NHS Knowledge & Library Hub
The Knowledge and Library Hub provides rapid access to evidence for NHS staff and learners. The hub is designed to be simple to use however there is a video and short user guide to help get you started on the Knowledge and Library Hub page
Clinical Decision Support
BMJ Best Practice takes you quickly and accurately to the latest evidence-based information on over 30 specialties, whenever and wherever you need it.
Find out more watch the video Introduction to BMJ Best Practice for resident doctors and healthcare professionals , take a look at the NHSE Postgraduate Doctor Toolkit or go to the BMJ Best Practice website for help logging in and downloading the app.
Find Books & eBooks
You can search our library catalogue (YorCat) which will search Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals’ collection as well as multiple NHS libraries across Yorkshire and the Humber. You can request books to be sent to your local library at DRI or Bassetlaw.
For RDASH staff once we have received your book at DRI or Bassetlaw we will contact you to arrange getting items to you. Wherever possible we will try and post items out to you.
eBooks can also be found on the library catalogue. You will need an OpenAthens login to access eBooks. For information on Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Royal Marsden Manual and specific eBooks collections go to our eBooks page. More information on how to borrow, renew and reserve items.
Find Journal Articles
Free easy access to 1000s of full-text journal articles.
If we haven’t got it you can request it.
Healthcare Databases
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making:
Cochrane Databases of Systematic Reviews
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Bibliographic databases for advanced searching
If you need a complex, robust and reproduceable search for evidence advanced searches should be carried out in bibliographic databases such as CINAHL, Medline and Embase rather than using the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub.
There are 2 different interfaces or providers. The databases are grouped below by provider.
OVID provides access to the following databases:
Medline
Embase
HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium)
Emcare
Social Policy & Practice
More information and searching guides can be found on OVID – getting started page
Ebsco provides access to the following database:
CINAHL
Psychology & Behavioural Science Collection
More information and searching guide can be found on EBSCO – getting started page
If you access PubMed using this link it connects you to national and local full text holdings.
Helpful Tip: Tools like PICO (clinical questions), ECLIPS (service design) or SPICE (qualitative questions) can help you organise your search.
Other resources
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
Google Scholar can be used to search for scholarly information online, including articles, books, conference papers, theses, grey literature and official reports. You can add RDASH to Google Scholar to get access to any full text available to you.
Go to google scholar and sign in on the right hand side of the page. Then if you go to the Google Scholar settings & select ‘Rotherham, Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust’. This will give you direct access to our electronic resources.
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