What resources are searched through the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub?

 The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is the new discovery service to help you to find information and evidence from a selection of NHS subscribed resources. It is supplied by Ebsco and includes searching items from Ebsco's Knowledge Base.

These datasets do not include all the bibliographic databases purchased nationally or locally.  They include CINAHL and Medline which are supplied by EBSCO. However they do not include the databases supplied by ProQuest and Wolters Kluwer (Ovid) such as BNI and EMBASE.  This also means that BNI, EMBASE etc are not available when you select to 'Limit by Databases' in a search.

HEE have released a list of all the current resources which are searched within the Hub; note that this does not mean all items are available in full-text:

• AMBER: the home of ambulance services research
• Academic Search Index
• APA PsycArticles
• APA PsycBooks
• Aphasiology Archive
• BioOne Complete
• BMJ Best Practice
• British Library Document Supply Centre Inside Serials & Conference Proceedings
• British Library EThOS
• Center for Research Libraries
• CINAHL
• ClinicalTrials.gov
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Complementary Index
• Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH)
• Directory of Open Access Books
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Emerald Insight
• Gale Health and Wellness
• Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
• GreenFILE
• Journals@OVID
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
• McGraw-Hill Medical
• MEDLINE
• Minority Health Archive
• NCI (National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health)
• Oxford Bibliographies
• Oxford Clinical Psychology
• Oxford Handbooks Online
• Oxford Medicine Online
• PsycheVisual
• PsychiatryOnline
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• Research Starters
• ScienceDirect
• SpringerProtocols
• Supplemental Index
• University Press Scholarship Online

Here is where the content is currently being delivered for the NHS National Core Content.  Due to licensing restrictions these bibliographic databases must be available on the EBSCO platform AND be licensed through EBSCO to be made available in NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. 

 

Bibliographic Database	Supplier/Publisher	EBSCO Platform	OVID platform	PQ platform
PsycINFO	APA	yes	yes	yes (NCC license)
Medline	NLM	yes (NCC license)	yes (NCC license)	yes (NCC license)
BNI	PQ	BNI is a subset of CINAHL	no	yes (NCC license)
CINAHL	EBSCO	yes (NCC license)	no	no
Embase	Elsevier	no	yes (NCC license)	yes

For help identifying which databases will be most useful to you please take a look at our online tutorial Which NHS database do you need?

To complete comprehensive literature searches you will need to execute your search plan against databases on the individual platforms (Ebsco, Ovid, Proquest).

For more help using databases and conducting literature searches please contact the Health Library training team.