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Google Scholar includes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research.

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The ‘Hub’

includes all journal articles, e-books, guidelines and evidence summary tools provided nationally and by your local NHS library team

provides seamless access to full text, as an immediate download or on request from an NHS library

avoids the less-reliable sources you might find in a general web search.

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PubMed® comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites

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A smart, fast tool to find high quality clinical research evidence.

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Evidence-based answers for health professionals | Searching sources such as systematic reviews, clinical guidelines and RCTs

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Access your library, everywhere

Add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop. Access your library from anywhere. Windows, Mac, Linux and all browsers.

Learn about the library >

Easy referencing

Generate references, citations and bibliographies in a whole range of journal styles with just a few clicks.

Learn about citing >

Career development

250,000 science, technology and health jobs to advance your career.

Advance your career >

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Mendeley - Reference Management Software

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Add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop. Access your library from anywhere. Windows, Mac, Linux and all browsers. Learn about the library > Generate references, citations and bibliographies in a whole range of journal styles with just a few clicks.

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Your personal research assistant - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.

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Just need to create a quick bibliography?

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.
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Available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS

Just need to create a quick bibliography? Try ZoteroBib.

Collect with a click.

Zotero automatically senses research as you browse the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere.

Organize your way.

Zotero helps you organize your research any way you want. You can sort items into collections and tag them with keywords. Or create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as you work.

Cite in style.

Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 10,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.

Stay in sync.

Zotero can optionally synchronize your data across devices, keeping your files, notes, and bibliographic records seamlessly up to date. If you decide to sync, you can also always access your research from any web browser.

Collaborate freely.

Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost.

Rest easy.

Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization that has no financial interest in your private information. With Zotero, you always stay in control of your own data.

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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

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This Guideline Search lets you search a curated list of websites to find guidelines from the UK without having to scroll through pages of Google search results. It uses Google’s Programmable Search service so has a familiar feel to Google, but will give you more targeted results.

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Guideline Search

This Guideline Search lets you search a curated list of websites to find guidelines from the UK without having to scroll through pages of Google search results. It uses Google's Programmable Search service so has a familiar feel to Google, but will give you more targeted results. The search features:

Please note: Because the search is powered by Google, you will see ads at the top of your list of results. Simply scroll down to find results of interest.

The idea for this search was originally investigated in the Knowledge and Library Service at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, but has been developed at the Knowledge and Library Service of South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

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This Guideline Search lets you search a curated list of websites to find guidelines from the UK without having to scroll through pages of Google search results. It uses Google's Programmable Search service so has a familiar feel to Google, but will give you more targeted results.

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This Patient Information Search lets you search a curated list of websites to find patient information resources from the UK without having to scroll through pages of Google search results. It uses Google’s Programmable Search service so has a familiar feel to Google, but will give you more targeted results.

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Patient Information Search

This Patient Information Search lets you search a curated list of websites to find patient information resources from the UK without having to scroll through pages of Google search results. It uses Google's Programmable Search service so has a familiar feel to Google, but will give you more targeted results. The search features:

Please note: Because the search is powered by Google, you will see ads at the top of your list of results. Simply scroll down to find results of interest.

The idea for this search was originally investigated in the Knowledge and Library Service at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, but has been developed at the Knowledge and Library Service of South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

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JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): 26,841 journals including 11,360 selected Open Access journals and 11,528 Hybrid journals, from 3359 publishers.

Complied for researchers, students, librarians and anyone looking for the latest scholarly articles.

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Developers are welcome to use our free API to directly access our entire database of articles, journals and publishers to embed TOCs in their library catalogues, portals, widgets and web pages. (read more ...)

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Research alerts service with the biggest collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents from 30,000 journals, including 12,000 selected Open Access journals

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Grey literature: index and alternative sources and resources

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Grey literature: index and alternative sources and resources

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This list has been compiled to help librarians and researchers, particularly in Public Health, to find resources that fall into this category and flag up alternative sources for queries not easily resolved by the clinical/medical database model.

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"Grey literature stands for manifold document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats that are protected by intellectual property rights, of sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by libraries and institutional repositories, but not controlled by commercial publishers; i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body."

The Twelfth International Conference on Grey Literature: Prague 2010

This list has been compiled to help librarians and researchers, particularly in Public Health, to find resources that fall into this category and flag up alternative sources for queries not easily resolved by the clinical/medical database model.

To navigate this page, click on the subject heading boxes to view the content within. Text that is underlined and blue is a hyperlink to a website or resource.

Bielefeld Academy Search Engine

Bielefeld University Library tool.100 million documents - open access repository.

Copyright Library. Main catalogue for millions of records for books, journals, newspapers, printed maps, scores, electronic resources, sound archive items etc. in the Library's collections.

CADTH is an independent, not-for-profit organization responsible for providing health care decision-makers with objective evidence to help make informed decisions about the optimal use of health technologies, including:

diagnostic tests

medical, dental, and surgical devices and procedures.

In addition to evidence, they also provide advice, recommendations, and tools.

Independent views on health and social care.Reports, blogs and moreKing's Fund Library database: http://kingsfund.koha-ptfs.eu/

Mednar is a free, medically-focused deep web search engine that uses Explorit Everywhere, an advanced search technology by As Deep Web Technologies. an alternative to Google , Mednar accelerates your research with a search of authoritative public and deep web resources, returning the most relevant results to one easily navigable page

The National Academies Press has more than 10,000 books downloadable for free (registration required), produced by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Theses and Dissertations

4,558,431 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive.

The Nuffield Trust is an independent health charity. Their aim is to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis, and informing/generating debate.

OAIster
OAIster is a union catalogue of millions of records that represent open access resources, built through harvesting from collections worldwide. Includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors.

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the knowledge base of OECD's analysis and data.

OpenGrey covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and Humanities in Europe.Includes:Open access to 700.000 bibliographical references, with the facility to export records and locate the documents.Technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, some official publications, and other types of grey literature.The site includes preprints from the GL conferences (GreyNet International) in full text.

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

A non-profit Open Access publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

RAND produce reports on a range of public health topics, freely available as eBooks. You can search over 20,000 RAND publications dating back to 1946, and filter by theme.

Trip is a clinical search engine, but as well as research evidence, it also provides a gateway to other content types, including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.The Pro version is now funded for NHS and Public Health staff. For Local Authority PH teams please activate IP address linkage by emailing

Public Health England

Health and wellbeing resources / Health protection A to Z / PHE data and analysis tools / Population screening programmes

Public Health Observatories

The Network of Public Health Observatories is now part of Public Health England.

Public Health Observatories (PHOs) produced information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, commissioners, policymakers and the wider community. Their expertise lay in turning information and data into meaningful health intelligence.

Health statistics

This includes both empirical data and estimates related to health, such as mortality, morbidity, risk factors, health service coverage, and health systems.

25 Ministerial Departments

Departments, agencies and public bodies

Official archive and publisher for the UK government and guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents. This is a non-ministerial government department which is a cultural, academic and heritage institution with expert advisers in information and records management.

Top Tip
Here are some examples of commands you can use to focus searches:

site: Focuses your search to within a particular website, e.g. site:gov.uk for government websites or site:ac.uk for UK academic websites. You can also use -site: to exclude individual sites.

filetype: Retrieves results that match the filetype you have specified, e.g. filetype:pdf or filetype:ppt.

Although more 'shopping' than research, Bing is developing and is reputedly better than Google for Maps* (ordnance survey section); corporate sites, for social science, sexual health, anthropology, psychology searches, and for going deeper into a site. Advanced search is the best option.*For detailed directions try Open Street Map

Recommended for its clustering of results and also the visualisations of terms and concepts via the circles and "foam tree". The Web Search uses eTools.ch for the general searches and there is also a PubMed option. (Possibly a subscription service for the most benefit, though there is some open-source access). Whilst no longer freely available, you can sign up for a free trial.

Information on Health, Law, Crime, Economy, Europe, Immigration and Education.

Information for external enquirers who want to use content in the BBC archives for research, educational or other commercial or non-commercial purposes.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more (US)

The best way to search Twitter - use the Advanced Search or click "More Options" on the results page. There is a detailed description of the commands and how they can be used

Reverse image search. Allows you to search the web, using an image - find matches of that image elsewhere online and traces copyright owner. Also includes MulticolorEngine to extract colour palettes from an image or a set of images.

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Grey literature: index and alternative sources and resources

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The Clinical Librarians offer 1-to-1 and team training sessions in effective literature searching, evidence-based practice, critical appraisal, and understanding statistics.

John King on john.king15@nhs.net for WHH, KCH, and South Kent Coast CCGs.

Jonathon Baker on jonathan.baker@nhs.net for QEQM and Thanet CCG area.

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OpenAthens is your key to freely accessing the majority of our information resources in full-text, such as articles, journals, and ebooks. When registering, use your NHS email address for automatic verification.

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Please note that you need to activate your account before you can use it. Please read the information on the page you'll see after you have submitted this form, and check your inbox for your activation email.

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Searching and Training Forums Wiki - The National Searching Guidance

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You can access the HTML version of The National Searching Guidance at https://library.hee.nhs.uk/learning-academy/learning-zone/evidence-searching/national-searching-guidance Is is also available to colleagues from London and the South of England via the "KLS Search and Training Forums (London,

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Database providers

EBSCO OVID ProQuest TRIP Pro Cochrane

What's available?

CINAHL covers nursing and allied health.

MEDLINE covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)) covers all aspects of librarianship.

GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact to the environment.

Where can I find support materials for provider interfaces?
Basic searching Advanced searching
Videos and live session bookings

A recording of a basic session is available. Book a live session.

A recording of an advanced session is available. Book a live session.

For more information about EBSCO's training and support offer, click here.

Book on the University of Cambridge Medical Library's Expert Search Training for NHS Knowledge and Library Service Staff.

Trip Pro

Trip was designed, twenty-five years ago, as a tool to support clinicians to answer their clinical questions using the best available evidence. This focus remains and a major feature of Trip is evidence-based content (with a focus on evidence at the top of the evidence pyramid). While the focus is on clinicians, Trip is widely used by librarians and other information specialists.

Trip uses colour-coding to highlight the evidence type and the highest quality content is marked in green. This is subdivided in to a number of categories:

Systematic Reviews - these are taken from a large number of sources both published and grey giving unrivalled coverage and include HTAs

Evidence Based Synopses - covering journal clubs, critically appraised topics and other articles, while not formal systematic reviews, that have undergone additional secondary review.

Guidelines - Trip's guidelines are global in nature but can be restricted to specific areas (e.g. UK, Canada) at the touch of a button. No resource has the diversity and breadth of guideline coverage.

Regulatory guidance - This covers content from the likes of NICE Technology Appraisals and national drug approvals such as the FDA, EMA and SMC

Trip is constantly looking for new sources of clinically useful information, typically adding 5-10 new sources per month. Users are encouraged to alert Trip to new sources to ensure the site uses the best evidence in the search.

An important aspect of Trip is understanding how we order the results. This includes three main components:

Text score - Simplistically, a document scores more highly if the search terms are in the document title as opposed to the body of the text. And, if two documents contain the search terms once in the body of the text, a longer document will score lower due to a reduced term density.

Date - The newer the document the more highly it scores

Publication score - this is given to an individual publisher and reflects the perceived place in the evidence pyramid. So, NICE or Cochrane (say) have a higher score than a journal such as the BMJ and that scores more highly than a 'lesser' journal.

These scores are calculated 'on the fly' and the highest scoring document appears at the top of the results.

One final issue to raise, is full-text content. Around 70% of journal articles link out to full-text articles (for Pro users only). In addition to this Trip seamlessly integrates with LibKey which can boost the proportion of full-text articles, depending on the organisational subscriptions.

Trip is IP authenticated as well as via NHS OpenAthens. To set up IP access contact Jon Brassey, quoting the IP address(es) of your organisation.
Getting the most from Trip

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases giving practitioners access to evidence-based information to improve patient care. It includes:

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)

Cochrane Clinical Answers

EBSCO

What's available?

CINAHL covers nursing and allied health.

MEDLINE covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)) covers all aspects of librarianship.

GreenFILE covers all aspects of human impact to the environment.

Where can I find support materials for provider interfaces?
Basic searching Advanced searching
Videos and live session bookings

A recording of a basic session is available. Book a live session.

A recording of an advanced session is available. Book a live session.

For more information about EBSCO's training and support offer, click here.

Book on the University of Cambridge Medical Library's Expert Search Training for NHS Knowledge and Library Service Staff.

OVID

ProQuest

TRIP Pro

Trip Pro

Trip was designed, twenty-five years ago, as a tool to support clinicians to answer their clinical questions using the best available evidence. This focus remains and a major feature of Trip is evidence-based content (with a focus on evidence at the top of the evidence pyramid). While the focus is on clinicians, Trip is widely used by librarians and other information specialists.

Trip uses colour-coding to highlight the evidence type and the highest quality content is marked in green. This is subdivided in to a number of categories:

Systematic Reviews - these are taken from a large number of sources both published and grey giving unrivalled coverage and include HTAs

Evidence Based Synopses - covering journal clubs, critically appraised topics and other articles, while not formal systematic reviews, that have undergone additional secondary review.

Guidelines - Trip's guidelines are global in nature but can be restricted to specific areas (e.g. UK, Canada) at the touch of a button. No resource has the diversity and breadth of guideline coverage.

Regulatory guidance - This covers content from the likes of NICE Technology Appraisals and national drug approvals such as the FDA, EMA and SMC

Trip is constantly looking for new sources of clinically useful information, typically adding 5-10 new sources per month. Users are encouraged to alert Trip to new sources to ensure the site uses the best evidence in the search.

An important aspect of Trip is understanding how we order the results. This includes three main components:

Text score - Simplistically, a document scores more highly if the search terms are in the document title as opposed to the body of the text. And, if two documents contain the search terms once in the body of the text, a longer document will score lower due to a reduced term density.

Date - The newer the document the more highly it scores

Publication score - this is given to an individual publisher and reflects the perceived place in the evidence pyramid. So, NICE or Cochrane (say) have a higher score than a journal such as the BMJ and that scores more highly than a 'lesser' journal.

These scores are calculated 'on the fly' and the highest scoring document appears at the top of the results.

One final issue to raise, is full-text content. Around 70% of journal articles link out to full-text articles (for Pro users only). In addition to this Trip seamlessly integrates with LibKey which can boost the proportion of full-text articles, depending on the organisational subscriptions.

Trip is IP authenticated as well as via NHS OpenAthens. To set up IP access contact Jon Brassey, quoting the IP address(es) of your organisation.
Getting the most from Trip

Cochrane

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases giving practitioners access to evidence-based information to improve patient care. It includes:

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)

Cochrane Clinical Answers

HEE has funded their development.
Training end-users

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expert searching | Health Education England

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This guidance is intended for knowledge and library services (KLS) staff tasked with searching the evidence on behalf of NHS staff.

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NHS England | Workforce, training and education | Knowledge and Library Services

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National searching guidance | Workforce, training and education | NHS England

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from The National Searching Guidance Working Group.