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1950 to Present - PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. 		General medical
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1985 to Present - Allied and Complementary Medicine is a unique database covering the fields of complementary or alternative medicine. 		Allied health professions, complementary medicine
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1985 to Present - British Nursing Index comprises over 250 of the most popular and important journal sources in the nursing and midwifery fields. 		Nursing, midwifery, health visitors
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1981 to Present - CINAHL covers all aspects of nursing and allied health disciplines. 		Nursing & allied health
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1980 to Present - EMBASE provides current and comprehensive information on drugs and pharmacology, and all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines. 		General medical with European focus, pharmacology
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Health Business Elite contains full text content from 480 journals, detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management. 		Healthcare administration and institution management
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The Health Management Information Consortium database is a compilation of data from two sources, the Department of Health's Library and Information Services and King’s Fund Information and Library Service. 		Health service management and administration, with a focus on UK
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1806 to Present - The PsycINFO database provides extensive international coverage of the literature on psychology and allied fields. 		Psychiatry, psychology, social sciences


My Journals

My Journals gives you: access to full text electronic journals and e-books available to NHS staff, free at the point of use and details of print journals available in your local health library.

E-Books

On-line access to the full text of over 400 eBooks including titles from World Health Organization and major publishers. The national collection focuses on mental health.

How To... read a journal article

Critical appraisal tools and articles on how to assess the quality and clinical relevance of a journal article.