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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