Links

Research Resources

Compiled by Shelley Berlinsky. Please feel free to email Shelley if you have any comments, suggestions or updates.

Undergraduate and postgraduate research

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez - Public Medline

scholar.google.com - A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organisations

www.library.nhs.uk/cam - The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Specialist Library is being developed by a Project Team drawn from the following three organisations: the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, the Research Council for Complementary Medicine, and the School of Integrated Health at the University of Westminster

www.acupuncture.org.uk - The BAcC web site. BAcC members can have access to the Acupuncture Research Resource Centre (ARRC). You need to register (free) as a BAcC student member.

www.biomedcentral.com - excellent resource for a large number of journals. Register free.

www.cochrane.org - The Cochrane Library - regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases

http://highwire.stanford.edu - A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content with 968 journals and 1,394,604 free, full-text articles online (21.8.06).

www.compmed.umm.edu - The University of Maryland School of Medicine Centre for Integrative Practice. Includes patient information leaflets, & The Arthritis and Complementary Medicine Database (ARCAM) and the Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Pain Database (CAMPAIN).

www.fih.org.uk - Prince Charles Foundation for Integrative Health, includes downloads on research and integrating complementary healthcare into primary care.

www.bl.uk - holds 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more...

For journal articles and conference proceedings, search the British Library Direct database of 20,000 research journals for free. Look at www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/stp/register/howreg/howtoregister.html to see how to register for a reader pass.

 

Postgraduate research

www.athens.ac.uk - A few good search engines. One needs to be registered through the university of East London.

www3.interscience.wiley.com Wiley interscience is an excellent search engine found in Athens. It is better to log in to it first, then click 'Athens login' and log in with your Athens user name and password.

Athens also contains the 'BMJ journals' resource. Click on BMJ and then log in with your university specific user name and password (ask ES coordinator or call the university)

www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx - A Medical Algorithm is any computation, formula, survey, or look-up table, useful in healthcare. More than 9500 algorithms, organized into 45 chapters, are available as spreadsheets. Developed by the Institute for Algorithmic Medicine & useful for questionnaires, pain scores, quality of life measurements etc. for monitoring patient response, and for research. Free registration.

www.freemedicaljournals.com - many free journals (including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Science etc)

www.hsrc.ac.uk/mymop/main.htm - Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile; can be downloaded free

www.rccm.org.uk - The Research Council for Complementary Medicine

www.corec.org.uk - Central Office for Research Ethics Committees (COREC)

www.kingsfund.org.uk/funding/index.html - Kings Fund

www.fih.org.uk - The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health.

www.rufford.org/About.html - The Maurice Laing Foundation

www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/research/index.html - Ethics resources page, includes declaration of Helsinki and other important documents and reports.

www.mrc.ac.uk/AboutUs/index.htm - The Medical Research Council - grants and other resources

Please also see the links in the Research and Integrative Medicine sections on the IP Resources page.

University of Portsmouth Resources

http://referencing.port.ac.uk/index.html

This is the most important referencing resource. It is interactive and if you can not find the right way to reference, go back to the home page and click on one of the following buttons (under Harvard APA on the right):

• What Ifs...
• Cite it like this
• Helpsheets
• Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.port.ac.uk/library/

The library web site where guidance regarding the use of internet sources (‘federated access’ or ‘Shibboleth’) can be found under ‘Help Yourself’ (in the middle of the home page).

Please note that to access special materials you need to obtain a user name and a password from the university by emailing to elibrary@port.ac.uk

 

Last updated on 08/03/2010.