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CINAHL

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

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British Nursing Index

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

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Emcare

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

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Royal Marsden Manual

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

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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.

Journal finder

Browse over 1,100 e-journals and our print journal titles to help you with your research and study.

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.

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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.

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Medline

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

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Nursing and Allied Health database

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

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HMIC

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

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RCN Library catalogue

Search Europe's largest collection of nursing books, journals and theses. Check your account and renew your books through the library catalogue.

Historical Nursing Journals

Published from 1888 to 1956 and available in full text. This journal began as the Nursing Record and changed its name to The British Journal of Nursing in 1902.

Maternity and Infant Care

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

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AMED

The Allied and Complementary Medicine database. Search for online journal articles and references on alternative treatments.

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RCN journals at Ovid

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

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Social Policy and Practice

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

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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.

COVID-19 resources - PubMed Central

A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. It provides access to all free to access COVID-19 resources to support those working in the healthcare sector.

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.

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