Library

Evidence-based Resources

Reviews of the Evidence

*Cochrane Library (via Information Resources, NHS Evidence)
Database of systematic reviews and other evidence-based material aimed at informing healthcare research, teaching, funding, and administration

Evidence-based resources

Childbirth Connection

Motherisk

TRIP Database (Turning Evidence into Practice)

Key Databases

*CINAHL Plus with Full Text - EBSCO - (You will need your Keele log-in to access the EBSCO databases from off-campus)
CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals

*Hardin.MD
Very comprehensive collection of resources for health and medicine, mostly illustrated

*Internurse
Searchable full-text archive of 9,000+ peer-reviewed nursing and midwifery articles You will need your ATHENS password to access Internurse from off-campus

Maternity & Infant Care (Ovid)

*MEDLINE - EBSCO - (You will need your Keele log-in to access the EBSCO databases from off-campus)
Huge database of citations and abstracts (15.5 million records) drawn from more than 4,800 current biomedical journals

POPLINE: Find information relating to reproductive health worldwide

 *PsycINFO - EBSCO - (You will need your Keele log-in to access the EBSCO databases from off-campus)
Major database of abstracts drawn from the literature of psychology, 1872 to date. For a quick guide to get you started on PsycINFO click here.

Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library

Online Reference

Hardin.MD - Very comprehensive collection of resources for health and medicine, mostly illustrated.

Medicines Complete (Royal Pharmaceutical Press) - Medicines Complete gives you online access to the resources listed below:

• BNF / BNF for Children
• Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference
• Pharmaceutical Expedients
• Stockley’s Drug Interactions
• The Merck Index

Log in using your Keele username and password for off campus access to Medicines Complete.

Useful Websites

Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health
Gateway to evaluated quality Internet resources for nursing, midwifery, and the allied health professions

Nursing and Midwifery Council
The regulatory body that sets standards for UK nurses and midwives

Clinical Guidelines

NICE: Published Clinical Guidelines: click Published Clinical Guidelines (or whatever is relevant) and then browse the list by title

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.