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Prescribing medicines in pregnancy database

"This database is intended to provide information to health professionals planning the medical management of pregnant patients..."

Produced by: The Therapuetic Goods Administration, Australia
Webpage: http://www.tga.gov.au/hp/medicines-pregnancy.htm

Paramedic Sciences

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

PubMed

It includes citations for biomedical articles and provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.

Medline (via Ebscohost)

EBSCOHost version of Medline. Contains citations and abstracts covering a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.

CINAHL

Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals. Also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.

Health Collection (Informit)

Informit's full text medical resource contains research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to anyone studying or working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Includes specialist and current topics of interest such as ageing and age care, child health and breastfeeding, indigenous health issues, mental health and rehabilitation.

Scopus

Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences.

Web of Science

Web of Science provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. It also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.

Journals
Web Sites

Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Contact Librarians

Christine Dalais

c.dalais@library.uq.edu.au

3346 1182

PACE and PAH Health Sciences Libraries

Jill McTaggart

j.mctaggart@library.uq.edu.au

3346 1183

PACE and PAH Health Sciences Libraries

Research Support | Teaching and Learning Support

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

Information Resources Tutorials

Library Instruction

Boolean Tutorial - Colorado State University Libraries

Advanced Boolean Tutorial - Colorado State University Libraries

Medline/Pubmed

Pubmed - National Library of Medicine

Verifying Citations Using Single Citation Matcher - Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Consumer Health Tutorials

MedlinePlus - Tutorials on various conditions, tests and procedures

Evidence-based Practice

BMJ Best Practice - Students Tutorial - Training tutorial for students

BMJ Best Practice - Promotional Tools - Tutorials and user guides

Other Health Databases

EBSCO - CINAHL and other introductory Tutorials

Ovid SP - Video tutorials and Powerpoint presentations

Embase.com - Video tutorials and Powerpoint presentations

Up-to-Date - Introductory video presentation

Reference Management Software

UQ Library - Referencing Styles and Software page

Endnote - University of North CarolinaCitation Analysis

Citation Analysis

Citation analysis (Web of Science and Scopus) - Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Subject guides


"How-to" guides - UQ Library guides to citing references, research skills...

What's New
What's New: 

AMH childrens dosing companion (7 concurrent user licences)

What's New to the UQ Library collections

For the news and information relating to Library services in the Health Sciences, take a look at the latest issue of:


The Health Sciences Library Newsletter

NPS Medicines List iPhone app

nps app_icon.pngThe brand new NPS Medicines List iPhone app is now available for free from iTunes. It will simplify medications for individuals and those caring others.