment tools, clinical & research news from Psychiatric News, and medication information handouts for patients.

Available to James Cook University users only.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides citation indexes spanning every discipline.

Available to James Cook University users only.

Video Tutorials for Finding Articles

FindIt@JCU explained

The ‘Find It’ icon (or ‘Find It @ JCU Library’ link) is available in many databases. It will provide a link to the full text of a citation or reference where we have a subscription. Click on it when it appears next to the article you want. If the full text is not available digitally it will give you options for locating the item in the print collection or from other sources.