CUG Libraries - Subject Guides: Applied Biosciences

  Why use this resource?
Good way to learn how to use our most common database-search interface and get results on a broad range of topics.
  Brief description
This is a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with lots of peer-reviewed journals. Content is mostly available as screen-readable PDFs.

  Why use this resource?
Good source of journal and magazine articles relating to science and biology.
  Brief description
This database provides abstracts and citations to a wide range of research across over two dozen areas of expertise, including literature from over 6000 titles. Can be searched alongside other ProQuest databases.

  Why use this resource?
Good for specific examples of practice, as well as new applications of theory, relating to frontline healthcare.
  Brief description
CINAHL is an informative health literature database for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. It provides higher-level articles and case studies rather than entry-level information, but can be used to add specific examples to assignments. Due to the specialised metadata included, CINAHL is best searched on its own.

  Why use this resource?
Add authority to arguments with examples drawn from practice, systematic reviews and clinical trials.
  Brief description
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

  Why use this resource?
Good for health and wellbeing information with academic underpinning.
  Brief description
This database includes clinical and biomedical sources alongside consumer health articles and broader content on health administration. Can be searched alongside other ProQuest databases.

  Why use this resource?
Good way to look at the interaction and detail of human systems and organs.
  Brief description
A comprehensive 3D atlas of the human body. Also available as an app. Includes structures from all body systems: nervous, skeletal, circulatory, muscular, digestive, urinary, lymphatic, endocrine, and reproductive.
  Access Information
1. Log in using your usual username and password (if prompted to)
2. tick any box when asked which elements you want to search on Ovid and press 'continue'
3. Select ‘Visible Body' from the blue bar at the top of the page,
4. Click on the 'Human Anatomy Atlas' (image of a face with nerves showing and '2017' written alongside it) to launch the resource.
Video guide

  Why use this resource?
Add medically-focused practice examples to your work.
  Brief description
US-focused medical source, incorporating life sciences journals, molecular biology databases and health and wellbeing practice guidance.Can be searched alongside other EBSCO databases.

  Why use this resource?
To include psychological perspectives or look at research into psychological principles.
  Brief description
International database for psychology, including academic, research and practice literature in many languages. Cross-disciplinary in scope, including relevant materials from disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, and social sciences. Can be search alongside other EBSCO databases (but may be more effective searched on its own due to useful additional facets which are available when you do).

  Why use this resource?
Medically-focused evidence drawn from across the world.
  Brief description
Citation index of biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may link to other databases we have access to, or may require a document supply request to get access.

  Why use this resource?
Add alternate perspectives into your work by drawing on the proceedings of various learned societies.
  Brief description
Broad-based journal collection spanning Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine, many of which come from institutions and societies. You can filter and search by discipline along with the other database-search features you’d expect.

  Why use this resource?
To find quality information to support work in STEM fields.
  Brief description
This is a major database for science, technology and medicine information. Alongside articles from more than 4,000 journals, there are also many books.

  Why use this resource?
Search abstracts of peer-reviewed bioscience and broader sciences research.
  Brief description
Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature.

  Why use this resource?
Coverage of body dynamics, kinaesthetics and general biological content alongside other sports topics.
  Brief description
Full-text database on sport, fitness and related disciplines. The content includes multidisciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. Can be searched alongside other EBSCO databases.