What resources are searched through the Knowledge and Library Hub?

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is designed to provide quick and easy access to information relevant to staff and learners in health and care. A search of the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub will retrieve items from EBSCO’s extensive Knowledge Base. We have selected the datasets listed below in EBSCO’s Knowledge Base to give optimal results.

You can see these datasets listed in the 'Databases' tab in EBSCOadmin (in the profile (hee_eds)). Generally speaking there is no need for you to make any changes to this list. (However see this FAQ on locally purchased EBSCO databases.) The list may be updated from time to time at national level.

These datasets do not include all the bibliographic databases purchased nationally. They include CINAHL and Medline which are supplied by EBSCO. However they do not include the databases supplied by ProQuest and Wolters Kluwer 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.

Searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub does not replace the need for structured searching of individual databases, especially when the search needs to be reported and reproduced. Structured searches of the nationally purchased databases should be carried out in the provider interfaces, all of which are linked from the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.

AMBER: the home of ambulance services research (ir01808a) - National repository for Ambulatory care
Academic Search Index (asx) - core index prepared by EBSCO for discovery purposes
APA PsycArticles (edspdh) - full text collection
APA PsycBooks (edspzh) -
Aphasiology Archive (edsupa) - full text collection
BioOne Complete (edsbio) - STEM database
BMJ Best Practice (edsbmj) - National point of care tool
British Library EThOS (edsble) - Theses and dissertations
Center for Research Libraries (edscrl) - broad international database
CINAHL (cin20) - major literature database
ClinicalTrials.gov (edsclt) - details of clinical trials in progress and completed
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (edschh)
Complementary Index (edb) - core index prepared by EBSCO for discovery purposes
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (edshld) publications from a global university
Directory of Open Access Books (edsdob) - includes direct links to fulltext
Directory of Open Access Journals (edsdoj) - supports users using the full text limiter in the Hub to see more materials
Emerald Insight (edsemr) - details of journals from this publisher
Gale Health and Wellness (edsghw) - consumer health focus
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine (edsgih) - wide range of health articles and news
GreenFILE (8gh) - environmental issues
International Clinical Trials Registry Platform ICTRP (edsict) - global clinical trials details - optional - log a Service request to add this as it requires an additional link
Journals@OVID (edsovi)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (lxh)
McGraw-Hill Medical (edsmgh) - medical textbooks
MEDLINE (cmedm) - major literature database
Minority Health Archive (edsuph) - minority health and health disparities research and policy
NICE Guidance (edsngc)
NCI (National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health) (edspdq) - full text collection
Oxford Bibliographies (edsobb)
Oxford Clinical Psychology (edsocp)
Oxford Handbooks Online (edsoho)
Oxford Medicine Online (edsmeo) - please note that this has been deselected for the Hub instances in which the SWIMS library catalogue has been integrated
POLICY database from Analysis & Policy Observatory (edsapo) - health policy mostly non UK but includes similar health systems
PsychiatryOnline (edspsy) - psychiatry journals
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (pbh) - full text collection
Research Starters (ers) - panels with basic introductions on some topics
Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Procedures (edsrmm) - chapter level indexing of RMM
ScienceDirect (edselp) - publisher database
SpringerProtocols (edsspo) - biomedical and life sciences protocols
Supplemental Index (edo) - core index prepared by EBSCO for discovery purposes
University Press Scholarship Online (edsups) - global academic book database
Wiley online reference works (edsmrw) - chapter level indexing of reference books
West Midlands Evidence Repository (WMER) (ir02173a) - regional NHS institutional repository

As a reminder here is where the content is currently being delivered for the 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 the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.

Bibliographic Database

Supplier/Publisher

EBSCO Platform

OVID platform

PQ platform

PsycINFO

APA

yes

APA PsycArticles APA yes (Hub not EBSCOHost)

yes

Medline

NLM

yes

BNI

(no but BNI has very few records not in CINAHL)

yes

CINAHL

EBSCO

yes

Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection
EBSCO yes

Embase

Elsevier

yes

Social Policy & Practice
WK
yes
AMED
PQ

Dialog only EMCARE
WK
yes
HMIC WK
yes
Health Research Premium Collection
PQ

yes