LibGuides: Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences for Healthcare Library: Resource quick links

Quick links to key Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences resources

Below are direct links to the major Library resources of relevance to HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences staff. Log in with your Healthcare Library number and password if prompted to gain access to a particular resource.

If you have any questions about using these resources, please email Richard Fallis.

Databases

Use bibliographic databases to search through millions of articles from 1,000s of journals.

Below are the Healthcare Library databases most relevant to medicine, dentistry and healthcare sciences.

Click on a database to access it (if prompted, you will need to log in with your Healthcare Library number and password).

MEDLINE ALL Major database of biomedicine literature, accessible via the Ovid platform
Embase Major database, searchable via Ovid, indexing biomedical and pharmaceutical literature.
Cochrane Library 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).
PubMed (with Healthcare Library links)

For a full list of databases and similar resources accessible via the Healthcare Library, please go to our Databases A-Z.

Grey literature

Grey literature is research material that isn’t formally published in a journal or a book. Some useful sources of grey literature are listed below.

Clinical trial registries

clinicaltrials.gov Includes details of trials which have not yet been completed or remain unpublished.
ISRCTN Registry Registry of trials designed to assess the efficacy of health interventions in any human population.
WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) The ICTRP Search Portal aims to provide a single point of access to information about ongoing and completed clinical trials. It provides a searchable database containing the trial registration data sets made available by data providers around the world meeting criteria for content and quality control.

Guidelines

National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) NICE guidance supports healthcare professionals and others to make sure that the care they provide is of the best possible quality and offers the best value for money.
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) develops evidence based clinical practice guidelines for the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland. SIGN guidelines are derived from a systematic review of the scientific literature and are designed as a vehicle for accelerating the translation of new knowledge into action to meet our aim of reducing variations in practice, and improving patient-important outcomes.