Clinical Databases Full Text Journals Registration
The National Core Content Collection is available for the whole NHS and includes the following resources. If you are not accessing via the NHS net then you may need to register an Athens Password (this allows access from home). The collection consists of:
Abstracting and Indexing databases from Dialog Datastar. They are supplying the NHS with the following seven databases: - Medline, Psychinfo, Cinahl, Embase, British Nursing Index, AMED and DH-Data. The databases include an e-linking feature (known as Starlinks) that takes users from document titles to full text electronic journals.
Available at http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/core_databases.asp
Proquest Information and Learning are providing access to a large collection of full text electronic journals. Over 850 full text titles are available supporting all aspects of healthcare.
Ebsco are providing access to a collection of business and management journals. This collection provides full text coverage of 131 well-known journals for hospital administrators and managers.
Available at http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/core_journals.asp
As part of the collection the NHS has signed a 3 year membership agreement with BioMed Central. BioMed Central’s business model is based on charging authors to publish, and then making the content free to readers. Under the agreement, article-processing charges are waived – for any of the 1.2 million NHS staff – for publication in any of BioMed Central’s 90 peer-reviewed journals. Upon acceptance, the article becomes freely available online to readers worldwide. Many NHS researchers have already published in BioMed Central journals. Publishing in the open access journals eliminates the need to buy costly licences from publishers or paying to view the same article multiple times.
Available at: http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/core_publishing.asp
Scott Gibbens
National Core Content Project Manager
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Clinical Databases in London and the South East are currently provided by OVID
You need to have an e-mail address in order to register with NHS DIALOG. This may be from any e-mail account eg: NHS, Ntlworld, Yahoo, Hotmail etc.
1 Go to NHS DIALOG website: http://nhs.dialog.com
2 Search Databases click here
3 National Electronic Library for Health window
Do you work in the NHS? Select Yes (even though you may be a student or work for another Health or Social Care organisation eg Herts County Council), then click Next
4 Enter your NHS region click Eastern
5 Follow registration process, clicking on appropriate county (where you work), organisation, professional group
6 Fill in personal details, enter job title and work address including department/ward in address box (just home address if student)
7 Enter e-mail address
8 Submit
Username and Password
If registering from a PC connected to NHSnet, you will compose your own password using the instructions given and should be notified of your username as soon as you have submitted your details.
If registering from a PC not connected to NHSnet you should be notified of your username and password within the next 10 working days.
If you have any queries or need details of training sessions, please contact your local NHS Trust library.