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NHS ProQuest: LKS Support

Latest evidence based resources  available to health and care Professionals in England

Welcome to the support LibGuide for NHS in England healthcare professionals. 

On this page you will find ways to access the latest evidence based resources available to all health and care staff in England. Explore training recordings, how-to videos and the latest news and useful materials. Authorised users can search and access the nationally purchased journals and databases from the Journals and Databases page at NICE Evidence Search www.evidence.nhs.uk.  See the Contents of this LibGuide,

What's New

Latest News on the ProQuest platform:

AMED is now available on the ProQuest platform and Abstracts can now be displayed in the Results page. - See the webinars on AMED in the Calendar of forthcoming webinars.


New! Added direct access to the Dialog Database Guides. Go here (on the left) to download them.


Go here to see the descriptions of all the new releases on ProQuest in 2024 and more documentation.

PROQUEST WEBINARS OFFERING

Monthly Webinars for NHS in England - 2025 Q1 Program

ProQuest is happy to present to you the bespoke remote training schedule for the 1st Quarter 2025 .

Average Length: 60 minutes. Calendar.Descriptions.

Seminars are delivered via MS Teams. Registration is required. - Please click on the link of the date of your choice to go to the registration page.

Please read the Learning Objectives of the sessions to make sure the content of the webinar of your choice is well tailored to the level of your experience and needs. - Intended Audience: users with an assumed knowledge of the basics of online searching (boolean operators). A basic familiarity with the ProQuest platform is desirable. For an introduction to the basics of searching on ProQuest and Dialog, users are advised to watch the recordings available in the related page of this Libguide: https://proquest.libguides.com/nhs/recordings

Please note: The webinars will start in time. Attendees are kindly invited to join at least 5/10 minutes before the start time. Thank you!

We will propose several sample applications during the sessions. Attendees are welcome to provide some real life search examples, ideally 1 week in advance to the scheduled date. We can then incorporate these into the webinar. Please address them to daniela.cason@clarivate.com, indicating the webinar title and date, and NHS in the email subject. Thanks!


CALENDAR Q1 2025

 

1 - Nursing and Allied & Complementary Medicine (AMED) on ProQuest.


2 - Mental Health information on ProQuest  –  PICO and other searches on PsycInfo and other Psychology content.


3 - Biomedicine and Public Health information on ProQuest – Health Research Premium collection and Medline.


4 - Mental Health information on Dialog – PICO and other searches on PsycInfo.


5 - Plan and execute a biomed PICO search using Health Research Premium Collection on ProQuest.


6 - Nursing and Allied & Complementary Medicine (AMED) on Dialog.


Access the Training Materials - Request more training


Need dedicated training?

To discuss your institution's training needs,

please email your Sr Customer Success & Training Manager Daniela Cason.

Descriptions of the Webinars

 

1 - Nursing and Allied & Complementary Medicine (AMED) on ProQuest.

Learning Objectives

  • # Research the content on ProQuest for Nursing and Allied & Complementary Medicine
  • # Apply ProQuest basic and advanced search features with some applications
  • # Use the specialized subject indexing (AMED and ProQuest Thesauri)

2 - Mental Health information on ProQuest  –  PICO and other searches on PsycInfo and other Psychology content.

Learning Objectives

  • # Research the Psychology content on ProQuest
  • # Apply ProQuest basic and advanced search features with some applications
  • # Planning and execution of a psychology PICO search
  • # Use the APA and ProQuest thesauri

3 - Biomedicine and Public Health information on ProQuest – Health Research Premium collection and Medline.

Learning Objectives

  • # Research the content on ProQuest for Biomedicine, Public Health and Healthcare Administration
  • # Apply ProQuest basic and advanced search features with some applications
  • # Use the Medline and ProQuest Thesauri

4 - Mental Health information on Dialog – PICO and other searches on PsycInfo.

Learning Objectives

  • # Research the Psychology content on Dialog
  • # Apply Dialog basic and advanced search features with some applications
  •           Use the APA and Medline thesauri
  • # Planning and building your PICO search applying the systematic review best practices
  • # Find the appraised EBM studies on Dialog

5 - Plan and execute a biomed PICO search using Health Research Premium Collection on ProQuest.

Learning Objectives

  • # Planning and building your search strategy
  • # Applying the systematic review best practices to the ProQuest platform
  • # Find the appraised EBM studies on ProQuest
  • # Sample applications

6 - Nursing and Allied & Complementary Medicine (AMED) on Dialog.

Learning Objectives

  • # Planning and building your search strategy
  • # Applying the systematic review best practices to the ProQuest platform
  • # Find the appraised EBM studies on ProQuest
  • # Sample applications

NICE'S FRAMEWORK - BUYER'S HANDBOOK

Meet the ProQuest Team

Support

NHS England encourages users to contact the Knowledge and Library Hub Service Desk at https://support.library.hee.nhs.uk/support/home in the first instance.


Support offered by ProQuest

+ 44 (0)1227 931 727 Toll nr
Available 9am - 5pm GMT Monday to Friday

Additional support outside these core hours will also be provided by our global service desk

All queries will be responded to within 48 hours

Accessing ProQuest Administrator Module (PAM)

You can access your PAM by going to admin.proquest.com and entering your username and password. To request your login details, please contact Technical Support

► ProQuest Administrator Module Guides