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What resources are searched through the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub? [update 16/10/2025]

Following the implementation of the new interface for the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub and updates to the NHS Core Content resources, here is a reminder of the resources which are searched:
  • AMBER: the home of ambulance services research
  • Academic Search Index
  • APA PsycArticles
  • APA PsycBooks
  • Aphasiology Archive
  • BioOne Complete
  • BMJ Best Practice
  • 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
  • eBook Collection (EBSCOHost)
  • 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
  • NICE Guidance
  • NCI (National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health)
  • Oxford Bibliographies
  • Oxford Clinical Psychology
  • Oxford Handbooks Online
  • POLICY database from Analysis & Policy Observatory 
  • PsychiatryOnline
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  • Research Starters
  • Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Procedures
  • SpringerProtocols
  • Supplemental Index
  • University Press Scholarship Online
  • Wiley online reference works
  • West Midlands Evidence Repository (WMER)
Please note that you will need to search some of our major resources separately:
  • Clinical Key (UHNM only)
  • Ovid databases (AMED, Embase, Emcare, HMIC, Medline, Social Policy and Practice)
  • PsychInfo (North Staffs Combined Health only)
You can find links to all the available NHS resources on our website.

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