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AMED
Coverage includes alternative and complementary therapies
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hhttps://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens /Institution
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ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts)
Coverage: health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education
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Check your institution's database subscriptions |
Institution |
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British Nursing Index (BNI)
Coverage: mainly nursing literature
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens /Institution
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Campbell Collaboration
Systematic reviews in education, justice and social care
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https://www.campbellcollaboration.org/better-evidence.html
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Free
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CINAHL (Cumulated Index of Allied Health Literature)
Coverage: Nursing and Allied Health
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens/
Institution |
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Cochrane Library
Secondary research including systematic reviews health technology assessments and economic evaluations, and a database of clinical trials
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http://www.cochranelibrary.com/
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Free in UK
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DARE (Centre for Reviews and Dissemination)
Systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of healthcare interventions, delivery and organization of health services
Archive information, but funding is due to run out at the end of March 2023.
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https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/
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Free
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Embase
Coverage: drugs and pharmacology, general health and medicine
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens/Institution
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EPPI-Centre Databases
A number of databases containing primary research studies and evidence reviews, many of which have been used in EPPI-Centre systematic reviews.
EPPI-Centre Evidence Library
Systematic reviews in the fields of Education, Health Promotion and Public Health, social welfare and international development.
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http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=185
http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=56
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Free
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Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC)
Europe PMC aims to provide free access to life sciences and biomedical research, to enable innovation through use of the literature, and to facilitate and provide integration of related research data.
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http://europepmc.org/ |
Free |
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Google Scholar
Searches the internet for theses, books, articles, abstracts, grey literature and online repositories
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https://scholar.google.co.uk/
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Free
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Health Business Elite
Coverage: Health management and administration, full-text journal articles
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens/Institution
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Healthtalk
Academic research to capture people’s real experiences of health conditions/issues on film
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https://healthtalk.org/
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Free
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HMIC
Health service management, social care services, NHS organization grey literature
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens/Institution
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International Health Technology Assessments
Completed and ongoing health technology assessments from around the world. Source for identifying grey literature - much of the information it contains is only available directly from individual funding agencies.
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https://database.inahta.org/
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Free
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Medline via PubMed
Premier source of biomedical literature health and life sciences
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens/Institution
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NHS EED (Centre for Reviews and Dissemination)
Focuses primarily on the economic evaluation of health care interventions and aims to help decision-makers interpret an increasingly complex and technical literature.
Discontinued, last entries 2015.
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https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/AboutPage.asp |
Free
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Open Grey
Open access repository of “grey literature” (including theses, conference papers, technical reports) from major European research institutions covering the social sciences, science and some humanities.
Discontinued, last entries 2020.
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OpenGrey has now been decommissioned.
A MySQL database download is available from a link on the website.
Formerly SIGLE, Open Grey was a multidisciplinary European
database for "grey" literature. Coverage is best for the period
1980-2005. The Archive for OpenGrey material can also be
found on the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository
for research data: https://ssh.datastations.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.17026/dans-xtf-47w5
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Free
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OTSeeker
OTseeker is a database containing abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other resources relevant to occupational therapy interventions. Most trials have been critically appraised for their validity and interpretability
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http://www.otseeker.com/
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Free
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PEDro
Coverage: Physiotherapy, includes systematic reviews, rcts and practice guidelines
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https://pedro.org.au/
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Free
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PsycInfo
Coverage: Psychology and mental health
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens/Institution
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ProQolid
Patient reported outcomes and quality of life instruments - available via ePROVIDE
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https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/
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Free (basic search) |
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Scopus
Coverage: Science, social science and medicine
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https://www.scopus.com/search/form.uri?display=basic#basic
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Institution
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Socialcaretalk
Coverage: Personal experiences of social care on film, subjects include autism, dementia and loneliness
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https://socialcaretalk.org/
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Free
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Social Policy and Practice
Coverage: Social care
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https://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub/
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NHS Athens, Institution
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Sociological Abstracts
Coverage: Sociology, social and behavioural sciences
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Check your institution's database subscriptions
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Institution
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Web of Science
Coverage: Science, social science, medicine, conference proceedings and grey literature
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Check your institution's database subscriptions
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Institution
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