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

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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

​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)
• North West Grey Literature Service
• OpenDoar - search for content in repositories
• Open Grey - an open access database for bibliographical references of grey literature produced in Europe

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   :: Greater Manchester area (includes East Cheshire)
• 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
• NIHR Signals
• Research Design Service North West
• ResearchGate - find and share research
• UK Clinical Research Collaboration
• UKCRC Registered Clinical Trials Units Network
• Understanding Health Research
• Using social media for research purposes - NW Ambulance Service

​Statistics

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

​Funding

• ​​Action Medical Research for Children
• Association Medical Research Charities
• BMA Research Grants
• Europe PubMed Central Grant Finder
• The Health Foundation
• Medical Research Council
• National Institute for Health Research
• 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
• How to write paragraphs in research texts, articles, books and PhDs
• Predatory journals and publishers guide

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

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