Research

Research Tools - Electronic Information (eInfo)

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Evidence on the internet

Two very useful sites for using as a gateway for evidence based practice are:

• Searching for Medical Information on the Internet
   
• e-library NHS Education for Scotland
   

Alternatively you can visit the individual sites listed below:

• Athens
  for Medline, CINAHL and EMBASE.
   
• Cochrane Library
  You will need to have a subscription to access this site.
   
• Edinburgh University Library Catalogues
   
• Effective Health Care Bulletins
   
• Electronic library
  NHS Lothian Electronic library (including LPCT research pages and nursing studies partnership webpages)
   
• ERIC
  ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
   
• Journals in Scottish Academic Libraries Catalogue (SALSER)
  Find out which journals are available in Scottish Libraries. You can restrict your search to "Edinburgh" or other cities, or even to specific libraries.
   
• National Library for Health
  A gateway to a large number of electronic resources to aid evidence evidence based practice from the NHS Information Authority in England.
   
• National Library of Medicine Gateway
  The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LOCATORplus, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, and HSDB.
   
• National Library of Scotland
   
• National Research Register
  This is a description of 115,152 projects either ongoing or completed that have been funded by the Department of Health.
   
• NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
   
• PubMed
  An alternative free MEDLINE site.
   

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Journals

• British Medical Journal
   
• Free Medical Journals Site
   
• The British Dental Journal
   
• The British Journal of General Practice
   
• The Lancet
   

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Research ethics

• Central Office for Research Ethics Committees
   
• Department of Health Guidance on Consent
   
• Ethics Resource Information Catalogue
   
• Lothian Research Ethics Committee
   

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Other useful sites

• AHCPR Home Page
  Information on the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. USA.
   
• Bandolier
  
   
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
  Information on the Oxford based centre for Evidence based medicine
   
• Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing
  Information on the York based centre for Evidence based nursing
   
• Cochrane Consumer Network
   
• Cochrane collaboration
  Home page of the Cochrane collaboration in Canada.
   
• Department of Health
  
   
• DISCERN
  (quality criteria for consumer health information: University of Oxford)
  
   
• Healthcare Commission
  
   
• INVOLVE (formerly Consumers in NHS Research)
  
   
• National Health Service
  
   
• Netting the Evidence
  The University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) - Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet
   
• NTRAG Home Page
  Information on the North Thames Research Appraisal Group
   
• RCN Research & Development Co-ordinating Centre
  'The web site has been developed to provide an easy-to-access means of sharing information on research and practice development in nursing.'
   
• Scottish Health on the Web
  
   
• The Question bank
  Social surveys on line
   
• The Unit for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy
  Information on the unit for Evidence based practice, University College London
   
• World Health Organization
   
• UK NHS R & D Strategy: Towards an evidence based health service
   
• User Guides to the Medical Literature
  References to critically appraising literature