NHS staff now able to access an additional 2300+ scientific and medical journals online – joint academic/NHS pilot.

NHS staff now able to access an additional 2300+ scientific and medical journals online – joint academic/NHS pilot.

 

Publisher/Platform link	Titles	Access	Notes
AAAS Science journals	2 titles	NHS network	Science Signaling and Science Translational Medicine.
Annual Reviews	26 titles	NHS network	Content: 1996-2014.
Elsevier/Sciencedirect	147 titles	Athens	Content: current year and previous 4 years.
IOP Publishing/IOPScience	100+ titles	NHS network
Nature Publishing/nature.com	37 titles	NHS network/ Athens	Excluded: SciBx and Scientific American.  Content covers 2010-2014.
OUP/Oxfordjournals	88 titles	NHS network	Content: 1996 (where available) to present.
Royal Soc of Chemistry/RSCjournals	57 titles	NHS network	Content: includes full archive for each journal.
Springer/Springerlink	1950 titles	Athens	Content: 1997 (where available) to present.  E-book content also available.

Access
NHS Athens:  available from any internet connection anywhere with your NHS Athens account.
NHS network: access only available when connected to the NHS network.

 

 

 

Titles included:
· Click on the number of titles above to see lists of titles included in the pilot.
· Use the publisher links to search.
· All titles are also available via our Journal A-Z 
· Full-text article-level linking is also available from the NHS Healthcare databases (HDAS), Pubmed, Google Scholar, Trip, UpToDate and Dynamed.


Background information
The trial follows the publication of the government-commissioned Finch report, which recommended that the UK should move towards a fully open access research environment. Among the report's recommendations were that more research journals should be made available to healthcare professionals.  More details can be found here. 

If you have any questions regarding this trial please contact Worcestershire Health Libraries at rowlands.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk.