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 HDAS the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search facility will close 31 st March 2022. After this date, all your saved searches and alerts will be deleted . Export your saved searches or alerts NOW ! When it’s gone, it’s gone. How to export your saved content Check the instructions on the HDAS website Read our blog post for videos and instructions on exporting from HDAS and importing into Ebsco, Ovid and Proquest More Help Please contact our training team if you need any assistance.

** NHS HDAS (healthcare advanced search database) will close 31st March 2022. ** If you use NHS HDAS to complete your literature searching and set alerts then you need to act now! If you use NHS HDAS to search Cinahl, Medline, Amed, Embase or any NHS bibliographic database, then you need to act now! Which database should you search? Which platform hosts them? Check our online tutorial Which NHS database do you need? to find out. Make the switch! Move any saved searches and alerts to the database host platforms Start your literature searching on the host platforms Get more help from our NHS databases help page Contact the training team for help using the host platforms

 Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) will close down on 31 March 2022.  This means that you will not be able to access or use HDAS. Any alerts you have saved will stop running and sending results to you. All the search strategies and search results you have saved will be deleted. You will need to conduct your literature searches against the bibliographic databases via their native platform. You can find more help on moving your saved content on HDAS to the native databases, and on using the native interfaces on our help page . For more help please arrange a training session with our training team .

We have recently had an update to the software that produces the links for our journals and articles presented within NICE HDAS and NHS A-Z Journals. Unfortunately there appear to be a number of problems associated with the implementation that you should be aware of: 1. Some full-text links are repeating - so you may get 2-5 links that are all the same, this is occurring with a number of providers, although it is not consistent. This has been reported. 2. The links for print content from the Health Library print journals don’t seem to be coming through on HDAS, although the journal title are on the A-Z. So you may need to check the A-Z for print content. This has been reported. 3. Links from Ebsco Medline with full-text are working intermittently and I don't think the content is correct ie we seem to be getting links for journal titles which are not included as full-text within medline. This has been reported. Do let me know if you come across anything looking funny...

The new version of HDAS has now been implemented by NICE. Please see the following information regarding what you should do… NICE Evidence Services Library Bulletin - HDAS switch-over date NICE Evidence Services Library Bulletin - HDAS training materials & migration information NICE Evidence Services Library Bulletin - HDAS Updates; Important Information, Act Now

Message from HDAS: We will be conducting essential service maintenance on Tuesday 28th June 2016 during the evening. Current HDAS will continue to be available, however any new saved searches created after 5pm may not be available after the work is complete.  Saved searches in current HDAS will be available again from Wednesday morning.  Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please note the following information we have received: From  Saturday Aug 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM Eastern Time  through  Sunday Aug 9, 2015 at 6:00 AM Eastern time , ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure in the Virginia data center ("DC4"). During the maintenance window, customer access will be redirected to a webpage stating the planned maintenance times. Access may be available sooner than the published end time depending on completion of testing. This maintenance will not impact the ProQuest Support Center or Support Center Portal. This may impact on access to the medline and psychinfo databases within NHS HDAS, which are provided by Proquest. Apologies for any inconvenience.

The anticipated switch from Ovid to Proquest for Medline and PsychInfo has now occurred. Using HDAS to search Medline and PsychInfo will now refer searches via Proquest and includes some limitations. See document “HDAS Database Changes – Fields available” on our Journal Problems & Fixes page . To avoid these limitations you may wish to prefer to search via the Proquest interface. You can find a direct link to the Proquest database in our section “ Direct Database Login ”. You can find help using the Proquest databases here: Proquest training resources You can also access Medline via Ebsco. This may be a more familiar interface for some of you who have used Ebsco databases before. You will also find direct links in our section “ Direct Database Login ”. These is help using the Ebsco databases here: Ebsco Health - Advanced Searching on MEDLINE and CINAHL Databases Help Sheet

This is a reminder... From the 1 st of April the provision of the Medline and PsychInfo databases, as part of the NHS Core Content, will be delivered via ProQuest and not Ovid. Changes will be made to the NHS HDAS interface to run searches on these 2 databases via ProQuest instead of Ovid. As a consequence of these changes, any searches (and associated alerts) saved within HDAS by users, which use these databases or search across databases, will be lost. You are advised to export your search information in order to retain it. You can then re-create the search, and alert, when the new interface is implemented. Screen-shot of the HDAS Export optoins You can find instructions on saving searches and alerts on our Journal Problems page here . Note for users who use the Ovid interface directly. If you use the Ovid interface directly to save searches, and set up alerts, on Medline or PsychInfo you will also lose access to your saved searches. Ovid are inve...

From the 1 st of April the provision of the Medline and PsychInfo databases, as part of the NHS Core Content, will be delivered via ProQuest and not Ovid. Changes will be made to the NHS HDAS interface to run searches on these 2 databases via ProQuest instead of Ovid. As a consequence of these changes, any searches (and associated alerts) saved within HDAS by users, which use these databases or search across databases, will be lost. You can now find instructions on how to save your searches and alerts on our Journal Problems & Fixes page .

From the 1 st of April the provision of the Medline and PsychInfo databases, as part of the NHS Core Content, will be delivered via ProQuest and not Ovid. Changes will be made to the NHS HDAS interface to run searches on these 2 databases via ProQuest instead of Ovid. As a consequence of these changes, any searches (and associated alerts) saved within HDAS by users, which use these databases or search across databases, will be lost. You are advised to export your search information in order to retain it. You can then re-create the search, and alert, when the new interface is implemented. Screen-shot of the export options You can find more help on using HDAS in our guide . Note for users who use the Ovid interface directly. If you use the Ovid interface directly to save searches, and set up alerts, on Medline or PsychInfo you will also lose access to your saved searches. Ovid are investigating whether searches can be exported to ProQuest but you are advi...

NICE HDAS should now be working as normal. Please report any problems.

NICE have reported that there are currently problems accessing the NICE HDAS databases. They are working on it urgently. You can use the "Alternative Logins - when HDAS isn't working" options on our Healthcare Resources page to access the databases directly.

HDAS is the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search facility offered by NHS Evidence. It is available to users with an NHS Athens username and password. You can search a number of different databases using the same interface. The databases available include: ** AMED, BNI, Cinahl, Embase, Health Business Elite, HMIC, Medline and Psychinfo ** The benefits of using HDAS include: Number of different databases available You can search for articles across a wide range of journal titles Common search interface for different databases – you don’t have to learn how to use each database separately You can search using keywords – just enter your terms into the search box You can search using a thesaurus – find the right thesaurus terms to speed up your search You can view your search history You can combine searches together using AND or OR – to either focus or expand your search You are offered a number of limits to apply to your search to help you to focus on a topic; including...