Essential resources to explore in Discover for the subject area of Nursing and Healthcare
There are many different resources available to help with your wider reading and research. You can access some of them directly from this page but most of your key electronic resources for Health Care and Nursing are accessed through Discover Databases A-Z.
CINAHL
A comprehensive source for full-text articles from nursing and allied health journals.
Cochrane Library (direct access)
A collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It contains a collection of systematic reviews. No need to log in.
Community Care Inform
Community Care Inform is an online resource that enables professionals working with people make and evidence their decisions.
Embase (Ovid)
A biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing references from a wide range of international journals on pharmacology, rehabilitation, medicine, mental health and a number of other areas.
LexisNexis UK Newspapers
LexisNexis contains a news database of full-text UK regional, national and broadsheet newspapers. Coverage goes back as far as January 1982 to the present day for some titles, although this varies by publication.
National Statistics Online or Office for National Statistics (direct access)
National statistics from the UK Government. Open access, no need to log in.
PubMed Central (direct access)
A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Open access, no need to log in.
ScienceDirect
A full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters covering physical sciences, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.