Resources for Health
Online Resources
We provide a wide range of electronic resources to support your research and studies. They are available 24/7 and this information will guide you to appropriate resources.
To help you get started and access the most relevant information for your research you will find:
- e-book collections for your subject
- key collections of essential journals for your subject, many available in full text
- specialist sources of subject-specific data and information
- wider research resources, useful if you need to search across a number of disciplines
We also have access to full text newspapers and on-line dictionaries and for wider reading we have an extensive collection of e-books; please use our General Resources pages for more information and access. For more help with e-resources please see our frequently asked questions.
The Library Catalogue will give you access to all resources - print, e-resources and your module reading list.
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool that allows you to create a database of references. References can be added manually or imported from electronic journal collections and Google Scholar. For more information take a look at the RefWorks Guide.
Health e-book Collections
Ovid e-books
A collection of 42 health and medicine titles. The collection includes books from the Made Incredibly Easy! series.
Stat!Ref
A collection of 4 e-books covering midwifery, women’s health and paediatric nursing in full text.
Royal Marsden Manual On-line
Full text access to this invaluable manual of clinical skills. Can be used for current procedures, checking latest guidance and overviews of common areas of nursing practice.
Key Collections
Cinahl
This is one of the main health databases giving details for a large coverage of health, nursing and allied health journals. A key resource for all health students on undergraduate and CPD courses. This database is not full text, it is an abstract and indexing database. You will need to find the full text via the library catalogue, if we stock the journal.
The Cochrane Library
A specialised health database covering controlled clinical trials and systematic reviews only. The reviews are very clinical and evidenced based and written in report format. Very useful for looking at treatments and interventions relating to patient care. Full text reviews.
Internurse
A small collection of nursing journals covering nursing, midwifery, wound care, palliative care and nurse prescribing. The journals are peer reviewed and full text articles are available.
Pier Professional Journals
Pier professional publishes journals for professionals and practitioners in the areas of Health and Social Care, learning disabilities, children's services, mental health and community. This collection is the whole collection of 23 titles. You can search for keywords across the collection or use an individual title which is for your specialism.
Proquest Nursing Journals
A core collection of nursing journals from different publishers around the world (good for US, UK and Australia) covering evidence based health and nursing, nursing research, and allied health articles. Excellent for all aspects of nursing, surgery, and health. Tip: limit your search to ‘Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed’. Majority of the collection is full text
Wiley Online Library Journals
Wiley is a large multi-disciplinary database, originally known as Blackwell Science Journals. It contains all journals published by Wiley-Blackwell and covers health medicine, psychology and social sciences. In the Edge Hill collection there are over 1200 interdisciplinary journals with articles published after 1997. There is an open padlock symbol next to the articles for which full text access is available. We do not have access to the e-books on Wiley Online Library.
Tip: Search by keyword under advanced search. You can then filter your results to journals only by choosing the filter option on the right hand side AFTER you have done your search. Please see our FAQ about using the Wiley Online Library.
Specialist Sources
Anatomy TV
3D human anatomy software with in-depth images of skeletons, muscles and tissue that can be drilled down by anatomical layers.
A specialised collection of journal articles from British Journal of Midwifery and African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. This collection is full text.
Maternity and Infant Care (MWIC)
This specialises in searching journals, books and grey literature for midwifery from the 1980’s onwards. Searches across key midwifery journals and including British Journal of Midwifery and Practising Midwife. An abstract and indexing database. You will need to find the full text via the library catalogue.
Wider Research
Academic Search Premier
A large multi-disciplinary database covering a wide range of full text, peer reviewed articles including medical sciences. A good general search database, useful for management and education related to health.
A collection of medical journals covering a range of biomedical topics such as pharmacology, cell biology, genetic and ethics. All articles are full text.
A searchable index covering life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation and animal studies. The database covers Journals, meetings, patents and books from 1969.
BMA Journals
A collection of medical journals from the British Medical Association relating to medicine, evidence based nursing, neurology, mental health, emergency medicine and ethics, Including the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Full text available.
A range of journals covering health and medical psychology.
Childlink
Childlink is a large online information service on children and families in the UK and Ireland providing news, reports, legislation, research and parliamentary issues. Very useful for research on child nursing, midwifery, social work and early years. Some full text available.
A collection of journals covering health, science, medicine and research. Full text articles are available online 1 year after publication.
A journals collection covering nursing, medicine and social sciences, giving abstract and indexing details. You will need to find the full text via the library catalogue, if we stock the journal.
A comprehensive database covering medicine health, public health, ethics and science. Has a strong medical focus rather than just nursing.
You will need to find the full text via the library catalogue, if we stock the journal.
A free version of Medline from the National Library for Medicine covering medicine, health, public health and sciences. Contains both the abstract and index details with some full text available.
PsycINFO
A database from the American Psychological Association containing citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. This is not full text it is an abstract and indexing database. You will need to find the full text via the library catalogue, if we stock the journal.
Science Direct Journals
A collection of science related journals from Elsevier Science publishers covering social science, medicine, physical and life sciences and humanities. Articles in full text available.
Gives access to the UK's most complete range of information and research on all aspects of social care, including fostering, mental health, and human resources. Content is drawn from a range of resources including journal articles, websites, research reviews, legislation and government documents, and service user knowledge.
Springer Journals
A multi-disciplinary database searching across journals, books and reference sources. With a focus on science it covers a wide range of subjects including medicine and health, physics, behavioural science, social sciences. Articles in full text available.
Swetswise Journals
A large collection of multidisciplinary journals from a variety of publishers. Useful for articles on medicine, nursing, social work research, management and women’s studies. Articles in full text available.
Taylor & Francis Journals
A one-stop site hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press. Useful for nursing, allied health, pharmacology, social work, medicine and behavioural science.
UK PubMed Central
This is an archive of life sciences journals that are freely available on the www. Based on PubMed Central from the U. S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), it is a UK-based archive of biomedical and health research findings which are peer reviewed and full text.
Web of Science
A science based database covering science, social sciences, arts and humanities. This is an abstract and indexing database and does not provide full text access to the journal articles. You will need to find the full text via the library catalogue, if we stock the journal.
Specialist Health Web Sites
- Age Concern
- American Psychological Association
- Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services
- AVERT
- BACUP
- Bandolier
- BestBets (Emergency Medicine)
- Better Health
- Bipolar Disorders Portal
- Birth international
- Brain Disorders Network
- Center for Eating Disorders
- Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health
- Department of Health
- Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Medicine
- Disability Now
- Electronic Library for Social Care
- Equal Opportunities Commission
- Every Child Matters
- Foundation of Nursing Studies
- Government Statistical Service
- Healing Touch International
- Health and Personal Social Services Statistics
- Health Trusts and Hospitals
- Health World
- Healthfinder
- HM Prison Service
- Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Acheson Report)
- Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health Report
- Infant Massage
- InfoAging
- Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics
- Institute of Mental Health Law
- Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Medical Informatics Conferences and Seminars
- Mental Health Act
- MERCK Manual
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
- National Mental Health Service
- NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- National Mental Health Development Unit
- NLH
- R U Thinking - Teenage advice
- Royal College of Midwives
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Safe Motherhood Initiative
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Schizophrenia
- Smoking Cessation
- Sociological Research Online
- Student Midwives Sanctuary
- Sure Start
- Teenage Health Freak
- The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health
- The Perinatal Institute
- The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- The Teenage Pregnancy Unit
- TRIP: Turning Research into Practice
- World Health Organisation
Meet the Learning Services Health Team
Our aim, in collaboration with academic colleagues, is to support students studying Health.
We are based in the top floor office of the LINC building at Ormskirk, and at the LIRC at Aintree University Hospital.
We provide inductions, information literacy workshops, and 1-to-1 support. We help you to get the most from the resources and services we provide. We work in partnership with academic colleagues to develop group sessions to help you maximise the resources available to support your studies.
If you have a subject related enaquiry please contact us.
Rachel Bury
Academic Liaison Manager /Aintree LIRC Manager
Lorna Clarke
Academic Liaison Librarian
Vacant
Learner Support Advisor
Iain Gannon
Study Skills Advisor
Adrian Cain
Learning Technology Development Officer
Aintree
Aintree LIRC staff provide support for resources, 1-to-1 and group sessions and general ICT support. Sessions on information skills and academic skills are provided at Aintree.
Support for Specific Learning Difficulties
The Inclusive Services Team, based on the first floor of the University Library provides information, advice, resources and services for students and staff with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD).
Academic Staff
If you're a member of staff looking for advice and support, have a look at the Learning Services wiki.
NHS Resources
If you are a student on a funded health course including, nursing, midwifery, ODP, Paramedic and Assistant Practitioner, you are entitled to have access to the online NHS resources. These key resources are available to NHS staff and can be accessed through the NHS Evidence Website www.evidence.nhs.uk
via an Athens account which will be automatically emailed to you.
The NHS Evidence site gives you access to national guidelines, care pathways, NICE guidelines, systematic reviews, patient information and evidenced based resources.
It also gives you access to a range of full text journals and key databases including:
- Cinahl full text
- BMJ Journals collection
- MyiLibrary ebooks
- British Nursing Index
- Embase
- Amed
- HMIC
- Medline
- Psychinfo
If you need any further help with NHS resources please contact the Aintree Library Helpdesk
Phone 0151 529 5851
Email libdesk@edgehill.ac.uk
Placement Libraries
Learning Services works in collaboration with a number of local NHS libraries to support you when you are on placement. We provide resources where you are on placement and also ensure there are copies of key reading list materials available to borrow.
This support is provided by Associated Health Libraries. The libraries are located at:
Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
Hanley LibraryClinical Education Centre
Southport and Formby District General hospital
Town Lane
Southport PR8 6PN
Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
LibraryBlair Bell Education Centre
Crown Street
Liverpool L9 7SS
Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust
Alder Hey LibraryEducation Centre
Eaton Road
Liverpool L12 2AP
