Abstracts and indexing for over 11,000 journals from around the world with the full text coverage of over 7,000 titles, including more than 6,000 peer reviewed publications covering the fields of science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature.

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British Nursing Index is a nursing and midwifery database, covering over 200 UK journals and other English language titles. A useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers. Coverage: 1994 -

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CINAHL covers virtually all English language core journals in nursing and allied health disciplines, as well as publications from the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.
Coverage: 1982 - .

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Bibliographic database produced by the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange, containing references to rehabilitation research published since 1990.

The global resource for best evidence in healthcare, comprising a collection of databases of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, health economics and methodologies. Access to The Cochrane Library is free for all residents of England - no login is required.

Formerly known as the National Library for Health, Health Information Resources is the gateway to online health care resources for all who work within or for the NHS. It offers access to the full text of much material which cannot be found in traditional literature databases, such as reports from Governments, charities, Royal Colleges and other professional organisations, guidelines and protocols, specially commissioned reviews, and clinical images. Most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account (on application to an NHS Trust library).

ICL was founded in 1979 in the USA and is published as a free service to the chiropractic college community, the chiropractic profession, and the public at large. It indexes all chiropractic peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, and others by topic. Coverage 1985 - .

Medline® is the bibliographic database of the United States National Library of Medicine. It is the computerised counterpart of Index Medicus.
Coverage: 1966 - .

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Aims to provide a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care. It includes a number of different types of information including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents. NHS Evidence incorporates the former National Library for Health. Most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account (on application to an NHS Trust library).

Bibliographic database developed by occupational therapists in Australia, containing abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.

Bibliographic database produced by the Centre for Evidence Based Physiotherapy, containing abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality and usefulness.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948 with linking to fulltext articles within PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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Note: Medline is the largest component of PubMed and approximately 5,200 journals are currently indexed for Medline. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM's controlled vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

Bibliographic database produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC). Contains references to over 65,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues relating to people with disabilities. Coverage 1956 - .

Search or browse the content of over 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals.

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SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database and  provides bibliographic information for over 2,100,000 articles including access to the full text of over 820 sociology journals. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for 14,636 conference papers in sociology, social work practice and related subjects.

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International database indexing and abstracting over 61,000 records from books, conference proceedings, dissertations, reports, journals and newsletters. This database contains information on - sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training technique, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. It provides full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing, with more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985.

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The Occupational Science Library contains references to around 1000 journal articles on occupational science from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. References include abstracts, and open-access full-text links where available.

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