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.
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 page for more advice.
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.
We have selected some key eresources and individual journal titles to help you locate relevant material for your subject.
Eresources allow you to search across multiple sources at one time eg a range of journal articles. Some eresources are subject specific and provide more tailored results.
In addition to these key eresources you can also explore our full A-Z of eresources.
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ScienceDirect | Explore the wide selection of full-text Life Sciences journal articles and book chapters featuring original research, insightful analysis, current theory and more. |
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Web of Science | Access to the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences. |
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PubMed | PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. |
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ProQuest Biology Journals | This database provides access to a wide range of biology topics including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government and public research environments. |
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Cochrane Library | Unique source of reliable, up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care, including evidence-based systematic reviews and clinical trials. |
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Current Controlled Trials | Registry of all clinical trials that have been completed, are ongoing, or have been proposed including research designs, findings and associated data. |
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Anatomy TV | An Interactive 3D anatomy resource. Explore detailed images of the nervous, circulatory and muscoskeletal systems. Rotate the body, navigate through the layers of the nervous and circulatory systems and muscoskeletal structures. View these instructions if you encounter issues. |
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Bioline International | Open access to quality research journals from developing countries on topics including tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases, biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. |
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text | International database covers journal articles (also some books and theses) relating to nursing and applied health |
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MEDLINE with Full Text | Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. |
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NICE | Searchable platform for the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. Locate current clinical pathways and guidance as well as view data on current trials. Access the BNF and Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) |
Browse or search inside key journal titles for your subject below. For a full range of titles check our A-Z of journals via Journals Search.
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British Journal of Biomedical Science | Peer-reviewed journal with a UK focus on the diagnosis and management of disease that is valuable to the practicing laboratory scientist |
| Journal of Biomedical Science | Prominent title in the field of biomedicine which is global and comprehensive in its scope | |
| British Medical Journal (BMJ) | Leading medical journal featuring high impact and significant research on range of medical and clinical topics | |
| The Lancet | The Lancet is one of the longest-running medical journals with a focus on publishing influential research findings. | |
| JoVE | The world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. The Journal of Visualised Experiments is devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format to help researchers overcome two of the biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today; poor reproducibility and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques. | |
| Nature | Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. | |
| New Scientist | A weekly science magazine that covers current developments, news, reviews and commentary on science and technology. | |
| PNAS | PNAS is one of the world's most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, publishing more than 3,100 research papers annually. | |
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Institute of Biomedical Science | Professional body for UK biomedical professionals including guidance, standards and career support. |
| Useful summaries of clinical and biological concepts, diseases, genes and much more | ||
| The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is part of EMBL, Europe's flagship laboratory for the life sciences. | ||
| Ensembl is a genome browser for vertebrate genomes that supports research in comparative genomics, evolution, sequence variation and transcriptional regulation. Ensembl annotate genes, computes multiple alignments, predicts regulatory function and collects disease data. Ensembl tools include BLAST, BLAT, BioMart and the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) for all supported species. | ||
| ION contains the organism names related data gathered from the scientific literature for Clarivate Analytics' Zoological Record® database. Viruses, bacteria and plant names will be added from other Clarivate databases such as BIOSIS Previews®. | ||
| Search for information on clinical trials in the UK including accessibile summaries of results and recent updates of ongoing trials. | ||
| PATRIC, the Pathosystems Resource Integration Center, provides integrated data and analysis tools to support biomedical research on bacterial infectious diseases. | ||
| The Royal Society of Biology, previously called the Society of Biology, is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom created to advance the interests of biology in academia, industry, education, and research. | ||
| Since 1997, the SciCentral editors have been aggregating breaking research news from the most reputable and reliable sources. The service has received over 30 Web awards and enthusiastic reviews from leading science publishers (e.g.; Science Magazine, The Lancet, The New Scientist) for the quality of its service. Over 700 other websites point to SciCentral as a trusted source of information. | ||
| Genetics division of the American National Institute of Health; the largest biomedical research agency in the world. | ||
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