NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub seamlessly connects NHS staff and students on placement to high quality healthcare knowledge and evidence resources, all in one place.
Whether you are wanting to access evidence to support the delivery of patient care; to support management decision-making; designing a conference poster, writing an article for publication; or undertaking a quality improvement project, the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub will provide you with a single gateway to search open-access, freely available online content, plus NHS nationally and locally purchased resources.
The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub will enable you to quickly:
Access and browse e-books and full-text journal articles
Search healthcare databases, including Medline, Embase and CINAHL
Consult clinical decision making resources, including NICE Guidelines, BMJ Best Practice, Royal Marsden Manual of Nursing Practice and Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry
To access the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub, you will need to register for a NHS OpenAthens account.
You can watch our short tutorial video which shows you how to access and the get most out of the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.
Please click on the button below to access the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub for your organisation.
Accessing Articles in PubMed
Click on the blue buttons to search in PubMed with the additional function to check whether you can directly access an article. Please select the button that relates to your organisation.
Search for Articles by DOI or PMID number
The blue buttons and the search boxes below can be used to search for articles by the DOI or PMID number. Please select the button or search box that relates to your organisation (the search boxes directly underneath the blue buttons relate to the organisation above).
LibKey Nomad
You can easily see if you can access articles on publisher's websites by adding the LibKey Nomad extension to the browsers on your own devices. Please see the instructions. Also there is a short video available on how to set up and use LibKey Nomad.
BrowZine
Using your NHS OpenAthens account, BrowZine allows you to quickly search for a journal by specialty or title. You can easily browse the contents page of a journal issue to check for full-text access to articles. This introductory video will show you how to access and search BrowZine.
To get started, please select the button that relates to your organisation.
Google Scholar
Linking your Library and Knowledge Service to Google Scholar will ensure that you can access the full text articles included in the subscription for your organisation. Please see attached instructions.