Library

Healthcare Databases: evidence-based reviews

Cochrane Library (this is freely available - via National Library for Health)

Database of systematic reviews and other evidence-based material aimed at informing healthcare research, teaching, funding, and administration

Full-text is available for Cochrane reviews only. Use the e-journals search to find full-text for other material you'll find on the Cochrane Library ('Other reviews', Clinical Trials and so on)

Databases - Biomedical & Pre-clinical Sciences

The links below are some individual databases you may find useful to search. Please note, to enable a refined/advanced search (e.g. to use MeSH in MEDLINE) only search one database at a time in ALL cases.

• BIOSIS Previews: Life Sciences and biomedical research, including experimental research (click here to access off-campus)

• Biological Sciences: the database covers biomedicine, biotechnology & more (click here to access off-campus)

• MEDLINE: Nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, medical education, pre-clinical sciences, and more – contains tens of millions of references.

• TOXLINE: Specialist database, includes material relating to toxicology (click here to access off-campus)

• Web of Science: (Science edition - includes Conference Proceedings): References for thousands of scholarly journals across a range of science subjects (click here to access off-campus).

For a guide on how to use the Web of Science click here.

Databases - Core Health Databases

Please find listed below individual databases you may find useful to search. Please note, for enable refined/advanced searching (e.g. to use MeSH in MEDLINE) only search one database at a time in ALL cases.

• AMED (Allied & Alternative Medicine): Complementary medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, and rehabilitation

• CINAHL Plus with Full-Text: The world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals; includes some full-text articles

• Medline: Nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, medical education, pre-clinical sciences, and more – contains tens of millions of references

• PsycINFO: Major database of abstracts drawn from the literature of behavioural science and mental health (1872 to date); includes some full-text articles. For a quick guide to get you started click here.

• SPORTDiscus with Full-Text: Definitive source for sports medicine

Databases - Health Psychology, Sociology and Ethics

Please find listed below individual databases you may find useful to search. Please note, for enable refined/advanced searching (e.g. to use MeSH in MEDLINE) only search one database at a time in ALL cases.

• Academic Search Premier: Full- text of over 4500 journals covering almost every area of academic study

• AMED (Allied & Alternative Medicine): Complementary medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, and rehabilitation

• CINAHL Plus with Full-Text: The world’s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals; includes some full-text articles

• Medline: Nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, medical education, pre-clinical sciences, and more – contains tens of millions of references

• PsycINFO: Major database of abstracts drawn from the literature of behavioural science and mental health (1872 to date); includes some full-text articles
• ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts): Different aspects of health information (includes health management)

• Philosopher’s Index: Ethics, the philosophy of science and more

• Physical Education Index: All aspects of health, fitness and physical education

• Sociological Abstracts: Indexes key journals in health, medicine, sociology & law

Health Journals

Health Journals (include other subjects) – selective list

Find references for articles and other material by using the databases listed above.  Many articles for health subjects can also be found via:

(1) SwetsWise: Searchable, full-text access to journals across all the disciplines 
     You will need your Keele log-in password for off-campus access to Swetswise

(2) Science Direct
     You will need your Keele log-in password for off-campus access to Science Direct

• Access to about 1800 full-text articles across technical, and social sciences from the publisher Elsevier
• Abstracts from other publishers across the major scientific disciplines

(3) JSTOR: Access to a small number of health sciences journals, generally the earlier issues.  The collection covers a range of other subjects
     You will need your ATHENS password for off-campus access to JSTOR

Printed Books and Ebooks

Printed books

Use the Library Catalogue to search for individual titles held by the Library. Search by keyword, title, author/title.

Ebooks : a number of health titles are available

Dawsonera: growing collection of ebooks for core reading list material.  You’ll find all titles from Dawsonera in the Library Catalogue

MyiLibrary: You’ll also find all titles from MyiLibrary in the Library Catalogue

EBSCO ebook collection: You’ll find some of the titles in the Library Catalogue.

Health ebooks on the Web (freely available)

NCBI Bookshelf: Freely available biomedical books from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (USA)

You may also like to look at Google Books. Whilst this does not provide access to the full text of many books, you can access limited previews for some titles.

Guides and Tutorials

Please note that there is information on both sides (unless otherwise stated) of each guide

Effective Searching Techniques (Generic search techniques)

• Quick guide (Searching for Information for an extended essay or dissertation)
• Advanced guide

How to search specific databases (please note, this section is under development/updating)

• Quick Guides
  
  • Health Information on EBSCO

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