Social Work for Healthcare Library: Databases

The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database.

SPP brings together information from six of the UK’s leading collections of social policy and practice resources: Centre for Policy on Ageing ; Idox Information Service; National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Social Care Institute for Excellence
Greater London Authority ; National Children’s Bureau .

The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals. Indexes more than 5,000 journals, with full-text access to the contents of more than 1,300 journal titles.

Ovid MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,400 journals published world-wide.

Extensive collection of journals covering clinical and biomedical literature.

Collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR); Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA); NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED).

Due to funding restrictions, Social Care Online will no longer be updated, it will remain accessible until the end of Dec 2023. After this date, Social Care Online’s bibliographic data will continue to be available via the combined Social Policy and Practice database.