E-journals for Health Care

Several hundred health care journals are available online in full text.

How to access a known, specific e-journal

The Library Catalogue gives details of e-journals we have access to, as well as all the printed journals held in the Library. Enter the Journal Title (not the title of the article) into the Title search box and select Electronic and Printed Journals catalogue.

The catalogue entry for an e-journal connects to the A-Z list (a complete listing of all full text e-journals available to Oxford Brookes staff and students). The A-Z list will provide links through to the journal. Important: Please read the information next to these links carefully. The links will tell you what years of the journal are available to access. They will also inform you if extra passwords are needed to gain access.

Off campus access and passwords

If you are trying to access our e- journals from off campus you will need to log in using the Athens security system first.

Nursing Times: we are currently suggesting nursing students register individually online with the Nursing Times in order to access the archive.

Finding journal articles on your subject

The Library catalogue and the A-Z list will tell you whether or not we have a particular journal. They won't tell you what articles are in those journals. To find journal articles on a topic you will need to use the Health and Social Care Databases. Databases are like huge electronic indexes of journal articles, book chapters and reports. You can search for a particular topic and find out about lots of journal articles written about it. Most of our databases will provide a link through to the full text of the article via LinkSource.

Searchable collections of e-journals

E- journal collections are not the same as databases, even though you can sometimes do simple searches on them. The e-journal collections listed below contain fewer titles than the databases and are often limited to certain journal publishers. If you wanted to find one or two articles quickly for an essay, you could do a simple search on a e- journal collection. However, you would be missing a lot of relevant material. For more extensive research it is advisable to use the Health and Social Care Databases.

  • Academic Search Complete . This is not specific to health care, but it contains many health care journals not available elsewhere.
  • BioMed Central is an open access publisher for biomedical research. Original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are available free of charge and some other full text articles are also available through this site.
  • Internurse full text access to 10 UK nursing journal titles
  • Intermid provides access to the British Journal of Midwifery and the African Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health
  • Joanna Briggs Institute Full text access to systematic reviews, evidence summaries and best practice information sheets in nursing and allied health
  • Ovid full text access to 14 medical journals
  • Proquest Hospital Collection A collection of several full text healthcare databases, including Nursing and Allied Health Source, Proquest Family Health, Proquest Health Management, Proquest Health and Medical Complete, Proquest Medical Library, Proquest Psychology Journals and the Joanna Briggs Institute.
  • Proquest Medical Library A comprehensive database with full text access and full images for more than 450 key medical journals.