The NHS National Core
Content collection will be changing from April 2019.
The National Core
Content collection is the databases and journals that are purchased nationally
for staff working within the NHS in England. You access these resources via
your NHS openathens login. The database collection forms part of HDAS – the
Healthcare Databases Advanced Search database. You can find a full list of all
the resources included via the NHS Library Services website.
Database List on HDAS |
This April there will be
a number of changes that may impact any saved searches you have or how you
conduct new searches:
Key Changes:
CINAHL
Plus with Full Text
and Health Business Elite (HBE) will
no longer be part of the collection.
This means that from 01
April 2019 you will not be able to access and search these databases in HDAS,
or via the EBSCO native interface as part of the Core Content subscription.
CINAHL Plus with Full
Text will be replaced with the CINAHL
index in both HDAS and the EBSCO native interface.
A new database – Ovid Emcare – will be available to
search in HDAS and the Ovid native interface.
A new full text
collection - EBSCO Psychology &
Behavioral Sciences Collection – will be made available via the national
link resolver and from the NICE Journals and Databases page.
What you need to Do:
You may want to take the
following action on any saved search strategies - including those that have an
alert – for the decommissioned databases before 01 April. Please note that Health
Business Elite will be decommissioned on Friday 29 March 2019.
CINAHL
Plus with full text
Any searches you’ve
saved in HDAS that used this database will automatically be changed on the 01
April so that they use the CINAHL index.
For saved searches in
the EBSCO native interface you will need to manually migrate any searches you
want to re-use to the CINAHL index database. This can be done by editing the
search from your folder in the native interface, selecting the CINAHL Index
database and saving the search.
Further support from is
available from EBSCO available at: Support@ebsco.com and Ebsco will be offering
short WebEX training sessions on the transfer of native interface saved
searches from CINAHL Plus to CINAHL.
Health
Business Elite
HBE will be decommissioned
on Friday 29 March.
Saved
Searches and Alerts in HDAS
Any saved search
strategies and alerts in HDAS that were run in HBE as a single database will be
removed and will not be available.
Saved search strategies
in HDAS that are set to run across multiple databases, which include HBE as one
of those databases, will return an error message until HBE is removed from the
search strategy. For alerts in HDAS that include HBE, instead of the usual
alert you will receive an email with a message saying the database is no longer
available. You will receive an email for each alert that includes HBE.
If you want to keep the
saved search or alert, you will need to edit the strategy and remove HBE and
any dependent rows. Any outstanding
searches that still contain HBE at the end of June 2019 will be automatically
deleted in HDAS.
Saved
Searches and Alerts in EBSCO
Saved search strategies
and alerts in the EBSCO native interface that are set to run across multiple
databases, which include HBE as one of the multiple databases, will no longer
work and will result in an error. If you want to keep the saved search you
should delete HBE from the search strategy.
The search alert can be updated by editing it from your folder in the
native interface. For your alerts to continue to work you will need to make
this change before 01 April.
Links
to full text articles from CINAHL Plus with Full Text and HBE
Full text journal
content that was accessible within these databases will not be available. Links
in HDAS saved results won’t show, and where links have been exported from HDAS
– for example into current awareness bulletins – these will result in an error
unless you have another route of access to the journal, such as a local
subscription to the relevant journal title, the title is available in an
alternative full text collection or is Open Access.
EMCARE
You may wish to edit any
saved searches, including alerts, to add EMCARE.
Training
Training courses are
available on using NHS-subscribed databases and journals. You can find more information on our website.
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