Find a Journal
The library provides access to a comprehensive collection of high-quality journals, supporting your research and learning needs across various disciplines.
To access most of our online resources, you will require an NHS OpenAthens account.
The easiest way to search all of our journals is through the Knowledge and Library Search Hub.
You can also get one-click access to journal articles using the LibKey Nomad browser extension.
If you don’t have access to a journal that you need, please contact us. We can get hold of articles and books from other libraries for you.
For more information about accessing individual journal collections, please see below:
BMJ Case Reports
What is BMJ Case Reports?
BMJ Case Reports is an important educational resource offering a high volume of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.
How do I access BMJ Case Reports?
- Visit https://casereports.bmj.com/and click ‘Log in’.
- You will be presented with a Log in via OpenAthens button.
- Log in using your NHS OpenAthens username and password. If you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account, please register here.
Institutional Fellowships
This gives all faculty, staff and students within your institution the freedom to submit as many cases as they like as well as access to and reuse of all the published material.
Contact your Library at for further information.
BMJ Journals
What are BMJ Journals?
BMJ Journals includes a variety of key titles, across a range of specialities, including clinical, evidence-based and public health journals.
How do I access BMJ Journals?
- Visit journals.bmj.com/ and click ‘Log in’.
- You will be presented with a Log in via OpenAthens button.
- Log in using your NHS OpenAthens username and password. If you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account, please register here.
Browzine
What is Browzine?
BrowZine is a web and mobile application designed to facilitate the browsing, reading, and monitoring of journals. BrowZine can be used to easily find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available to you via the library.
How do I access BrowZine?
- Go to https://browzine.com
- Select Choose my library.
- Choose Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust from the list of library names.
- Log in using your NHS OpenAthens username and password to access full-text journals. If you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account, please register here.
Using the Browzine app
Use the links below to access the Browzine app:
Cinahl Ultimate
What is CINHAL Ultimate?
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database.
It covers more than 50 nursing specialities and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
How do I access CINHAL Ultimate?
The easiest and quickest way to access Cinahl Ultimate is via the NHS Knowledge and Library Search Hub
Log in using your NHS OpenAthens username and password. If you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account, please register here.
ClinicalKey for Nursing
What is ClinicalKey for Nursing?
ClinicalKey for Nursing provides access to nursing content including full-text books and journals, point-of-care monographs, customisable patient education handouts, drug monographs, videos, images, practice guidelines and clinical trials. Empowering nurses with trusted resources for clinical answers.
How do I access ClinicalKey for Nursing?
- Visit https://www.clinicalkey.com/nursing and select Login from the top right corner.
- Click on OpenAthens Login under the heading 'Log in via your institution'.
- Log in using your NHS OpenAthens username and password.
- If you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account, you can register for one here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/
Cochrane Library
What is The Cochrane Library?
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading resource for systematic reviews in health care and reports of randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials.
How do I access the Cochrane Library?
- Visit https://www.cochranelibrary.com/
- Please note: On an NHS networked computer, you should have immediate access without having to log-in.
- At home & elsewhere, click Sign in and select Institutional login.
- Select the option to Login with OpenAthens.
- Log in using your NHS OpenAthens username and password. If you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account, please register here.
HSJ - Health Service Journal
What is HSJ?
Health Service Journal (HSJ) is the news and insight service for all healthcare leaders working in, for, or with the NHS. They bring you healthcare and NHS news, and are the only organisation that covers all aspects of publicly funded healthcare from health policy to acute and primary care, specialist services to mental health and commissioning to provision.
They provide news, analysis, best practice information and advice from the most influential people in health, for the most influential people in health.
How do I access HSJ?
- We are currently not allocating HSJ accounts as we are now oversubscribed. Please contact rduh.library-northern@nhs.net if you have any questions.
HSJ App – Go to the Google Play store or Apple’s App Store on your device.
Wiley Medicine and Nursing Journal Collection
What is the Wiley Journal Collection?
Wiley Medicine and Nursing Journal Collection – Featuring a range of over 400 titles in total, this collection provides the latest news and information across a broad spectrum of critical healthcare issues.
How do I access Wiley journals?
- Visit https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
- Click Login/register then select Institutional login.
- Click Sign in with your OpenAthens Account
- Log in using your NHS OpenAthens username and password. If you don't yet have an NHS OpenAthens account, please register here.