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NHS staff can get free access to thousands of ebooks and articles

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 Get the best evidence from essential resources such as ebooks, journals and databases. Whenever you’re looking for the right information for confident clinical decisions, career development, research projects or support for patient care, make sure you can access the best evidence.

Access NHS and Health Library subscribed resources using your NHS OpenAthens username and password.

What is NHS OpenAthens and are you eligible?

Complete our quick quiz NHS OpenAthens – what’s fact or fake? to learn…
  • What is NHS OpenAthens?
  • Are you eligible?
  • What resources you can access?
  • How can you register?
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Practice evidence-based healthcare by accessing the best evidence using your NHS OpenAthens username.

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Contact the Health Library for more help finding and accessing the information you need.
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