LibraryOnline: Access to HE Allied Health Professions: Online Resources and Websites

Key Databases

Issues Online This link opens in a new window
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Issues Online provides teachers and students with a safe, reliable place to explore today’s most important social issues. It contains hundreds of articles, infographics, videos, assignment ideas and e-books on topics ranging from human rights, domestic violence, health and wellbeing, drugs, and alcohol.
To access Issues Online, click on the Login button, under Your Home Institution Shibboleth login click on “go to the login area”. Type in Bradford College and click on “Login”, and then enter your College IT username and password.
Accessibility Information for Issues Online
Anatomy.TV from Primal Pictures
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Anatomy.TV from Primal Pictures is an award-winning interactive 3D anatomy resource for both students and professionals, with 20 interactive modules covering systems of the body, human anatomy and physiology and cell biology.
Includes interactive 3D models and animations, as well as case studies, clinical content and quizzes.
Click on a module to begin straightaway. Once you have selected a module, it will open in a new browser window.
Each module opens with an overview of what you will learn. You can click through each page to cover the whole unit, or click on a topic to go straight to that section.

Please use your College username and password (this is your student/staff email address and password) to log in.
Accessibility Statement for Anatomy TV

Recommended Databases

Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
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Britannica Academic is a combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources students need for research.
Please use your college IT username and password to access Britannica Online Academic Edition.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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Emerald Insight is a database of over 300 peer-reviewed journals. Subject coverage of the journals includes marketing, human resource management, training, economics, hospitality management, quality, engineering, built environment, health services management, social care, accounting, and organisation studies.
To access Emerald off campus click on “Login” at the top of the Emerald home page. Click on "Access through your institution". Type Bradford College in the "Find Your Institution" box. Please use your College username and password (this is your student/staff email address and password) to log in.
Accessibility Statement for Emerald Insight
General OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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A one stop source for news, magazine and journal articles on a wide range of subjects. Millions of full text articles available as PDF and HTML, many with images. Updated daily.
To access Gale General OneFile off campus:
Click on the link “Login via your home institution” ;
Please use your College username and password (this is your student/staff email address and password) to log in.
Accessibility Statement for General OneFile (Gale)
Issues Online This link opens in a new window
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Issues Online provides teachers and students with a safe, reliable place to explore today’s most important social issues. It contains hundreds of articles, infographics, videos, assignment ideas and e-books on topics ranging from human rights, domestic violence, health and wellbeing, drugs, and alcohol.
To access Issues Online, click on the Login button, under Your Home Institution Shibboleth login click on “go to the login area”. Type in Bradford College and click on “Login”, and then enter your College IT username and password.
Accessibility Information for Issues Online
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
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MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
MEDLINE is hosted by EBSCO.
Please use your College username and password (this is your student/staff email address and password) to log in..
NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) This link opens in a new window
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National guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
Primal Pictures This link opens in a new window
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Anatomy.TV from Primal Pictures is a comprehensive 3D anatomy atlas, professional reference and image library of human anatomy with fully interactive anatomical models.
Please use your College username and password (this is your student/staff email address and password) to log in.
Accessibility Statement for Anatomy TV
Psychology and Behavioural Science Collection This link opens in a new window
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Access more than 500 full text journals covering topics such as psychiatry and psychology, emotional and behavioural characteristics, and observational and experimental methods.
Please use your College username and password (this is your student/staff email address and password) to log in.
Accessibility Statement for Psychology and Behavioural Science Collection
New Scientist Online This link opens in a new window
Find the answer to your science and technology questions with online access to the current magazine plus archived editions going back to April 1989.
Only available on campus
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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SocINDEX with Full Text is a sociology research database and contains the full text for more than 820 journals dating back to 1908.
Subjects covered include sociology, criminology, ethnic and racial studies, gender, the family, politics, social theory, and social structure.
Please use your College username and password (this is your student/staff email address and password) to log in.
Accessibility Statement for SocINDEX with Full Text

Useful Websites

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) official statistics. Also includes statistics from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).
Fingertips: Public Health Data
Fingertips provides easy access to a rich source of indicators across a range of health and wellbeing topics. Data in Fingertips are organised into thematic Profiles. These profiles have been developed by the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities.
The King's Fund
The King's Fund is an independent charitable organisation working to improve health and care in England
Local Authority Health Profiles
The local authority health profiles provide an overview of health for each local authority in England. They pull together existing information and data on a range of indicators for local populations, highlighting issues that can affect health in each locality.
NHS Digital
NHS Digital is the primary provider of data and information for health and social care in England. There is a vase range of data, publications and services available through this website.
NHS England
NHS England publish statistics on a range of health and care subjects.
Office for National Statistics
Statistics on areas relating to life expectancy, disability, drug use, alcohol and smoking, health inequalities and mental health. Also includes statistics on expenditure on private and public healthcare systems