ASSIA - This is part of the CSA Social Sciences Package. Contains abstracts of articles in approximately 500 periodicals in the applied social sciences. Content is geared to the needs of practitioners in the 'caring professions' and covers topics as diverse as social policy, welfare, health care, gender issues, sociology, anthropology, development and psychology. Many of the articles covered relate to British society but there is some international coverage. Coverage is mainly from 1987 onwards. Updated quarterly.  (Good for searching for Social aspects of Healthcare and Psychological aspects of Healthcare)

Access - http://auth.athensams.net/?ath_returl=http://www.csa1.co.uk/htbin/dbrng.cgi&ath_dspid=CSA.ID
PDF Guide - CSA Illumina guide

BioMed Central – BioMed Central provides access to refereed journals in biological sciences and medicine. BioMed Central is part of a wider movement by universities here and in the US to make scientific research freely available on the internet.   Majority of articles are free full-text.  You do not need a username or password to access.  (Good for searching a wide variety of healthcare topics.  Can be anything from counselling to highly clinical subjects)

Access – http://www.biomedcentral.com

CINAHL Full-Text - CINAHL with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL. This contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.  Please keep in mind that not all journals are going to be full-text.
(Good for all Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health topics)

Access - http://search.epnet.com/athens.asp
Guide – Cinahl guide - Basic Cinahl guide - Advanced

Cochrane Library - The Cochrane Library is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October and consists of seven evidence-based medicine databases with some full text.  It is free to use and does not require a login.  
(Good for Evidence-Based Practice and locating RCTs)

Access – http://thecochranelibrary.com
Guide - Cochrane Library Guide

HMIC - The Health Management Information Consortium contains details of articles and books in health management, social care, social policy and community care. There are 3 databases in HMIC; the Kings Fund Database, HEMLIS and Department of Health Data.
(Good for Healthcare Management and Public Health topics)

Access - http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/athens/
Guide: HMIC Database Guide

IFIND Research  - IFind Research is a useful tool which can be used to search across multiple databases. It provides an A-Z list of all our journals and an A-Z list of all our databases. Use the “Something from a reading list or bibliography” function to quickly trace an article or book where you know the author and title. To cross-search several of the databases for health science, use the “Find something on a topic or subject” link and choose one of the pre-defined sets of databases for Nursing, Midwifery, Health Science (General), Paramedics or Public Health. 

Access - http://ifind.swan.ac.uk

Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS) - Maternity and Infant Care Database is produced by MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service). It is often referred to just as MIDIRS. This is a bibliographical database containing over 1200,000 references relating to the midwifery profession, including pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care and neonatal care. MIDIRS is international in scope with over 550 journals, as well as books, reports, web journals, press releases, newspaper articles and other grey literature being indexed.
(Good for Midwifery, Obstetrics and Neonatal Care)

Access - http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/athens/
Guide - MIDIRS (Maternity & Infant Care Database)

MEDLINE - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Access - http://search.epnet.com/athens.asp
Guide - Medline guide

PsycInfo - The American Psychological Association database containing abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations/theses in psychology and related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Coverage is from 1887 to the present and the database is updated weekly.
(Good for Psychological aspects of healthcare)

Access - http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/athens/
Guide - PsycInfo through Ovid SP

PubMed - PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.  PubMed is free to use and does not need an Athens login.  You can create a free account to save searches and to set alerts.  Consult the guide to set Swansea University as your local library, therefore getting a Locate It At Swansea button.                                                      (Good for all aspects of healthcare, medicine and psychiatry)

Access – http://www.pubmed.gov                                                                 
Guide - http://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/Media,7866,en.pdf                          
PubMed’s Online Tutorial - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/

Web of Knowledge - ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed, mainly research articles.  You can access Web of Science via the Web of Knowledge portal. The information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list or bibliography which means that you can also search the databases for articles which cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching, unique to ISI, lets you use a given work as if it were a subject term to identify more recent articles on the same topic.  (Good for locating research articles in all areas of healthcare and medicine)

Access - http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
Guide - http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/present_version/newwok101.pdf