Specialised Information Resources

   

Acts, Regulations and Legislation

• Australian Law Online
  this site is managed by the Australian Attorney General's Department.
• Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)
  AustLII is Australia's most popular online free-access resource for Australian legal information, serving the needs of a multitude of users. AustLII is a joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.
• ComLaw
  ComLaw, incorporating the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department
• GovPubs
  Australian Government Publications Guide is a guide to selected types of Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet
• WA State Law Publisher
  Free online access is available for all legislation, regulations, gazettes, etc

Dictionaries

• Acronym Corner
• Bartleby.com
  American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's & Simpson's Quotations, English Usage, Strunk's Style, and Other Reference Books
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
  Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
• Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th Edition, 2001
• Deciphering Medspeak
  To make informed health decisions, you have probably read a newspaper or magazine article, tuned into a radio or television program, or searched the Internet to find answers to health questions. If so, you have probably encountered "medspeak," the specialized language of health professionals. The Medical Library Association developed "Deciphering Medspeak" to help translate common "medspeak" terms.
• Diabetes Dictionary
  derived from the original Diabetes Dictionary of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK). New material, updated definitions, internal hyperlinks, and links to related material have been added to make your search for information easier.
• Dictionary of Cancer Terms [National Cancer Institute, US]
  contains more than 4,000 terms related to cancer and medicine.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• English Dictionaries Online
  Provides links to many online English Dictionaries
• Glossary of Medical Terms
  English (Heymans & Mercator)
• Macquarie Dictionary
• Medical Dictionaries Online
• MedicalMnemonics.com
  A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details.
• Medterms Medical Dictionary from MedicineNet
  an online medical dictionary that provides quick access to hard-to-spell and often misspelled medical definitions through an extensive alphabetical listing.
• Merriam Webster Online
• Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
  Danish Dutch English French German Italian Portuguese Spanish
• One Look Dictionaries
  "Think of this web site as a search engine for words: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 4 million words in more than 700 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine."
• PharmaLexicon: a Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
  contains searches, information, news and resources for the medical, pharmaceutical and healthcare professional.
• Research Tools
  Dictionaries (English, Computing, Rhyming, Pronunciation, Law), Thesaurus, Translator, Language Identifier, French Conjugator, Anagram, Acronym, Biographical Dictionary, Barteltt's Quotations, Maps, Phone Books, Currency Converter, Stock Markets, Postal Codes, Email Discussion Lists
• Wikipedia
  The Free Encyclopedia
• YourDictionary
  yourDictionary.com (YDC) was founded in 1999 to provide the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web. yourDictionary.com has the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages). Specialist medical dictionaries are also included.

Standards

• SAI Global - Standards Australia

Statistics

• Australian Bureau of Statistics
  provides statistics on a wide range of economic and social matters, serving government, business and the general population. Statistics on the ABS website can be accessed free of charge.
• BMJ Collection of Articles on Statistics and Research Methods
• Centre for Statistics in Medicine [University of Oxford]
  The Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) was established in the new Institute of Health Sciences in Oxford in September 1995. It incorporates the Medical Statistics Group of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), which relocated to Oxford from London in September 1995. The Centre is affiliated to the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine.
• Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 4th ed., D.Coggon, Geoffrey Rose, DJP Barker
  Full text of the book is available
• Finding and Using Health Statistics: a Self-Study Course
  National Library of Medicine, National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology
• HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook
• Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics [McMaster University, Canada]
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
  Includes HyperStat, an online statistics book with links to other statistics resources on the web
• Statistics at Square One / TDV Swinscow, 9th Edition
  Full text of the book is available

Journal Publications Requirements, Citation Guidelines, and Journal Abbreviations Sources

• American Psychological Association Citation Guidelines
• Citing Articles in Journals published in print and on the Web (NLM)
• Citing Electronic Resources
• Citing Sources - Ramsay Library Research Guides
• Columbia Guide to Online Style
• Harvard Style Examples from Monash University Library
• How to Cite Electronic Resources [Colgate University Libraries]
• IFLA Citation Guides for Electronic Documents
  Has many links to citation style guides
• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences [Raymon H. Mulford Library / Medical College of Ohio]
  provide links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.
• Interpreting Citations Tutorial (an interactive tutorial)
  Prepared by Chris Niemeyer, Library Instruction Coordinator/Reference Librarian, Thomas Jefferson Library, Univ of Missouri-St Louis
• List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
  Useful to discover journal title abbreviations or the full title where you only know the abbreviated title
• MLA Style
  Modern Language Association style for documentation is widely used in the humanities, especially in writing on language and literature.
• National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation. Supplement: Internet Formats (PDF 410 KB)
• Scientific Writing and Publishing Aids
  From the Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
  Vancouver Style developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Over 500 journals use the Uniform Requirements.
• Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS)
  Proposed standard for referencing online documents in scientific publications
• World Association of Medical Editors
  site includes WAME Policies; Syllabus for Editors; Publication Ethics Policies; Ethics Resources; Other Resources for Editors; and Listserve Discussions. Search the site for topics of interest or use WAME by Topic.