Academic Search Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.
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BioDigital Human - Interactive 3D Anatomy Platform
- Subject coverage: interactive 3D software for visualizing anatomy, disease and treatment
- Type of content: includes images, quizes and textbook type material
- Level of access: full access when registered with a BU email. Once you have signed up with your BU email and created a password, you can access BioDigital directly.
To access this resource select BioDigital Human from the blue ribbon towards the top of the page. You will need to use your BU email address to set up your account.
BNI (British Nursing Index)
- Subject coverage: nursing and midwifery database; useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers
- Size/scope: over 200 UK journals and other English language titles
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1994 to present
- Level of access: some links to full text.
BNI is only available on Proquest
CINAHL Complete
- Subject coverage: the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature 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
- Size/scope: over 5,400 journals
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1937 to present
- Level of access: full text of over 1,300 journals.
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Cochrane Library
- Subject coverage: Global resource for best evidence in healthcare
- Type of content: Collection of databases containing randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, health economics and methodologies
- Level of access: No login required.
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EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
Epistemonikos
- Subject coverage: Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence
- Type of content: evidence-based information, systematic reviews
- Level of access: some full text available.
HealthProfessionals
- Subject coverage: occupational therapy, operating department practice, paramedic practice, physiotherapy, GP practice management
- Type of content: online archive of peer-reviewed articles from eight Mark Allen journals
- Date range: various according to the journal accessed
- Level of access: full text available.
Index to Chiropractic Literature
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- Subject coverage: chiropractic
- Size/scope: 11,000 academic journals indexed
- Type of content: chiropractic peer-reviewed journals
- Date range: 1985 onwards
- Level of access: Mainly abstract only, some full text.
Internurse
- Subject coverage: nursing
- Size/scope: 13 academic journals published by the Mark Allen Group
- Type of content: academic journal article
- Level of access: full text.
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LA84 Foundation Digital Archive
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- Subject coverage: Sport research material
- Size/scope: 40,000 plus pdf files
- Type of content: academic journal and magazine articles, books, conference proceedings and Olympic reports
- Date range: 1880 onwards
- Level of access: full text available
Medline Complete
- Subject coverage: medical database focusing on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, toxicology, anthropology and biology. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations
- Size/scope: 5400 academic journals indexed, 2100 full text journals incorporated
- Type of Content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1865 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
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- Subject coverage: medical and healthcare
- Type of content: wide range of materials including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents
- Level of access: most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account. Students studying on NHS-related programmes are able to obtain an NHS Athens account. Invitations were emailed at the beginning of the academic year.
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
- Subject coverage: physiotherapy
- Type of content: abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
- Level of access: bibliographic and abstracts.
PubMed
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database focusing on medical and life sciences
- Size/scope: includes over 18 million citations from Medline
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1948 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
REHABDATA
- Subject coverage: Rehabilitation
- Size/scope: 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.
- Date range: 1956-
- Level of access: some full text available.
ScienceDirect
- Subject coverage: health, science and medicine
- Size/scope: 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Scopus
- Subject coverage: Sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope:Citation database indexing 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, patent records and scientific web pages. It contains over 33 million records
- Type of content: Citation data
- Date range: 1841-present
- Level of access: Some links to full text available.
SIGN guidelines (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)
- Subject coverage: health guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network [SIGN]
- Type of content: evidence-based information
- Level of access: some full text available.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
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- Subject coverage: sports
- Size/scope: international database indexing and abstracting over 61,000 records. 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 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing, with more than 700,000 full-text articles
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1985-present
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Web of Science
>> Go to Web of Science - Select UK Federation from Institutional Sign In and search for Bournemouth University
- Subject coverage: Arts, Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences
- Size/scope: Citation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work
Web of Science consists of:
Science Citation Index 1899-present
Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
Biosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
Medline 1950-present
Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators - Type of content: academic journal article
- Date range: 1945-
- Level of access: Some links to full text.