As a Medical student, you are expected to find and use high quality literature. You'll need to use a range of different sources and demonstrate your ability to find good results in order to impress your tutors and to develop your research skills. If you're doing a systematic review, you might find our Practical Guide to Systematic Reviews useful.
Reading Lists contain the required reading for your course and can be found via HYMS Blackboard.
Covidence is an online software tool designed to streamline the process of conducting a systematic review (or a similarly detailed literature review such as a meta-analysis).
You can use Covidence to collaborate with a team of reviewers to screen results (at both title/abstract and full text stages), complete data extraction and work on risk of bias.
More information can be found on our Systematic Reviews: a Practical Guide.
Use our FREE Inter-library loan service to obtain copies of journal articles from another library.
Visit the British Library Document Supply Centre at Boston Spa. A free minibus runs once a week from the York campus to Boston Spa.
Use Library Hub Discover to search across UK libraries to see who holds the material you need. It might be possible to visit in person using the SCONUL Access scheme.
Contact the HYMS librarians at library@hyms.ac.uk to see if we can help.
To start a more detailed search for articles and other research evidence, you'll need to use online databases. These are collections of resources that allow you to search for articles from hundreds of different journals at the same time.
The Cochrane Library | i
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Covers the effectiveness of healthcare intervention, including reviews of literature and references to randomised controlled trials. |
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Medline | via York | i
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Medline is the primary abstracting and indexing service for the medical and biomedical sciences indexing over 4,600 journals. Daily and weekly updates. The same platform includes access to EMBASE, AMED (Allied and Contemporary Health Medicine), HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium) and PsycINFO (useful for mental health topics). Use the "Change" link above the search box to switch to a different resource on the platform. |
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Clinical skills.net | i
Covers step by step clinical skills procedures, links to national guidance, plus other features covering assessment. |
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EMBASE | via York | i
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Embase (also known as the Excerpta Medical Database) covers biomedical and pharmaceutical information, indexing over 3,500 pharmaceutical and biomedical related journals. Updated weekly. The same platform includes access to Medline, AMED (Allied and Contemporary Health Medicine), HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium) and PsycINFO (useful for mental health topics). Use the "Change" link above the search box to switch to a different resource on the platform. |
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BMJ Best Practice | via Hull | i
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BMJ Best Practice is a decision-support tool for use at the point of care. Structured around the patient consultation, it aims to present the required information just as it's needed. Sign in using the "Shibboleth users go here" option (under the Log in tab): choose "UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research (UK)", click "Continue", then search for and select the University of Hull. Once signed in via Hull, it's a good idea to set up a My BMJ Best Practice account in order to access the personalisation features available. You can also set up the BMJ Best Practice app. |
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Electronic information sources at Hull | via Hull | i
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Databases can be browsed by subject or category. |
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Electronic information sources at York | via York | i
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Databases can be browsed by subject or category. |
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NHS Athens Resources (inc. BNF/C) | via NHS Athens | i | |
Trip | Available on the web | i
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Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.. |
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Epistemonikos | Available on the web | i
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Combines the best of Evidence-Based Health Care, information technologies and a network of experts to provide a unique tool for people making decisions concerning clinical or health-policy questions. |
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Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC) (Ovid) | via York | i
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HMIC is a bibliographic database containing information from DH Data (produced by the Department of Health) and the King’s Fund Information and Library Service database. Coverage includes official publications, journal articles and grey literature in the areas of health service policy, management and administration (with an emphasis on the NHS), primary care, public health, and social care. Updated bi-monthly. |
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KSR Evidence (Ovid) | via York | i
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The KSR Evidence database includes systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and certain health technology assessment (HTA) reports published since 2015 and currently contains over 25,000 critical appraisals and over 200,000 systematic reviews.
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Scopus | via Hull | via York | i
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SCOPUS is the world's largest abstract and indexing database with over 33 million records. It covers peer-reviewed research literature and web sources in the natural sciences and medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. |
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Web of Science | via Hull | via York | i
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Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. |
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Acland's anatomy | via Hull | i
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Select Shibboleth > UK Federation. |
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Box of Broadcasts | via Hull and York | i
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BoB is an on demand TV and radio service for education. This academically-focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search our archive of over 2 million broadcasts. . |
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Complete Anatomy | i
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For information on activating and accessing Complete Anatomy see the More info link for the resource on the eYork E-resource guide. |
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JISC Media Plus | via Hull | i
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Content includes a selection of images from the Getty archive on subject areas including medicine, and a selection of videos for educational use. MediaPlus is now hosted by Alexander Street. All Jisc-licensed news, film, image and music content including high profile collections such as ITN, Getty images and Wellcome Library images and sound will be available, but new content, services and benefits will also be included, hence the name MediaPlus. |
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JoVE | via Hull | i
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JoVE publishes high quality, highly engaging scientific video demonstrations designed for faculty and students. Through these video demonstrations, users at subscribed institutions obtain: Increased productivity and reproducibility Quicker comprehension of scientific concepts and experimental methods Expanded research dissemination Savings for laboratory budgets and schedules Increased speed of learning in laboratory and classroom environments Consistent growth in student success, learning outcomes, and STEM retention. |
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Scran gives educational access to digital materials representing material culture and history via an archive of almost 500,000 images, videos and audio tracks sourced from museums, galleries, archives and media organisations. The materials in Scran can be accessed and used under the terms of an institutional licence.Access is via York. |
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Tutorials and Simulators | i
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Long list of on-line tutorials and simulators. |
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Virtual Slidebox for histology | i
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Not really downloadable images, but very nice interactive microscope with histology images that can be enlarged up to 20x. |
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Wellcome Images | i
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The Wellcome Images Collection has an archive of over 160000 images of the history of medicine, from antiquity to the birth and development of modern Western medicine, reflecting the remarkable diversity of the interests of Sir Henry Wellcome. Free to download images. |