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We know it can be difficult to navigate your way around a resource you’ve never used before, so the Library has created a range of videos to give you quick and easy guidance on using our resources.
DynaMed
DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical decision support tool designed for healthcare professionals to use at the point of care. It provides rapid, daily-updated summaries of diseases, conditions, and drug information to improve patient outcomes, featuring actionable, curated evidence with explicit quality grading.
Creating a personal account
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Searching DynaMed
Internurse
Internurse is an online resource and database dedicated to nursing. It provides access to a large collection of peer-reviewed specialist nursing journals essential for nurse education, patient care, and professional development.
Simple searching
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Finding and searching a journal
OpenAthens
OpenAthens is an access management system that gives you access to the Library’s online resources, such as eBooks, eJournals, DynaMed, BMJ Best Practice, BMJ Learning, Internurse, the Royal Marsden, healthcare databases, and much more.
Creating an OpenAthens account
Libkey Nomad
LibKey Nomad is a free browser extension that connects you to full-text academic journal articles. It automatically checks if the article you are viewing is available via your university or institutional library subscriptions, or if an Open Access version exists, allowing you to access PDFs in a single click.
How to use LibKey Nomad
Knowledge Hub
The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a single, national digital portal providing NHS staff and learners in England with free access to high-quality healthcare evidence, including journals, e-books, clinical decision-support tools (like BMJ Best Practice and NICE guidelines), and databases. Accessible via OpenAthens, it enables one-click access to full-text, evidence-based information to support patient care and research.
For help with the following:
- Browsing journals
- Reading articles
- Searching more effectively
- Saving and sharing your results
Visit the Help on the Hub website