Useful resources for finding academic literature for Nursing. Anatomy - online learning resources HTML ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts) Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. It contains records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Detailed information about ASSIA Coverage: 1987-present. NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network CINAHL Plus is a key resource HTML CINAHL Plus- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Covers 4,175 nursing, allied health, biomedicine, behavioural science, education and consumer health journal sand a wide range of other material including books, dissertations, educational software and audiovisual material. Abstracts and alerts are available. Detailed information about CINAHL Coverage: From 1937. Help: Online tutorial Additional Information: NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network Clinical decision tools or "point of care" resources HTML Cochrane Library Access information: Access on and off campus. Restricted to UK IP addresses. Description: Used to inform the practice of evidence-based medicine. Cochrane includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, the Cochrane Review Methodology Database and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. Updated quarterly. HTML EMBASE Access information: Access on and off-campus. Accept cookies. 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Description: Covers human health and disease, including communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases and parasitology, nutrition, community and public health, and medicinal and poisonous plants, from more than 16,000 journals as well as books and grey literature (dissertations, conferences, patents, standards, annual reports, etc.) from more than 130 countries. Coverage: 1910 to present. HTML Healthtalk.org - Learning & Teaching Access information: Freely available. Description: Approximately 25,000 video clips of people talking about their experiences of more than 90 different health issues. Interviews conduted by researchers from the University of Oxford. Copyright: Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of over 2,800 seminar style talks by leading world experts. 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Description: American Psychological Association produced with citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Detailed information about PsycINFO Coverage: Journal coverage, from 1806 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 journals written in over 29 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material from 1806 to the present. NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network HTML Scopus Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. 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Description: Bibliographic coverage of current research focussed on social work, human service and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and human development. Coverage: From 1979 with monthly updates. HTML SPORTDiscus with Full Text Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Covers serial and monographic literature in sport, recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning. Full text is available for 550 titles. Coverage: From 1949. Additional information: NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network HTML Stockley’s Interactions Checker Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: Stockley’s Interactions Checker is an interactions checking tool, providing quick and easy access to interactions between drugs, foods and more. The tool provides a simple snapshot of the severity, description and management guidance – whilst also linking you to the full record in Stockley’s Drug Interactions. Stockley’s Interactions Checker allows an unlimited number of drugs to be searched at the same time and provides clear ratings on action, severity and evidence per interaction. It searches and links to Stockley’s Drug Interactions, providing the guidance required to safely manage the selection of drugs. HTML Virtual Health Library Access information: Freely available Description: Specialised, especially non-English language, databases for health research in South America. Also research from the Caribbean. MEDLINE may be searched by default. Coverage: Includes LILACS and MEDCARIB HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf) For organising and screening records HTML CovidenceAccess information:Access on and off campus - see registration guidance in notes belowDescription:Covidence is a web-based platform that supports the established and rigorous methods for systematic reviews. The platform helps review teams to work together more efficiently, and supports collaborators who are geographically separated. Authentication note:See https://support.covidence.org/help/university-of-edinburgh-9681e3ac for instructions.Guidance and tutorials:https://support.covidence.org/help Whole review process - online self-directed learning HTML Cochrane Interactive Learning Access information: Access on and off-campus. Initial registration must be via Library proxy server - see Notes. Description: Self-paced learning modules on the full process for conducting systematic reviews according to Cochrane Collaboration guidance. The content is created by systematic review methods experts. There are 11 modules presented using text and multi-media, and including self-assessment in the form of exercises and quizzes. Your progress through the modules is recorded so that you can see what you’ve completed and pick up where you left off. 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HTML ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts) Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. It contains records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Detailed information about ASSIA Coverage: 1987-present. NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network
HTML CINAHL Plus- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Covers 4,175 nursing, allied health, biomedicine, behavioural science, education and consumer health journal sand a wide range of other material including books, dissertations, educational software and audiovisual material. Abstracts and alerts are available. Detailed information about CINAHL Coverage: From 1937. Help: Online tutorial Additional Information: NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network
HTML Cochrane Library Access information: Access on and off campus. Restricted to UK IP addresses. Description: Used to inform the practice of evidence-based medicine. Cochrane includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, the Cochrane Review Methodology Database and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. Updated quarterly.
HTML EMBASE Access information: Access on and off-campus. Accept cookies. Cookies: Some functions, including use of the Search History, will be disabled if cookies are rejected or no selection is made. Description: The Excerpta Medica database, a major pharmacological and biomedical literature database covering about 8,500 journals from110 countries. Covers mainly journal literature (plus some book reviews and conference proceedings) with strong coverage of European journals. Detailed information about EMBASE Coverage: From 1947 to date. NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network
HTML Global Health (via CABI), also available via Ovid Access information: Access on and off-campus. Accept cookies. Cookies: Some functions, including use of the Search History, will be disabled if cookies are rejected or no selection is made. Description: Covers human health and disease, including communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases and parasitology, nutrition, community and public health, and medicinal and poisonous plants, from more than 16,000 journals as well as books and grey literature (dissertations, conferences, patents, standards, annual reports, etc.) from more than 130 countries. Coverage: 1910 to present.
HTML Healthtalk.org - Learning & Teaching Access information: Freely available. Description: Approximately 25,000 video clips of people talking about their experiences of more than 90 different health issues. Interviews conduted by researchers from the University of Oxford. Copyright: Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of over 2,800 seminar style talks by leading world experts. All of the seminars have been specially commissioned from leading scientists and are presented in a user-friendly format of animated slides with synchronized narration.
HTML Macmillan Cancer Support - Stories Access information: Freely available. Description: Written and video experiences of cancer patients, survivors, family, carers and healthcare professionals. Copyright: For information purposes and for your non-commercial, personal use only.
HTML MEDLINE Access information: Access on and off campus. Accept cookies. Cookies: Some functions, including use of the Search History, will be disabled if cookies are rejected or no selection is made. Description: US National Library of Medicine database, covering worldwide medical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues and health care services. Corresponds to three printed indexes - Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index. Covers 5,600 journals published in the USA and about 70 other countries. Detailed information about Medline MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? Coverage: From 1946 to date. NHS staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network
HTML medRxiv.org - Preprint service Access information: Freely available. Description: Searchable, full-text repository of author-submitted research papers in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Preprints are preliminary versions of work yet to be peer reviewed and published. Coverage: 2019-present Notes: From the site: "medRxiv can save authors time in submitting papers to journals [of participating publishers] by transmitting their manuscript files and metadata directly from medRxiv."
HTML NIHR (National Insitute for Health and care Research) Evidence Access information: Freely available. Description: Plain language summaries of NIHR funded research. Alerts summarise single studies. Collections and Themed Reviews collate research on stated topics.
HTML PROSPERO: International prospective register of systematic reviews Access information: Freely available Description: Protocol details for systematic reviews relevant to health and social care, welfare, public health, education, crime, justice, and international development, where there is a health related outcome. Systematic review protocols on PROSPERO can include any type of any study design. Reviews of reviews and reviews of methodological issues that contain at least one outcome of direct patient or clinical relevance are also accepted. Additional information: Produced by CRD and funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
HTML PsycINFO - Ovid interface [PsycINFO via APA PsycNET] Access information: Access on and off-campus. On Ovid interface - Accept cookies. Cookies (Ovid) Some functions, including use of the Search History, will be disabled if cookies are rejected or no selection is made. Description: American Psychological Association produced with citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Detailed information about PsycINFO Coverage: Journal coverage, from 1806 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 journals written in over 29 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material from 1806 to the present. NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network
HTML Scopus Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Contains over 19 million author profiles, 99,000 institutional profiles, 7000 publishers, 94 million records, 2.4 billion cited references, covers over 29,000 journals and 330,000 books from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. Over 43 million patents from WIPO, EPO, USPTO, JPO & UK Intellectual Property Office: ipo.gov.uk. Coverage: For some subject areas, from 1788 onwards. User guide: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home Note: The University of Edinburgh's Affiliation ID is 60027272 (used for configuring Papers 3 for Mac to work with Scopus). Note: If you would like to register to receive personalised searches, alerts etc then select "Other Institution login", then add "Edinburgh" to the search box to find the University of Edinburgh log in link, select the Shibboleth option if requested.
HTML Social Services Abstracts Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Bibliographic coverage of current research focussed on social work, human service and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and human development. Coverage: From 1979 with monthly updates.
HTML SPORTDiscus with Full Text Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Covers serial and monographic literature in sport, recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning. Full text is available for 550 titles. Coverage: From 1949. Additional information: NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network
HTML Stockley’s Interactions Checker Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: Stockley’s Interactions Checker is an interactions checking tool, providing quick and easy access to interactions between drugs, foods and more. The tool provides a simple snapshot of the severity, description and management guidance – whilst also linking you to the full record in Stockley’s Drug Interactions. Stockley’s Interactions Checker allows an unlimited number of drugs to be searched at the same time and provides clear ratings on action, severity and evidence per interaction. It searches and links to Stockley’s Drug Interactions, providing the guidance required to safely manage the selection of drugs.
HTML Virtual Health Library Access information: Freely available Description: Specialised, especially non-English language, databases for health research in South America. Also research from the Caribbean. MEDLINE may be searched by default. Coverage: Includes LILACS and MEDCARIB
HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf)
HTML CovidenceAccess information:Access on and off campus - see registration guidance in notes belowDescription:Covidence is a web-based platform that supports the established and rigorous methods for systematic reviews. The platform helps review teams to work together more efficiently, and supports collaborators who are geographically separated. Authentication note:See https://support.covidence.org/help/university-of-edinburgh-9681e3ac for instructions.Guidance and tutorials:https://support.covidence.org/help
HTML Cochrane Interactive Learning Access information: Access on and off-campus. Initial registration must be via Library proxy server - see Notes. Description: Self-paced learning modules on the full process for conducting systematic reviews according to Cochrane Collaboration guidance. The content is created by systematic review methods experts. There are 11 modules presented using text and multi-media, and including self-assessment in the form of exercises and quizzes. Your progress through the modules is recorded so that you can see what you’ve completed and pick up where you left off. For more information please see http://training.cochrane.org/interactivelearning/about Notes: The first time you use this resource, you need to register to create account so that your progress may be recorded: click here for a step by step registration guide. There is a two-stage registration process – if you already have a Cochrane account, you can skip the first step.
