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What is it? |
An index to the health, medical, biomedical and nursing literature. OVID Medline contains references from over 4000 journals. It covers the period 1946 to present and is updated weekly. |
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What is it for? |
Use it to find journal articles for healthcare research. |
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How to access it |
Login to the Portal and then choose Medline via OVID from the A-Z List of Online Resources. |
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How to search
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See Successful Search Techniques.
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Full text?
RefWorks? |
Some full text is available. For more full text click on the Find@Stir button
Records can be downloaded into RefWorks (a software product for managing references and formatting bibliographies). |
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Other useful resources |
See the Nursing or Midwifery Subject Guides. Medline can also be accessed via the EBSCO interface, see entry on A-Z list. |
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Further help
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Available from the top right of the search screen or click on "Ask a Librarian" at the top of the search screen. A userguide to the OVID SP platform is available. Alternatively the British Medical Association have produced a useful, detailed user guide to OVID Medline. A usefact sheet on the difference between Medline and Pubmed is available here |
, to check if the library subscribes to the text from another supplier, or to link to the library catalogue to find out if we have the item in paper format.