All our NHS-subscribed
journals are listed on the NHS Journals A-Z list. You can search the list to
find out what journal titles we have, what holdings of full-text are available
and where you can access them from.
Follow these quick steps
to get to the full-text you need.
1. Start at the Health Library home page
All your NHS resources are
available via the Health Library website, so it is worth familiarising yourself
with the main sections. There are a number of different ways to go to the
journals list. The quickest is to go
to the website and
click the Find option on the top
menu.
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| Health Library home page |
2. Select the Journals page from the Find section
You’ll find options for
all the different resources we provide in the Find section.
From the top menu bar select the Journals
option.
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| Find section on the Health Library website |
3. The Journals page
You have now reached the Journals page. Page
down and you’ll see image tiles representing the different journal
collections that we have.
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| Top of the Journals page |
Each journal collection is
represented by a tile and there are various actions that you can select for
each collection. Select the option to log in to the NHS Journals A-Z list.
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| Image tiles representing the journal collections available at the Health Library |
4. Log in to OpenAthens
You will need to log in to
the list using your NHS Openathens
username and password. By logging in you will see all the journal titles
that have been subscribed by your NHS organisation. The list will be different
for each organisation, so it is very important that you log in to get your full
list.
The Health Library
subscribes to a number of titles on your behalf and these are only presented if
you have logged in.
Enter your NHS OpenAthens
username and password and click the Sign
In button.
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| Enter your OpenAthens username into the OpenAthens login screen |
5. Search the A-Z list
You will know that you have
logged into the A-Z list as your NHS
OpenAthens username will appear in the top right-hand corner. (I’ve
scratched mine out on the screen-shots).
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| The NHS Journals A-Z List search interface |
You can now search the
list for the journal title you are interested in. Enter your journal title into the search box. Select the search option: exact title, start of
title, all words in title or ISSN. I find that Start of Title is the best option to use to find a specific journal
title, but you can experiment to see what works for you. Remember that it is
the journal title you search for, not the article title. Then click the Search button.
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| Search options for an example search for journal title New England Journal of Medicine |
6. Your Search Results
If the journal title you
have searched for is available in our collections then you will be presented
with an entry in the search results.
A number of options may be presented, depending on where we have sourced the
journal from.
In this example I have
searched for the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The entry includes 4
options:
- A current subscription on the Ovid platform – a current subscription does not have an end date
- An embargoed subscription from the Health Research Premium database on the Proquest platform
- An embargoed subscription from Medline on the Proquest platform
- A print subscription, available in the Health Library covering 1984 to 2013
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| Entry example for the New England Journal of Medicine - showing the 4 options available |
It is worth noting that our
subscription may not be via the publisher’s website but via a database or other
platform. These often offer us more economical subscriptions as opposed to
subscribing to journals individually via their own publisher websites.
7. Viewing full-text
You will need to select
the option where the holdings
presented cover the year / volume / issue of the article that you are looking
for. In this example I am going to select the current subscription by clicking
on the Ovid link.
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| Select the option which covers the holdings you are looking for |
8. View the Journal page on the selected platform
The link will take you to
the journal page on the selected
platform. Usually the platform will detect that you are already logged into
OpenAthens. However sometimes you will need to log in again to be able to view
the full-text – look for the OpenAthens link in the login options.
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| Journal page on the platform where the full-text holdings are available |
You should be able to
select the issue you are interested
in or search for the article title
that you need from the journal page.
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As you can see using the
NHS Journals A-Z List not only tells you which journals you have access to but
also which full-text holdings are available and how you can link to the
full-text.
For more help accessing
and using journals please see the
support page on the Health Library website.
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