Databases

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.

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The electronic medicines compendium (emc) contains up to date, easily accessible information about medicines licensed for use in the UK. emc has more than 14,000 documents, all of which have been checked and approved by either the UK or European government agencies which license medicines. These agencies are the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). emc hosts medicines information for medicines licensed for use in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), as well as UK-wide licensed medicines (Great Britain and Northern Ireland).

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.

The ERIC database from the Institute of Education Sciences is the education world’s equivalent of PubMed. It includes details of international publications on all aspects of education, including health sciences. Some full text is available.