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British National Formulary

Key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines.
Please note: SHU provides access to BNF and BNF for Children through the Medicines Complete platform. We are subscribed to some of the other publications on this platform, but not all. Select the relevant publication using the button on the right hand side of the search bar
If you have issues with the link above use: Alternative link
BioMed Central
BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series.
PubMed
PubMed
PubMed is a free to use life sciences database. The resource is maintained by NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA). PubMed also has a login option if users want to save searches and add items to collections, but this means you need to use an external third party login, such as a Microsoft or Google account. There is no Hallam Library login to PubMed available via the institution login with SHU login details.
PubMed includes abstracts and citations to over 37 million articles. Some of the abstracts include the full text for anyone to view within PubMed. If the article is abstract only, click the SHU Links button to see if we have it in the library collection.

PubMed is a search tool to access citations, abstracts and links to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers. Including over 15 million citations from journals and covers 4,800 biomedical science journals.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) contains links to over 5 million life sciences articles. It is open access for anyone in the world to use. The majority of the content in PMC is also available in PubMed. PMC's collection is much smaller than PubMed's, but all of the content in PMC has the full text available for anyone to access for free in PMC.
PMC has a login option if users want to save searches and add items to collections, but this means you need to use an external third party login, such as a Microsoft or Google account. There is no Hallam Library login to PubMed available via the institution login with SHU login details.

PubMed Central (PMC) is produced by the National Library of Medicine and provides biomedical and life sciences information. The archive also contains links to other scientific databases and book reviews.
eMC - electronic Medicines Compendium
This continuously updated database provides information on all UK medicines; prescription and 'over-the-counter'. It includes electronic Data Sheets, Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and Patient Information Leaflets (PILs). Data Sheets and SPCs are written for healthcare professionals.

Users can search the eMC by quick search, text search or search by section and there is a useful glossary in the 'Information' section that explains how the SPCs are structured.
National Center for Biotechnology Information bookshelf
Free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover.

NCBI accounts - change to login
From 1st June 2021 NCBI has changed the way in which you log into your account with them in their systems (this does not affect access to the database itself).

If you have an NCBI account you will need to update it to switch logging in over to a 3rd party options (such as Google, NIH, eRA Commons, ORCID, Login.gov, or Microsoft). Instructions on how to do this and additional information on this change can be found on their website: https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ncbi-login-retirement-faqs/#linking-3rd

Please note that at this time, Sheffield Hallam University has not enabled 3rd party login via institution, a separate 3rd party login would be required.
HighWire
This database contains over 6 million articles, a third of which are open access (free to anyone) scientific articles.

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