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This page has been compiled by your subject librarian and will help you to find information for your studies and research. It is not an exhaustive list of everything available, but will point you in the right direction. 

Take a look at the Using the library pages for more general information about using our services. The Studying from Home page provides information on accessing resources whilst away from campus.

COVID 19 - Public Health England have created an information page for the Coronavirus https://phelibrary.koha-ptfs.co.uk/coronavirusinformation/

e-Learning for Healthcare have created an online training resources for NHS and social care staff https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/coronavirus/ 

  • Getting the best from your searching

    OneSearch is a good place to start your research. However as you progress through your course you will need to develop your searching skills to incorporate other sources.

    Watch the tutorial below for an introduction to searching or access our Finding Information page for more advice.

    How to search

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    Click on the image above or use this link to view the tutorial: How to search tutorial

    You can also sign up to our webinar for guidance on how you can develop your search skills.

  • Books & Ebooks

    You will find a specific reading lists for you modules in your Blackboard sites or you can search OneList, our online reading list system.   Remember that Reading lists are only the starting point, use OneSearch to find additional resources.

    Many of your books are available as ebooks.  These provide online access from any location 24/7. Click on the following link to download our EbooksGuide and check out the Ebook page for more Accessibility information.

    If you find a book through the library catalogue that is only available in print in another University of Cumbria library you can reserve the book online. See our Requesting books page for more information.

    A postal loans service is also available for a small registration fee of £25 per calendar year.
    To find out how to use the service, see our Postal Loans page.


  • Eresources and Journals

    We have selected some key eresources and individual journal titles to help you locate relevant material for your subject.

    Eresources

    Use our eresources to search for relevant journal articles or other resources.  Although OneSearch does search many of these, using the subject specific collections will produce more tailored results and provide more relevant filters. Eresources for health is an online tutorial to help you use some of these resources.

    In addition to these key full-text eresources you can also explore our full A-Z of eresources to see the whole list and see the Research pages for additional research specific resources.

    EresourceDescription
        Health and social care 
    anatomyTV, anatomy TV logo - orange background with a white double P Anatomy TV

    An Interactive 3D anatomy resource.  Rotate the body, navigate through the layers and click on the image to bring up the relevant text.

    cinahl, cinahl logo CINAHL

    The key collection for Nursing and Allied health. It indexes (citations only) over 4000 journals and holds the full-text of 760 journals, plus linking to our other subscribed content. You will get fewer results but they should be more relevant.

    socindex, socindex logo SocIndex Comprehensive high quality sociological journal collection, mostly full text.
    Contains several Social care and Social work journals.
    community_care_inform, community care inform logo Community Care Inform Aimed at professionals who work with children and with adults in health and social care. Community Care Inform pulls together policy, guides, research, case law and legislation on a wide range of topics, from adoption to mental health and welfare rights. You will need to use the Shibboleth login on and off campus to get access to the full-text.  Two collections are now available Adults and Children
    proquest, proquest logo Proquest Nursing and Allied Health One of several collections from Proquest, all of which together form Proquest Central. This particular collection indexes 850 journals and holds the full-text of 715 Nursing and Allied health titles. More information in Getting started with Proquest databases.
    proquest, proquest logo Proquest Social Sciences A specific sub-collection with many articles on Social science and Social care.  Forms part of Proquest Central
        Wider and multi-disciplinary 
    psycarticles, psyc articles logo  PsycARTICLES Full-text articles from 59 Psychology journals.
    academic_search_complete, academic search complete logo  Academic Search Complete A huge multi-disciplinary database which indexes (citations only) over 9,500 journals and provides full-text to over 6,500.  Good for a search on more general topics.
    proquest, proquest logo Proquest Central Pulls together many of the Proquest collections, searching thousands of journals across many subjects.  More information in Getting started with Proquest databases.
    taylor_francis, taylor francis logo  Taylor and Francis Whereas the collections above hold content from a number of publishers this collection holds only journals published by Taylor and Francis.  Other publisher collections are available but this one has the most relevant full-text journals including Psychology and Health and the Journal of Mental Health.
    proquest, proquest logo  Dissertations and theses Global collection with some full-text from 1997 onwards.  It is possible to limit by level e.g. MSc.  To access UoC undergrad dissertations go to Collections in OneSearch
    cochrane_library, cochrane library logo Cochrane Library Provides systematic reviews of clinical based evidence on the effectiveness of specific interventions. An intervention can range from a non smoking campaign to counselling or medication. Your results will be a mixture of reviews and clinical trials. It will depend on your topic as to whether there will be a relevant review

     

    Individual Journal Titles

    Browse or search inside key journal titles for your subject below. There are too many to mention but two of the key Nursing publishers are listed below. All of these journals are Peer reviewed and a good starting point.  For a full range of titles check our A-Z of journals via Journals Search.

    Journal

    Description

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    British Journal of Healthcare Assistants Monthly, peer reviewed journal, with bespoke, evidence-based articles providing examples of good practice in all areas of healthcare.

    Health and Social Care in the Community

    A bi-monthly journal that takes a multidisciplinary approach recognizing the common ground between health and social care in the community

    Community Practitioner

    Journal for the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association.

    Mental Health

    These are some suggestions see the Mental Health Subject page for more.
    Mental Health Today Multi-disciplinary magazine concerned solely with mental health care. Promotes the diversity of user-centered best practice in the statutory, voluntary & independent sectors across the UK. Sign up for their weekly newsletter
    Aging and Mental Health Academic peer reviewed journal which investigates the relationship between the aging process & mental health.
    Dementia Care Although not peer reviewed this journal is grounded in practice and is the key journal for all professional staff working with people with dementia. Available in print at Carlisle and Lancaster, online access requires a Password from library@cumbria.ac.uk
    Child and Adolescent Mental Health CAMH publishes reviews, original articles, and pilot reports of innovative approaches, interventions, clinical methods and service developments.
    Psychology and Health Includes work on psychological aspects of physical illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the aetiology of physical illnesses; health attitudes and behaviour, including prevention.

    Children and Young people

    These are some suggestions, many more can be found on the Working with Children and Families subject page

    Children and Young People Now

    A Magazine covering childcare and early years, education, health, social care, youth justice, and youth work.

    Child: Care, Health and Development An international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes papers dealing with all aspects of the health and development of children and young people. 
    Youth and Youth Policy Youth & Policy Journal offers a critical space for the discussion of youth policy and youth work theory and practice.  Full text access is available online.
    Britsh Journal of social work

    You can access via Onesearch and is available from several journal collections, some with restrictions on the years covered. 

    NB the current month and previous 12 months issues are only available via the Oxford link. BUT this is only on campus. Off campus contact skills@cumbria.ac.uk to ask for copies of articles from these issues .

    For issues before 12 months ago off campus use Cinahl or SocIndex

     

     

  • Web links for your subject

    Key Health and social care sites
      Depatment of Health and Social Care The Government site
    dl_websites, orange cartoon of globe with computer mouse hovering over it  Public Health England Current news and information on Immunisation, Health protection and Screening. They also have a blog.
    All Our Health A suite of free e-learning sessions from Public Health England - for trusted information and advice on how all health and care professionals can prevent illness, protect health and promote wellbeing.  Free registration.

    Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

    Independent body that provides resources to develop and implement better care.  Covering Adults, Dementia, Child Services, Safeguarding and Integrated Health and social care. Also provided SCIEOnline - a huge database of resources for social care and social work
    King's Fund Independent charity seeking to improve the health and system in England
    Joseph Rowntree Foundation An independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty.  Publishes reports on housing, income, children, older people, disabled people and all aspects of society
    Children and young peopleDescription
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    Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) 

     Advancing the study of child & adolescent mental health.
    British Youth Council   Independent charity run for and by young people representing their views to central and local government, political parties, pressure groups and the media.
    Children's Society  Leading children's charity which provides child protection with a network of children's charities across the UK, specialises in kids charity and childhood guidance. 
    DrugScope  is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs and the national membership organisation for the drug field. 
    National Children's Bureau NCB is the leading national charity which supports children, young people and families and those who work with them.
    National Youth Agency  NYA works in partnership with public, private and voluntary sector organisations to support and improve services for young people.

     

    Evidence-based information
    dl_websites, orange cartoon of globe with computer mouse hovering over it    Created by Public health England to help people working across the health system to identify information and evidence relating to children’s, young people’s and maternal health and wellbeing. It highlights a range of organisations and information sources providing reliable information and research to help you make or influence decisions about services that improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and pregnant women
    Finding the Evidence: Child health
    Evidence Informed Public Health A nice resource from McMaster University that takes you through the steps in Evidence based public health.

    Centre for Evidence-based Medicine.

    Provides resources and background information for healthcare professionals, with Critical Appraisal tools and educational material to download.

    CASP

    Helps you to find and interpret the best available evidence from health research by providing some useful checklists.

    National Institute for Health Reseach

    Appraises research to identify the most reliable, relevant and significant findings to support the NHS. It disseminates these findings as Signals (The latest important research, summarised), Highlights (Conditions, treatments and issues explored using NIHR evidence) and Themed reviews.

     

    Health data and statistics
    dl_websites, orange cartoon of globe with computer mouse hovering over it  Office for National Statistics Government statistics and reports including Heath and Social Care the census

    PHE data analysis and tools

    Data and analysis for many conditions/issues from Public Health England.

    UK Data Service

    Centralised collection of social research data for the UK including Access to key surveys such as the Health Survey England and the Continuous Household survey

    Health and Care Statistics Landscape for England.

    With no centralised place for health statisics this site attemps to map to sources of statistics by theme.

    Statistical Sources

    Statistics information page, collating a list of further sources of  statistics.
    Other useful sites
    dl_websites, orange cartoon of globe with computer mouse hovering over it  NHS Acronym buster  

     

    Health talk online

    People talk about their experiences of health and illness

    North Grey literature collection

    Grey Literature covers all types of government and organisational documents: conference papers, policy documents, patient leaflets, blogs and more.  The definition is that it isn't peer reviewed and is published by an organisation/body whose primary objective isn’t making money from publishing.  Now that much more is held digitally and archived it is getting easier to find but can still be tricky. This site collects useful sources of Grey literature for health.  See also the University page Grey Literature.

     

  • NHS resources

    Most hospitals will have a Library or Education centre.  You are entitled to join as either a student on placement there or as a member of staff (includes bank staff).  This will give you access to their print books and you can also request an Open Athens account.  If you are on placement at the hospital you may be offered an introductory session by the library (Education centre).  We recommend that you attend so that you can take full benefit of the additional resources that the NHS provides.  If this doesn't happen, visit the library and ask to be signed up. You can find a list of NHS libraries here.

    NHS Knowledge and library hub.

    NHS knowledge and library hub, NHS library search box

    Similar to OneSearch this hub searches the NHS core collection of library resources and also gives quick access to NICE guidelines and BMJ best practice. It provides access to some collections that the University does not subscribe to, such as the British Nursing Index and Embase, as well as some we do, such as CINAHL. These are the resources that you will have access to in your professional career so it is a good idea to get familiar with them now.

    You will need an OpenAthens account to view the full-text, search individual collections or access full-text. This is different to the University which uses something called Shibboleth or Institutional access. 

    Full details on the NHS hub and how to get an OpenAthens password.

    elearning for healthcare

    A suite of online tutorials provided by Health Education England, supporting every aspect of healthcare. You can access some modules with a free registration but for them to count towards your CPD you need to log in with Open Athens.

    See the guide on how to set up a free account e-LfH account creation.

    Two new courses from the e-LfH - Literature searching and Critical Appraisal

     

  • Getting help

    Help and AdviceLink
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    If you are experiencing any problems accessing eresources, check our troubleshooting guide for advice.

    Accessing Online Resources
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    If you are experiencing problems logging into a resource, try resetting your university password using the MFA Password Reset Tool.

    If the problem persists, please contact the IT Service Desk (itservicedesk@cumbria.ac.uk).

    MFA Password Reset 
    dl_step, cartoon icon of info symbol The Student Enquiry Point is a new, simpler way to contact Student Services. Using the Student Enquiry Point tile on the Student Hub you can submit an enquiry relating to the wide range of services provided by Student Services. Student Hub

     

     

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