How to log in to the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants

 Staff working at UHNM have full-text access to the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants. This journal provides easy to read articles covering good practice in all areas of healthcare. Staff working in, or towards, roles as healthcare or nursing assistants and assistant practitioners will find good quality, evidence-based articles to support their training and work.

This blog post will show you how to log in to the journal to access full-text articles.

First you will need an NHS OpenAthens account – this is a username / password that will give you access to many of the library’s NHS resources.

Find out how to register for your NHS OpenAthens username from our blog post Register for your NHS OpenAthens username - step-by-step instructions.

You can log in to the journal either by going via our library collections or by finding the journal on the publisher’s website.

Log in via the Health Library collection

1. Start at the Health Library website

Go to the Health Library website at www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/ and select the Find option from the top menu bar.

2. Find the Journals option

The Find section of the website includes all the different types of resources we offer our users.

 Page down until you see the Journals option and select it.

3. Go to the Browzine collection

The Browzine collections list the journals available to the NHS organisations that we support. Select the option Browzine Journals List for UHNM.

4. Search the Browzine collection

Search for the journal name from the Browzine collection. Enter British Journal of Healthcare Assistants into the search box (on the left). As you type, results will appear on the right. When you see the journal title, click it.

5. View the journal page in Browzine

You can now view the journal page in Browzine. You can see the different issues on the left-hand-side. When you click an issue the table of contents – the list of articles in that issue- appears on the right-hand-side.

To view an article select the title of the article.

6. Log in to view full-text

Enter your NHS OpenAthens username and password to log in, when prompted.

7. View the full-text

You should now be able to see the full-text of the article. You can read, download or print the article from here.

Click the journal title to go to the journal on the publisher’s website.

8. View the publisher’s journal page.

Search or view archive issues from the publisher’s page for the journal.

Log in via the Publisher’s page

1. Use a search engine to find the journal

Search for the journal title – British journal of healthcare assistants – in a search engine, such as google. Select the publisher site from the results – MAG Online. This is where we currently have a subscription for this journal.

2. Select the Login option

Select the login option from the top menu bar on the journal home page.

3. Log in via NHS OpenAthens

Select the Institutional login option.

Find your institution by entering University Hospitals of North Midlands in the search box and selecting the result returned.

Enter your NHS OpenAthens username / password and click Sign in.

4. View full-text

You can now view full-text articles from the issues or search for articles on a topic.

Need more help?

Contact the Health Library for more help accessing resources or finding information.