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CINAHL This link opens in a new window
Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, this database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines, and contains: Indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982. Has its own medical subject headings known as CINAHL subject headings.
Medline This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a freely available version of MEDLINE. PubMed contains over 14 million references and includes some links to full-text articles.
AMED Allied and complementary medicine databases This link opens in a new window
Alternative medicine database covering the areas of complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care, and more. AMED contains basic bibliographic records (abstracts are also included for many records dated 1995 onward) for relevant articles from over 500 journals, with the scope of coverage being mainly European. Many of the journals included in AMED are not indexed by other biomedical sources. AMED is produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source This link opens in a new window
Offering complete information from leading nursing and health related publications, this database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as health related students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions.

ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window
ASSIA is a bibliographic database with abstracts and citations of articles from over 650 sociology and psychology journals. Covers the applied social sciences and is particularly useful for social issues, social problems, health care, politics, economics, employment, gender issues, education and ethnicity.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED), and a seventh database that provides information about Cochrane groups: About The Cochrane Collaboration.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO database, with over 1.7 million records, is the comprehensive international database of psychology. It covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
Psychology theory and practice - journal articles.
Lexis Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of many local and national UK newspapers.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature.
Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
SAGE is the world's 5th largest journals publisher. Our portfolio includes more than 1000 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine, and more than 400 are published on behalf of learned societies and institutions.

Helix Media Library This link opens in a new window
Helix Media Library has over 3000 video and audio items available to view via your computer, laptop, tablet, Android device, iPhone.
Box of Broadcasts This link opens in a new window
Box of Broadcasts is a on demand TV and radio service for education. It allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search an extensive archive.

Key Research Databases

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
Medline This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source This link opens in a new window
AMED Allied and complementary medicine databases This link opens in a new window
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window

Specialist Databases

ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
Lexis Library This link opens in a new window

Cross-Discipline Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
Sage Premier This link opens in a new window

Media Databases

Box of Broadcasts This link opens in a new window
Helix Media Library This link opens in a new window

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