How to access electronic resources
The Library's Electronic Resources page is the point of access for all of the electronic resources and journal databases available to the Bond community. Click on the Electronic Resources link on the Library homepage to explore the wide range of electronic resources available to you.
As a student in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, some of the electronic resources you'll find most useful include:
- Databases for searching the medical journal literature, such as Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Informit Health Collection, SPORTDiscus
- Multimedia resources such as Anatomy TV, SMART Imagebase, Bates Visual Guide to Clinical Examination, Imaging Consult
- Clinical resources such as First Consult, UpToDate, BMJ Clinical Evidence, Therapeutic Guidelines (also known as eTG Complete)
- Online journal collections from specific publishers, such as Blackwell Journals, Sage Journals Online, Oxford Journals Online, ScienceDirect
- Online book collections such as MD Consult, ebrary, Stat!Ref and EBL (EBook Library)
- Online journal websites such as BMJ.com, JAMA, Nature.com, NEJM.org, Science Online
Off campus access to electronic resources
When you access electronic resources off campus or from your laptop on campus you will be prompted for your Bond IT username and password, as shown below (this is the same username and password you use to log in to computers on campus):
All of the electronic resources, with the exception of UpToDate*, can also be accessed off-campus.
Therapeutic Guidelines requires an additional username and pasword for off-campus access - please request this from your liaison librarian via email, or in person at the Library & Computing Service Desk.
*UpToDate can only be accessed on Bond University campus computers - this is a licensing restriction imposed by the publisher.
How to use e-Journal Portal
The Library's e-Journal Portal is the gateway to our online journal subscriptions. You will find a link to the e-Journal Portal on the Library homepage.
Here are a couple examples of when you might use e-Journal Portal:
- You want to know whether or not the Library subscribes to a particular journal (e.g. International Journal of Sports Medicine), or
- You have a reference to a particular journal article and you're trying to obtain the full text of the article (e.g. Robertson I, Curran C, McCaffrey N, Shields C, McEntee P. Adductor tenotomy in the management of groin pain in athletes. Int J Sports Med. 2011;32(1):45-8.)
Below is an illustrated example of how you would use the e-Journal Portal to find the full text article for a reference found in the PubMed database.
Example - lets say that you found the following reference in PubMed, and you want to find the full text of the journal article:
If the title of the journal is abbreviated (as they are in PubMed), mouse-over the abbreviation to see the full journal title. This is important because you cannot search the e-Journal Portal using abbreviated journal titles. The full title for this journal is Pathology International. Now search the e-Journal Portal as illustrated below to find out if the Library subscribes to Pathology International: 
If the Library has a subscription to the journal, the e-Journal Portal will return a list of the databases in which you can find articles from that journal - sometimes there is more than one source, and different sources will offer different full text coverage, as illustrated below:
If the journal is not available through the e-Journal Portal, you can request a copy of the article you need from the Library's Document Delivery service - there is no cost to you for this service.
Example - lets say that you found the following reference in PubMed, and you want to find the full text of the journal article:
If the Library has a subscription to the journal, the e-Journal Portal will return a list of the databases in which you can find articles from that journal - sometimes there is more than one source, and different sources will offer different full text coverage, as illustrated below:
If the journal is not available through the e-Journal Portal, you can request a copy of the article you need from the Library's Document Delivery service - there is no cost to you for this service.
