Research Knowledge Hub

​Books

The library has a wide selection of book on all aspects of research. Search the catalogue to see what books and e-books are available. If there are specific books you need and we don't have in stock we can often borrow a copy for you from another library - get in touch for more information.

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Academic Phrasebank

​​A compendium of commonly used phrasal elements in academic English by Dr John Morley

​Open Access Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals

Athens

​A lot of resources are only available to subscribers. Athens is the key to unlocking access. Athens accounts are free to set up and use, click the button below to set yours up today!
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Evidence-based resources

• UpToDate  [NHS ATHENS OR PERSONAL LOGIN - CREATE ON-SITE VIA START MENU]
• ​BMJ Best Practice  [NHS ATHENS]
• Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS)
• NICE Evidence
• Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews
• PubMed (Medline)
• TRIP Database
• Best Evidence.Info
• Search filters

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​Grey literature

Grey literature is the term for material not published by commercial publishers. It incorporates a wide range of valuable research-based material.

• Grey literature and their sources
• ​eTHOS - search the British Library's collection of theses
• ​Index of grey literature (includes alternative sites for statistical information)
• National Grey Literature Service (funded by HEE)
• OpenDoar - search for content in repositories

Poster presentations

• ​Scientific poster design
• Creating conference posters using PowerPoint

Literature searching

• The literature review process: guidance for NHS researchers
• The literature review process: appendix
• HDAS training material
• NICE Evidence: how to search​
• How to use the Cochrane Library
• Searching the Trip Database
• Ten search engines for researchers that go beyond Google
• Yale MeSH Analyser - paste in the PMIDs for the papers you already have and it will generate lists of MeSH terms
  

​Websites

• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service North West (RDS NW) - advice and support for people preparing research proposals for submission to national, peer-reviewed funding competitions for applied health or social care research.
• Clinical Resource Network
• Critical thinking and Appraisal Resource Library (CARL)
• Embedded Research: Increasing the influence of health services research on decisions about the improvement and redesign of NHS services
• EQUATOR: Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research
• Literature review process: guidance for NHS researchers
• NHS Health Research Authority - Research Ethics
• NHS R&D North West
• Research Design Service North West
• ResearchGate - find and share research
• UK Clinical Research Collaboration
• UKCRC Registered Clinical Trials Units Network
• Understanding Health Research​

​Statistics

• A beginner's guide to interpreting odds ratios, confidence intervals and p-values (20min e-learning)
• Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
• European Health Statistics
• ​Government Official Statistics
• Health and Social Care Information Centre Statistics
• Making sense of statistics
• NHS Digital: supplementary statistics
• NHS England statistics
• Office for National Statistics (ONS)
• OHE Guide to UK health and health care statistics
• ONS Neighbourhood statistics
• Public Health England statistics
• Public Health profiles
• Statistics training (Students 4 Best Evidence)
• WHO: Global Health Observatory

​Funding

• ​​Action Medical Research for Children
• ​BMA Research Grants
• Europe PubMed Central Grant Finder
• ​Medical Research Council
• ​Research Councils UK
• UK Clinical Research Collaboration
• Wellcome Trust

​Referencing

Free reference manager software:​​

• Cite This For Me
• EasyBib
• Mendeley
• ​Zotero

The library has 2 licences for EndNote, available on the library computers. Ask us for more details.

​Getting published

• A brief guide to preprints
• Instructions for authors in the health sciences
• Preparing a poster presentation
• RCN - Getting published
• The publishing process
• Think. Check. Submit.
• Writing resources
• A-Z of alternative words (Plain English Campaign)
• 'Academic phrasebank' by Dr John Morley
• Writing and publishing scientific manuscripts (BMC)
• How to write paragraphs in research texts, articles, books and PhDs
• Predatory journals and publishers guide
• Journal/Author Name Estimator: JANE - Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Jane can help!

Open Access Publishing

• An introduction to Open Access
• Open Access jargon buster (video)
• Publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis
• Research funders' open access policies