References

Introduction

--MarkHill 16:51, 6 July 2009 (EST) Reference formatting has not yet been finalised for this current site. I do acknowledge that Wiki in page numbered citations appear concise and automatically compile a reference list, it is the format of this list that I need to examine.

Background Reading - these current and review references are added to the discussion pages and link to relevant references on the page topic.

Medline Database

MEDLINE is a literature database of life sciences and biomedical information containing review and research articles. See also Project Referencing to generate references within your project, a reference list on your page and formatting the pubmed reference link.

• Pubmed MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) USA premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences." (NCBI)
  • MH - I would prefer reference links to be added pointing to this database.

• UNSW also has the MEDLINE database available through the Library using Sirius.
  • While it is essentially the same reference database, some papers will have different access rights based upon the university's subscriptions.

Searching with nearly any term will result in a large number of results that can be made more specific by either:

1. Using "Preview/Index" option to carry out an additional search and then combining with your first result. (#1 AND #2) or
2. Using "Limits" option to set limits on your search results. (review, years, english, etc)

OMIM Database

• OMIM - "OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative, and timely compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM focuses on the relationship between phenotype and genotype."