LKS Literature Search by Library & Knowledge Services

TRIP Medical Database

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

Google Scholar

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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.

NHS Knowledge and Hub

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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.

PubMed

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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

Mendeley

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

Zotero

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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.

Guideline Search

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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.

Patient Information Search

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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.

Journal Tables of Contents

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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.

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.

Clinical Librarians

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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.

OpenAthens

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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.

The National Searching Guidance

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NHS England: Expert search and support

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This covers searching and support for the Ovid, EBSCO and ProQuest bibliographic databases using the provider interfaces, as well as for Trip Pro and the Cochrane Library.

National searching guidance

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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.