Subject and Research Guides: Postgrad Research Support: Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Subject-specific help

Tailored Subject Guides - for your research focus

Cancer Information Website
Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Science
Evidence-Based Practice
Macquarie University Cancer Program
MEDI832: Evidence-Based Practice
This LibGuide provides resources for the postgraduate unit MEDI832
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Orthopaedics
Physiotherapy
Public Health

Key databases for Medicine & Health Sciences

Google Scholar @MQ

Titles of interest in the library

Clinical Epidemiology: How to do Clinical Practice Research by R. Brian Haynes; Gordon H. Guyatt; Peter Tugwell; David L. Sackett
Call Number: RA652 .C45 2006
ISBN: 0781745241
Publication Date: 2006
Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age by Leslie F. Stebbins
Call Number: ZA3075 .S74 2006
Publication Date: 2005
How to Research by Loraine Blaxter; Christina Hughes; Malcolm Tight
Call Number: Q180.55.M4 B59 2010
ISBN: 9780335238675
Publication Date: 2010
Including chapters on planning and carrying out small-scale research projects, this practical guide takes the reader step-by-step through the research process, from writing proposals to completion of the project. As well as exercises, it also gives advice on writing proposals and making presentations.

Find theses & dissertations

Macquarie University ResearchOnline
Institutional digital repository designed to capture, store, index, preserve, provide access to and disseminate the intellectual and research output of Macquarie staff, students and affiliates. Material in the repository includes journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters, theses, working papers, discussion papers, images, datasets and multimedia
MultiSearch Advanced
Specifically search for hard-copy and electronic theses in Macquarie Library.

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Restrict your search by selecting 'Thesis' in the 'Material Type' drop-down menu.
TROVE
Trove provides a single point of access to Australia resources: theses, books, music scores and sound recordings, videos, DVDs, and includes access to Pictures Australia, full text Australian newspapers 1803-1954, manuscripts, maps and archived websites. Include Thesis in the keyword search box. You can type in keywords from author, title, and/or institution.
ProQuest dissertations & theses global.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses database contains citations for dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present. The database provides full-text access to most of the dissertations added since 1997, with a substantial proportion of full-text dissertations for the period 1961 to 1996, and selected theses back to 1861.
Electronic Theses & Dissertations Gateway (NDLTD)
Link to search engines & databases for finding open-access electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

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Provided by The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

ebook Collections

Ebooks@Macquarie
A guide to accessing ebooks at Macquarie University Library

Below are listed some key ebook collections where you can browse books by title or subject.

Find out more about how to find and use ebooks.

MIT CogNet
Online hub for the scientific research of the brain & cognitive science community, covering a range of fields concerned with understanding the nature of the human mind, including neuroscience.
Coverage: Selective Full-text.

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Provides access to books, journals, reference works and conference proceedings
Springer ebook Collection
Browse by discipline: Engineering.

Books@Ovid full text
Full-text access is available to e-books in various subject areas via the Ovid platform, including a selection of titles from the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Doody's e-book collections and the Joanna Briggs e-book collection.
Blackwell reference online

Mary Simons

mary.simons@mq.edu.au

(02) 9850 7536

Monday - Friday

Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI)
Health Professions
Clinical Medicine

Jeremy Cullis

jeremy.cullis@mq.edu.au

(02) 9850 7399

Monday - Friday

Cognitive Science
Clinical Medicine
Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI)
Health Professions
Biomedical Sciences

HDR Workshops

HDR Workshops and Courses
The University offers a range of on-campus HDR training workshops and courses including: Research Writing Courses; Writing Retreats; Oral Presentation Training; Research Methods workshops; Grant Writing, Thesis Writing & Publication seminars; and Personal & Professional Development training.