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Subject Guide: Medicine

This guide brings together library resources for your studies and research. Use these resources alongside your recommended reading from your tutors to extend your research into new areas

Additional research resources

These resources are for those needing a wider or deeper scope than would usually be covered in undergraduate medicine programmes.

 

Subject Guides for other subjects

Subject Guides Menu page  libraryguides.sunderland.ac.uk/

If your research interconnects with other subjects, try the subject guides for those subjects too 


Newspapers

Can be useful as both primary and secondary sources of information. As well as providing commentary on events, newspaper articles can provide insight on how the public viewed an event or incident at the time.

Global NewsStream Global NewsStream 

Gives access to many contemporary news sources from around the world.

 


Grey Literature

Print and electronic reports and other documents and produced by organisations such as governments, academics, business and industry.

 

TRIP Medical Database https://www.tripdatabase.com/

This is a good source of grey literature in health, including guidelines from around the world. We don't have access to the Pro version but you can still search quite effectively using the free version. 

 

The King's Fund Library https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/work-with-us/library#use-our-library-collections

The King's Fund Library have recently completed work to make more grey literature available via their database. This is likely to have more UK-focused literature as they are cataloguing grey literature previously held in National Grey Literature collection.

 

Google Advanced Search https://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search

A web search is useful for finding documents that are freely available via the websites of relevant organisations and governments across the world. 
Using Google's advanced search, you can filter by geographic region, site or domain (e.g. .gov.uk for UK government websites), and file type (e.g. you could limit to pdf as a way of narrowing to reports and documents published online). 

 

World Health Organization

The WHO website has links to country information and health data. Whilst this will be generally quite broad the country pages on the WHO data site: https://data.who.int/ have links to official websites which could be useful. 

There is also WHO IRIS which is a publications repository: https://iris.who.int/

 

Policy Commons https://policycommons.net/

This has global coverage and seems to cover a wide range of publication types. You have to register an account but this is free and gives limited access.

 


PhD theses

Useful sources of specialised information not published elsewhere. Most universities have a Repository, University of Sunderland's repository is called SURE. Find theses from other universities via EThOS (UK) or PQDT Open (Worldwide).

SURE sure.sunderland.ac.uk/

Search research produced by University of Sunderland staff.

EThOS ethos.bl.uk/

Service from the British Library, EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service with approximately 400,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 160,000 of these also provide access to the full text.

PQDT Open pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge where the author has opted to publish as open access. This includes international Universities.

 


Journal Table of Contents 

Current Awareness Services where you can discover the newest papers as soon as they have been published online.

Journal TOCs www.journaltocs.ac.uk/

Sign Up for free to search in your chosen journals and, optionally, receive email alerts when new issues are published in the journals you follow.