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Hundreds more ejournals available to NHS users

Thanks to a pilot project being run by representatives in the UK academic sector, over a thousand ejournals are being made available to NHS users. You can read more about the pilot project here.

All the ejournals can be accessed via our NHS Journals A-Z list. You can also browse through the list of titles via a spreadsheet on our website, go to our journals information page and click the link for the file NHS Pilot – Access to academic-licensed research.

Most of the titles are only available via the NHS network; Science Direct and Springer titles included in the project are available via NHS Athens username / password. The pilot is expected to end 31st October 2014.

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