ACP Journal Club consists of two journals (now merged): ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication of the American College of Physicians and the British Medical Journal Group.

ACP Journal Club includes studies which their editors have selected as methodologically sound and clinically relevant. The editors screen the top clinical journals for articles, and write enhanced abstracts and commentary on the relevance and application of these articles to clinical practice, helping clinicians to quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize thousands of journal articles.

All results are available in full-text, but please note that this is the full-text of the "abstract and commentary" (these are tagged as "EBM Article Reviews" in the results screen of this database), not of the original article.

ACP Journal Club is the only one of Ovid’s "EBM Reviews" databases which is not a Cochrane Library product.

This database is an amalgamation of all the EBM Review databases available from Ovid. These include the following databases:

Cochrane Library Databases

• Cochrane DSR - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• DARE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
• CCTR - Cochrane Controlled Trials Register
• CMR - Cochrane Methodology Register
• HTA - Health Technology Assessments
• NHSEED - NHS Economic Evaluation Database

Non-Cochrane Databases

• ACP Journal Club - American College of Physicians Journal Club

This allows for concurrent searching of all these databases.

Please note: Chrome users might find that linking to the full-text of articles in this database, either from within the database or from another source, might result in a "Suspected phishing site" warning. You can still proceed to the article full-text. You can choose to disable the phishing and malware detection function in Chrome – for instructions, please see the Google Chrome help screen on Phishing and malware detection.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, also known as Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR), and sometimes as CENTRAL, is the Cochrane Collaboration's register of controlled trials. The register provides bibliographic information (i.e. abstracts rather than full-text) on over 530,000 reports of trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. Trials are identified from multiple sources, including searches of bibliographic databases, hand-searches of many hundreds of journals and conference proceedings, and searches of other trial registers.

Contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration follow quality control standards to ensure that only reports of definite randomized controlled trials or controlled clinical trials are included.

CCTR is also available via the Cochrane Library, but is available here as an Ovid database, using the Ovid search and browse interface.

EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is Ovid's version of The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), a Cochrane Library database which includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types:

• Complete reviews - Regularly updated Cochrane Reviews, prepared and maintained by Collaborative Review Groups
• Protocols- Protocols for reviews currently being prepared (all include an expected date of completion). Protocols are the background, objectives and methods of reviews in preparation.

The Cochrane Collaboration consists of groups of experts in over 40 clinical specialties who authoritatively review hundreds of studies on topics in their specialty, select those that meet strict EBM criteria, perform "meta-analyses" when possible on all the included studies, and then write detailed, structured reviews of the topic and the findings.

These reviews allow clinicians to get fast, "bottom line" answers to their most commonly-asked questions, based on a comprehensive and expert analysis of the available medical literature.

Each issue of CDSR contains new and updated reviews and protocols. CDSR is unlike other "journal" or "serial" publications in that once a review is published it will appear in every issue thereafter. Because of this, each Review or Protocol includes a section about how to cite that document if needed.

CDSR is also available via the Cochrane Library, but is available here as an Ovid database, using the Ovid search and browse interface.

Please note: Chrome users might find that linking to the full-text of articles in this database, either from within the database or from another source, might result in a "Suspected phishing site" warning. You can still proceed to the article full-text. You can choose to disable the phishing and malware detection function in Chrome – for instructions, please see the Google Chrome help screen on Phishing and malware detection.

DARE is a full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. It includes structured abstracts of over 8000 systematic reviews from around the world, which have been evaluated by researchers at the National Health Service’s Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, England. These systematic reviews provide evaluations of the effectiveness of clinical interventions and policies.

Only reviews which meet minimum quality criteria are included in DARE. Researchers trained in critical appraisal select only high quality reviews based on evaluation of literature searching, inclusion criteria, study assessment, and synthesis. Systematic review articles that are selected are summarized and evaluated in full text reports that describe the interventions and outcomes studied; the conclusions drawn; strengths and weaknesses of the review; and implications for practice. Many of these reviews cover topics that have yet to be addressed in Cochrane reviews.

All results are available in full-text, but please note that this is the full-text of the "structured abstract" (these are tagged as "EBM Article Reviews" in the results screen of this database), not of the original review.

DARE is also available via the Cochrane Library, but is available here as an Ovid database, using the Ovid search and browse interface.

Collection of more than 20 EBSCOhost databases covering a range of subject areas, some of which include full text. Subjects covered include business, management, computing, health & nursing, education, professional development, sociology, psychology, religion & philosophy, sport, leisure, and economics.

The databases can be searched individually or in combination.

CSU Library also makes available packages of selected groups of EBSCOhost databases that include the option to limit a search to scholarly or peer reviewed journals. These are:

• EBSCOhost (Business)
• EBSCOhost (Education)
• EBSCOhost (Health)
• EBSCOhost (Psychology)

In January 2006 CSU moved from ProQuest to EBSCOhost for multi-disciplinary searching and access to full text journal articles. CSU trialled EBSCOhost in 2004 and 2005, and the results of these trials showed that EBSCOhost provides a stronger fit with CSU’s subject profiles, and access to more scholarly journals.

EBSCOhost (Business) is a package of five EBSCOhost databases put together by CSU Library with bibliographic and some full-text material on Business and related subject areas. These databases all have the option to limit searches to scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.

The databases are:

• Academic Search Complete
• Business Source Complete
• Health Business Elite
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• SocINDEX with Full Text

All EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in combination.

EBSCOhost (Education) is a package of EBSCOhost databases put together by CSU Library with bibliographic and some full-text material on Education and related subject areas. These databases all have the option to limit searches to scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.

The databases are:

• Academic Search Complete
• Education Research Complete
• ERIC
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• SocINDEX with Full Text

EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in combination.

EBSCOhost (Health) is a package of EBSCOhost databases put together by CSU Library with bibliographic and some full-text material on Health and related subject areas. These databases all have the option to limit searches to scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.

The databases are:

• Academic Search Complete
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
• Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source
• Health Business Elite
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• SocINDEX with Full Text

EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in combination.

EBSCOhost (Psychology) is a package of EBSCOhost databases put together by CSU Library with bibliographic and some full-text material on Psychology and Sociology. These databases all have the option to limit searches to scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.

The databases are:

• Academic Search Complete
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• SocINDEX with Full Text

EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in combination.

American Economic Association database of economic literature. Includes Journal of Economic Literature and abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press.

Full text titles are available in HTML or in PDF format.

Coverage from 1969- .

The EDGE database, produced by Information Edge, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles that provide international coverage on management, environmental, packaging and building topics.

Subject coverage: Strategic and financial management techniques; human resources; Asian economies; energy efficiency; recycling; packaging trends and methods for glass, plastic, metal and paper; and building products and trends. Packaging issues for end use markets such as food and beverages are also included.

Source documents: Selected informative and practical articles are abstracted and included in EDGE from approximately 80 journals. Coverage 1985 - .

Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals, as well as full text for more than 1000 journals, and includes full text of more than 100 books and monographs, and of numerous education-related conference papers.

The Elsevier database Embase is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database covering: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering and instrumentation. There is also some coverage of nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, and alternative medicine.

It includes over 24 million records from more than 7,500 mostly peer-reviewed journals, and from more than 2000 biomedical titles not indexed by MEDLINE. Embase also contains almost 800 conferences and more than 260,000 conference abstracts, drawn primarily from journals and journal supplements published since 2009.

Approximately 375,000 records are added yearly.

Searching is divided into five options:

• Quick
• Advanced
• Drug Name
• Disease Name
• Article Search (for a particular article)

Although full-text is not included within the database, in many cases the "View Full Text" link in bibliographic records can be used to find the full-text in another CSU-subscribed database.

Embase uses Emtree, Elsevier's life science thesaurus, a hierarchically structured controlled vocabulary for Biomedicine and related sciences. Emtree provides a consistent description of all biomedical terminology, allowing for accurate drug and disease indexing and retrieval.

Emerald Insight (previously available to CSU users as Emerald Management Plus) gives full-text access to more than 350 journals published by Emerald Group Publishing and covering the area of international management research.

Specific topics covered include: business and management; library and information science; accounting; leadership; marketing; human resource management; and industrial and organisational psychology. There is also coverage of engineering, applied science, and technology. Flagship titles include: Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Journal of Consumer Marketing, and Library Management.

Material includes journal articles, literature reviews, book reviews, conference information, interviews, and profiles.

Coverage varies according to individual journals but the content does include Emerald Backfiles, with some articles dating as far back as 1898. On the other hand, CSU does not subscribe to all material in Emerald Insight - for example, Case Studies are not included. You can limit your search to material available in full-text by going to Advanced Search and, under the heading for "INCLUDE:", ticking the radio-button for "Only content I have access to".

The database is updated daily.

Emerald Insight also gives full-text access to two collections of eBooks: one covering business, management, and economics; and the other covering social sciences. Searching will, by default, return results from these eBooks as well as from eJournals.

ENGINE (Australian Engineering Database), produced by the Institution of Engineers, Australia, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on Australian engineering information, particularly information published by the Institution since 1980.

Subject coverage includes all branches of engineering including: agricultural, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, coastal, computer, earthquake, electrical, electronic, geotechnical,  mechanical, military, ocean, structural, and transport.

Source documents include conference papers, journal articles, technical papers, books, discussions, news articles and unpublished papers.

Coverage is from 1980 - .

Engineering Source is an EBSCOhost database which covers all aspects of engineering research and practice. It indexes more than 3000 journals, and, of these, more than 2000 are available in full-text.

Subjects covered include aerospace, biomedical, civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, software, and structural engineering.

Source documents includes journals, magazines, trade publications, books, conference papers, and proceedings.

This database is one of many available in EBSCOhost. Once on the EBSCOhost search screen, you can change databases by clicking on the Choose Databases link above the search boxes. All EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in any combination.

The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities Online Image Database has been developed to provide the community with access to the Department's photographic collection, for educational purposes and to help promote environmental issues.

The image database contains images the Department owns and that are copyright cleared and available free of charge for use by the media, students and industry organisations (but not for use in advertising or other commercial purposes).

New images are added to the database regularly.

The Department also has the following image databases ...

• Antarctic
• Australian plants
• Heritage

... while the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has a

• Great Barrier Reef Image Collection.

EVA (formerly EPIC), produced by the EPA Victoria Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on the environment and related fields.

Source documents are selected journal articles from approximately 600 journals published in Australia and overseas. Coverage 1987 - .

Subject coverage includes air pollution and quality, sustainable development, salinity, environmental protection and management, hazardous wastes, recycling, waste management and disposal, water pollution, environmental assessment, and pollution control. Pre-February 1998 data includes planning, heritage, urban design and town planning subject coverage.

ERIC( Educational Resources Information Center) is one of many databases available in the EBSCOhost platform, but is also available elsewhere as well (see below). Established in 1966, ERIC is an online digital library of education research and information. It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. It provides extensive access to educational-related literature, and is said to be the largest education database in the world. It includes more than 1.4 million bibliographic records.

There are two types of ERIC content:

Journal articles (EJ). Most are from peer-reviewed journals, and many are available in full-text, depending on the version of ERIC being used (see below).

ERIC Documents (ED). These consist of materials from a range of sources, including scholarly organisations, professional associations, research centres, policy organisations, University Presses, the U.S. Department of Education and other U.S. federal agencies, and state and local agencies. They include conference papers, research papers, dissertations, theses, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and books. Many are available in full-text.

Subject Coverage includes:

• Adult, career and vocational education
• Counselling
• Elementary and early childhood education
• Education management
• Higher education
• Junior colleges
• Second-language learning
• Special education
• Teacher education
• Tests, measurement, and evaluation.

A thesaurus is available to assist with subject-searching.

CSU Library has access to ERIC via 3 different platforms/interfaces. In addition to this EBSCOhost version, ERIC is also available via the ProQuest platform, and via the ERIC website. These versions differ in their interface, the frequency of updating, and the amount of full-text content.

ERIC via ProQuest probably has less full-text than this EBSCOhost version, and does not have a full-text limiter. These disadvantages can be overcome by adding in the ProQuest Education Journals database.

ERIC's own website includes fewer links to full-text but is updated more regularly and does have extra information about ERIC as a resource.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is an online digital library of education research and information. It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. It provides extensive access to educational-related literature, and is said to be the largest education database in the world. It includes more than 1.4 million bibliographic records.

The link here is to ERIC's own website, but the database is available elsewhere as well (see below).

There are two types of ERIC content:

Journal articles (EJ). Most are from peer-reviewed journals, and many are available in full-text, depending on the version of ERIC being used (see below).

ERIC Documents (ED). These consist of materials from a range of sources, including scholarly organisations, professional associations, research centres, policy organisations, University Presses, the U.S. Department of Education and other U.S. federal agencies, and state and local agencies. They include conference papers, research papers, dissertations, theses, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and books. Many are available in full-text.

Subject Coverage includes:

• Adult, career and vocational education
• Counselling
• Elementary and early childhood education
• Education management
• Higher education
• Junior colleges
• Second-language learning
• Special education
• Teacher education
• Tests, measurement, and evaluation.

A thesaurus is available to assist with subject-searching.

CSU Library has access to ERIC via 3 different platforms/interfaces. In addition to this ERIC website, it is also available via the EBSCOhost platform, and via the ProQuest platform. These versions differ in their interface, the frequency of updating, and the amount of full-text content.

This ERIC website includes fewer links to full-text but does have a full-text limiter. It is updated more regularly than the other ERIC versions and also has extra information about ERIC as a resource.

ERIC via EBSCOhost probably has the most full-text, and has the advantage of a full-text limiter, which ERIC via ProQuest (when searched on its own) does not have.

ERIC via ProQuest should be searched in conjunction with the ProQuest Education Journals database. Adding in this extra ProQuest database gives the benefit of a full-text limiter, as well as access to extra full-text material.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is one of many databases available in the ProQuest platform, but is also available elsewhere as well (see below). Established in 1966, ERIC is an online digital library of education research and information. It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. It provides extensive access to educational-related literature, and is said to be the largest education database in the world. It includes more than 1.4 million bibliographic records.

There are two types of ERIC content:

Journal articles (EJ). Most are from peer-reviewed journals, and many are available in full-text, depending on the version of ERIC being used (see below).

ERIC Documents (ED). These consist of materials from a range of sources, including scholarly organisations, professional associations, research centres, policy organisations, University Presses, the U.S. Department of Education and other U.S. federal agencies, and state and local agencies. They include conference papers, research papers, dissertations, theses, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and books. Many are available in full-text.

Subject Coverage includes:

• Adult, career and vocational education
• Counselling
• Elementary and early childhood education
• Education management
• Higher education
• Junior colleges
• Second-language learning
• Special education
• Teacher education
• Tests, measurement, and evaluation.

A thesaurus is available to assist with subject-searching.

CSU Library has access to ERIC via 3 different platforms/interfaces. In addition to this ProQuest version, ERIC is also available via the EBSCOhost platform, and via the ERIC website. These versions differ in their interface, the frequency of updating, and the amount of full-text content.

One disadvantage of this ProQuest interface is that it does not have a full-text limiter, when searched on its own. This can be overcome by adding in the ProQuest Education Journals database, which also gives the benefit of providing extra full-text material. (Note that all ProQuest databases can be searched individually, or in combination.)

ERIC via EBSCOhost probably has the most full-text, and has the advantage of a full-text limiter.

ERIC’s own website includes fewer links to full-text but is updated more regularly and does have extra information about ERIC as a resource.

eTG Complete is the online version of Therapeutic Guidelines, which are produced by Therapeutic Guidelines Limited (TGL), an Australian not-for-profit independent organisation that prepares, publishes and distributes nationally-based prescribing guidelines.

The aim of Therapeutic Guidelines Limited is to provide clear, practical, and authoritative therapeutic information for health practitioners, for the management of patients with specific conditions. The Guidelines are endorsed by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the National Prescribing Service, the Royal College of Nursing Australia, The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia, and other peak bodies.

The guidelines cover all common disorders seen in clinical practice and aim to assist prescribers in ensuring patients have optimum treatment. Treatment guidelines include pharmacological treatment and non-pharmacological treatment, but with an obvious emphasis on pharmacological treatment.

According to eTG itself, “The guidelines are comprehensive in that they cover all common disorders seen in clinical practice. The information is independent and unbiased and is a distillation of current evidence and opinion ... The guidelines are not primarily meant to instruct, but rather to assist prescribers in ensuring patients receive optimum treatment ... The content of each title is revised by an expert group every 3 to 4 years. The iterative cycles are based on response to feedback, and shifts in the evidence base.”

More of this sort of information is available within eTG. See “How Therapeutic Guidelines publications are produced”.
 
eTG Complete also includes: “Getting to know your drugs”; “Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding”; Patient-Information sheets; and creatinine-clearance and ideal body-weight calculators.

The Market Access Database is an important operational tool of the European Union's Market Access Strategy, supporting a continuous three-way exchange of information between: the EU institutions, Member States and European business. The Market Access Strategy is a key pillar of the EU's Trade Policy which aims to reduce the obstacles faced by European exporters of goods and services. The Market Access Database is a free and interactive service providing:

• Information about Market Access conditions in non-EU countries.
• A systematic way for the European Commission to follow up complaints from businesses about barriers to trade in non-EU countries.
• A means of ensuring that Europe's trading partners are abiding by their international commitments.
• Better input for defining the EU's trade policy objectives on further trade liberalisation in the framework of the World Trade Organisation (e.g. Doha Development Agenda) and new free trade agreements between the EU and preferential partners (e.g. EU - MERCOSUR).

Expanded Academic ASAP is a Gale database of journals and other periodicals covering most of the subject areas taught at CSU.

This database includes more than 1300 journals, including hundreds of full-text journals.

In Advanced Search, you can limit searches to articles with full-text and/or from peer-reviewed journals. You can also apply these and other limiters to a set of search results. For articles not available in full-text, click the Find It - CSU button to locate the full-text of the article elsewhere, if available in another CSU subscription.

Journal coverage is from 1994 to the present, and back-files (1980-1993) are available for some journals.

For Help and other features in this database, including Search History and a Title List, click on the More button in the top menu bar (within the database).