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Database |
Description |
University Staff & Students Access |
NHS Staff Access |
| AMED |
Allied and Complementary Medicine Database Bibliographic database produced by British Library. Covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose EbscoHost from the resources list. |
Click here for access to AMED via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account.
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| Best Treatments |
Provides both professionals and patients with research evidence about the treatments for many medical conditions. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose BMJ Best Treatments from the resources list. |
Click here to access Best Treatments.
Requires NHS Athens Account. |
| BNF |
British National Formulary. Provides healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines. |
British National Formulary is freely available.
(First time users must register. Session limited to 15 mins) |
British National Formulary is freely available.
(First time users must register. Session limited to 15 mins)
Also available via NLH. |
| BNFc |
British National Formulary for children. Provides prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with up-to-date information on the use of medicines for treating children. |
British National Formulary for Children is freely available.
(First time users must register. Session limited to 15 mins) |
British National Formulary for Children is freely available.
(First time users must register. Session limited to 15 mins)
Also available via NLH. |
| BNI |
British Nursing Index. Indexes articles of interest to nurses, midwives and health visitors |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose EbscoHost from the resources list. |
Click here for access to BNI via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| Cancer Topics |
US National Cancer Institute database. Cancer Literature subset of PubMed. |
Cancer Topics is freely available.
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Cancer Topics is freely available. |
| CINAHL |
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Primarily concerned with nursing but approximately 35% of articles are related to allied health disciplines. More than 1,200 publications are indexed. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose EbscoHost from the resources list. |
Click here for access to CINAHL via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account.
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| Citation Indexes |
Web of Science Citation Indexes. Find citations for a paper. This can be an effective way of extending a search. Separate Indexes are available for Science, Social Sciences, and Art & Humanities. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose Web of Knowledge from the resources list. |
Access only in Library.
Please click here. |
| Clinical Evidence |
Compendium of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions from BMJ Publishing Group |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose BMJ Clinical Evidence from the resources list. |
Click here to access to Clinical Evidence.
Requires NHS Athens Account |
| CKS |
Funded by the Department of Health, an up-to-date source of clinical knowledge to help healthcare professionals, and patients, in managing the common conditions generally seen in primary and first-contact care. |
Clinical Knowledge Summaries are freely available.
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Clinical Knowledge Summaries are freely available.
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| Clinical Trials Results Database |
US listing of current trials - search by medical condition or drug name. |
Clincial Trials Results Database is freely available. |
Clincial Trials Results Database is freely available. |
| Cochrane Library |
Consists of several databases supporting evidence-based medicine including: Cochrane Database of Sytematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, NHS Economic Evaluation Database, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Cochrane Register of Methodological Reviews |
Cochrane Library is freely available. |
Click here for access to the Cochrane Library via Ovid.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| DH-DATA |
Part of the HMIC database. Covers items indexed by the Department of Health Library on health management topics. |
For onsite access via HMIC click here.
For offsite access click here and login with your SGUL network username and password. |
Click here for access to HMIC via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin |
Provides healthcare professionals with practical and impartial advice on treatment. |
Click here to login & access Drugs & Therapeutics Bulletin via MyAthens. |
Click here to access Drugs & Therapeutics Bulletin.
Requires NHS Athens Account. |
| DynaMED |
DynaMed is a quick and easy-to-use medical reference resource designed to provide health professionals, researchers and students with the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making. It contains clinically organized summaries of nearly 2,000 topics covering all aspects of care and is updated daily from review of the research literature. No password required. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose EbscoHost from the resources list. |
Click here for access to DynaMED via CKS
The link for DynaMED is in the bottom right hand corner.
Requires NHS Athens Account. |
| Embase |
European medical database which indexes 3,500 titles. There is a only 37% overlap with Medline; coverage tends to be more up to date than Medline and it is particularly strong in the areas of drugs, toxicology and psychiatry. |
For onsite access via Ovid click here.
For offsite access click here and login with your SGUL network username and passord. |
Click here for access to Embase via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires and NHS Athens Account. |
| ERIC |
The Education Resources Information Center is a US database covering education information. Abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. |
ERIC is freely available. |
ERIC is freely available. |
| EBMR |
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews. Combines Cochrane Library and ACP Journal Club (a joint project of the American College of Physicians and BMJ Publishing Group). |
Not Available. |
Click here for access to Evidence Based Reviews via Ovid.
Requires NHS Athens Account. |
| HMIC |
From the Health Management Information Consortium. Combines information from the Department of Health, King's Fund and the Nuffield Institute for Health Information. Covers health management, health care planning and hospital administration. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access click here and login with your SGUL network username and password. |
Click here for access to HMIC via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| IBBS |
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, produced by the London School of Economics and Political Science, focuses mainly on the four core social science disciplines - anthropology, economics, politics and sociology. IBSS is especially strong on international material. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose EbscoHost from the resources list. |
Access only in Library.
Please click here. |
| Images.MD |
A collection of over 50,000 high-quality medical images from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases, with accompanying text. |
Click here to login & access Images.MD via MyAthens. |
Not Available. |
| Intute |
Intute is a free online service providing access to high quality Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and provide high quality descriptions of the resources. It includes sections for Health & Life Sciences and Social Sciences. |
Intute is freely available. |
Intute is freely available. |
| Journal Citation Reports |
Performance metrics for Journals. Includes Impact Factors. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and choose Web of Knowledge from the resources list. |
Access only in Library.
Please click here. |
| King's Fund |
Part of the HMIC database. Covers items indexed by the King's Fund Library on Health management topics. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access click here and login with your SGUL network username and password. |
Click here for access to King's Fund (HMIC) via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| Map of Medicine |
Evidence-based patient care pathways in over 387 topics across 7 areas of healthcare. |
Click here to login & access Map of Medicine via MyAthens. |
Click here to access Map of Medicine.
Requires NHS Athens Account. |
| Maternity & Infant Care |
From the Midwives Information and Resource Service. For maternity health professionals with an overview of key midwifery and medical research to inform their practice. The information is gathered from over 550 international journals. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access click here and login with your SGUL network username and password. |
Access only in Library.
Please click here. |
| Medline |
US National Libray of Medicine database. Core subject coverage is clinical medicine, including the allied health fields. Includes biological and physical sciences and humantities where they relate to health care. Indexes over 3,800 titles from 70 countries. |
For onsite access via Ovid click here.
For onsite access via EbscoHost click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and select either Ovid Online or EbscoHost. |
Click here for access to Medline via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| MyiLibrary |
MyiLibrary is an online eBook and eContent resource containing hundreds of medical titles and with the ability for users to annotate and store searches. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access via MyAthens click here, login and select MyiLibrary. |
Click here for access to MyiLibrary via NLH.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| NDAD |
National Digital Archive of Datasets. Archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments. Spans 40 years of recent history - earliest available dataset is 1963. |
National Digital Archive of Datasets is freely available. |
National Digital Archive of Datasets is freely available. |
| NCBI |
National Centre for Biotechnology Information databases. From US National Libray of Medicine. Provides molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.
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NCBI is freely available. |
NCBI is freely available. |
| NLH |
National Library for Health. A collection of resources healthcare including literature databases, E-journlas and E-books, Evidence-based reviews, Guidance, Specialist libraries, Images and Patient Information. |
National Library for Health |
National Library for Health |
| NRR |
National Research Register. The Register contains information on research which is being funded by, or of interest to, the UK NHS. Provides a reasonable record of projects that were ongoing from early 2000 onwards. |
NRR is freely available. |
NRR is freely available. |
| PEDro |
Physiotherapy Evidence Database. Bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. |
PEDro is freely available. |
PEDro is freely available. |
Primal Pictures
(Anatomy.tv) |
An interactive overview of human anatomy featuring 3D animations, clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists. The images can be used in teaching materials for SGUL students. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access click here and login with your SGUL network username and password. |
Click here for access to Primal Pictures via Ovid.
Requires an NHS Athens account. |
| PsycINFO |
Compiled by the American Psychological Association. Contains relevant material from medicine, psychiatry, social work, law, criminology, social science and organisational behaviour. |
For onsite access click here.
For offsite access click here and login with your SGUL network username and password. |
Click here for access to PsycINFO via NLH Search 2.0.
Requires an NHS Athens account.
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| PubMed |
The free US National Library of Medicine interface for Medline. Use My NCBI (ex Cubby) to save and update searches.
Use MedFetch (http://www.medfetch.com) to set regular alerts. |
PubMed is freely available. |
PubMed is freely available. |
| Social Care Online |
Provided by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Extensive database of social care information including research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites. |
Social Care Online is freely available. |
Social Care Online is freely available. |
| ToxNet |
From US National Library of Medicine. Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. |
ToxNet is freely available. |
ToxNet is freely available. |
| TRIP |
Turning Research into Practice is a bibliographic database bringing together online 'evidence-based' healthcare resources. |
TRIP is freely available. |
TRIP is freely available. |
| ZETOC |
zetoc provides access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents (ZETOC Alert) of current journals and conference proceedings. |
For onsite access click here. |
Click here for access to Zetoc.
Requires an NHS Athens account |
