Medicine

For a general search across multiple databases, search Summon.

Individual databases offer a more detailed comprehensive search.  Those most relevant to your subject area have been selected below. For guidance on more specific types of information, such as Market Research, Raw Data, Standards and Patents, please see the links on our Research page.

Access to these e-resources is restricted to the students and staff of Brunel University for licensing and technical reasons. Some licence agreements may exclude access to databases and their contents from certain countries. It is your responsibility to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant licence agreements - for more information see the copyright web page on databases - contact copyright@brunel.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Academic Search Complete

Contains full text articles from over 5,000 journals, covering many subjects, including anthropology, politics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social work.

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AMED

References to journal articles in complementary medicine, palliative care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and rehabilitation. Clicking on this link will take you directly into AMED. Once in AMED, you can use the Change Database link to see the full list of Ovid databases. Published on behalf of the British Library, this abstract only database is updated monthly. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.

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BMJ Journals Collection

A collection of 22 leading medical journals on specialist clinical areas, public health and evidence-based medicine published BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

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Cancer Handbook

A collection of over 100 specially commissioned peer reviewed chapters from Wiley Interscience.

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Cochrane

Full text database of systematic reviews. No ID is required for access.

HEED (Health Economic Evaluations Database)

Includes over 37,000 references, with indexing covering both the costs and health effects of an intervention. Brunel's institutional login is required for access. If you are off campus and you encounter any problems with access please use the AnyConnect VPN Universal service package from the Connect portal - after you have logged in, follow the link to the database (link to HEED).

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Medline

Indexes sources in medical research including biomedical and physical sciences, North American bias, from 1948 to date. The database is updated weekly.

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Nature Publishing Group Journals

Provides access to 19 Nature branded journals and Oncogene, covering subjects across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news, expert opinion, practical methodology, and high impact research and reviews.

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NCBI Bookshelf

Collection of e-Books available for free via the National Center for Biotechnology Information. No ID is required for access.

OECD Health Data

Offers comparable statistics on health and health care systems for 30 OECD countries, with some time series going back to 1960

OHE Health Statistics and Information (OHESI)

Previously published as OHE Compendium of Health Statistics, OHESI offers historical data spanning up to 50 years primarily for the UK, but including some international comparisons, plus The OHE Guide. No password is required to access these data.

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is an etymological dictionary which is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive record of the English language, tracing the evolution and use of more than 600,000 words through 3 million quotations. OED Online gives access to latest text of the full Oxford English Dictionary, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED and enable users new ways to explore the English language:

Search for new words by year, decade, or any date range. Set language in context: search by place, language type, and date to discover the impact of world events. OED Online is revised and updated at regular intervals and covers British, American, and other varieties of English, and all types of use, from formal to slang.

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PubMed Central

US National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. The alternative link below enables access to Brunel's full-text subscriptions via PubMed Linkout, a service that allows you to link directly from PubMed and other NCBI databases to a wide range of information and services beyond (for more details see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/linkout/).

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Scopus

Scopus is the largest ever bibliographic database and indexes over 20,000 titles from science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. This abstract only database is updated daily. Use Article Linker (AL - link to full text) to check for full text online sources.

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Springer Protocols

Springer Protocols contains more than 28,000 protocols, derived from primary content from 6 book series: mostly from Methods in Molecular Biology (907 volumes), and also from Methods in Biotechnology (24 volumes), Methods in Molecular Medicine (140 volumes), Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology (11 volumes), Neuromethods (70 volumes), 8 Springer Protocols Handbooks titles and 21 additional books not in a series.

Used primarily in the life sciences, these protocols provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including aspects such as safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards. Each protocol is templated into four sections—Introduction, Materials, Methods, Notes.

JISC Collections has licensed Springer Protocols and this is now freely available to all UK universities until December 2017 -- this archive includes content published between 1980 until 2012

When conducting specialist research, Brunel Library may not always stock everything you need. If this happens, you have a number of options:

• Join SCONUL. This scheme will give you access to print resources in other university libraries in the UK and Ireland. More information…
• Find out which university has the book you need. More information…
• Apply for an InterLibrary Loan. More information…

Before you visit another library

If you do plan to visit another library, please check first of all that we do not have the item you need. Advice on using the library can be found on our Finding Resources page. Alternatively, please ask a member of staff at the Helpdesk or contact the Subject Liaison Librarian for your School.

Remember, if the item you need is on a reading list, we will make every effort to purchase this for the Library, so please let us know the details.

Where there are specific libraries of interest for your subject, these will be listed below.

Institute of Cancer Research Library and Information Service

Access: A member of SCONUL Access (restricted to staff and researchers only)
Address: 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB
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As well as the resources listed under the Databases and Web Resources tabs of this subject page, we have a number of other resources that could be of relevance to your research, such as:

Newspapers

Market Research

Raw Data

Statistics

Standards

Patents

Additionally, you may wish to refer our general Research page which comprehensively lists all of our Research Resources.

If you need help with using any of these resources, please contact the Subject Liaison Librarian for your School, details of which can be found from the Overview tab.