Public Health databases

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

Over 300 anatomy lessons on video using real, dissected human specimens.
NOT included in the main library search.

All4Maternity

Online education platform.
Incorporates The Practising Midwife, The Student Midwife and The Practising Midwife Australia.
Not included in the main library search.

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) (via EBSCO)

A selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, professions allied to medicine (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, rehabilitation, and speech and language therapy).
Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

Anatomy.tv

Interactive 3D anatomy resource.
NOT included in the main library search.

ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)

Worldwide English language coverage of journal articles, conference papers and book reviews in the fields of applied social sciences and health.
Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

BioMed Central

This is a collection of 186 full-text journals in biology and medicine.
Included in the main library search.

BNF

Up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicines.
NOT included in the main library search.

BNF for children

Up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicine for children.
NOT included in the main library search.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

Off-air recording and media archive service.
NOT included in the main library search.

British Nursing Database

A full text UK nursing and midwifery database, covering over 300 UK journals and other English language titles.
Included in the main library search.

Business Source Ultimate

UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
Included in the main library search.

Cambridge Journals Online

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
Included in the main library search.

Campbell Collaboration

C2 is an evidence-based resource covering social welfare, education, psychology and crime.
NOT included in the main library search.

CINAHL Plus (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)

CINAHL Plus covers more than 4,500 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as 1937.

Clinical Skills

More than 160 clinical skills procedures, in a user-friendly illustrated format, regularly updated and with a useful search facility.
NOT included in the main library search.

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is considered to be the best single source of reliable evidence on the effects of health care.

Coronavirus Research Database

Comprehensive research and background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS.
Includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers.
NOT included in the main library search.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a list of freely-available, full-text, quality-controlled, scientific and scholarly journals.
Included in the main library search.

EMBASE

24 million indexed records in the field of biomedicine.

Emerald

Over 300 peer-reviewed journals covering subjects such as engineering, business and health & social care.
Included in the main library search.

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EThOS

British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
NOT included in the main library search.

FreeMedicalJournals.com

Free access to medical journals over the Internet, over 400 titles are included.
NOT included in the main library search.

healthtalk.org

The resource provides clips of patients talking about a range of health care conditions.
NOT included in the main library search.

Journals

JSTOR

UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

LWW Health Library for Occupational Therapy

Provides interactive online access to essentials texts, procedure videos, images, real-life case studies and quiz banks.
NOT included in the main library search.

LWW Health Library for Ophthalmology

Provides online access to essential text and procedure videos.
Not included in the main library search.

Mark Allen Healthcare Complete

A comprehensive collection of over 25 peer-reviewed journals.
Includes clinical nursing, midwifery, dental nursing, pre-hospital care and veterinary practice.
Included in the main library search.

Maternity and Infant Care

The MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service) Reference Database.
Covers around 550 international English language journals.
Included in the main library search.

MATFLIX

Video Streaming from maternity experts covering the key issues facing maternity & midwifery professionals.
Boxsets are a themed selections of videos from maternity experts plus a back catalogue of 700 Maternity & Midwifery videos recorded over past 7 years.
NOT included in the main library search.

MEDLINE via EBSCO

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM).
A premier bibliographic database of life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
Included in the main library search.

MEDLINE via OVID

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database.
Covers life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
Included in the main library search.

National Statistics

The official gateway to UK National Statistics, providing access to the latest statistics from government departments in the UK.
NOT included in the main library search.

NeuroBITE

Therapies for psychological problems occuring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment.
Includes disciplines of nursing, occupational therapy, neurology, physiotherapy, psychiatry, psychology, social work and speech pathology.
NOT included in the main library search.

OTseeker

Free resource, providing abstracts of systematics reviews and randomised controlled trials in the field of occupational therapy.
NOT included in the main library search.

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Overton

A searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers.
NOT included in the main library search.

PEDro

Bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.
NOT included in the main library search.

ProQuest Sociology

International literature of sociology and social work.
Coverage: social work, social services, community and mental health, and crisis intervention.
Included in the main library search.

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PsycBooks (APA PsycBooks)

A crucial research tool for the behavioural sciences.
Access to 3,733 scholarly titles within psychology and its sub-fields.

PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)

Comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology.
Material from more than 2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries.
Includes nursing, psychology, medicine, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.

PTSDpubs (formerly PILOTS)

Citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health conditions resulting from traumatic events.
NOT included in the main library search.

PubMed

Access to over 16 million references for articles on clinical science and biomedicine.
Included in the main library search.

Royal College of Physicians Part I

Archive containing a range of resources presented as fully searchable digital images.
Database is NOT included in the main library search.

SAGE Journals Online

Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
Included in the main library search.

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SAGE Research Methods

A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
Included in the main library search.

ScienceDirect

Explore scientific, technical, and medical research from over 1,000 electronic journals.
Includes business, economics and social sciences.
Included in the main library search.

Scopus

The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Included in the main library search.

Social Care Online

Contains research briefings, reports, legislation and government documents and more relating to all aspects of social care.
Social Care Online is provided by the UK organisation Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
NOT included in the main library search.

Social Policy and Practice

Social Policy and Practice brings together data from five databases covering Behavioural & Social Sciences, Social Work and Public Health.
NOT included in the main library search.

Social Services Abstracts

Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

SportDiscus

A comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science and much more.

SpringerLink

A collection of full-text journals covering subject areas such as biological sciences, computing, engineering and environment, humanities, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health, physical sciences and chemistry.
Includes a number of e-books on business, law, and computer science, as well as Lecture Notes in Computer Science for the last three years.
Included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis

Provides access to over 2,500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
Included in the main library search.

Trip Pro

Free medical database providing access to high quality clinical research evidence.
Over 100,000 systematic reviews, medical images and videos, millions of full-text articles, along with advanced searching and compatibility with reference management software.
NOT included in the main library search.

Visible Body Suite

A suite of online programs that cover anatomy, physiology, muscles, the skeleton, and the circulatory system through interactive 3D models, animations and more.
Peel away structures and layers from head to toe, rotate anatomical models, and dive deep into both systemic and regional anatomy.
NOT included in the main library search.

Wiley Anatomy Drill and Practice

Interactive drag and drop exercises for various topics in physiology and anatomy.
NOT included in the main library search.

Wiley Online Library

Provides access to over 200 full text electronic journals published by Wiley.
Covers a wide range of topic areas such as business, engineering medicine, science and psychology.
Included in the main library search.

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