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Over the last few months we've gained access to a number of new resources that might be useful to researchers, so here's a round-up for you:

BenchSci

Built by a team of scientists, BenchSci was developed with one thing in mind: to quickly and easily identify published data that support the use of antibodies.

For more information about BenchSci: https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies

Learn how to use BenchSci with this short video: https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4



Campbell Collaboration Online Library

The Campbell Collaboration Online Library (Campbell Library) contains the full text of published systematic reviews and protocols in 
  • Crime and Justice 
  • Disability 
  • Education 
  • International Development  
  • Knowledge Translation and Implementation  
  • Nutrition 
  • Social Welfare 
There is also a series of research methods papers.

CINAHL

CINAHL indexes more than 5000 journals in nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy,  operating department practice, health promotion and health librarianship, and other areas of allied health.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text, the version of the database accessible through the University, includes the full text of 770 of those journals.
  • Allied Health
  • Health Librarianship
  • Health Promotion
  • Midwifery
  • Nursing
  • Operating Department Practice
  • Physiotherapy

Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS) Guide

Trial available until 18 October 2017

The University of Leicester has trial access to the Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS) Guide via OVID.

This database contains over 225,000 bibliographic references with abstracts to articles from over 400 international English language journals, books, guidelines and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, infant feeding and neonatal care up to the second year of an infant’s life.
Click here to access - on campus only.

Practical Law

Practical Law is an online legal know-how service which provides practice area overviews, practice notes, standard documents and current awareness services for lawyers.

Resources (including practice notes, standard documents, checklists and current awareness services) are arranged in practice areas from agriculture to tax, with specialism in business, company and commercial law.


  • Complete integration with the Westlaw UK database for access to full-text legislation, case law and journal articles.
  • Current issue of PLC Magazine, the leading monthly magazine for business lawyers advising companies active in the UK, and all journal back issues from June 1990.
  • Brexit Resource Centre with timelines, trackers, flowcharts, practice notes, articles and glossary on the legal implications of Brexit.
  • Law School Resource Centre with articles and videos to enable law students to develop their employability and commercial awareness skills.
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