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  • Home
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  • Evidence Resources
    • NHS Knowledge & Library Hub
    • Databases >
      • Search Ovid
      • Search EBSCO
    • UpToDate >
      • Login to UpToDate
    • Royal Marsden >
      • Login to Royal Marsden
    • Prescribing resources
    • LibKey
    • Critical appraisal
    • Referencing
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      • Login to Athens
  • Knowledge Hubs
    • Clinical specialties >
      • Acute medicine
      • Anaesthetics
      • Audiology
      • Cardiology
      • Critical care
      • Dermatology
      • Emergency Medicine
      • Endocrinology
      • Gastroenterology >
        • Gastroenterology Patient Information
      • Geriatrics
      • Mental Health
      • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
      • Oncology
      • Orthopaedics
      • Paediatrics
      • Palliative Care >
        • Chaplaincy
      • Public Health
      • Radiology
      • Respiratory
      • Rheumatology
      • Surgery
    • Staff groups >
      • Assessors, Supervisors and Educators
      • Community Staff
      • General Practitioners
      • Healthcare Assistants
      • Managers and Leaders
      • NHS Staff
      • Nurses >
        • International Nurses
        • Nursing Associates
        • Revalidation
      • Occupational Therapists
      • Pharmacists
      • Physiotherapists
      • Resident Doctors
      • SAS Doctors
      • Speech Therapists
      • Students
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      • Autism
      • COVID-19
      • Dementia
      • Menopause
      • Mpox
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Databases

Ovid

The Ovid platform gives access to Medline, Embase, Emcare, HMIC and Social Policy & Practice databases.
Search Ovid
Guide to Ovid

​EBSCO

The EBSCO platform gives access to Medline and CINAHL databases.
Search EBSCO
Guide to EBSCO
With your NHS Athens account you have access to the following databases:

CINAHL

Covers all aspects of nursing and allied health disciplines from 1981 onwards.

EMBASE

Pharmacology, biomedical and psychiatry database, from 1974 onwards.

EMCARE

Nursing and allied health database, from 1995 onwards.
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HBE

Health Business Elite database covers health management and administration, from 1922 onwards.​

HMIC

Management database from the King's Fund and Department of Health publications.

MEDLINE

Comprehensive medical database covering all disciplines, from 1946 onwards.

Social Policy and Practice

Public health and social science database, from 1890 onwards.​
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PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=igbmhkslib

If you prefer to search PubMed you can use this link to include the library journal holdings in your search results. Click the 'Get Full Text' or 'Download PDF' button and login with your NHS Athens account to access the full-text. If articles are not available in full-text you will be re-directed to a pre-populated inter-library request form - just add your name and email address, then we will use our networks to try and obtain a copy for you from another library.
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Help & Support

The move from HDAS to the native interfaces will require you to search on different platforms depending on which databases you need. The library staff are available to help you with the migration to the new platforms and can provide training, as well as conducting work-related searches on your behalf. Online help from the suppliers is also available:
  • Ovid training videos on how to search each database
  • ProQuest NHS Support
  • EBSCO Basic search :: Advanced search
  • How to search the literature effectively: a step-by-step guide to finding information and developing the skills for successful searching (eLearning for Healthcare modules on searching the NHS resources)
  • Search syntax and wildcards crib sheet
Please get in touch if you would like some help to search the new interfaces:
​Email: [email protected]
​Tel: 01625 66 1362

NHS Knowledge & Library Hub

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a discovery system which connects NHS staff and learners seamlessly to a range of high quality knowledge and evidence resources all in one place. It offers an intuitive search experience for quick searches and options for in-depth searches. It includes:
  • over 7,000 journals
  • books and e-publications
  • one-click access to full-text, request a copy or contact your NHS library
  • links to clinical decision support tools such as BMJ Best Practice and UpToDate
  • NICE pathways and guidelines
  • databases like Medline, EMBASE and CINAHL.

​Enter your keywords below and click 'Search'. On the results page, click in the yellow bar at the top of the page to login with your NHS Athens username and password for full-text access.
​​Note: this only works in Chrome, Edge, Safari or other modern browser; it does not work in Internet Explorer.
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Other help & guidance

  • ​How to undertake a literature search (Royal College of Nursing)
  • Search operators in the NHS bibliographic databases
  • NHS national searching guidance
  • MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different?
  • Medline syntax visualisation​​​

Searching the NHS databases

A series of short (20 min) e-learning modules to learn the steps for successful literature searching.​
Module 1 Introduction to searching
Module 2 Where do I start searching?
Module 3 How do I start to develop a search strategy?
Module 4 Too many results? How to narrow your search
Module 5 Too few results? How to broaden your search
Module 6 Searching with subject headings
Module 7 Searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and bibliographic databases

Help searching on EBSCO

Watch EBSCO basic search video
Watch EBSCO advanced search video

Help searching on Ovid

Watch Ovid basic search video
Watch Ovid advanced search video
Ovid Quick Reference Guide

Help searching on ProQuest

Watch ProQuest Basic Search video

Video: How to translate a Medline search into Embase

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