Online Databases for use by Registered Library Users

Online Databases for use by Registered Library Users.

Palmerston North Hospital staff using the library computers.

Liberty3 Library Catalogue

The Library Catalogue provides an online listing of journals and library documents.

Ebsco Databases - passwords required

Ebsco Databases - use this link for the following databases:

Medline - 1965 to present (some full text available)
CINAHL - (Nursing & allied health) - 1937 to present (some full text available
Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Collection - provides approx. 575 full text publications. Covers topics such as psychiatry, psychology, mental processes.
Ebsco Health Business Elite - Contains approx. 450 full text journals on health business management.

Ebsco A to Z - a simple way of finding full text e-journals available to you through the Clinical Library. Will provide links to these journals from publishers' sites, databases, or e-journal gateways.

No time? Library staff will do your literature searches for you. Request forms are available from the library request form page or library reception.

Cochrane Library:

Cochrane Library is a collection of regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases that can help clinicians and consumers make decisions about appropriate and effective health care. The library brings together in one place research which looks at the effectiveness of different health care treatments & interventions.

BMJ Best Treatments
In depth information on more than 180 common conditions
Evaluation of over 1500 treatments including likely effectiveness and side effects
Assessment of 23 common operations and tests
Decision support guidelines to help patients assess their options

MDConsult

MDConsult searches the Medline databases - 47 leading medical textbooks full text - 70 full text journals including some of the Clinics of North America - medical news - Mosby's Drug Consult for information on drugs/medications - customisable patient handouts and much more. Passwords required - please contact Clinical Library

MedicinesComplete (now available)

MedicinesComplete is the online service from RPS Publishing (Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain)
Full text access is available from the following reference books:

BNF for Children
British National Formulary
Herbal Medicines
Martindale: the complete drug reference
Stockley's Drug Interactions

(passwords required for off site use - please contact the Clinical Library)

Other useful search sites:

Ageline - a searchable electronic database containing detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including book and journal articles, research reports and videos
Cancerlit - a bibliographic database produced by the US National Cancer Institute’s International Cancer Information Centre. It contains references to cancer literature published from 1963 to present)
The Combined Health Information Database (CHID) - provides titles, abstracts and availability information for health information and health education resources. You can search either individual topics or the entire database)
eMedicine Online
Index New Zealand
Find New Zealand articles
PubMed - www version of Medline, free to the world from the US National Library of Medicine. Contains very recent material