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Referencing within Nutrition & Health
All programmes in the Nutrition & Health use Cite Them Right Harvard.
Access Cite Them Right through the link below.
- Cite Them RightCite them right is a comprehensive guide to referencing almost anything you will come across in the course of your studies or research.
Library subscriptions: free with your Roehampton login.
Search these specialist databases to find journal articles, book chapters and other academic research papers in your subject. Most provide the full text, but sometimes just brief details (citation and abstract) of the articles. Click the Search4FullText button to see if you can access the article via our eJournals; if not, you can order it free via Interlibrary Loan.
- CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Full text coverage of leading nursing and allied health literature. Topics include: nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, and allied health disciplines such as physiotherapy.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
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A collection of databases providing up-to-date, high-quality, independent evidence (such as systematic reviews) to inform healthcare decision-making.
- Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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- Human Kinetics Library This link opens in a new window
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Sport, physical activity and dance eBooks, also includes a suite of instructional videos, images and audio clips.
- Medline (Web of Science platform) This link opens in a new window
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The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database. Check out our Spotlight on Nursing and Healthcare Resources blog post.
- Ovid This link opens in a new window
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Premium nursing and allied health database, ideal for practice, research, or education, with millions of records including full text eBooks and journals.
- PubMed (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
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A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- RCNi This link opens in a new window
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Back copies of eleven journals, in print and digital formats, providing health professionals with the latest developments impacting nursing, including changes in policy, practice and research. Note: for access click ‘Log In’ (top right), sign in via your institution > OpenAthens, with your Roehampton credentials.
- Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
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Over 500 full text journals covering arts, social sciences (especially media studies), humanities and life sciences.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Contains over 2500 scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals from the publisher Elsevier.
- Springer Journals Compact Collection This link opens in a new window
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A collection of over 2,500 journals; full text coverage dates back to 1997.
Problems logging in off campus? See our tutorial. - Web Of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Database comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.
- PubMed (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
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A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
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Based on Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, this video platform has over 230 videos covering head-to-toe physical examination techniques and clinical reasoning content for skills-based assesments.
- Visible Body This link opens in a new window
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3D human anatomy visualisation tool containing: Human Anatomy Atlas, Physiology & Pathology and Muscle Premium. Available both as a desktop version and an App. First time users will need to set up a personal account (free).
Television and Video content - free to access with your Roehampton login:
- ROB (Roehampton Online Broadcasts) This link opens in a new window
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Record and stream freeview TV and radio programmes for educational use, create clips and playlists, and access the archive of recorded programmes including BBC and Shakespeare Archives. ROB is managed by AVR, for assistance contact: avr@roehampton.ac.uk.
- Human Kinetics Library This link opens in a new window
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Sport, physical activity and dance eBooks, also includes a suite of instructional videos, images and audio clips.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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Streams thousands of films, documentaries and training videos across a wide range of subjects. Note: Click 'Log in to Roehampton' on the left side of the screen to gain access. Please note: BBC programmes may be available via Roehampton Online Broadcasts (ROB).
Professional organisations and other useful web links:
- The Association for NutritionThe UK's regulatory body for Registered Nutritionists. Roehampton's Nutrition degree programmes are accredited by the AFN.
- Academy of Nutrition SciencesA joint initiative between the Association for Nutrition (AfN), the British Dietetic Association (BDA), the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) and the Nutrition Society (NS).
- British Dietetic AssociationThe Association of UK Dietitians
- British Nutrition FoundationA charity providing reliable, evidence-based information on nutrition.
- The Nutrition SocietyAn academic learned society dedicated to advancing the scientific study of nutrition and its application to human and animal health.