Other Useful Databases & EResources

The Allied and Alternative Medicine Database (AMED) is a unique bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine.Subject coverage: complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, podiatry, palliative care. The database contains references to articles from around 512 journals, the majority of which are in English. A large number of these tiles are not indexed by any other biomedical sources. Coverage is from 1985-. View database guides.

AMED for UCL users - via OvidSP. Available to UCL staff and students. No login is required when working within the UCL network. Off-site access is available using a UCL account.
AMED for NHS users - via NHS Evidence. An NHS OpenAthens account is required. NHS users can also access AMED via UCL's walk-in service.

BIOSIS Previews

BIOSIS Previews contains journal citations from Biological Abstracts (R), meeting, report, review article, book and monograph citations from Biological Abstracts/RRM (R), as well as some unique citations. The database is updated monthly with approximately 545,000 records added each year. View database guides.

BIOSIS Previews for UCL users - via OvidSP. Available to UCL staff and students. No login is required when working within the UCL network. Off-site access is available using a UCL account.
BIOSIS Previews for NHS users - NHS users can access BIOSIS Previews via UCL's walk-in service.

Biotechnology Abstracts

Derwent Biotechnology Abstracts contains information derived from primary journals, conference proceedings and patents. Subject coverage includes all aspects of biotechnology, from genetic manipulation to biochemical engineering and fermentation to downstream processing. All industrial uses of microorganisms, enzymes, and cell culture are covered, as well as plant micropropagation. Information is extracted from around 1200 major scientific publications, including primary journals and conference proceedings, and from the patents literature. View database guides.

Biotechnology Abstracts for UCL users - via OvidSP. Available to UCL staff and students. No login is required when working within the UCL network. Off-site access is available using a UCL account.
Biotechnology Abstracts for NHS users - NHS users can access Biotechnology Abstracts via UCL's walk-in service.

BMJ Best Practice & BMJ Learning

BMJ Learning is an online learning resource for professionals in primary care and hospital medicine. Learning resources are based on BMJ Clinical Evidence. BMJ Best Practice is a point of care tool from BMJ Evidence Centre designed to support clinicians in their decision making from diagnosis to treatment. View database guides.

NEWS: an iphone app is now available for BMJ Best Practice (no Android version is available as yet). You can download the app for free but will need to use your login details to activate the app and access the content. Instructions [PDF] are available from the BMJ site.

For UCL users - BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice - a UCL account is required to login and then additional (free) registration on your first visit to the site.
For NHS users - BMJ Learning - an NHS OpenAthens account is required to log in and then additional (free) registration on your first visit to the site. (Note: NHS funding for BMJ Best Practice ceased in May 2013.)

British National Formulary: BNF

The BNF is published by the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). It is intended mainly for doctors, pharmacists and nurses & is designed as a rapid-reference digest, providing up-to-date guidance on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines. BNF is updated every six months (in March and September). It details the medicines generally prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their indications, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs. It reflects current best practice as well as legal and professional guidelines relating to the use of medicines. View database guides.

NEWS: BNF is now also available as an app for Android and iPhone. Users will need to use NHS OpenAthens details to activate the app.

BNF for NHS users - An NHS OpenAthens account is required.

Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence is published by the BMJ Publishing Group and is a continuously updated source of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. It summarises the current state of knowledge. It is not a textbook of medicine nor a set of guidelines, if there is no good evidence it says so. It covers medical, surgical, nursing, and complementary interventions. View database guides.

Clinical Evidence for UCL users No login is required within the UCL network, use your UCL account to login offsite.
Clinical Evidence for NHS users - Access has been provided to UCLH staff by UCL Library Services and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.

Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin: DTB

DTB aims to provide informed and unbiased assessments of drugs and other treatments (focusing on efficacy, safety, convenience and cost in particular in relation to other available treatments); to comment on how those drugs or other treatments should be used; to assess their place in overall management, and; to review evidence and give practical advice on the overall management of disease. View database guides.

DTB for NHS users Access to this resource has been provided to UCLH staff by UCL Library Services and an NHS OpenAthens account is required.
DTB for UCL users No login is required within the UCL network, use your UCL account to login offsite

Essential Science Indicators: ESI

ESI is a database using journal article publication and citation counts as indicators of influence and impact of scientific journal articles. It includes rankings for scientists, institutions, countries and journals, plus highly-cited papers over both ten-year and two-year periods and therefore allows for the tracking of current citation trends in research areas. It is delivered as part of the Web of Knowledge. For citation analysis & impact factors also see Journal Citation Reports. For lists of highly cited researchers around the world see ISI's Highly Cited. View database guides.

ESI for UCL users - via Web of Knowledge. No login is required when working within the UCL network. Off-site access is available using a UCL account.
ESI for NHS users - NHS users can access Biotechnology Abstracts via UCL's walk-in service.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar aims to limit search results to quality full-text resources. Please be aware that this service is currently in beta test phase only and does not give the comprehensive results of a full database search. Please also remember that access to the full-text of search results is not guaranteed - you should continue to use our ejournals page to find out which journals you have access to online. View database guides.

Google Scholar - FREE: No username and password are required.

Health Management Information Consortium: HMIC

HMIC includes DH-Data & the King's Fund database. DH-Data: from the Dept of Health & the PH Information Unit, covers health service & hospital administration with an emphasis on the British NHS, including buildings, equipment, primary care, social policy, medical toxicology and environmental health; 2000 English language journals, as well as books, reports, and other official publication. Coverage is from 1983-. King's Fund: 1979-, 75,000+ records. Covers UK health policy documents and 'grey' literature from health and social care organisations on topics including NHS management, social care, health inequalities, urban health, race & health, partnership working, primary care, mental health, public involvement, and workforce development. View database guides.

HMIC for UCL users - via OvidSP. No login is required when working within the UCL network. Off-site access is available using a UCL account.

HMIC for NHS users - via NHS Evidence. An NHS OpenAthens account is required for access. HMIC is also available to NHS users via UCL's walk-in service.

ISI Highly Cited

A database of "preeminent researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work." Includes biographical information and bibliographies of publications with links to the ISI Web of Science database. For citation trends in science also see Essential Science Indicators & for impact factors also see Journal Citation Reports. View database guides.

ISI Highly Cited - FREE: no username and password required

Journal Citation Reports: JCR

A unique journal evaluation tool, JCR is the only source of impact factor data, covering specialties in the areas of science, technology, and the social sciences and revealing the relationship between citing and cited journals. JCR is updated annually in two editions: Science - data from 5,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. Social Sciences - data from 1,500 journals in the social sciences. For citation trends in science also see Essential Science Indicators & lists of highly cited researchers around the world see ISI's Highly Cited. View database guides.

JCR for UCL users No login is required when working within the UCL network. Off-site access is available using a UCL account
JCR for NHS users - JCR is available to NHS users via UCL's walk-in service).

Medical Directory

Directory of the UK health sector containing biographical profiles of 120,000+ medical practitioners and the details of 15,000+ healthcare organisations, including a listing of all NHS trusts and hospitals. View database guides.

Medical Directory for UCL users Access is via UCL's ELIB service which is available only to UCL staff and students. To use ELIB you must have access to UCL's WTS desktop and a UCL account. View more information about ELIB and about WTS

Medical Masterclass

Medical Masterclass provides revision and preparation materials for the MRCP (UK) examination. Medical students are not eligible for sitting this exam. The site contains: an on-line practice facility for both MRCP(UK) Part 1 and Part 2 written examinations; a facility to see how your score compares to other users; a question bank consisting of c.3000 written exam type questions; screencasts describing the format and stations of the PACES exam, giving examples of common scenarios and cases faced by candidates. Printed booklets and a CD-ROM are also available. Please ask Library staff for details.

Medical Masterclass Access requires a username and password. To obtain a user account for the website, contact suk-ying.chu@uclh.nhs.uk, including name, job title, hospital site & exam date (if any) in the email.

Natural Standard

Natural Standard provides access to the most comprehensive database of high-quality, evidence-based systematic reviews on dietary supplements and complementary and alternative medicine therapies. Our database is a clinical decision support tool that is designed to advise clinicians and researchers on the safety and efficacy of herbs, supplements, vitamins, diets, nutrition, exercise, and complementary practices and modalities.

Natural Standard - available within the UCL network

OldMedline

Old Medline is produced by the National Library of Medicine in the USA & is a bibliographic database providing access to the references published in Cumulated Index Medicus 1960-1965, and Current List of Medical Literature 1958-1959. It covers of medicine, pre-clinical sciences, and allied-health sciences from the international biomedical literature. However, unlike Medline, the database's records contain no abstracts and no subject headings. View database guides.

OldMedline FREE: no username and password required.

Turning Research Into Practice: TRIP

The TRIP Database brings together 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the internet. There are over 29,000 links from about 70 sources - including peer-reviewed journals and 'eTextbooks'. The site is updated monthly. View database guides.

TRIP FREE: no username and password required.

UCL Research Publications Service

Please visit our Publishing & Publications page.

UpToDate

An evidence-based knowledge system authored by physicians to help clinicians make the right decisions at the point of care. Content is continually updated and is based on the latest evidence; it undergoes a rigorous editorial process & is written by a global community of 5,100 physicians, world-renowned experts in their specialties. UpToDate also includes basic patient information for c.150 medical conditions.

UpToDate for UCL users - available within the UCL network only.

ZETOC

Electronic Table of Contents service from the British Library - you can create an alert to receive the tables of contents of your chosen journals by email. The database contains approx.20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings (over 20 million individual records) and covers most subjects in the fields of science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities. It covers the years from 1993 onwards and is updated daily. View database guides.

Zetoc for UCL users No login is required when working within the UCL network. For off-site access & to set up alerts, use a UCL account.

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