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Research Knowledge Hub

• Search for books and e-books held in the Library
• Research ebooks available through Oxford Medicine
• Academic Phrasebank (a compendium of commonly used phrasal elements in academic English by Dr John Morley)

• ​Search our journal subscriptions by subject or journal title:

Search Journals

Access our journals on-the-go with the free BrowZine app

• UpToDate  [NHS ATHENS OR PERSONAL LOGIN - CREATE VIA ZENWORKS]
• ​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Grey Literature (Unpublished material)

• ​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

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

• Clinical Resource Network   :: Greater Manchester area (includes East Cheshire)
• Critical thinking and Appraisal Resource Library (CARL)
• 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

Poster presentations

• Scientific poster design
• Creating conference posters using PowerPoint

• 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

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• ​​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

Free reference manager software​​

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

EndNote

We have 2 licences for EndNote - ask at the library desk for details.

The Library & Knowledge Service can offer assistance in:

• searching for existing evidence
• keeping you up-to-date
• publications
• training
• appraisal skills
• reference management
• referencing
• and advice.

For more information contact the Outreach Librarians or
email ecn-tr.stafflibrary@nhs.net
Phone 01625 66 1362

• Guide to support research

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Prefer to use PubMed?

Access a comprehensive, free online tutorial. Course contents includes:

• Understand PubMed's scope and content.
• Understand how the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are used to describe and retrieve citations.
• Build a search using MeSH and PubMed search tools.
• Manage your results and save records of interest.
• Save your search strategies.

Click here to access

Literature searching guidance

• 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

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Page last updated: 9/12/19