Beyond Medline
The focus of many assignments and projects will require you to move beyond the major medical databases such as Medline and Embase.
 The UNSW library subscribes to many databases in various subject disciplines.
Library subject guides (http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/index.php) can help you to find relevant and useful databases outside of the discipline of medicine.
e.g.
For an assignment focusing on ethics you may need to also consider using databases for law or philosophy
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A project looking at health promotion may require looking at marketing literature or a database covering psychology to give some insight into how to best sell an idea or how to influence the way people think and behave.
Think about what you need so you find the best information for your assignments and projects.
The library also has multi-disciplinary databases such as ProQuest Research Library and Current Contents Connect, these cover a broad range of topic areas and can sometimes be useful as a starting point.
Citation Databases
Another way of finding relevant literature is to use a citation database such as Web of Science or Scopus. In a citation database you can perform a “cited reference” search on a good article you already know about to locate authors which have cited your original article or to find similar articles.
An online tutorial is available for those who want to use Web of Science effectively. |
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