Open Educational Resources

Bookboon.com contains free eBooks and textbooks that can be downloaded as a pdf, no registration needed.

You'll need to create an account, but Allison has many free courses for health topics.

InTech publishes more than 2,300 open textbooks and 6 journals in a variety of subjects that fall under the heading of science, technology, and medicine.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

Bookshelf, the books division of the NLM Literature Archive (LitArch) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), is an online searchable collection of books, reports, databases, and other scholarly literature in biology, medicine, and the life sciences.

This website features academic content created by the University of Michigan community that you can use in your own research, teaching or learning experiences.

This is a module framework. It can be viewed online for downloaded as a zip file.

As taught in Spring Semester 2010.

This module is taught on the Diploma/BSc in Nursing and covers an introduction to evidence-based practice; the nature of evidence; an introduction to the research process; reflective thinking and writing; portfolio development skills; searching/accessing information/literature; summarising literature; referencing literature sources; reviewing literature; an introduction to law and ethics and their links with evidence-based practice; an introduction to accountability and evidence-based practice.

Suitable for: Undergraduate year one students


School of Nursing, Midwifery & Physiotherapy

The School operates from education centres across Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire providing pre-registration, post-registration, degree and higher degree courses. Learning in practice occurs in acute and community settings within local NHS Health Care Trusts and across the voluntary and social service sectors.

Research within the school focuses on supportive and palliative care; education and health informatics; mental health; and child and maternal health. The University received the best possible outcome in all categories within the Major Review of healthcare programmes which took place in 2006

The NLM is full of excellent resources and information on current research. It covers an enormous range of material, and is something that every health professional should have familiarity with, in the same sense that health professionals should be subscribed to particular industry-related publications.