The Newcomb Library provides Library and Knowledge Services for all ELFT staff.
Please note that the forms on this webpage work best with the Chrome browser. Alternatively, please email the Newcomb Library with your request.
Search a range of high quality knowledge and evidence resources in one place, including journals, databases and ebooks.
Please login into the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub for East London here, using your NHS OpenAthens username and password.
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub user guide
Knowledge-Hub-basic-user-guide-for-Homerton.pdf [pdf] 337KB
Watch a short user video tutorial
Searching bibliographic databases
If you would like to quickly find journal literature and other evidence, please use the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
From 1 July 2025 there will be changes to nationally-purchased electronic resources. The following resources will not be available:
Access to ProQuest (including AMED, British Nursing Index, Health Research Premium Collection, PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES)
E-books from Oxford University Press (Handbooks and Textbooks collection and Specialist Handbooks)
The following bibliographic databases are available:
CINAHL – nursing and allied health
Embase – biomedical and pharmaceutical literature
Emcare – nursing and allied health
HMIC – healthcare management
Medline – biomedical, life sciences, allied health and pre-clinical sciences literature
Social Policy and Practice – health and social care
These databases can be found on the native interfaces as below
EBSCO CINAHL, Medline and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Wolters Kluwer (Ovid) Embase, Emcare, HMIC, Medline and Social Policy and Practice
If you would like to search the healthcare databases systematically, please contact Newcomb Library and librarians can perform a search on your behalf or train you in how to find the evidence you need using the native interfaces.
You will need an NHS OpenAthens account to access the search interfaces.
Please also use these guides about each of the database search interfaces:
EBSCO Guide February 2022.pdf [pdf] 2MB
Ovid Guide February 2022.pdf [pdf] 1MB
or try the e-learning modules, Literature Searching
Try also the Trip Database which is a freely accessible portal that searches evaluated sites for evidence-based healthcare information, and finds evidence quickly.
Stahl Online is a one-stop shop, covering everything a mental health professional or teacher will ever need to know about neuropsychopharmacology. Comprehensive and regularly updated, Stahl Online provides full access to the entire current portfolio of books by Dr Stephen M. Stahl.
Access here
Need to find an article? Need to browse and read journals quickly and easily?
Try BrowZine - a tool which enables you to browse, read and monitor current journal content on your mobile device, laptop or desktop PC. View tables of contents, read articles as new issues are published, or read previous issues.
Search ejournals Title, ISSN or Subject keywords
Download the BrowZine app for mobile access.
You can find an article by DOI or by PMID here
You can also search for journals using EBSCO's publication finder Journals A-Z. either by using the search box or the A-Z publications by name on the Home page
Library catalogue
Search the Newcomb Library catalogue for books and ebooks
December Books of the Month
Newcomb Library's Mental Health Reading List
Bookmark this link to keep up to date with the latest additions to the Mental Health reading list — we add to it regularly. Latest additions include:
For centuries, mental and physical health have been divided and disorders of the mind and body have been treated as if they were poles apart. This deep-rooted division has shaped medicine, psychiatry, and society. But what if this mind/body split is not only outdated - but dangerously misleading?
In this groundbreaking follow-up to his bestselling The Inflamed Mind , psychiatrist and neuroscientist Edward Bullmore challenges one of medicine's most enduring assumptions.
Through the lens of schizophrenia - perhaps the most misunderstood of all psychiatric disorders - Bullmore explores what he calls "the original schism" and the under-examined history of psychiatry itself .
This definitive textbook on Practitioner Health mixes academic rigour with practitioner and patient experiences. The book covers all aspects of care relevant to any regulated health professional, focusing on the care of doctors and nurses with mental illness. The book builds on themes introduced in the award-winning publication Beneath the White Coat: Doctors, Their Minds and Mental Health from the same author. It provides an invaluable ‘how to manage’ companion to supplement and enhance the broader issues relating to doctors and mental illness addressed in that first book.
Treating mental health conditions in physically unwell patients presents unique challenges for clinicians and other practitioners. The efficacy and safety of psychotropic medications is established in physically healthy patients. In physically unwell people, psychotropics can have different outcomes and give rise to serious adverse effects that can complicate or worsen physical health conditions. Many clinicians face difficult decisions about prescribing for mental health conditions in such cases, and reliable information for them is scarce.
The Maudsley® Prescribing Guidelines for Mental Health Conditions in Physical Illness meets this urgent need with a comprehensive guide to the safe and effective pharmacological management of mental illness in physically unwell patients. Covering a wide range of physical health conditions and comorbidities, the book makes evidence-based recommendations on pharmacological interventions. It’s an essential resource for any clinical practitioner looking to balance the physical and mental wellbeing of people with concurrent physical and mental health conditions
If you’d like to recommend a book, contact us at
Confused by ebooks? Have a look at our guide
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry
The essential evidence-based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents. Covering both common and complex prescribing situations encountered in day-to-day clinical practice, this comprehensive resource provides expert guidance on drug choice, minimum and maximum doses, adverse effects, switching medications, prescribing for special patient groups, and more.
Fifteenth edition now available
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures
Provides over 350 evidence-based clinical skills procedures related to essential aspects of a person’s care, based on the latest research findings and advice from clinical experts.
Many procedures have illustrations to explain procedures and can be used for teaching. There is no mobile app, but the manual is designed to work on mobile devices.
Please log in with your NHS OpenAthens username and password.
Need to know more about the Critical Appraisal process? 
The critical appraisal e-learning programme has been designed to enable the healthcare workforce (clinical and non-clinical) to build confidence in the critical appraisal process when applying and evaluating research.
Access the elearning programme here
There are 8 modules which each take approximately 30 minutes - you can either do the whole programme or the module you require. Please use your NHS OpenAthens account to enrol on the elearning programme.
1. Introduction to Critical Appraisal
2. Health Inequalities
3. Randomised Controlled Trials
4. Interpreting Results
5. Systematic Reviews
6. Qualitative Studies
7. Diagnostic Studies
8. Critical Appraisal Tools
For further information about other elearning courses, please download this leaflet
eLearning Flyer May 23 _2_.pdf [pdf] 401KB
Also. watch a series of training videos on Critical Appraisal of an RCT using CASP checklist on YouTube from Barts Health Knowledge and Library Services
Your NHS OpenAthens account unlocks a wealth of resources including ejournals, ebooks, point of care tools, elearning and more!
Forgotten your password? Go to: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ForgotPassword/Reset
More about NHS OpenAthens
Anything else contact us at huh-tr.newcomblibrary@nhs.net
A million decisions are made every day in the NHS. Ensure you make the right ones!
Sign up to KnowledgeShare and receive highly-targeted evidence updates every fortnight. You tell us what your interests are (broad or narrow), what setting you work in, what your role is and we do the rest - helping you stay up to date, saving you time and connecting you with relevant evidence.
Register for a KnowledgeShare profile
Already signed up to KnowledgeShare? Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username and password?
Before you request an article, please make sure you check that it is not already available with your NHS OpenAthens username and password.
To check, please go to Journals A-Z and search for the journal your article is in. Remember to login to your OpenAthens account at the top right of the page.
Find an article by DOI by PMID
Once you have checked, fill in this form to request an article:
Newcomb Library request an article formContact huh-tr.NewcombLibrary@nhs.net about any training needs you may have. Or use the online booking form below.
We can show you how to find relevant research from healthcare databases and other sources, especially if you have a topic in mind, either individually or in groups via MS Teams or in person.
Online learning
Online courses to help you use evidence and knowledge to make good decisions, improve your research skills and achieve health improvements:
Literature searching
New to literature searches? Try the How to search the literature effectively elearning programme, designed to help you build confidence to search published literature for articles and evidence relevant to your work, study and research, whether you're in a clinical or non clinical role.
Need to critically appraise an article?
The critical appraisal e-learning programme has been designed to enable the healthcare workforce (clinical and non-clinical) to build confidence in the critical appraisal process when applying and evaluating research.
Health Literacy - you can make a difference
A free course designed for anyone in health or social care working with patients, families and carers. Nearly half the adults in England (43%) struggle to read and understand health information. When that information includes word and numbers, that rises to 61%. This means important details, such as how to take medicines and dosage, understanding appointment letters and test results can be missed. And not everyone feels confident to say when they don’t understand.
https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/healthliteracy/
For further information about other elearning courses, please download this leaflet
If you would like to request a inter-library loan for a book that is not available in the Newcomb Library catalogue, please complete the form below.
Please make sure you have checked that your item is not in stock in the catalogue before submitting your request.
Newcomb Library request a book form
If you are searching the literature for a work-related project, this can be both challenging and time-consuming. Our Literature Search service uses the skills and expertise of qualified librarians who carry out searches on your behalf.
To request a literature search, please complete the form. Please note we do not accept requests for systematic reviews.
Newcomb Library Literature Search Form
You can learn how to do a literature search online at:
https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/literature-searching/
Want to join the Library?
Please complete our registration form, selecting Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare
Want to download the 
?
1. Go to the BMJ Best Practice website. Click on "Log-in", Select 'Access through your institution' Type in search box 'NHS in England'.
2. Click "Create account" for a personal account or "Log in" if you already have an account.
3. Visit the Apple or Google Play store to search for and download the app.
4. Use your BMJ Best Practice "personal account" details to sign in and download the content.
Log into BMJ Best Practice here
Watch a quick video on how to download the BMJ Best Practice app via OpenAthens: https://bcove.video/2JzSASm
Interactive postgraduate doctor toolkit - essential resources from BMJ to support postgraduate doctors during their inductions and rotations. NHSE-Postgraduate-Doctor-Toolkit-2023.pdf [pdf] 580KB
Learn more about BMJ Best Practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyorTazib1A&feature=youtu.be