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Key Subject Resources

These are the key databases we recommend that you use. A more complete list is available from the Health Sciences Databases page. All electronic resources can be accessed off-campus through the SVE (Southampton Virtual Environment) or VPN (Virtual Private Network).

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
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CINAHL provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, health education and other related subject areas. CINAHL content includes full text for more than 760 journals and it indexes more than 4,900 journals.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
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MEDLINE is the world's best-known medicine and clinical science database, covering literature from around the world since 1946. It has a comprehensive set of controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms). MEDLINE is also available free on the web as PubMed.

The database contains more than 21.6 million records from 5,582 selected publications covering biomedicine and health from 1950 to the present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE provides information from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, as well as coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
Cochrane Library
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The Cochrane Library is the home of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care. It also contains a register of controlled trials, Cochrane Clinical Answers, and Special Collections - curated content collections on specific healthcare topics.
MIDIRS
MIDIRS Reference Database collates information and resources relating to midwifery.
Web of Science Core Collection
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Provides references, and in many cases abstracts, for peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Includes the Science Citation Index Expanded (1970-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1970-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Also provides citation data and references to books and conference papers. Click on the Full Text Finder links to check for full-text.

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Using WebCat and Delphis
WebCat finds books (including ebooks) and media, and Delphis finds journal articles, ebooks and conference proceedings.

New Resources
Gale - a collection of primary and secondary sources which cover medicine, engineering, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics and many other subjects. Provides access to books, archival materials and news sources.