Library Guides: Health Professions: Databases & Journal Articles

Introduction

If you want to search all scholarly information the best place to search is a database. Databases include books, journal and magazine articles and conference proceedings. As well as general databases there are also subject specific databases helping to ensure your search is more relevant. You may also consider looking at particular collections of journals or within a specific journal.

To search for relevant articles simply type in your keywords (see 'Search Strategy' page for help with these).

Databases

AMED

Allied Health database, produced by the British Library, indexing journals in complementary medicine, palliative care and professions allied to medicine, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and podiatry.

Child Development & Adolescent Studies

Produced by NISC providing references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Key health research database covering hundreds of nursing and allied health journals

Cochrane Library

A collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It is a source of reliable and up to date information on the effects of interventions and includes systematic reviews, assessments and clinical trials.

EMBASE: Excerpta Medica (Ovid)

Biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals. ACCESS ROUTE
To check access to the full text of articles via Primo, use the External Resolver link to the right of the article details.

Emerald

Journals with a strong focus on business strategy; leadership; marketing and human resource management.

Global Health

This database was created to ensure that key literature from all sources can be brought to the attention of those working in public health. The database covers all aspects of public health at both international and community levels, as well as a wealth of material from other biomedical and life science fields.

Google Scholar

Use this link for authenticated access to our subscribed resources. Remember that Scholar searches beyond University of Plymouth resources and not all hits will be accessible.

Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) EBP Database

The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is a leading provider of evidence-based health information offering content from across the globe and tools to help in the implementation of evidence at various points of health practice. .

MEDLINE (EBSCO)

The premier database for searching the Medical and Healthcare literature.

PEDro

PEDro is a database of over 60,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions. No need to use Boolean Operators in this database, but you can use "phrase searching".

PsycINFO

The key index to international literature in psychology and related disciplines, covering 1967 to the present day.

PubMed

Web-based medical and health database produced by the US National Institute of Health. Linking from results to full text content is limited and you may be required to search for the journal title in Primo.

Scopus

Scopus is a journal indexing and abstracting database with citation metrics from Elsevier. It covers international research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities (with a growing coverage of book chapters).

SocINDEX

SocINDEX with Full Text is a sociology and social science research database. It provides full-text, peer-reviewed sociology journals covering many subjects including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work. It also covers elements of international relations and world politics.

TRIP (Turning Research into Practice)

Practical aspects of health and medical research.

Web of Science

Major research database of the worlds top Science & Technology journals and conference proceedings with some additional Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities coverage. Includes research tools e.g. citation reports and cited reference searching.

Publisher journal collections

If you are unable to find the articles you want through Primo, you could try one of the publisher's journal collections below. Do remember these are limited to content published by the individual publishers:

Health Professions