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Academic Search Ultimate

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Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.

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BestBETs

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Subject coverage: Database of rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions principally in emergency medicine, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. Also includes a significant number of BETs covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics
Type of content: Evidence-based information, BETs (Best Evidence Topics)
Level of access: Some full text available.

BioDigital Human - Interactive 3D Anatomy Platform

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Guide and Videos

Subject coverage: interactive 3D software for visualizing anatomy, disease and treatment
Type of content: includes images, quizes and textbook type material
Level of access: full access when registered with a BU email. Once you have signed up with your BU email and created a password, you can access BioDigital directly.

To access this resource select BioDigital Human from the blue ribbon towards the top of the page. You will need to use your BU email address to set up your account.

BNI (British Nursing Index)

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Subject coverage: nursing and midwifery database; useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers
Size/scope: over 200 UK journals and other English language titles
Type of content: journal articles
Date range: 1994 to present
Level of access: some links to full text.

BNI is only available on Proquest

British National Formulary (BNF)

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Subject coverage: up to date guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines. Details medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.

Note: Click the log-in button (top right) of Medicines Complete landing page. Use the Shibboleth/Open Athens link at the bottom of resulting pop-up panel, then choose the first 'Bournemouth University' from the 'Find your organisation' list.

CINAHL Ultimate

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Subject coverage: the Largest Collection of Leading Nursing and Allied Health Literature CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments
Size/scope: over 6,300 journals
Type of content: journal articles
Date range: 1937 to present
Level of access: full text of over 2,400 journals.

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Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons

clinicalskills.net

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Subject coverage: nursing, midwifery
Size/scope: information about best practice for over 160 procedures, supporting evidence based practice
Type of content: illustrated clinical skills guidelines, graphics supported by text and references
Date range: 1953 -
Level of access: full text.

Note:Please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on customer login. Then Bournemouth University from the drop-down menu next to Shibboleth access (not Open Athens). You will need your BU’s login details.

Note: accessible to participating Nursing and Midwifery students only.

Cochrane Library

COPM (Canadian Occupational Performance Measure) Learning Module

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Subject coverage: The COPM Learning Module is a comprehensive online course designed for new users of the COPM as well as those who wish to refresh their knowledge. Comprises of five chapters which includes exercises and videos.
Type of Content: Comprises of 5 chapters – Introduction to the COPM; Theoretical underpinnings: client-centered practice; Theoretical underpinnings: occupation-based practice; Interviewing, administering and scoring the COPM; COPM research evidence
Level of access: Please contact the HSS library team ([email protected]) if you need access to this resource.

EBSCO Host Databases

Elsevier eLibrary

Epistemonikos

F1000Research

HealthProfessionals

Index to Chiropractic Literature

Internurse

Journals@Ovid

Martindale: the complete drug reference

Medicines Complete

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Subject coverage: drugs and toxicology database
Size/scope: British National Formulary, Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons, Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference and Stockley’s Drug Interactions
Type of Content: reference work
Date range: current
Level of access: full text.

Note: Click the log-in button (top right) of Medicines Complete landing page. Use the Shibboleth/Open Athens link at the bottom of resulting pop-up panel, then choose the first 'Bournemouth University' from the 'Find your organisation' list.

Medline Complete

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Subject coverage: medical database focusing on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, toxicology, anthropology and biology. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations
Size/scope: 5400 academic journals indexed, 2100 full text journals incorporated
Type of Content: academic journal articles
Date range: 1865 onwards
Level of access: some full text available.

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NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

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Subject coverage: medical and healthcare
Type of content: wide range of materials including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents
Level of access: most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account. Students studying on NHS-related programmes are able to obtain an NHS Athens account. Invitations were emailed at the beginning of the academic year.

PILOTS

PsycARTICLES

PsycBOOKS

PsycINFO

PubMed

REHABDATA

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Subject coverage: Rehabilitation
Size/scope: Contains references to over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues relating to people with disabilities.
Date range: 1956-
Level of access: some full text available.

Royal College of General Practitioners Learning (RCGPLearning)

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Subject coverage: medical, primary care
Size/scope: produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners and includes research guidelines and educational resources on women’s health, dermatology and other health topics. Especially useful for Physician Associates, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and other health professionals in primary care
Type of content: guidelines and educational resources
Level of access: full text available.

ScienceDirect

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Subject coverage: health, science and medicine
Size/scope: 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals
Type of content: academic journal articles
Date range: 1872 onwards
Level of access: some full text available.

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Scopus

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Subject coverage: Sciences and social sciences
Size/scope:Citation database indexing 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, patent records and scientific web pages. It contains over 33 million records
Type of content: Citation data
Date range: 1841-present
Level of access: Some links to full text available.

SIGN guidelines (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)

Social Care Online

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Subject coverage: Social care
Size/scope: It is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
Type of Content: Research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
Level of access: Some full text available.

SocINDEX with Full Text

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Subject coverage: sociology and social work practice
Size/scope: bibliographic information for over 2,100,000 articles including access to the full text of over 860 sociology journals. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for 14,636 conference papers in sociology, social work practice and related subjects
Type of content: academic journal article, books, conference papers
Level of access: full text of over 860 journals, 830 books and 16,800 conference papers.

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SPORTDiscus with Full Text

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Subject coverage: sports
Size/scope: international database indexing and abstracting over 61,000 records. This database contains information on: sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training technique, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. It provides full text for more than 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing, with more than 700,000 full-text articles
Type of content: academic journal articles
Date range: 1985-present
Level of access: some full text available.

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Stockley's Drug Interactions

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Subject coverage: drug interactions
Size/scope: information on interactions between therapeutic drugs, proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foods, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse. Each monograph typically contains a summary, and sections covering clinical evidence, mechanism, clinical importance, and management
Type of content: monographs
Level of access: full text available.

TRIP Database Plus

Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository

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Subject coverage: nursing, nursing education
Size/ scope: repository solely dedicated to sharing works created by nurses. It is an open-access digital academic and clinical scholarship service that freely collects, preserves, and disseminates full-text nursing research and evidence-based practice material
Type of content: nursing literature
Level of access: open access repository. Some publications may be embargoed.

Web of Science

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Note: Select UK Federation from Institutional Sign In and search for Bournemouth University

Subject coverage: arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
Size/scope: citation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work

Web of Science consists of:
Science Citation Index 1899-present
Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
Biosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
Medline 1950-present
Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators

Type of content: academic journal article
Date range: 1945-
Level of access: some links to full text.

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