Support for Health & Social Care
You can find information about how to contact us at Support from UWS Library.
Contact us if you would like advice on:
- finding information for your assignments
- choosing keywords and setting limits
- choosing resources to search
- assessing credibility of sources
- compiling a search strategy for a literature review
- reference management
Resources
Autism Data: free database from the National Autistic Society
BioMed Central: full text access to peer-reviewed biomedical journals
BMJ Journals: high-quality content for researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals
British Journal of Mental Health Nursing: full-text access to mental health-related articles
CINAHL Ultimate: 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.
Cochrane Library: reviews of clinical interventions and evidence based care
GALE OneFile News: full-text newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Health Source (Nursing Academic Edition): full text access to 500+ nursing journals
IRISS: Charitable company that promotes positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland's social services
Knowledge Network: health & social care search engine from NHS Education for Scotland
MEDLINE: comprehensive medical citation database that provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and may also provide full text links to other databases
NHS Evidence Specialist Collections: evidence resource from the NHS
NHS inform: Scotland's health information service, including mental health, bereavement and palliative care
OVID: journal articles and books on a wide range of health and nursing topics
PsycARTICLES: index of journal articles on mental health, psychiatry and psychology, and may also provide full text links to other databases
PsycBOOKS: covering psychology & psychiatry texts from the American Psychological Association
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection: the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals
ScienceDirect: full-text journals and e-books on a range of subjects (free registration may be required)
Scopus: combines a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines
Social Care Online: UK’s largest database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work
SocINDEX: full-text social sciences resources
Statista: a wide variety of statistics, industry data and analysis from the UK, Europe and around the world. Enhance your presentations with the downloadable tables, charts and infographics
Web of Science: scientific journal article and e-book citation indexing service that also provides full text links to other databases
Wiley Online Library: full-text articles covering science, social science and the humanities
UK Data Service: UK survey data including census data between 1971-2011
UK Network of Sex Work Projects: UWS collection covering the health, safety, civil and human rights of sex workers
Understanding Health Research: a tool for making sense of health studies.
Last updated: 18/11/2020