Health and Social Care databases

SocINDEX with Full Text - one of the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology databases with more than 2,035,000 records covering all aspects of sociology, social work, social welfare, children and young people, criminology and more.

Child Development and Adolescent Studies - Contains articles and references to current and historical research on child development from birth to age 21. Coverage extends worldwide in research from books, journals, reports and theses in the social sciences and biomedical sciences.

CINAHL Ultimate - full text journal articles on all aspects of health and social care.

Medline with full text - authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system and more. It covers over over 4,800 biomedical journals. Useful for all health and social care related topics.

PubMed Central - free online digital archive of the U.S. National Institute of Health. Covers biomedical and life sciences journals.

Scopus - Essential research tool for students undertaking a literature review for a dissertation topic. Scopus provides important data on research papers which have been cited by other authors in previous work.

Sociology factsheets - A very useful collection of 224 pdf documents on various topics within the sociology discipline.

APA PsycINFO provides access to the international literature of psychology material related to the psychological aspects of education, medicine, business, sociology and psychiatry.

DISCOVER allows you to search across multiple academic databases provided through the University of Bedfordshire Library. It is a good place to start searching for academic journal articles on all topics relating to Health and Social Care.

Reading lists for the units you are studying in Health and Social Care can be accessed through BREO, or by searching for the unit title. The online reading lists are a good place to start off from as they provide access to the core-texts and selected readings for your unit.