Find out more about the wide range of knowledge and library resources we offer, and how to search them.
Books and e-books
Books
How to find, borrow, reserve, renew and return print books
E-books
How to access our range of over 11,000 e-books
Point of care tools
UpToDate
How to access the UpToDate clinical decision-making support tool.
BMJ Best Practice
How to access the BMJ Best Practice clinical decision-making support tool.
Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures
How to access the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures to find over over 350 evidence-based clinical skills procedures
Staying up to date
KnowledgeShare
Our KnowledgeShare Evidence Update service is a personalised current awareness service allowing you to receive new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements. It covers policy documents and a range of summarised evidence, so you won’t be inundated with primary research articles, and emails are sent each fortnight.
Read by QxMD
Get access to the latest contents of journals by email, or via the Read by QxMD app.
Articles
Articles
How to search for journal articles using a range of databases
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
The Hub is an easy way to search for journal articles, and link to many of our other resources including resources for more advanced searching.
AMED
Access to the AMED database (Allied and Complementary Medicine Database) is available all NHS staff and students. Searching is via the ProQuest or Dialog interfaces and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
British Nursing Index (BNI)
Access to the BNI database (covering nursing and midwifery) is available all NHS staff and students. Searching is via the ProQuest interface and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
CINAHL Plus with Full-Text
We offer access for all staff and students to the CINAHL Plus with Full-Text database and journal collection covering nursing, midwifery and allied health topics. Searching is via the EBSCO interface.
It can also be searched as part of the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.
EMBASE
Access to the EMBASE database (covering drugs and pharmacology, and other aspects of human medicine) is available all NHS staff and students. Searching is via the Ovid interface and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
EMCare
Access to the EMCare database (covering nursing, midwifery and allied health) is available all NHS staff and students. Searching is via the Ovid interface and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
ERIC
ERIC covers education literature and resources and includes citations for journal articles, books, research papers, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, dissertations, theses, and other materials in the field of education.
HMIC
Access to the HMIC database (Health Management Information Consortium) is available all NHS staff and students. Searching is via the Ovid interface and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
Medline
Access is available to Medline Complete, and can searched via the EBSCO, Ovid or ProQuest interfaces.
It can also be searched as part of the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.
PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Contains systematic reviews, critically-appraised randomised controlled trials and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. No password is needed.
PsycINFO
Access to the PsycINFO database (covering psychology, mental health and allied fields) is available all NHS staff and students. Searching is via the ProQuest interface and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
Social Policy and Practice
Access to the Social Policy and Practice database is available all NHS staff and students. It brings together information from six of the UK’s leading collections of social policy and practice resources, covering over 600 journals along with reports and other documents. Searching is by the Ovid interface and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
Evidence resources
BMJ Case Reports
How to access BMJ Case Reports, and submit your own case report using our fellowship account (915046)
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library includes several databases containing high-level evidence such as systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials. It can be searched without a password, and the Cochrane Systematic Reviews are available in full-text.
It can also be searched as part of the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.
Trip Pro
How to access the free Trip database and get access to the Pro version to search a range of high-quality evidence resources.
Other
Anatomy.TV
How to access the Anatomy.TV 3D Atlas of Human Anatomy that provides 3D interactive anatomy models with an extensive collection of multimedia material to reinforce knowledge and understanding, interactive animations and interactive dissection images.
Library Apps and Browser Extensions
A selections of apps available to access our resources on mobile devices, along with some browser extensions to make accessing resources easier on the desktop
Educational Board Games
Details of our range of educational board games, many of which can be made available online
BrowZine
Browse our journal holdings by subject and view contents pages via BrowZine
Resources for patients and the public
Search tools for locating good quality information for patients and the public, along with links to many useful sites
Leadership Zone
Information about our resources for leadership and management topics
Knowledge Navigator
Use the Knowledge Navigator to find how to search for specific types of evidence, such as clinical practice guidelines, randomised controlled trials, and systematic reviews
