Subject Guides: Health Sciences: Welcome

Your Liaison Librarian

David Brown

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Welcome to the Subject Guide for Health Sciences

Welcome to this Subject Guide, which brings together key resources and information for students and staff.

If you're brand new to York (or even if you aren't...) you may find our Information For New Students page useful. It will give you a To Do list to get you started; if you have any questions, let us know. In the meantime, go on a Virtual Tour of the Library.

Some quick links to other useful sites

Referencing guide for Health Sciences

The Health Sciences department uses the Harvard referencing style.

Click here to see the Harvard referencing style guide.

Library news

Key databases

CINAHL Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Complete indexes over 5,000 English language journals in the area of nursing and allied health and includes full text from more than 1,300 journals. Selected journals in related fields are also indexed together with books, dissertations, and conference procedures in the area of nursing. CINAHL Complete also includes material previously indexed in the separate Pre-CINAHL database.

Updated weekly.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.

Accessibility information
MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
This searches all MEDLINE segments from 1946 onwards including ahead of print, in-process and other non-indexed citations.

Primary abstracting and indexing service for the medical and biomedical sciences indexing over 4,600 journals. Provides information on:

- Medicine
- Nursing
- Dentistry
- Veterinary medicine
- Allied health
- Pre-clinical sciences

As well as the following topics as they relate to biomedicine and healthcare:

- Biology
- Environmental science
- Marine biology
- Plant and animal science
- Biophysics
- Chemistry

Medline is the electronic version of Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index.

Daily and weekly updates.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide or try our interactive tutorial.
Cochrane Library (Wiley) This link opens in a new window
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The Cochrane Library presents the work of the not-for profit Cochrane Collaboration and others interested in assembling best evidence on the effects of health care. It is made up of a number of databases including:

- The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
- The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
- The Cochrane Methodology Register
- Health Technology Assessment Database
- NHS Economic Evaluations Database
- About The Cochrane Collaboration

Updated monthly.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide or try our interactive tutorial.

Accessibility information

Explore the full range of databases for Health Sciences in the Find resources page.

Clinical skills resources

The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures
Available as an e-book

Clinicalskills.net

Illustrated clinical skills guidelines covering over 220 procedures. Information is evidence-based and presented in an accessible visual format including graphics, text and references with links to key national guidance.

The procedures and guidance are updated regularly by specialist authors and editors.

Health Sciences

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