Searchable database of publicly available breast cancer information. Includes factsheets, posters and other materials from a number of US government health organistations. With a largely US focus, this resource is fully searchable or can be browsed by categories including: treatment, prevention, risk factors, disparities in health care and clinical trials.

Global Health is a public health database with nearly 1 million records. Produced by CABI Publishing, the database contains information from over 3,500 serials, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents, theses and electronic only publications from more than 125 countries. Subject coverage includes international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, occupational health, toxicology, health services, and maternal/child health.

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Freely accessible interactive database of H1N1 (influenza) documents in PDF format. These are selected from government agencies and other authoritative sites (copyrights permitting or with permission) and include reports and publications, posters and sample forms. Ebrary intend to maintain the site by adding new information as it is published.

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).

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).

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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