Databases

The Allied and Complimentary Medicine database contains articles from mainly European journals. Covers the field of complementary and allied medicine in a broad range of subjects such as complementary medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, palliative care and speech and language therapy.

NHS staff - Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie).

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

British Nursing Index covers over 200 British and English language nursing related journals from 1994 to present.

NHS staff -Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

Produced by the National Cancer Institute (US). Indexes around 200 journals plus other sources, from 1975 to present covering cancer therapy, cancer causing agents, biochemistry, immunology and physiology of cancer.

NHS staff and Manchester University Staff, students and PICR - The Database is freely available to all through the Internet - no password required.

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. References and abstracts from the English language, international nursing and health journals - including some biomedical journals. Covers nursing topics, also other areas such as laboratory technology, social sciences in healthcare and management sciences.

NHS staff - Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding, and administration at all levels.

NHS staff and Manchester University Staff, students and PICR - The database is freely available to all through the Internet - no password required.

The Electronic books site for John Rylands University Library listing the collections of full text electronic versions of books made available to Manchester University staff and students.

There are several electronic book collections including: netLibrary which is a large searchable collection, OVID Nursing E-books, Protein Structure and Function and Stat!Ref, which includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary, Biomedical and medical books.

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

Emerald Management First is an online business and management library. Designed specifically for managers, the site brings you regularly updated articles, case studies, interviews with established management leaders, and more, direct to your desktop.

The Healthcare Management Collection focuses on research with wide applicability and clear indications for practice, this collection provides insight into topical subjects including obesity, managed care, performance measurement, health in the workplace and patient safety. Coverage includes current debate, initiatives and a wealth of evidence, information and ideas to inform and inspire those involved in health care research and practice. Key areas covered include education, leadership and management, quality and nutrition.

NHS staff - Access using NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie).

The comprehensive European pharmacological and biomedical database with articles from 3500+ journals from the 1980's to present. Embase offers a thorough coverage European publications, with particular strengths in drug research and toxicology.

NHS staff - Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

Contains information from Department of Health Library and Information Service and Kings Fund Information and Library Service. A wide range of topics are covered such as health service policies, social care, service development, health management and services. Records include information from books, journal articles, official publications and grey literature.

NHS staff - - Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

Humanities Index covers from 1984 - to date for about 350 periodicals within the humanities area including such topics as a communications, gender studies, history, journalism, literary and social criticism, literature, philosophy, religion and theology. It includes reviews of books, TV and radio programmes and films.

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

This database provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.

Topicscovered include hospital management, hospital administration, marketing, human resources, computer technology, facilities management and insurance

NHS staff  - Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Internurse.com is an online resource with fully searchable library of peer-reviewed articles from 7 journals: The British Journal of Community Nursing, British Journal of Midwifery, British Journal of Nursing, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Nurse Prescribing, Nursing and residential Care, Practice Nursing. These titles can also be accessed from The Christie electronic journals list.

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - On site access only - provided through the John Rylands Manchester University Library from a computer on the academic network.

A database of evaluated information on drugs, medicines, selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal medicines, radiopharmaceuticals, toxic substances etc. The database covers definitions, descriptions and also contains disease treatment reviews. The sources include journals, periodicals, licensed product literature, WHO publications, government reports and other official publications.

NHS staff - access through the Micromedex Service usingNHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie).

Produced by The National Library of Medicine (USA) and considered the premier database of international biomedical literature. Covers the content of medical, dental and nursing journals from the mid 1960's onwards. The Medline database is offered through several suppliers with slightly different search interfaces, some password protected. The National Library of Medicine also offers the database through the Internet as PubMed (see below).

NHS staff - Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library - Using Athens username and password supplied by John Rylands.

A searchable online collection of electronic books supplied by Coutts Information Services and made available toNHSstaff through theNHSNational Core Content project. A large proportion of the titles cover mental health topics and World Health Organization publications.

NHS staff -NHS Athens usernames and passwords, obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie, are required to access these resources.

The National Library for Health transferred to NHS Evidence on 1 April 2009.
NHS Evidence incorporates some of the key components from the National Library for Health, enhancing and providing the latest functionality.

In addition NHS Evidence is developing an accreditation process for sources of information to provide confidence for users of health and social care information. This website is the first phase in the development of NHS Evidence and integrates electronic content from the national collections.

NHS staff and Manchester University Staff, students and PICR - Access to the website, news items and resources such as specialist collections are freely available to all through the Internet.

NHS staff
Personal NHS Athens usernames and passwords, obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie, are required to access extraNHS resources such as clinical databases, full text journals and some local resources.

The National Research Register archive is a database of completed research projects funded by or of interest to the UK 's NHS. It dates from 2000 up to and including September 2007.

It contains the NRR Projects Database (comprised of records for NHS research projects), the Clinical Trials Directory (Medical Research Council), the Register of Reviews (NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination) and Abstracts of Cochrane reviews from the Cochrane Library.

NHS staff & Manchester University Staff, students & PICR -The Database is freely available to all through the Internet- no password required.

OVID Online is a web-based service that provides access to a suite of health related bibliographic databases combined with full text electronic versions of selected biomedical, nursing and mental health journals. The suite of databases includes : Medline, CINAHL, Best Evidence, Cancer Lit, SPORTDiscus, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine), Biomedical Full Text Journal Collections, Nursing Full Text Collections, Mental Health Full Text Collection. It can be accessed through John Rylands Manchester University Library e-resources service.

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

This collection offers online access to an excellent collection of oncology books allowing you to access the books any time and anywhere you are working! Titles include: Perez and Brady's Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology, Devita, Hellman & Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology and Lippincott's Cancer Chemotherapy Handbook

NHS staff - NHS Athens usernames and passwords, obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust are required to access these resources.

The Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) provide an up-to-date source of clinical knowledge that can help healthcare professionals and patients in managing the common conditions generally seen in primary and first-contact care.

The website provides access to:

The Full PRODIGY guidance on about 200 topics covering acute and chronic illnesses, and disease prevention. Based on the best available evidence and developed in line with national policies and guidelines. There are quick reference guides which summarize the recommendations in the full PRODIGY guidance. Also Patient information leaflets which can be printed and given to patients and carers. The PRODIGY Drugs list supports formulary development.

NHS staff -NHS Athens usernames and passwords, obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie, are required to access these resources.

The ProQuest database offers medical, nursing and psychology journals in full text toNHSstaff. These allow medical, nursing and allied health professionals, including planners, administrators and academic research staff to keep abreast of today's key healthcare issues.

NHS staff -NHS Athens usernames and passwords, obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie, are required to access these resources.

The Medline database from PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine. Provides access to Medline citations back to the Mid 1960's, along with additional life science publications available through Pub Med. Links out to full text resources are available.

NHS staff and Manchester University Staff, students and PICR - The Database is freely available to all through the Internet - no password required.

Comprehensive international database of psychology produced by the American Psychological Association. Articles from over 1000 periodicals covering psychology and relevant items from related disciplines such as sociology, physiology and psychiatry.

NHS staff - Access through NHS Evidence using your NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

A publisher's collection- A searchable database of over 1500 full text electronic journals from collection held by Elsevier publishers. The journal collection, available on our licence, offers titles in the medical, health sciences and scientific fields. You can browse journals by subject category, alphabetically by journal title, or by publisher.

Alternatively you can search across all journals or subsets of journals using title, author or keyword etc. As an alternative to searching the database you may access the individual journals as listed on our electronic journals web pages.

NHS staff - Access using ChristieNHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie).

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

The searchable Scopus database includes abstracts and cited references of over 14,000 titles from more than 4,000 international publishers back to 1966. Covers scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature.

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

Produced by the Sports Information Resource Centre Canada. References to research and literature covering sports medicine, biomechanics, training and coaching.

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

The TRIP database was initially developed in 1997 to answer clinical questions using the best available evidence. After a period of development it is now freely available again.

The Database is updated on a monthly basis and content is identified using a variety of methods. Further information can be found on the TRIP home page and the FAQS and the sources searched sections on the TRIP website.

Sources searched by TRIP include evidence based synopses, clinical questions, guidelines, E-Textbooks, medical images, patient information leaflets, systematic reviews and core general medical journals.

NHS staff and Manchester University Staff, students and PICR - The Database is freely available to all through the Internet - no password required.

Web of Knowledge gives access to Web of Science including ISI's four well-known databases, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings.

Between them they contain references to some 20 million articles from 1981 onwards taken from more than 8000 journals. It is also possible to access the Journal Citation Index (JCI) through the Web of Knowledge.

NHS Staff - access using NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie)

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library - Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.

A publisher's collection- A searchable database of over 800 full text electronic journals from collection held by Wiley publishers. Includes key titles in oncology, surgery, medicine and health care.

NHS staff -  Using NHS Athens username and password (obtainable from the Kostoris Library, The Christie ).

Manchester University Staff, students and PICR (academic network) - Automatic access through the John Rylands Manchester University Library -Using a central username and password supplied by John Rylands.