Unlock the Power of Healthcare Knowledge with Your Library Databases!

Navigating the world of healthcare can feel incredibly overwhelming. The feeling of being time-poor while juggling personal commitments, lectures, and clinical placements can be intense. So, when it comes to research for assignments or understanding complex conditions, it can be hard to know where to start.

Rather than time spent on endless online searches that can lead you down rabbit holes of questionable websites and outdated information, your library invests in premium healthcare databases like CINAHL, MEDLINE, British Nursing Database (and many more!) for a reason – they are goldmines of credible, peer-reviewed research specifically for healthcare.

Our Database Search page is fully integrated within our main library search tool and can be found at the top of Primo, so no need to remember any separate URLs.

The Database Search is divided up into different subjects so you can browse resources applicable to your course. Alternatively, you can search by key terms and draw results from the whole of the collection.

Befriend these databases for:

  • Reliable, up-to-date evidence: These databases curate information from reputable journals.
  • Targeted Information: Use specific keywords and filters to pinpoint articles directly related to your topic, whether it’s wound care, mental health nursing, or diabetes management.
  • Evidence-Based Practice at Your Fingertips: These databases help provide the foundation for understanding the “why” behind the practice, helping deliver the best possible services based on solid research.
  • Academic Success: Using credible sources from these databases will strengthen your arguments, demonstrate critical thinking, and ultimately lead to better grades.
  • Expanded knowledge: Broaden your understanding of healthcare topics for career preparedness.

Don’t know where to start?  

  1. Sign in to Primo – your library catalogue.
  2. Search in the ‘Database Search’ for your database – follow any off-campus notes if needed.
  3. For further information and support, see your LibGuide or contact your librarian.

Happy researching!

Subject LibGuides

The Subject LibGuides have been updated to ensure that all the links are working and all the books listed are their most recent edition, meaning they are better than ever! Each LibGuide has been tailored to a specific subject, meaning that the information is specialised to what you are looking for. This is where you can be directed to and book a meeting with your subject librarian, find out about which books you should read, referencing help, and much more! If you are struggling with referencing, assignments, or your dissertation, this is the place to go. The LibGuides are very easy to use, with clear signposting and information layout.

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Reading List Update for Teaching Staff

Create links to your reading lists in your Blackboard modules

In a Blackboard Ultra module there is no automatically-created link to the Aspire reading list for that module.

To enable you to create these links without delay, empty reading lists have been created in Aspire for new and returning modules requiring a list.

Please link all your 2023-2024 reading lists to your 2023-2024 Blackboard modules as soon as possible:

Step-by-step instructions

You may also choose to add links to sections in your reading lists.

FYI 2022-2023 Aspire reading lists will remain visible in 2022-2023 Blackboard modules and will be archived at the end of August.

 

Update the 2023-2024 edition of your reading list.

When updating your Aspire reading list content for the coming year, be sure to update the 2023-2024 edition of your reading list.

If you add books to 2022-2023 reading lists they will not be purchased.

Advice for adding library resources to a new Aspire list and updating an existing list

 

Contact

Please contact librarians@aber.ac.uk or your subject librarian if

  • there is no reading list in Aspire for your module
  • you would like a reading list appointment with your subject librarian
  • you have any questions

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit are running departmental and centrally organised training sessions to prepare staff for Ultra. For further information, see their Ultra webpages.