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NHS: Ejournals

A guide to online resources for staff employed by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Subjects: Medicine

Introduction

A journal is a regular publication (monthly, yearly, etc.) in which you will find academic and research articles. The articles present current research and are critiqued by experts before publication, so you can be confident of their quality. 

Ejournals are digital versions of these serial publications. Broadly speaking they come in two forms: they are either 'born digital' or are digital reproductions of physical works.

Electronic journals (ejournals)

This section is all about finding and browsing electronic journals (ejournals). Ejournals are digital versions of serial publications.

The tabs at the top of this section list different ways of finding ejournals. 

Use the NHS Journals A-Z tool to find out which ejournals you have access to with your NHS OpenAthens account.

The following is a list of ejournal platforms. These platforms allow you to browse and search across all ejournals on their site and encounter titles of interest you may not have otherwise found. 

The Bodleian Libraries subscribe to thousands of electronic journals. This is a separate collection of online resources that are not available via OpenAthens.    

This content is available to library members. If you have a contract with the OUH Trust you are eligible for free library membership, giving you onsite access to these resources via our library computers (university network) or by connecting your device to our ‘Bodleian-Libraries’ Wi-Fi. Offsite access is only possible with an Oxford Single Sign On, which is granted to members of the University of Oxford. 

Search for these ejournals on SOLO or the SOLO Journal Search tool.

Below is a list of ejournal collections that are freely available online. 

Journal Articles

This section is all about finding journal articles and other short-form publications. Use the tabs at the top of this section for more information.    

NHS Knowledge and Library Hub logo

Use the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub to perform a quick search of the literature. 

Use a bibliographic database for more complex, robust and reproducible searches – including for systematic reviews and informing research. Refer to our Databases page for more information. 

Find out if you have full text access to a specific journal article using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.

Print journals

The Bodleian Health Care Libraries no longer receive print journals, but we have back issues from previous years. 

Search for these journals on SOLO or the SOLO Journal Search tool.

Library members are welcome to browse or borrow these journals. If you have a contract with the OUH Trust you are eligible for free library membership

Journal club guide

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