Welcome to your library subject page. This has been compiled by your subject librarian and is here to help you find information for your studies and research. It is not an exhaustive list of everything available, but will point you in the right direction.
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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.
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We have selected some key eresources and individual journal titles to help you locate relevant material for your subject.
Use our eresources to search for relevant journal articles or other resources such as anatomy images. 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 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.
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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. |
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Instant Anatomy | Diagrams, videos, podcasts and revision questions to help you get to grips with anatomy. |
| Midwifery and health specific | ||
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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 than OneSearch but they should be more relevant. |
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ScienceDirect | More medical/science based but does include several Midwifery journals so this is a key collection for you to use. |
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MEDLINE | MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine journal citation database covering medicine, nursing, the health care system and much more. This version includes citations from 5,200 scholarly journals and full-text from more than 1,450. It forms part of PubMed which searches wider but doesn't provide full-text. |
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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. |
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Cochrane Library | Provides systematic reviews of clinical based research on the effectiveness of specific interventions. It will depend on your topic as to whether there will be a relevant review but if there is, it will be a key resource. Cochrane also runs a blog Evidence for everyday midwifery, which pulls together reviews into a more digestible format. |
| Wider and multi-disciplinary | ||
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PsycARTICLES | Full-text articles from 59 Psychology journals. |
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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. |
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Proquest Central | Pulls together many of the Proquest collections, searching thousands of journals across many subjects. More information in Getting started with Proquest databases. |
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Sage Journals | Whereas the collections above hold content from a number of publishers this collection holds 900 full-text peer reviewed journals published by Sage. Other publisher collections are available but this one has the most relevant full-text journals. |
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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 |
Browse or search inside key journal titles for Midwifery below. There are many others but most of these are Peer reviewed and a good starting point. For a full range of titles check our A-Z of journals via Journals Search.
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BJOG (British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) | Journal from the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| British Journal of Midwifery | Written by midwives for midwives this Academic journal keeps you up to date with latest developments in clinical practice. | |
| Evidence Based Midwifery | Academic journal from the RCM. Examining the evidence for practice. Only published twice a year. | |
| International Journal of Childbirth Education | Quarterly journal focusing on research, practice and policy in family-centered maternity and newborn care. |
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| MIDIRS Midwifery Digest | Brings together news, reviews, original articles and reprints of the best midwifery information from selected journals, books and conference papers. |
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| Midwifery Matters | Journal from the Association of Radical Midwives committed to improving maternity services. | |
| Midwives | Professional Magazine of the Royal College of Midwives. Keeping you up to date with current issues in midwifery. | |
| The Practicing Midwife | Currently in print at Fusehill so this is one you can browse in the library. | |
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Department of Health and Social Care | The Government Department website. Access Guidance, Policy papers and statistics |
| Royal College of Midwives (RCM) | Support and information for all midwives. | |
| The regulatory body for Midwifery. Find Standards and guidance. | ||
| NICE provides guidance and advice on health and social care. Use the site to access Clinical Knowledge Summaries, guidance, standards and the BNF | ||
| Information for Obstetricians including Guidelines |
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MIDIRS | MIDIRS supplies vital education and practice development resources to assist midwives and student midwives in their practice and studies |
| AIMS | Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services. Information on pregnancy and childbirth care - campaigning for parents and professionals in the UK and Ireland | |
| Multiple birth Foundation supports parents and professionals caring for multiple birth families | ||
| The UK's largest charity for parents. Provides support, information & training to parents, families & health professionals. | ||
| UK charity providing support for bereaved parents and their families. | ||
| Health data and statistics | ||
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Office for National Statistics | Government statistics and reports including Heath and Social Care the census |
| With no centralised place for health statisics this site attemps to map to sources of statistics by theme. | ||
| 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 | ||
| WHO site pulling together global health data. | ||
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NHS Acronym buster | |
| NHS site that examines the real research behind health stories that appear in the media | ||
| People talk about their experiences of health and illness | ||
| 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. | ||
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