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NHS Journal Changes for 2020

There have been a number of changes to the individual journal subscriptions this year for NHS staff.

New Titles

The Health Library has subscribed to a new collection this year, called the Ovid High Impact collection. This collection includes 85 titles:
A&A Case Reports
A&A Practice
Academic Medicine
Advances in Anatomic Pathology
AIDS
AM Express
American Journal of Gastroenterology
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
American Journal of Surgical Pathology
Anesthesia & Analgesia
Anesthesiology
Annals of Plastic Surgery
Annals of Surgery
Arteriosclerosis
Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis: A Journal of Vascular Biology
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology
Cancer Nursing
Circulation
Circulation Research
Clinical Journal of Pain
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
Cornea
Critical Care Medicine
Current Opinion in Lipidology
Current Opinion in Neurology
Current Opinion in Oncology
Current Opinion in Rheumatology
Current Researches in Anesthesia & Analgesia
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
Ear & Hearing
Epidemiology
European Journal of Anaesthesiology
Exercise & Sport Sciences Reviews
Hypertension
Investigative Radiology
JAAOS: Global Research and Reviews
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
JBJS Case Connector
JBJS Essential Surgical Techniques
JBJS Open Access
JBJS Reviews
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human Retrovirology
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery - American Volume
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Online Case Reports
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
Journal of Hypertension
Journal of Immunotherapy
Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Journal of the American Audiology Society
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care
Journal of Urology
Medical Care
Medicine
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Neurology
Neurology Clinical Practice
Neurology Genetics
Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey
Obstetrics & Gynecology
OTA International
Pain
PAIN Reports
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open
Psychosomatic Medicine
Retina
Review Course Lectures from the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) Annual Meetings
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Spine
Spine: Affiliated Society Meeting Abstracts
Stroke
Transactions of the ... Meeting of the American Surgical Association
Transactions of the Southern Surgical Association
Transplantation
Transplantation Direct

Additional titles have been added to our collection due to changes in packages:

Clinical Chemistry
JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
JCO Precision Oncology
Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine

All titles with this collection are available to our users within UHNM, North Staffs Combined Healthcare and the GPs and practice staff and CCG staff within Staffordshire.

Cancelled Titles

A number of titles have been cancelled this year:

Acta Cytologica
age and aging
American journal of nursing (AJN)
American journal of occupational therapy
Annals of Oncology
BJPsych Advances
Clinical obstetrics & gynecology
Current orthopaedic practice
Journal of neurosurgery
Journal of neurosurgery pediatrics
Journal of neurosurgery spine
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Journal of pediatric orthopaedics
Laryngoscope, The
Nursing Research
Scandinavian Journal of Rhuematology

Titles are usually cancelled due to low usage and/or increasing costs.

Renewed Titles

The following titles have been renewed:
A&A Case Reports
AACR Combo Package
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
American Journal of Psychiatry
American Journal of Surgical Pathology
Anaesthesia
Anesthesia & Analgesia
Anesthesiology
Annals of Surgery
BJA Education
Blood - Incls Supplement
Bone & Joint Journal
Brain
British Journal of Anaesthesia
British Journal of General Practice
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants
British Journal of Neurosurgery
British Journal of Psychiatry
British Journal of Surgery
Cancer Nursing
Cancer Research
Circulation
Clinical Cancer Research
Clinical Journal of Pain
Critical Care Medicine
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Current Opinion in Critical Care
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
European Heart Journal
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery - American Volume
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Journal of Laryngology & Otology
Journal of Laryngology and Otology Archive
Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Journal of Urology
JPEN - Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
Learning Disability Practice
Mental Health Practice
Neurology
Nurse Researcher
Nursing Children and Young People
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Pediatrics
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Spine
Stroke

Please note that the availability of some of these titles will depend on the organisation that you work for.

Access Full-Text

To access all journals login to the the NHS Journals A-Z list with your NHS OpenAthens username. The link is available from our journals page.

You can find a full list of NHS subscribed resources on our NHS Resources page.

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