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Getting started at Austin Health Library

Join the Austin Library: how to collect your Library card

After joining the Library, please drop-in between 8.30-5pm Monday-Friday to collect your Library card and extend your membership. You will find us 4th floor, Lance Townsend Building (opposite the John Lindell Theatre) - which is just across the walkway that joins MHW and Austin Health.


MHW (Heidelberg) staff and students Austin Library membership benefits

Your Austin Library membership includes:

  • databases
  • eBooks
  • book loans
  • document delivery and inter-library loans
  • remote access to Clinical Key, Clinical Key Nursing, Lippincott.

It does not include access to UpToDate, BMJ Case reports or Australian Standards. Refer to MHW intranet for DynaMed as an alternative.

Medical databases

The Austin Library homepage gives you quick access to the major medical databases such as PubMed, BMJ Best Practice, ClinicalKey for Nursing, Lippincott Procedures, Lippincott Advisor, ACORN Standards and more

Our databases page links to more topic specific databases such as Emcare, Ovid Nursing, LactMed and more.

 

Library skills and research training: topics and bookings

The Library offers regular webinars and on demand Library and research training for all MHW (Heidelberg) staff and students. Check our Training page for more information on the topics covered, and booking links. Please contact the Library if you need assistance.

 

Library meeting rooms and collaboration spaces: descriptions and booking information

We have a variety of booths, small rooms and collaboration spaces available for you.
Visit our Library spaces & facilities / Room and booth booking pages and click through the tabs for information on each available space.
Contact the Library to make a booking.