We're here to bring you the evidence you need ​

Our aim is to save you time, and to help you find and use the right knowledge and evidence, enabling high quality decision-making, learning, research and innovation to achieve excellent healthcare and health improvement. The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Service is here to support all NHS staff and contractors in Rotherham. Find out more about our services using the menus above. Check out our speciality pages: dedicated information portals to keep you on top of developments in your clinical or work areas. 

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For all print and eBooks held by our Library

Explore print and eJournals

NHS staff and students can access 7000 national ejournals plus our local print and ejournals all in one place. Journals available in print-only can be accessed from the Hospital Library on D Level

Request a full-text article or book -  from another Library

Request a full text article or a book from another library: Submit an interlibrary request here.
 Point of care tools provide summaries of the current state of knowledge about interventions used to prevent and treat clinical conditions. Databases contain references to journal articles, guidelines, manuscripts, dissertations and book chapters.  An NHS Athens password maybe required to access some content.  Training can be provided - see below

Find an article

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You will need an OpenAthens account to access most articles. 
  • If you know the details of the article that you want to access, you can search for it through the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub. Make sure you sign through OpenAthens before you search. When you find the article that you need, if your library service has access to the article then there will be a link to the full text.
OpenAthens is a secure log in system that gives you access to electronic resources including books, journals, databases and apps. Your OpenAthens account is a vital tool to enable evidence based practice in the NHS. 
All NHS staff are eligible to register for an NHS OpenAthens account.  

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Our aim is to deliver high quality information to support patient care, commissioning, policy-making, public health, learning and development and research. You can find out more about our work and our vision in our strategy and our annual reviews: ​

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