Australasian Medical Index (AMI)

Scope of AMI

AMI is a subject index to Australian health and medical literature. It also contains abstracts to indexed articles.

Subject scope

Items indexed have a direct relevance to humans. Within this broad statement of scope the following subject areas are recognised in AMI:

Aboriginal health

Health services

Aged care

History of medicine

AIDS/HIV

Microbiology

Alternative medicine

Nursing

Biotechnology

Nutrition

Casemix

Occupational health

Chemicals

Optometry

Community health

Pathology

Dental health

People with disabilities

Drug use

Pharmacology

Drugs

Pharmacy

Emergency medicine

Psychiatry

Environmental health

Podiatry

Ethics

Primary health

Ethnic health

Public health

Food safety

Rural health

General practice

Safety

Genetics

Sport health

Health care

Substance related disorders

Health promotion

Toxicology

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Materials covered

  • Australian scholarly journals
  • Selected Australian non-scholarly journals
  • Selected chapters or papers from Australian books and conference proceedings
  • Selected Australian electronic journals archived in PANDORA
  • Selected overseas literature written by Australians or about Australia

Materials not covered

  • Annual reports
  • Directories
  • Encyclopaedia sets
  • Statistical reports
  • Government gazettes
  • Parliamentary papers
  • Draft/final standards
  • Foreign language material entirely in non Roman script
  • Catalogues
  • Newsletters that have no feature articles

AMI SELECTION GUIDELINES

Inclusions

  • All original articles regardless of form or length or publication date of article
  • Editorials and letters if they constitute substantial articles
  • Reprints indexed if not in AMI or APAIS
  • Biographies and obituaries are indexed if there is a discussion or description of the person’s work or contribution to medicine

Exclusions

  • Editorials which ‘editorialise’.
  • Book reviews
  • Summaries of previously published articles
  • Summaries or commentaries about a conference
  • Articles with no direct relevance to human health or medicine
  • Reprints of articles in AMI and APAIS

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Formats

AMI is published in two formats: CD-ROM and online.

CD-ROM

AMI is one of eight Australian databases on AUSThealth which covers health and medicine and is published by RMIT Publishing. AMI coverage is from 1968. For subscription details, contact RMIT Publishing

Online

AMI is available online via the Internet as part of the Informit Online service from RMIT Publishing. Webspirs software is being phased out and the new Informit Search interface is now being used for searching and retrieval.

Meditext is a full text version of AMI also available from Informit Online. It not only contains AMI citation records but also links to scanned images of articles from around 100 Australian medical journals indexed in AMI. Full text coverage is from 1996. A list of articles full text journals can be found at http://www.informit.com.au/ftjournals.asp?id=MEDITEXT.

For subscription information about these products contact RMIT Publishing. National Library readers can access Meditext through the NLA's eResources.

Indexed journals

A list of Comprehensively Indexed Journals in AMI is available. Many articles from these journals are available as full text images in Meditext.

AMI indexes approximately 16 electronic journals and conference proceedings archived in PANDORA. A list of Electronic journals and electronic conferences indexed in AMI is available.

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Locating indexed articles

Individual researchers can order copies of any articles indexed in AMI through the National Library’s Copies Direct service. Libraries can send requests to the Library's Document Supply Service.

Many AMI records contain links to full text articles on journal websites. The Meditext full text version of AMI contains scanned images of articles from over 100 journals indexed by AMI.

Medical Subject Headings

All items indexed for AMI are assigned subject headings from the National Library of Medicine’s publication Medical Subject Headings - Annotated Alphabetic List. For further details contact http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

Sample record

Sample record from Informit Online’s Meditext database

AU: Asher-E
TI: Homeopathy in general practice.
LA: English
MIME: Bronchiolitis-therapy; Drug-Interactions; Homeopathy-adverse-effects; Homeopathy-history; Human-; Insect-Bites-and-Stings-therapy; Soft-Tissue-Injuries-therapy;
MJME: *Homeopathy-;
DA: 14/11/2000
IS: 0311-905X
DLR: 23/11/2000
IT: J
LI: AMI
CP: Australia
ADD: easher@homecare.co.uk
EM: 200011
AB: Homeopathy is the healing art of treating like with like. Dilute versions of a drug are given to the patient, which, if given in toxic doses, would produce similar symptoms to the illness itself. In other words, if it doesn't cause it, it won't treat it. The potency and frequency of dose required for a positive reaction to the medicine are decided after considering the patient's susceptibility and the 'acuteness' of the presentation. Homeopathy does not act via the dose-related pharmacodynamic mechanisms used in conventional medicine, but by activation of inherent homeostatic mechanisms. A meta-analysis of homeopathic trials has found that the effects of homeopathy could not be explained by chance alone. (author abstract)
ABI: Yes
AA: Author
UI: 87048612
SO: Curr Ther 2000 Oct ; 41 (10) : 71-5
URL: http://www.ctonline.com.au/PracTher99.asp?PTId=10003
URLI: Yes
PY: 2000
FTI: Yes

This record indicates that there is a corresponding URL link to an article on the publishers web site (URL1=Yes) and that there is a full text image (FTI=Yes) of the article available from Meditext.
* An asterisk denotes the major concept of the article being indexed.

For further information contact ami@nla.gov.au

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