Academic Search Ultimate
- Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
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BioDigital Human - Interactive 3D Anatomy Platform
- Subject coverage: interactive 3D software for visualizing anatomy, disease and treatment
- Type of content:Ìýincludes images, quizes and textbook type material
- Level of access:Ìýfull access when registered with a ÃÛÌÒAV email.ÌýOnce you have signed up with your ÃÛÌÒAV email and created a password, you can access BioDigital directly.
To access this resource select BioDigital Human from the blue ribbon towards the top of the page. You will need to use your ÃÛÌÒAV email address to set up your account.
BNI (British Nursing Index)
- Subject coverage: nursing and midwifery database; useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers
- Size/scope: over 200 UK journals and other English language titles
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1994 to present
- Level of access: some links to full text.
BNI is only available on Proquest
CINAHL Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: the Largest Collection of Leading Nursing and Allied Health Literature CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments
- Size/scope: over 6,300 journals
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1937 to present
- Level of access: full text of over 2,400 journals.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
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Cochrane Library
- Subject coverage: Global resource for best evidence in healthcare
- Type of content: Collection of databases containing randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, health economics and methodologies
- Level of access: No login required.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
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COPM (Canadian Occupational Performance Measure) Learning Module
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Subject coverage: The COPM Learning Module is a comprehensive online course designed for new users of the COPM as well as those who wish to refresh their knowledge. Comprises of five chapters which includes exercises and videos.
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Type of Content: Comprises of 5 chapters – Introduction to the COPM; Theoretical underpinnings: client-centered practice; Theoretical underpinnings: occupation-based practice; Interviewing, administering and scoring the COPM; COPM research evidence
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Level of access: Please contact the HSS library team ([email protected]) if you need access to this resource.
EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
Epistemonikos
- Subject coverage: Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence
- Type of content:Ìýevidence-based information, systematic reviews
- Level of access:Ìýsome full text available.
HealthProfessionals
- Subject coverage: occupational therapy, operating department practice, paramedic practice, physiotherapy, GP practice management
- Type of content: online archive of peer-reviewed articles from eight Mark Allen journals
- Date range: various according to the journal accessed
- Level of access: full text available.
Index to Chiropractic Literature
- Subject coverage: chiropractic
- Size/scope: 11,000 academic journals indexed
- Type of content: chiropractic peer-reviewed journals
- Date range: 1985 onwards
- Level of access: Mainly abstract only, some full text.
Medline Complete
- Subject coverage: medical database focusing on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, toxicology, anthropology and biology. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations
- Size/scope: 5400 academic journals indexed, 2100 full text journals incorporated
- Type of Content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1865 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
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NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
- Subject coverage: medical and healthcare
- Type of content: wide range of materials including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents
- Level of access: most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account. Students studying on NHS-related programmes are able to obtain an NHS Athens account. Invitations were emailed at the beginning of the academic year.
OTSeeker
- Subject coverage: occupational therapy
- Type of content: abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials
- Date range: 2002 onwards
- Level of access: bibliographic and abstracts.
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
- Subject coverage: physiotherapy
- Type of content: abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
- Level of access: bibliographic and abstracts.
PubMed
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database focusing on medical and life sciences
- Size/scope: includes over 18 million citations from Medline
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1948 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
REHABDATA
- Subject coverage: Rehabilitation
- Size/scope: Contains references to over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues relating to people with disabilities.
- Date range: 1956-
- Level of access: some full text available.
ScienceDirect
- Subject coverage: health, science and medicine
- Size/scope: 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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SIGN guidelines (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)
- Subject coverage:Ìýhealth guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network [SIGN]
- Type of content:Ìýevidence-based information
- Level of access:Ìýsome full text available.
SocINDEX with Full Text
- Subject coverage: sociology and social work practice
- Size/scope: bibliographic information for over 2,100,000 articles including access to the full text of over 860 sociology journals. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for 14,636 conference papers in sociology, social work practice and related subjects
- Type of content: academic journal article, books, conference papers
- Level of access: full text of over 860 journals, 830 books and 16,800 conference papers.
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text
- Subject coverage: sports
- Size/scope: international database indexing and abstracting over 61,000 records. This database contains information on: sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training technique, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. It provides full text for more than 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing, with more than 700,000 full-text articles
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1985-present
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Web of Science
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Note: Select UK Federation from Institutional Sign In and search for ÃÛÌÒAV
- Subject coverage:Ìýarts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope:Ìýcitation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýWeb of Science consists of:
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýScience Citation Index 1899-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýSocial Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýArts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýConference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBiosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýMedline 1950-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýJournal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators
- Type of content:Ìýacademic journal article
- Date range:Ìý1945-
- Level of access:Ìýsome links to full text.