Databases for my subject

Databases are searchable electronic tools which help you to identify journal articles, books and chapters in books, conference papers and other sources useful for your studies. A considerable number of the journals indexed are available in the Learning Resource Centres in print or in electronic full-text from the library catalogue. Some (bibliographic) databases just include abstracts which summarise what an article is about, and then give you a WebBridge link back to the catalogue to check if we have the journal in-house.

Brief details of the databases relevant to health courses are given below. The heading for each group leads to a page with fuller descriptions.

Healthcare databases

Free online healthcare databases

Databases for related subjects

Useful general databases

  • Academic Search Complete - full-text articles on general academic subjects.
  • Credo Reference - searchable digital reference guide containing 100 reference sources including subject dictionaries, encyclopaedias, biographical sources and quotations.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - full-text, open access articles.
  • Sage Premier (to 2016) - multidisciplinary database which includes several health care journals.
  • Scopus - abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide.
  • Newsbank - searchable database of newspapers.

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