The NSW State Library is NOW providing access selected databases from home to residents of NSW. In order to access these resources you need to be a registered client, you can apply online. After registering it will take about 10 days to receive your Reader's Card which you will need to log on to these databases from home.
Proquest 5000 and Informit’s Meditext databases are the two databases on offer which I would like to recommend to you. These resources provide access to authoritative and full text journal article literature in the mental health subject area.
Proquest 5000 is described as “A multidisciplinary collection of 19 separate databases indexing the contents of 7,900 journals and the full text of articles from 3,900 journals. The subject coverage is from the humanities to the pure and applied sciences, and the geographic coverage is international.” Whilst being a multidisciplinary database, topic searches in the mental health area should result in some content which is scholarly and fulltext. For a list of journals in the area of mental health on this database, click here.
Informit Online’s Meditext covers all aspects of Australian health and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields and is produced by the National Library of Australia. Full text articles: 1995- ; Index: 1968-
Pubmed - This is the equivalent of Medline but free! Apart from all MEDLINE citations, it includes additional life science journals. Or use PubMed Central for fulltext content only.
Medline Plus Mental Health - The National Library of Medicine site contains pages of carefully selected links to Web resources with authoritative health information, incl. dictionaries, directories, organizations, news source
AgeLine
This database is produced by AARP (American Association for Retired Persons) indexes literature in the area of social gerontology and includes aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences. Ageline provides abstracts to journal articles, books, reports, theses and grey literature.
TRIP Database – (Turning Research Into Practice) Claims to search ‘high-quality medical’ information with evidence-based focus