Information Sources
Australian
- HealthInsite
Commonwealth Government initiative which provides access to quality information about human health and diseases & conditions.
- NSW Health
NSW Health comprises the NSW Department of Health and the following public health organisations: Area Health Services ; Children's Hospital at Westmead ; Ambulance Service of NSW; Justice Health & Institute for Clinical Excellence.
- The Science Portal
This is the Federal Government’s science website. It provides information pertaining to research grants, the latest science policies, science and health awareness initiatives, contact databases and relevant links.
International
- Animal Ethics Dilemma
The website is designed as an interactive learning tool, allowing exploration of ethical views and how they may influence decisions and behaviour related to animals.
- BioMed Central
Central provides free access to a wide variety of peer-reviewed biomedical research journals and the Faculty of 1000, a leading literature evaluation service.
- Entrez
Entrez is a molecular biology database system produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which provides access to: Nucleotide: sequence database (GenBank); Protein: sequence database; Genome: whole genome sequences; Structure: three-dimensional macromolecular structures; Taxonomy: organisms in GenBank; Gene: gene-centered information.
- Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports enables you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from a large number of scholarly and technical journals worldwide. For a particular field, it can provide you with the: Most frequently cited journals; Highest impact journals; Hottest journals; Leading journals; Most published articles.
- Medical World Search
Medical World Search is a search engine on the World Wide Web especially developed for the medical field. It facilitates searching by using a medical thesaurus which understands medical terminology and can thus search for related terms automatically over a selection of the highest quality medical sites on the Web.
- National Library of Medicine (US)
Part of the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine is the world's largest Medical Library and creator of Medline/PubMed.
- Science Direct
One of the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine, available in both full text and bibliographic information.
- The Web of Science
The Web of Science provides web-based access to the citation indexes, including Science Citation Index. The journals are selected as the ones which are the most influential and relevant peer-reviewed titles across all disciplines.
- US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA is responsible for:
- protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of drugs, biological products, medical devices, the US nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products which emit radiation
- advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations which make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods