Databases

The Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID) maintains a collection of regularly-updated public health data organised into themed profiles. Useful for all kinds of public and community health evidence.

OpenAlex indexes over 250 million research items from worldwide sources, including links to full text (if you have enabled LibKey Nomad on your browser you can access our subscribed full text). Create a personal login on OpenAlex to save searches and create alerts.

Policy Commons makes it easy to discover and access policy content from IGOs, NGOs, think tanks and research centres, with 2.3 million items covering more than 7,000 topics. Policy Commons enables members to build audience around research, analyses, data, and other relevant content. Register for free on the website.

ProQuest includes 

• British Nursing Collection (1994 - current), which is a leading database for nurses, midwives, health visitors and nursing associates in the UK.
• Health Research Premium Collection (1946 - current), providing international coverage of medicine, health administration, nursing and allied health

ProQuest also 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 with ProQuest, and there are lots of very useful features (e.g. ProQuest can do Harvard, APA and Vancouver referencing for you!). You can create an individual MyResearch account so you can save your favourite articles and searches, set up alerts, choose which referencing system you want to use as default and link to a RefWorks account.

OpenAthens login required. 

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.

Database of evidence-based social science research on public and community health, social policy, economic and social development, social administration, social services, care management. OpenAthens login required.

International data and statistics on all aspects of global health compiled by the World Health Organization.