Veterinary Medicine

Library Search: Advanced Search
To search the University's e-journal collections effectively, use 'Advanced Search'. From here you can construct impactful keyword searches and filter your results to make them more manageable and more relevant. For advice and training on how to search effectively, please contact your school's Librarian. 

BSAVA Library
Home of the BSAVA's publications, BSAVA Formulary, articles, lectures, education items and more, covering the spectrum of small animal veterinary practice. For access, select the profile symbol/login option, under Institutional users select 'Option 2: Sign in with Open Athens' and search for 'University of Keele'. Log in with your Keele username and password. 

Web of Science - Clarivate
Search a variety of databases, including Web of Science Core Collection. Search across all databases simultaneously, or select specific ones from the drop-down menu. Also includes access to Journal Citation Reports. You can also search BIOSIS on its own using the link provided on this page. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science support page

CAB Abstracts (HKVets students only; access via Harper Adams University Library)
The leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world’s applied life sciences literature.

PubMed
More than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books.

EBSCO: Life Sciences databases
Includes MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus and Academic Search Complete. You can also search MEDLINE on its own using the link provided on this page. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

Cattle Practice Database (HKVets students only; access via Harper Adams University Library)
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British Cattle Veterinary Association's (BCVA) searchable database. Covers cattle health and welfare.

ScienceDirect
Leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters. ScienceDirect help page

BIOSIS Citation Index - Web of Science
Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies and more. You can cross-search BIOSIS along with other databases using the 'Web of Science' link on this page, although searching BIOSIS individually gives access to some unique search tools. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science support page

MEDLINE - EBSCO
Millions of citations from biomedical journals. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities. You can also search MEDLINE along with a collection of other databases, using the EBSCO: Life Sciences databases link listed on this page. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

ProQuest: Science and Technology databases
Cross search a variety of databases including the ProQuest Biological Science and Aquatic Science Collections. Search all databases simultaneously, or select specific ones by clicking on 'Change databases'. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

arXiv: Quantitative Biology
Archive for electronic pre-prints in the field of quantitative biology.

agriRxiv
Pronounced ‘agri-archive’, this is a free, open access source of unpublished pre-prints across the agricultural sciences. 

BioMed Central - Springer Nature
Over 200 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biology and medicine.

VLeBooks 
One of our core ebook collections with many titles relevant for Veterinary Medicine.

ProQuest Ebook Central
This ebook platform is another of our core ebook collections. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

Harper and Keele Veterinary School - online reading lists
Access the recommended reading for your modules.

RCVS Knowledge
Includes lots of useful content which is freely available or for which you can register as an individual. We do not have an institutional subscription, so not all parts of the site are accessible.

CABI
Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International.

PICO Vet
Helps veterinary clinicians, researchers, librarians and others build a well-structured and focused clinical question to use when searching the biomedical literature.

VetLogic (HKVets students only; access via Harper Adams)
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Educational resources in veterinary science (more of a review tool).

British Pharmacopoeia
The official, authoritative collection of standards for UK medicinal substances for human and veterinary use. For access off-campus, please make sure you connect to the Keele VPN first. British Pharmacopoeia help page.

JoVE Core: Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video textbook for introductory biology courses.

JoVE Lab Manual: Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video manual for undergraduate biology laboratory.

JoVE Science Education: Basic Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video protocols and concepts of basic experiments in biology. Keele is subscribed to the 'General Laboratory Techniques', 'Basic methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology', 'Biology I' and 'Biology II' collections.

JoVE Science Education: Advanced Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Video protocols and concepts of advanced experiments in biology. Keele is subscribed to the 'Neuroscience', 'Developmental Biology', 'Genetics' and 'Cell Biology' collections.

JoVE Journal: Biology (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Peer-reviewed scientific video journal for research.

JoVE Journal: Neuroscience (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
Peer-reviewed scientific video journal for research.

Nature Precedings
Pre-publication research and preliminary findings.

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
The NCBI advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

SpringerProtocols
Database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the life and biomedical sciences (free access to 1980-2012 content only)

NOAH Compendium
A compendium containing datasheets for the majority of veterinary medicines authorised for use in the UK.

British Library EThOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.

Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on Settings and type 'keele' into the Library Links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on Save Preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.

Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Zoology Collection. 

Keele Research Repository
A digital archive of research and enterprise output produced by Keele University staff.

Nature
Access to Nature, a leading weekly international science journal, from 1997 onwards.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.

Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.

Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.

Science
Full text access to Science journal. Access is from 1880 to the current issue.

If you need help using any Library Resources, or have questions you’d like to ask you can always contact us: library.help@keele.ac.uk, or start live chat.

The Liaison Librarian for Veterinary Medicine is Claire Smith. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills you can contact Claire and ask for an appointment: c.smith3@keele.ac.uk

You can also come along to our ‘…In a Nutshell’ training sessions. These workshops introduce key academic skills in bitesize, 45 minute, practical sessions.

There’s also guides and tutorials linked below that should help you get started:

• Try our new online tutorial and learn how to use Library Search effectively
• If you’re just getting started using the Library you can view our Library tour video and Welcome to your Library.

If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.