Databases

ProQuest includes British Nursing Index, Medline, Nursing & Allied Health Database, PsycInfo, PsycArticles, Public Health Database and thousands of full text journal articles, doctoral dissertations, images and more. 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.

AMED (Allied & Complementary Medicine) has been included in ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Database since April 2024, and covers all aspects of allied health, alternative & complementary therapies, including acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis, chiropractic, osteopathy, rehabilitation, herbalism, holistic treatments, Chinese medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy. Useful for enquiries about any kind of alternative or complementary therapy. Also good for nutrition topics and some physiotherapy & occupational therapy queries; finds references in chiropractic & osteopathy journals which are not indexed by the more traditional medical databases.

To search AMED as a stand-alone database access via DIALOG here.

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