Information Skills for Health

  There is a wealth of information available via NHS-subscribed specialist databases. But which do you need? Cinahl? Psychinfo? Medline? Emcare? Embase? And where can you access them from? Take this quick interactive tutorial Which NHS database do you need? to get a recommended list. For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

  If you need to look for literature on mental health topics make sure you start with the   Proquest databases . Proquest hosts key healthcare databases  BNI (for nursing topics), Medline  (a general medical database), PsyArticles (Key journal titles for psychology-based topics ) and PsycInfo (for comprehensive coverage of mental health topics). The following resources can help you to get to grips with searching on the Proquest platform. Proquest Help Resources Training Support for NHS users  - range of training support materials; start with: Basic searching Advanced searching Information Skills for Health blog posts Log in to the Proquest platform Save HDAS searches and alerts to Proquest More help Complete our etutorial  Which NHS Databases do you need? Check  our databases help page  regularly for new help resources Contact the training team  for training opportunities or 1-to-1 support

 Complete your in-depth literature search using Proquest databases. To search the Proquest databases you'll need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens. Which databases can you search? Proquest is host to a range of specialist, research, healthcare databases, purchased for NHS users. You can search the British Nursing Index (BNI) , Medline , PsycArticles and PsychInfo databases. Not sure which database you need? Complete our etutorial Which NHS database do you need? for more help. How to log in to the Proquest platform 1. Find the Proquest Link Get quick access to Proquest by linking straight from our NHS Resources page . If you work for North Staffs Combined Healthcare or GP practices in Staffordshire or CCGs in Staffordshire please click the relevant button to go to your page of resources. Page down to the Literature Searching via Databases section and click the Proquest link. This will take you straight to the openathens route to login. 2. Manage cookies Check your cookies optio...

What is it? Proquest PsychArticles is a bibliographic database containing full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. It covers topics on psychology, behavioural science and mental health issues. Key Features The PsychArticles database is delivered via the Proquest platform and via HDAS. This offers you general functionality such as: Basic and advanced searching options Filter options to focus your search Ability to save searches Ability to export results How can it help you? This is a topic-specific database, providing access to the latest research in the psychology and mental health fields. How to access it? This database is only available to NHS users via their NHS Athens username. You search the database either via the Proquest database or via NHS/NICE HDAS (healthcare databases advanced search). For links ...

The Proquest database provides NHS athens users with access to ejournals and articles on the Medline and PsychInfo databases. The problem we experienced logging on to the Proquest databases from the UHNM network have now been fixed. If anyone continues to encounter any problems please get in touch .

The Proquest database provides NHS athens users with access to ejournals and articles on the Medline and PsychInfo databases. We are currently experiencing problems using this database on the UHNM network - the login process is resulting in an error " Blocked request: Policy violation". We have logged the problem with IT and they are working towards fixing it. In the meantime if you experience this problem unfortunately the only solution is to use a non-UHNM networked PC. NHS staff who are members of the library can request walk-in access to the Keele network - come to the library counter with your Health Library card. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

The Proquest database is one of the Core Content databases available to NHS users. You can search the information and access its full-text articles by searching the NICE HDAS database. Sometimes the Proquest database will ask for your login details. This blog post is going to show you how to navigate the Proquest login screens. So, the starting point is a search in HDAS where I have found an article that is available within Proquest. Here is an example article and you can see, at the bottom, the link to Proquest. Screen-shot of an article in HDAS You click the Proquest link to go to the full-text in the Proquest database. If you are asked to login, you will be presented first with the screen below, click the drop-down box to view the options. Screen-shot of step one in the login process From the drop-down box click the option “Athens (openathens federation)”. We use Athens authentication to allow you to use online resources. Screen-shot of the Proquest log...