Welcome to the Library & Knowledge Service for NHS Ambulance Services in England. We provide library services to NHS staff employed by the nine ambulance service partners in the project. Our services are document supply, literature searching, current awareness, and guides and help on various aspects of information skills.
You can contact the library via email [ Matt.Holland@nwas.nhs.uk ] or using one of the online forms on the website.
The library welcomes feedback from users. If you have any comments on the service or the website, or suggestions for new content or services please do get in touch.
Search the Knowledge and Library Hub
Login with your NHS OpenAthens account for full access to all LKS ASE resources. Need help. See the help page.
BMJ Best Practice - login with NHS OpenAthens.
PubMed - with LKS ASE links to full text.
YouTube may be blocked on some NHS computers. This video can also be seen on Vimeo. Contact the library. Register for NHS OpenAthens.
How to access library content through Google Scholar
Monkeypox: guide to information sources
The USER Project - Understanding the users experience of Searching of English NHS healthcare Repositories.
VLe Books Choose: OpenAthens > NHS in England > Login with your NHS OpenAthens account > Browse > In My Library. Need Help? See the help information page.
Ross & Wilson Ross & Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness Login with your NHS OpenAthens account. Need help? Watch this video.
Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the streets, United Kingdom Edition, Revised. Login with your NHS OpenAthens account.
Oxford Handbooks and Medical Textbooks from Oxford University Press. Includes the Handbook of Pre-hospital Care 2nd ed. Login with your NHS OpenAthens account.
Black and Brown Skin (Mind the Gap)
Karger Fast Facts Login with NHS OpenAthens account. Institutional Tab > Login > Choose Books Tab > Choose F for Fast Facts
Search amber for resaerch on ambulanace services published by NHS staff working in the United Kingdom (UK).
Self Register for NHS OpenAthens
Register for Current Awareness Services
Create your amber personal profile (if you have publications in amber)
Browse all LKS ASE journals with BrowZine.
Key Journals in Paramedicine
Journal of Paramedic Practice *
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine [ Open Access ]
Journal Collections
Wiley Online Library Medicine and Nursing Collection *
* Requires an NHS OpenAthens Account.
Search multiple NHS repositories in one place. Find more information about repository search.