Healthcare excellence gets boost from free research journal trial

NHS Staff now have access to over 2,500 research and medical journals and 40,000 e-books as part of a country wide free trial. The trial supports the NHS focused recommendations of the government-commissioned Finch report into research article availability.

“A year-long pilot will allow staff working across the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free trial access to some of the most respected medical and scientific journals so they can read for themselves the latest trials and research. This is good news for evidence-based healthcare and will give healthcare professionals the opportunity to weigh up the latest developments in the study of disease.”

 [Source JISC news:  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/healthcare-excellence-gets-boost-from-free-research-journal-trial-01-may-2014 ]

The titles can now be found on the NICE Evidence A-Z journals list and as embedded links from search results in the NICE Healthcare databases. Please note; to access content provided by Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group and Springer you must log in with a NHS Open Athens account. Content from AAAS, Annual Reviews, Karger, IOP Publishing, Oxford University Press (OUP), and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is via IP range and can only be accessed via a NHS networked computer.

RSC Publishing has also decided to set up trial access to the Merck Index (access via IP address). The URL for The Merck Index homepage is https://www.rsc.org/merck-index.

·         Springer resources will be available until 31^st October 2013

·         Annual Reviews and OUP until 31^st December 2013

·         Elsevier, Nature, AAAS, Karger, IOP publishing and RSC until 31^st March 2015.

For more information about the titles available or how to create an NHS Open Athens account, contact the Trust Library and Knowledge Service on ext. 8610 or email mcardle.library@nhs.net