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.

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