Web Resources
This page of online resources complements the Trent RDSU Information Service @ ScHARR Library by providing links to useful information sources created and/or used by the Information Resources section.
Guides and introductions
Critical appraisal
Guides to appraising and evaluating scientific literature
Systematic reviews
Guides to synthesising the results of more than one publication, trial or study
- Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness (CRD Report 4)
Reference Manager
Guides to using this bibliographic database support package
- Reference Manager support guides (Reference Manager website)
Bibliographic referencing styles
- Recording and citing references guides (University of Sheffield Library)
- References and citations explained (University of Leeds Library)
Instructions for authors
How to write articles for a variety of health journals
- Instructions to authors in the health sciences (Mulford Library, College of Ohio)
Portals and gateways
Access to sources of health information and research.
- BIOME - Hub for Internet Resources in the Health and Life Sciences
- BUBL Health Studies gateway
- NLH - National Library for Health (NHS)
- OMNI - UK's gateway to high quality Internet resources in health and medicine
Health databases
- Staff and students at the University of Sheffield can visit the Science, Technology and Medical Databases page from the University of Sheffield library website.
- NHS staff should use the Dialog Databases from the NHS Dialog website.
Electronic journals in health
- Staff and students at the University of Sheffield can visit the Medical Electronic Journals page from the University of Sheffield library website.
- NHS staff should use the NeLH Electronic Journals list.
Statistics
Sources of UK and international statistics, plus a guide to using the statistical software package SPSS.
- BUBL Health Statistics
- Health of Wales Information Service Statistics (NHS Wales)
- HSE Statistics (Health & Safety Executive)
- Medical Statistics: An introduction using SPSS (University of Sheffield)
- Medical Statistics on the Internet (University of Glasgow Library)
- Scottish Health Statistics (ISD Scotland)
- Statistics for Wales (National Assembly for Wales)
- WHO Health Statistics (World Health Organisation)
Organisations
Health research organisations
- CEBM - Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford)
- CRD - Centre for Reviews & Dissemination (University of York)
- HEDS - Health Economics and Decision Science, ScHARR
- HERU - Health Economics Research Unit (University of Aberdeen)
- HSR - Health Services Research, ScHARR
- King's Fund
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (University of London)
- Nuffield Institute for Health (University of Leeds)
- Mental Health Research Network