Useful websites

Apps for smartphones

• iMedical apps (opens in a new window) includes reviews of medical apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry grouped by app type and by medical specialties written by physicians and medical students

Evidence based research

• The Trip database (opens in a new window) is a clinical search engine with a focus in evidenced medicine.  It  includes questions and answers, images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

Free exam resources for junior doctors

• Free exam resources for junior doctors [docx] 68KB provided by John Gale, Trust Librarian, JET Library, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Free online courses

• The Open Education Database (opens in a new window) includes over 10.000 courses in different subjects including arts, science, computing, maths, medicine and more produced by universities
• Coursera (opens in a new window) provides access to over 600 free e-learning courses

Free online journal articles

• The Open Access Library (opens in a new window) provides access to over 2 million articles academic articles.

Free images

• Free digital photos (opens in a new window) in diverse subjects
• Wellcome images (opens in a new window) is part of the Wellcome Library; the collection includes contemporary and historical images freely available for download for personal, academic teaching or study use, under one of two creative commons licences.  Please see the term of use on their website for more information.

Free referencing software

• Zotero (opens in a new window)
• Mendeley (opens in a new window).

Grey literature

• Access to references of grey literature, include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, conference papers and others. OpenGrey (opens in a new window) covers science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and humanities.

Leadership and management resources

• NHS Leadership Academy (opens in a new window)
• Institute of Leadership and Management (opens in a new window)
• Business balls (opens in a new window)
• Mind tools (opens in a new window). 

Medical careers

• National Medical Careers website (opens in a new window).

Medicines Learning Portal

• The Medicines Learning Portal (opens in a new window) is designed for hospital pharmacists in their first 1000 days of practice.  Some of the content may also be of interest to community pharmacists and pharmacists returning to hospital practice after a career break. 

Nursing

• The Nursing and Midwifery Council (opens in a new window) publications includes links to standard and gudiance publications (opens in a new window).

NHS Portfolio

• A useful educational portal for trainee doctors can be viewed on NHS Portfolio (opens in a new window).

Open access resources

• Access to Research (opens in a new window) has more than 10 million free of charge academic articles available. Access is available to a wide range of academic articles and research.
• BASE (opens in a new window) provides access to more than 70 million documents from more than 3000 sources. This means you can access the full texts of about 70% of the indexed documents. 
• CORE (opens in a new window) (COnnecting REpositories) collects all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide. CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research. 

Zika virus portals

• The Zika Resource Portal (opens in a new window) is produced by Wolters Kluwer, this single point of access portal provides complimentary access to evidence-based point of care clinical, learning and research solutions about the Zika virus.  Updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) are available via this portal.
• Zika Virus – a guide to free information sources: Compiled by Matt Holland in the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Library and Knowledge Service, this list provides a comprehensive list of free access resources covering the Zika virus.