Health Science resources

This guide will help you quickly find resources related to all health disciplines.

Not sure where to start? Check out the following resources to learn more about health information and navigating research resources.

Health information and EBP

Searching with confidence

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Learn more about health research strategies

Free health resources

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Research databases

A full list of our databases can be found on the Database page. Search for a known database
or browse by type or category.

A list of core health and medicine databases is compiled below.

Medline	Medicine and medical science
CINAHL	Nursing and allied health
Emcare	Health and medicine
Pubmed	Free version of Medline
Proquest	Health and medicine subset
Informit	Health collection
Cochrane Library	Cochrane Institute
JBI EBP Database	Joanna Briggs Institute

A list of multidisciplinary databases and some additional practice-specific research databases are compiled below.

Multidisciplinary	Google Scholar Informit (Australian focus) Proquest Scopus Web of Science
Ageing	Ageline
First nations health	Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Health (Informit)
Nutrition	Food works PEN: Practice-based evidence in nutrition
Palliative care	CareSearch
Physio/OT/Rehab	LWW Health Library OT Seeker PEDro: Physiotherapy Evidence Database REHABDATA SPORTDiscus
Psychology	PsycINFO
Speech pathology	Linguistics and language behavior abstracts SpeechBITE

Practice resources

Point of care tools	Best Practice UpToDate Lippincott Advisor Lippincott Procedures Australia
Evidence based practice	Flinders Filters Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice Pubmed Clinical Queries TRIP database

Pharmacological databases

Clinical trials and systematic review registries

Grey literature, statistics and data

Research and government organisations	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare World Health Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK)
Health departments	Department of Health (Australian Government) SA Health (Government of South Australia)
Policy information	APO: Australian Policy Online
First nations health	Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet AIHW Indigenous Australians
Statistics and data	ABS CDC Wonder Publications from above websites and databases

Free resources

When you leave Flinders University, you may not continue to have access to subscription databases, which the Library pays for you to use during your studies. Explore the list of free health resources you will be able to continue to use when you are no longer at university.

Learn more about health research strategies

Health literature and EBP

A critical part of studying (and practising) within the health sciences is evidence based practice.

This module introduces the levels of evidence and the best places to find this evidence.

Searching with confidence

The Searching with Confidence resource in FLO can help you develop the skills and understanding you need to successfully find credible, scholarly resources.