Free Electronic Resources for NHS staff

Did you know that as an NHS staff member you are entitled to access databases, ebooks and full text articles for free?

Simply register for an NHS Athens username and password

You can fill in the registration form here: https://register.athensams.net/nhs/nhseng/

What Electronic Resources Are Available?

 1. There are 8 databases which provide fulltext articles/documents where this is available:

• AMED – Allied and Complementary Medicine provided by Ovid
• BNI (British Nursing Index) – Nursing and midwifery provided by Ovid
• CINAHL  with full text – Nursing and allied health disciplines provided by Ebsco
• EMBASE  – Drugs and pharmacology, and all other aspects of human medicine and related disciplines with a European perspective provided by Ovid.
• Health Business Elite – Health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management provided by Ebsco.
• HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium) – health service management and administration (mainly UK) provided by Ovid.
• MEDLINE from PubMed  – General medicine with a worldwide perspective provided by Ovid.
• PsycINFO – International coverage of psychiatry, psychology, social sciences provided by Ebsco.

2.  Journals from BMJ Publishing and American Medical Association (AMA)

3.  MyJournals – a journal management system which provides an A-Z list of the journals available to logged in users and an alert facility

4.  Hundreds of e-books supplied by Coutts – the MyiLibrary collection began with mental health titles and now has a good range of health-related titles.

5. ZETOC – provides access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.