LibGuides: Midwifery: Key resources

Key databases

CINAHL Plus with full text (Ebsco)
An EBSCO database, containing a cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature with significant full-text content.
Joanna Briggs Institute (Ovid)
Provides access to evidence-based resources, making it easy for practitioners to find and use evidence to inform their clinical decision-making. For hints on searching JBI view our screencast.

MEDLINE with Full Text (Ebsco)
Comprehensive source for full text of more than 1,450 journals, covering medicine, complementary medicine, biomedicine, nursing, allied health fields, and the biological and physical sciences. Also supplied by EBSCO.
MIDIRS Midwifery Digest (Ovid)
MIDIRS Midwifery Digest is a UK journal that includes news, reviews and original articles from a range of midwifery sources. For hints on searching MIDIRS view our screencast.

AU Midwifery Research Review
This resource provides summary reviews of recent studies and articles - written by Australian reviewers.
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To read the fulltext of some of these articles, you will need to access them via the SCU Library. Contact your liaison librarians if you require assistance.

Referencing help

The referencing style used by the School of Health and Human Sciences is the APA 6th. For assistance with referencing, please refer to the guide below:

For help in referencing professional midwifery documents, please refer to the document below.

APA 6th referencing guide

Referencing professional midwifery documents

Research Ready guides to resources

Research Ready - Evaluating resources
A short module showing how to evaluate resources using the CRAAP test
Research Ready - Scholarly vs non-scholarly sources
This module that explains the difference between Scholarly and non-Scholarly resources.

Key titles

Midwifery Decision-Making by Elaine Jefford (Editor); Julie Jomeen (Editor)
Call Number: 618.2 EMPO
Publication Date: 2020
Midwifery by Sally Pairman (Editor); Sally K. Tracy (Editor); Hannah Dahlen (Editor); Lesley Dixon (Editor)
Call Number: 618.2 MIDW
Publication Date: 2018
Midwifery Essentials by Joanne Gray; Rachel Smith
Call Number: 618.2 GRAY
Publication Date: 2018
Skills for Midwifery Practice by Ruth Johnson, Wendy Taylor, Sally de-Vitry Smith & Sarah Bayes
Call Number: 618.2 DEVI
Publication Date: 2019
Sustainability, Midwifery, and Birth by Lorna Davies (Editor); Rea Daellenbach (Editor); Mary Kensington (Editor)
Call Number: SCU ebook