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CINAHL

Search this database for online journal articles and references on: nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare.

British Nursing Index

A UK nursing and midwifery database, covering over 400 journals including international nursing and midwifery journals.

Embase

Embase increases the discovery of biomedical evidence to support critical life sciences functions, delivering relevant, up-to-date biomedical information to the global biomedical research community.

Emcare

Search this database for online journal abstracts and references. Includes access to nearly 5 million records on nursing and allied health.

Royal Marsden Manual

The Royal Marsden Manual Online provides essential nursing knowledge and up-to-date information on nursing skills and procedures.

Browzine

Use BrowZine to browse the journals available to you as a member. Use it to select, and keep up-to-date with, the latest issues of your favourite journals.

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions.

A-Z journals

Browse our journal subscriptions.

Intermid

Intermid contains all content from the British Journal of Midwifery from 1996 onwards. It also exclusively includes access to its sister title, African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health.

Internurse

Access to 18 peer-reviewed nursing and midwifery journals published by Mark Allen including British Journal of Nursing; British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, Nurse Prescribing and Practice Nursing.

Medline

5.600 biomedical journals if you are looking for articles on a medical rather than a nursing topic.

Nursing and Allied Health database 

Hundreds of journal titles covering nursing, allied health and alternative complementary medicine.

HMIC

Publications, journal articles and grey literature related to health service policy, management and administration.

Historical Nursing Journals

This digitised collection of 22 nursing journals from the Royal College of Nursing Collection covers dates from 1891 to 1986.

Maternity and Infant Care

Online journal articles and print journal references on midwifery, pregnancy, labour and early infant care.

RCN journals at Ovid

Use the full text journals@Ovid database to search for full text content.

Social Policy and Practice

Evidence-based social policy, public health, social services, and mental and community health.

Coronavirus research database

The Coronavirus Research Database consists of aggregated authoritative content from ProQuest Journals, preprints, conference proceedings and dissertations. It provides comprehensive coverage of COVID-19 and other past coronavirus outbreaks, such as MERS and SARS, for context around the current global pandemic.

The Cochrane Library

High-quality independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

ERIC is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is an essential tool for education researchers of all kinds.

Trip database

A tool for you to find and use high-quality clinical research evidence.

PubPsych

PubPsych is an Open access information retrieval system for psychological resources, coordinated by the research support organization Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID). It includes over 800.000 datasets and offers, where available, full-text linking, links to additional information and link resolving.

GreenFILE

A research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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