Online Resources

Library catalogue
You can search for and access e-journals available to you via the library catalogue.

Journals A-Z
You can search for additional journal titles available to you by logging in with your OpenAthens account and searching the NICE  Journals A-Z search.

Library search
You can search across multiple e-resources including e-journals by using the library search discovery tool.

E-journal collections
You can search the content of articles across multiple journals by carrying out a search on a healthcare database.  You can also search the full-text of articles across multiples journals via the following platforms:
Oxford Academic Journals
Mark Allen
Karger 
Wiley
Ovid
ProQuest
Science Direct
ClinicalKey​
Sage
Taylor & Francis
Royal College of Nursing
EBSCO

Free and open access e-journals
BioMed Central
Directory of Open Access Journas DOAJ
Free Medical Journals 
Highwire 
MedBio World
Public Library of Science PLoS
PubMed Central

Library catalogue
You can search for and access e-books available to you via the library catalogue.

Library search
You can search across multiple e-resources including e-books by using the library search discovery tool.

E-book collections
You can access the full-text of e-books and for some collections, search within the full-text across multiple titles via the following platforms:
Oxford Medicine Online
ClinicalKey
Dawsonera
ProQuest Ebook Central

Free e-book collections
PubMed Bookshelf
FreeBooks4Doctors!
BNF Adult
BNF Children

Other e-books
Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Procedures

BMJ Best Practice

CinicalKey – Clinical overviews

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

NICE Evidence search

Healthcare databases provided by NICE & HEE
Medline
EMBASE
EMCARE
PsycInfo
CINAHL
British Nursing Index
AMED
HMIC

Healthcare databases provided by OVID
Medline 
EMBASE 
AMED
HMIC

Other databases
PubMed
Cochrane Library
Cochrane Clinical Answers
Trip
BestBETs

An OpenAthens account will give you access to a whole range of online resources such as e-books, e-journals, databases and point of care resources.

OpenAthens registration form
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NICE training materials & help guides

How to use Cochrane Library

The Literature Search Process: Guidance for NHS Researchers

Guide to sources of information

Smart searching: logical steps to building and testing your literature search

MeSH on demand

PubMed MeSH search

ISSG search filters resource

PubMed search strategies blog

PubMed search filters

Methodological search filters for GPs

Systematic searching – ebook

Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care: A Practical Guide – ebook

CASP – Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)

AGREE The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation

GRADE Handbook

BestBETs Critical Appraisal Worksheets

Understanding Health Research

Health Knowledge: Finding and Appraising Evidence

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

Behind the Headlines

JAMA evidence Glossary

Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care: A Practical Guide – ebook

How to read a paper – ebook