Health and Social Care databases

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

  • Over 300 anatomy lessons on video using real, dissected human specimens.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) (via EBSCO)

  • A selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, professions allied to medicine (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, rehabilitation, and speech and language therapy).
  • Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

Amirsys Imaging Reference Center

  • Radiology references for all healthcare professionals who work with imaging tests.
  • Includes 72,000 x-ray, CT, MR, and ultrasound illustrations and images and includes over 4,000 diagnoses.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Anatomy.tv

  • Interactive 3D anatomy resource.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)

  • Worldwide English language coverage of journal articles, conference papers and book reviews in the fields of applied social sciences and health.
  • Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

BioMed Central

  • This is a collection of 186 full-text journals in biology and medicine.
  • Included in the main library search.

BMJ Learning

  • A learning website from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) for medical professionals offering a wide range of resources.
  • These are evidence based, dealing with everyday issues in primary care and hospital medicine.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

BNF

  • Up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicines.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

BNF for children

  • Up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicine for children.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

  • Off-air recording and media archive service.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Nursing Database

  • A full text UK nursing and midwifery database, covering over 300 UK journals and other English language titles.
  • Included in the main library search.

Business Source Complete

  • UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cambridge Journals Online

  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
  • Included in the main library search.

Campbell Collaboration

  • C2 is an evidence-based resource covering social welfare, education, psychology and crime.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

CINAHL Plus (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

  • CINAHL Plus covers more than 4,500 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as 1937.

Clinical Skills

  • More than 160 clinical skills procedures, in a user-friendly illustrated format, regularly updated and with a useful search facility.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Cochrane Library

  • The Cochrane Library is considered to be the best single source of reliable evidence on the effects of health care.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

  • The Directory of Open Access Journals is a list of freely-available, full-text, quality-controlled, scientific and scholarly journals.
  • Included in the main library search.

EMBASE

  • 24 million indexed records in the field of biomedicine.

Emerald

  • Over 300 peer-reviewed journals covering subjects such as engineering, business and health & social care.
  • Included in the main library search.

EThOS

  • British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

FreeMedicalJournals.com

  • Free access to medical journals over the Internet, over 400 titles are included.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

healthtalk.org

  • The resource provides clips of patients talking about a range of health care conditions.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

LWW Health Library for Occupational Therapy

  • Provides interactive online access to essentials texts, procedure videos, images, real-life case studies and quiz banks.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Mark Allen Healthcare Complete

  • A comprehensive collection of over 25 peer-reviewed journals.
  • Includes clinical nursing, midwifery, dental nursing, pre-hospital care and veterinary practice.
  • Included in the main library search.

Maternity and Infant Care

  • The MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service) Reference Database.
  • Covers around 550 international English language journals.
  • Included in the main library search.

MEDLINE via EBSCO

  • MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM).
  • A premier bibliographic database of life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
  • Included in the main library search.

MEDLINE via OVID

  • MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database.
  • Covers life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
  • Included in the main library search.

National Statistics

  • The official gateway to UK National Statistics, providing access to the latest statistics from government departments in the UK.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

NEWS2 (The National Early Warning Score)

  • The National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) eLearning programme.
  • A system standardising assessment and acute illness response for NHS staff.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

NICE Evidence

  • Provides access to high quality authoritative evidence and best practice from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
  • Covers health, social care and public health evidence.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

OTseeker

  • Free resource, providing abstracts of systematics reviews and randomised controlled trials in the field of occupational therapy.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Paediatric Care Online

  • A full range of essential paediatric-specific clinical information and patient-education content.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

PEDro

  • Bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I

  • The most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the UK and Ireland.

ProQuest Sociology

  • International literature of sociology and social work.
  • Coverage: social work, social services, community and mental health, and crisis intervention.
  • Included in the main library search.

PsycBITE

  • Therapies for psychological problems occuring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment.
  • Includes disciplines of nursing, occupational therapy, neurology, physiotherapy, psychiatry, psychology, social work and speech pathology.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

PsycBooks (APA PsycBooks)

  • A crucial research tool for the behavioural sciences.
  • Access to 3,733 scholarly titles within psychology and its sub-fields.

PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)

  • Comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology.
  • Material from more than 2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries.
  • Includes nursing, psychology, medicine, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.

PTSDpubs (formerly PILOTS)

  • Citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health conditions resulting from traumatic events.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

PubMed

  • Access to over 16 million references for articles on clinical science and biomedicine.
  • Included in the main library search.

Refworks

  • A resource for collecting and managing references that allows you to create your own searchable database of references.
  • You can import references from databases, format your bibliography, and incorporate your citations into your documents.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

SAGE Journals Online

  • Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
  • Included in the main library search.

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

ScienceDirect

  • Explore scientific, technical, and medical research from over 1,000 electronic journals.
  • Includes business, economics and social sciences.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

Social Care Online

  • Contains research briefings, reports, legislation and government documents and more relating to all aspects of social care.
  • Social Care Online is provided by the UK organisation Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Social Policy and Practice

  • Social Policy and Practice brings together data from five databases covering Behavioural & Social Sciences, Social Work and Public Health.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Social Services Abstracts

  • Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

SportDiscus

  • A comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science and much more.

SpringerLink

  • A collection of full-text journals covering subject areas such as biological sciences, computing, engineering and environment, humanities, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health, physical sciences and chemistry.
  • Includes a number of e-books on business, law, and computer science, as well as Lecture Notes in Computer Science for the last three years.
  • Included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis

  • Provides access to over 2,500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
  • Included in the main library search.

Trip Pro

  • Free medical database providing access to high quality clinical research evidence.
  • Over 100,000 systematic reviews, medical images and videos, millions of full-text articles, along with advanced searching and compatibility with reference management software.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Visible Body

  • A suite of online programs that cover anatomy, physiology, muscles, the skeleton, and the circulatory system through interactive 3D models, animations, quizzes and more.
  • Peel away structures and layers from head to toe, rotate anatomical models, and dive deep into both systemic and regional anatomy.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Wiley Anatomy Drill and Practice

  • Interactive drag and drop exercises for various topics in physiology and anatomy.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Wiley Online Library

  • Provides access to over 200 full text electronic journals published by Wiley.
  • Covers a wide range of topic areas such as business, engineering medicine, science and psychology.
  • Included in the main library search.

Zetoc

  • Details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year
  • An index that contains references only, not full text.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

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