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The best way to search for journal articles by subject is to use a database. You can use RefWorks to help you manage your references and format your bibliography. We have a work through guide to get you started. If you don't want to use RefWorks, the ELS have a guide on how to cite references and NMCH referencing guidelines are available, HSC guidelines are avaliable on blackboard. If we don't have an item, check other local university libraries. If it is not available locally, you can borrow it from another library. All databases need an Athens login unless we say otherwise.

Find articles on your subject with our top three databases

Teach yourself searching or read our helpsheets on the help icon 24-7 tutor: Health It also includes our new Vidcast on literature searching and a guide on assessing research articles

  • EBSCO databases: CINAHL, British Nursing Index, AMED and Medline CINAHL is a specialist database for nursing and allied health literature. BNI is a smaller specialised nursing database.Medline covers information with a more medical focus. AMED covers rehabilitation, occupational therapy, podiatry and complementary therapy.
  • MIDIRS covers midwifery and infant health.
  • The Cochrane library on Wiley Interscience (formerly EBM reviews)
    When to use the Cochrane Library. Use this database for answering very specific types of questions about the effectiveness of a treatment. It is not useful for general healthcare information such as "Are there any new drugs for asthma?" or for questions about the cause, prognosis, epidemiology or risk factors for an illness. Use other databases such as CINAHL or Medline to find this information. Don't use this databse to find journal articles as it only indexes reviews!
    Some definitions:
    A systematic review is a review of a clearly formulated question that uses systematic and explicit methods to identify, select and critically appraise relevant research, and to collect and analyse data from the studies that are included in the review.
    A randomised controlled trial (RCT) is an experiment in which investigators randomly allocate eligible people into (for example, treatment and control) groups to receive or not to receive one or more interventions that are being compared.
    A Meta analysis is a statistical technique for assembling the results of several studies in a review into a single numerical estimate.
  • Proquest Health Module
    Contains full text of health journals and is searchable by subject. No password is required when used on-campus, but an Athens password is needed for off-campus use. You can also search other modules like Social Science at the same time.
Google Scholar

Watch our movie on how to set up and import Google data into RefWorks.

The best of the rest - roll your mouse over the titles for more information

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Ageinfo Alcohol studies database
Alcohol and alcohol problems science database Anatomy TV you will need a Password to use this from home
ARMA good practice database ASSIA - Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts
Autism data Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Caredata - Now Social Care Online ClinicalTrials.gov
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness -Cochrane Library Dictionary of epidemiology
e-Anatomy database - no password needed, access is on-campus only Emerald on-campus Emerald  off-campus (Athens password needed) Useful information on health service management.
ENB health care database Global ChildNet
HerbMed Hom-Inform
Images.md On-campus access only, no password needed Index to chiropractic literature
Innovol International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
ISI Web of Knowledge Medical illustration database
Medline on CSA new Mednar - this is a free specialist medical search engine
National Research Register NHS centre for reviews and dissemination
Outcomes activities database Open J-Gate
Pediatric Database (PEDBASE) PEDro
Physical Education Index Physiotherapy outcome measures database (CSP)
PLANEX PsycBITE
Psycinfo (see Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) RDinfo
RECAL legacy Rehabdata
Social services abstracts TRIP (Turning research into practice)
UK clinical trials gateway UK clinical research network
UK PubMed Central World Markets Research Centre
Click here to display password for off-campus use.

You can translate abbreviations to full titles using NLM Journals

globe icon Good stuff on the web - use gateways: quality-assessed collections of web sites

Intute-Lite demoIntute logo
BROWNson's nursing notes BUBL
Foot and Ankle Link Library The Knowledge Network (was the NHS e-library) including JBI COnNECT (Joanna Briggs Institute)
MDchoice Medline Plus - good information arranged by subject

SearchMedica the GP's search engine

For more gateways try Pinakes

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Last updated Wednesday March 17, 2010