Library: Health: Search the literature

Search for a recommended book, journal or article

Search the Library Catalogue and refer to these short instructional videos.
Many of your Moodle units link to 'Library Lists' of recommended books and articles.

New to a topic?

Oxford Reference Online
Search its encyclopaedias and dictionaries for definitions of concepts and theories.

Search for journal articles (and other academic literature)

Search library databases to discover journal articles and other types of academic document. A Library Catalogue search can be useful for discovering additional books.

Core library databases

Web of Science: all databases This link opens in a new window
Multiple subject coverage with strengths in health and medicine.
The University of Bath Library gives you access to these databases on the Web of Science platform:
- Web of Science Core Collection
- Biosis Citation Index
- Current Contents Index
- Data Citation Index
- Derwent Innovations Index
- Grants Index
- Inspec
- KCI - Korean Journal Database
- Medline
- Preprint Citation Index
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Citation Index
- SciELO Citation Index
- Zoological Record

Guide to using Web of Science.
Worksheet and presentation: advanced searching.

SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new window
For BSc Sport Management and Coaching students.

Guide to using SPORTDiscus.

CINAHL This link opens in a new window
Coverage: allied health and nursing. Note the peer-reviewed search option.

Guide to using CINAHL

Embase This link opens in a new window
Coverage: healthcare, medicine and pharmacy. Similar to PubMed but more effective for searches of drug names/classes and medical devices.

Guide to using Embase.

Global Health This link opens in a new window
Coverage: public health and biomedical research: Document types include reports, articles and conference proceedings.

Guide to using Global Health

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Coverage: healthcare and medicine.
If you have created an NCBI account to log in to PubMed, you now need to switch to a third party option, such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft or ORCID. Please refer to NCBI’s instructions and FAQs.

Guide to using PubMed and presentation: advanced searching.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Multiple subject coverage.

Guide to using Scopus.

Search for systematic reviews

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Health and medicine: systematic reviews, protocols and clinical answers.

Campbell Collaboration: Our Work
Broad social science coverage. Search by keyword or click one of the categories to browse reviews.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
Search across the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Affects (DARE), Healthcare Technology Assessments (HTA) and NHS Economic Evaluation Database (EED).
EPPI-Centre Knowledge Library
Browse by healthcare and social topic headings.

PEDro Physiotherapy Evidence Database This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of systematic reviews, clinical guidelines, randomised controlled trials. Try its advanced search options but use single search terms (it doesn't respond to strings of alternative terms in the same search box).
PROSPERO This link opens in a new window
Prospectively-registered systematic reviews.
TRIP This link opens in a new window
Ongoing systematic reviews, evidence-based information, case reports, articles, leaflets, ebooks, overdiagnosis filter, regulatory and clinical guidance.

Find more systematic reviews by searching databases such as Web of Science.

New books: a selection

Expand your search for academic literature

Further Library databases

APA PsycNet This link opens in a new window
Coverage: mental health and psychology.

Guide to using PsycInfo (part of APA PsycNet)

Business Source Ultimate (expanded version of Business Source Complete) This link opens in a new window
Coverage: management and business.
On EBSCO's platform it is possible to search a number of education indexes in combination with Business Source Ultimate, for example, British Education Index, ERIC and Education Source.

Education databases

Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Coverage: management.
Our collection also includes book chapters and emerging markets case studies.
HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium) This link opens in a new window
Indexes documents published by healthcare organisations and academic literature.
HMIC search results include 'links' buttons, Some links will take you to the full document but with other results (i..e. the non-academic documents), you may need to then search Google. To discover further organisational literature, refer to Health/Further Resources: https://library.bath.ac.uk/health/further-resources
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) This link opens in a new window
Coverage: sociology, economics, politics and anthropology.

A guide to using IBSS

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Collections of archived journals covering sciences and the social sciences. We provide these collections: Arts & Sciences (I-VII, IX, XI-XII) and Life Sciences.
LitSense This link opens in a new window
Searches PubMed's database records and the full-text of open access articles in the PCM repository - potentially useful if your topic retrieves few results in other databases. LitSense responds best to simple sentence-based queries. You may need to check the Library Catalogue to check full text availability of an article.

Pharmacy and Pharmacology Databases

SDG Online This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, book chapters, videos and teaching resources mapped to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Video guide to searching SDG Online.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window

Search for theses & Masters dissertations

University of Bath Research

University of Bath's Research Portal
Records of articles, books, theses, datasets, working papers and other research outputs created by University of Bath researchers. Many records include full-text documents.
University of Bath Research Data Archive