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Databases

Databases are searchable websites which help you to identify journal articles, books, chapters in books, conference papers and other sources which could be useful for your assignment research. A considerable number of the journals indexed are available in equivalent electronic full-text through the University library. Some (bibliographic) databases only include abstracts which summarise what an article is about, and then give you a link back to the catalogue to check if we have the journal in stock.

When researching your paramedic science assignments, the following databases will be particularly useful:

DISCOVER

Our main search portal, Discover searches across the vast majority of the books (print and electronic), journals, conference papers, newspapers and other sources available though the University of Bedfordshire. For this reason, it should be the first resource which you look at to widen your search for information, after consulting your unit reading list.

Health and Medical databases

Free online healthcare databases

Databases for related subjects

  • Annual Reviews - covers 29 biomedical, physical and social science disciplines. (Note, UoB only has access to content up to 2016)
  • Education Research Complete - excellent full-text database covering all aspects of education, including health care.
  • Web of Science - research index.
  • SocINDEX - a wide ranging social science database with links to some full-text articles.

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.

Individual journal titles of relevance:

 

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