Subject - Health

This guide will help you to find and use all the available useful sources to help you get just what you need fast!

Begin with Library Catalogue

When you get your first assignment, look for information on your topic in Library Catalogue – the Library’s search engine. Remember to log in first, so you can search all collections, place holds, add titles to an eShelf and renew your loans.

Go to:

• Library Catalogue

Some suggested terms to try out​

• Acupuncture
• Cytology & Histology
• Drugs of plant origin
• Herbal medicine
• Immunology
• Materia medica, Chinese
• Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Microbiology
• Tuina

TIP - When searching topics with two or more terms it is best to use phrase searching. By adding quote marks such as "chinese medicine" or "traditional chinese medicine" you will be searching for those exact terms, rather than randomly found throughout a text.​

Research

Depending on your assignment you may also need to use one of our specialised databases. Databases are extremely useful tools for researching specific information, recent information, scholarly articles and much more.

List of relevant databases for Chinese Medicine research

• Gale
• Ebscohost
• MEDLINE Complete
• Proquest Health
• Pubmed
• Cochrane Library

List of relevant databases for Chinese Herbal Medicine

• Chinese Medicinal Materials Image Database
• Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
• Natural Medicines
• NCCAM Herbs at a Glance
• Medicinal Plant Image Database

Fact Sheets

• Literary review compilation on Traditional Chinese Medicine