Databases

 CINAHL Ultimate is the world’s largest database of literature on nursing and allied health topics. Many of the articles are available in full text.

OpenAthens login required.

CKS provides summaries of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice for a range of clinical scenarios. 

ClinicalTrials.gov is a website and online database of worldwide clinical trials and information about their results. It includes ongoing trials, including those currently recruiting. The purpose of ClinicalTrials.gov is to provide information about clinical research studies to the public, researchers, and health care professionals.

You can access the full text of more than 600 online journals and approximately 1,500 books published by Elsevier Science, and the full text of clinical guidelines from several important international sources, including NICE. The Drug Monographs section includes information from the British National Formulary (BNF) and BNF for Children. Additional access is provided to online journals from other publishers via the Online @ UHCW links. Please use ClinicalKey  and CK Nursing in conjunction with the UHCW Formulary and Guidelines.

OpenAthens login required. The first time you log in, activate your OpenAthens and create a personal registration on ClinicalKey in order to be able to download PDFs of book chapters, creating PowerPoint presentations and using the ClinicalKey Mobile App Look at the top right of the ClinicalKey / CK Nursing screen. If you don’t see your name, you will need to activate.

You can swap between ClinicalKey and CK Nursing, and your search history, saved searches, saved content and presentations will transfer between CK and CK Nursing. This is useful when you want to check for additional search results without having to redo your search, or when you want to add images to an existing presentation.

CK Nursing, the nursing edition of ClinicalKey, provides tailored content for nurses, including full text books, journals and  a presentation maker. 
OpenAthens login required. For downloading PDFs of book chapters, creating PowerPoint presentations and using the ClinicalKey Mobile App, you will first need to activate a personal registration on the Clinical Key / CK Nursing website, which will then be linked with your OpenAthens login. Look at the top right of the ClinicalKey / CK Nursing screen. If you don’t see your name, you will need to do this.
Activating your OpenAthens will also allow you to swap between ClinicalKey and CK Nursing, and your search history, saved searches, saved content and presentations will transfer between CK and CK Nursing. This is useful when you want to check for additional search results without having to redo your search, or when you want to add images to an existing presentation.
We can provide demos and tutorials in using CK Nursing.

e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) is a Health Education England Programme in partnership with the NHS and relevant Professional Bodies providing high quality e-learning resources free of charge for the training of the NHS workforce across the UK, including the Doctors in Training (DiT) induction e-learning programme.

The online training resources in the e-LfH Hub enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point. They are designed and built to be engaging and interactive, using quality images, video, audio and animation to help trainees learn and retain knowledge. Content is presented using various templates such as ‘real-life’ scenarios, case studies and ‘knowledge bites’.

If you have previously created an e-LfH account, you can link it to your OpenAthens login so you won’t lose any of your existing e-learning. If you are new to  e-LfH, the Hub will create an account for you and link that new account to your OpenAthens login details.

Ebook Central gives you quick and easy online access to a selection of medical and nursing textbooks, with the opportunity to read online or to download and “borrow” books for offline use on a mobile device for any period from 24 hours to 365 days, depending on the publisher’s licence. You can use the Bookshelf feature to keep track of what you have viewed and/or downloaded and organise your favourite titles.

The complete Ebook Central catalogue is open for browsing, and titles that we do not own may be viewed online for a maximum of 5 minutes. It’s possible to send us suggestions for purchase.

OpenAthens login required.

EMBASE starts in 1974 and covers literature on biomedical sciences, pharmacology, biomedical technology, medical research, with a strong European focus. OpenAthens login required.

The EMCARE database provides details of approximately 5 million articles in 3,700 publications on nursing, allied health and management topics from 1995 to the current week. There are links to our A-Z service to check the availability of full text. OpenAthens login required.

With Google Scholar you can search for published articles, patents and conference papers and check for full text availability.

Useful features include Cited by… (shows you what other papers have cited the one you’re interested in)

To link our UHCW full text journals to Google Scholar go to Settings – Library Links and search for Coventry. Make sure the box next to UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY & WARWICKSHIRE (UHCW) is ticked and click Save.  Afterwards, you will see Online @ UHCW beside items to which we can provide full text access. You will need your UHCW OpenAthens login to use this service. You can also add links to other libraries that provide a full text location service.

Under Sign in to browse your institution library, search for Coventry as your Institution and choose University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. Log in with OpenAthens.

Kortext is an ebook lending library, allowing you to “borrow” the items online for a period of 7 days at a time. To view all the ebooks available to UHCW, choose the See your institution book collections option.

You can register for a personal account that will allow you to download and use the Kortext App for Android or Apple devices.

MAH Complete (also called MAG Online) is a collection of nursing and allied health journals from Mark Allen Group, a leading UK publisher of resources for healthcare professions. Titles include British Journal of Hospital Medicine, British Journal of Nursing, British Journal of Midwifery and Journal of Wound Care. OpenAthens login required.

Ovid MEDLINE offers some useful links for detailed evidence searching. OpenAthens login required.

EBSCO’s MEDLINE Complete includes thousands of full text PDFs.

OpenAthens login required.

Oxford Medicine Online provides a collection of medical and healthcare textbooks, including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and Oxford Handbooks. We currently have access to approximately 300 titles. OpenAthens login required.

ProQuest includes several useful free databases, including Coronavirus Research Database, Education Research Index and Publicly Available Content Database, which brings together links to full text from a range of open access sources.

You don’t need any special searching skills to get  started, and there are lots of very useful features (e.g. ProQuest can do Harvard and Vancouver referencing for you!). OpenAthens login required. You can create an individual MyResearch account so you can save your favourite articles and searches, set up alerts and link to a RefWorks account.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counselling. OpenAthens login required.

PsycINFO is published by the American Psychological Association and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from 1806 to the present day. Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in APA PsycINFO® are peer reviewed. OpenAthens login required.

PubMed is the world's largest database of biomedical literature. Using this link will give you access to full text via our online@UHCW links.

OpenAthens login required. The online Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures 10th edition supports nursing care with evidence-based clinical content. Since 2021 there is a link to the Student Companion, which includes many learning activities.
UHCW’s own nursing policies and procedures are being added to the Royal Marsden Manual to ensure it reflects best practice. While this work is in progress, please make sure to cross-reference with the relevant UHCW policies, procedures and clinical guidelines on eLibrary.

To access the Royal Marsden Manual via TrustNav, type Royal Marsden into the TrustNav search box. This will bring up the Library Quick Links page, where you will find a link to the Royal Marsden Manual that does not require any login.