Databases

Allied & Complementary Medicine ™ covers the fields of:

- Professions allied to medicine, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, speech and language therapy, and podiatry.
- Complementary medicine
- Palliative care

Produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library, information is geared toward medical professionals and health practitioners and care-givers, as well as the pharmaceutical industry. Journal articles, newspapers and books are indexed and coverage is international.

Coverage: 1985 – current

(NHS Wales Network) ASSIA 

(NHS Wales OpenAthens) ASSIA 

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas. It is focused on a core of around 500 of the most relevant English language scholarly journals covering aspects of health and social care from a broadly social scientific perspective.

Coverage: 1987 - current

Subject coverage

• Education
• Family
• Gerontology
• Health services
• Housing
• Mental health services
• Nursing
• Social work
• Substance abuse

(NHS Wales Network) British Nursing Database

(Log in with NHS Wales OpenAthens) British Nursing Index (BNI) with Full Text

British Nursing Database (BND) is a full-text version of the British Nursing Index (BNI), a leading bibliographic database supporting the practice, education, and research for nurses, midwives, and health providers in the UK and the greater nursing community. This full text database provides abstracting and indexing for hundreds of titles, with coverage dating back to 1993. Literature coverage focuses on titles published in the UK, Australia and Canada, plus a selection of important international nursing titles.

You have access to:

• British Nursing Database
• British Nursing Index Full Text Journals

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Subject coverage

• Biology-Genetics
• Dermatology and venerology
• Dietetics
• Drug abuse and alcoholism
• Forensic sciences
• Geriatrics
• Gerontology
• Law
• Neurology
• Nursing

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Proquest LibGuide: British Nursing Index

CINAHL Plus® with Full Text is a robust collection of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the core research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. Full text coverage dates back to 1937.

This comprehensive research database provides full text for nursing and allied health journals indexed in CINAHL Plus. Additional materials include full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules.

Content Includes:

340 active full-text, non-open access journals

7,600,000 records

5,600 journals indexed

1,400 journals with searchable cited references

Nursing and Allied Health Content from the Most Authoritative Sources

CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. Many of the most popular full-text journals are available with no embargo. In addition, this resource offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

More than 300 new subject headings have been added to CINAHL to help researchers find new concepts, including COVID-19, social distancing and vaping as well as new local terminology such as Aboriginal Canadians, First Nations of Canada, First Nations of Australia, and Torres Strait Islanders.

Additional Features:

• An easy-to-use interface with basic and advanced search features and searchable cited references
• Subject Headings that help users effectively search and retrieve information and follow the structure of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine
• Continuing education modules
• Research instruments records
• Full-text evidence-based care sheets
• Full-text quick lessons
• Author affiliations

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Embase <1974 to Current>

Embase <1996 to Current>

Comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the literature on drugs and pharmacology and of all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines. Embase® is a key resource for biomedical evidence, from published, peer-reviewed literature, in-press publications and conference abstracts. Use Embase® to review clinical trials, to generate systematic reviews, to monitor products for pharmacovigilance and much more. Embase®’s comprehensive indexing - of drugs, devices, manufacturers and disease names - ensures maximum search ability.

Further information and support

New interface on Ovid (2022)

Ovid Tools & Resources Portal

Further help videos on OVID can be found here: https://tools.ovid.com/ovidtools/videos.html

Boolean and other database searching techniques:

NHS Wales Library and Knowledge Services training group has worked with the e-Library to produce the following help video series, Exploring Evidence

Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence.

Europe PMC is a repository, providing access to worldwide life science articles, books, patents and clinical guidelines.

Further information

GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. 

The Healthcare Administration Database provides reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration. It features full text of key scholarly journals and thousands of dissertations and theses.

The health equity resource database is hosted by the health inequalities portal, an online information hub for research, policy, data, publications and other resources regarding health inequalities in Europe. The database allows you to search for such resources by keyword, as well as filtering by type (including policy and policy analysis), theme (including both factors affecting health and those relevant to the delivery of services, such as e-health, financing, governance and health systems), country, geographic level (from local to international) and year. It includes resources from across Europe and is a useful tool for finding grey literature.

Further information:

About Health Inequalities - Health Inequalities Portal (health-inequalities.eu)

Why is it important to address health inequalities?

Toolbox - Health Inequalities Portal (health-inequalities.eu)

HMIC is produced by the library services of the UK’s Department of Health and the King’s Fund. The HMIC database covers official publications, journal articles and grey literature relating to health and social care management, including management of the NHS; the quality of health services; estates management; regulation of medicines; medical equipment.

LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

MIDIRS Maternity and Infant Care Database collates information and resources relating to midwifery.

Whether it appears in an academic journal, in a government report, on a website or elsewhere, MIDIRS catalogue it and create a record on their database. It currently has over 250,000 of these records, making it the largest of its kind in the world. Midwives and midwifery students can rest assured that if it’s been written about, researched, reported on or debated, they’ll be able to find it on the MIDIRS.

Other resources

MIDIRS Landing Page

Webinars: 

MIDIRS

Using OVID for Literature Searching

New interface on Ovid (2022)

Ovid Tools & Resources Portal

Further help videos on OVID can be found here: https://tools.ovid.com/ovidtools/videos.html

Boolean and other database searching techniques:

NHS Wales Library and Knowledge Services training group has worked with the e-Library to produce the following help video series, Exploring Evidence

Ovid MEDLINE <ALL>

Ovid MEDLINE <1946 to Current>

Ovid MEDLINE <1996 to Current>

Ovid MEDLINE and Epub ahead of Print, In-Process, In-Data Review & Other non-indexed citations and daily <1946 - Current>

Ovid MEDLINE Epub ahead of Print, In-Process, In-Data Review & Other non-indexed citations 

About MEDLINE®

MEDLINE on this service contains over 20 million citations and abstracts, providing unparalleled access to worldwide biomedical literature. The database contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and since 2002, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty databases such as SPACELINE and HISTLINE. Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.

Further information and support

Medline on Ovid (2023)

Medline - presentation

New interface on Ovid (2022)

Ovid Tools & Resources Portal