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Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS)

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