SCIE Athens

What is SCIE Athens?

Athens is a system providing FREE access through a single login to a range of subscription-based electronic information resources, online databases, electronic journals and eBooks. Athens is widely used across higher education institutions and the NHS and is now available to government-funded bodies in England providing social care.

In developing the SCIE Athens service SCIE has purchased 18 social care electronic journals and offers free rental access to a range of social work eBooks.

On registering, Athens users will be sent a username and password with which to access the journals and other resources listed below.

Resources available to SCIE Athens users

The following resources are available:

Browse or search 18 full text social care journals
Electronic books rental service from Dawsonera
Content on the Evidence in Health and Social Care portal provided by NHS Evidence
More full text journal articles on Social Care Online
Guides to using SCIE Athens resources

Journals

These are the key social care electronic journals purchased by SCIE for the SCIE Athens service and listed by publisher with the date of the earliest edition available to SCIE Athens users.

You may be asked to re-enter your Athens username/password details when you access a specific title.

Taylor and Francis Online Journals

Electronic book rentals
Guide

This free service provides rental access for between 1-3 weeks to hundreds of social work and social welfare titles.

Use either the Quick Search box to enter a topic/term or the Advanced Search tab to search for a specific Author, Title or Subject.

When you have identified the book your wish to rent click on the Request Rental tab and specify the rental period you would like for this item. You request will be sent for approval and you will then be able to access the full text of the publication for the specified period. Requests are limited to three per user at any given time. Requests will not be approved for any titles which are not social care-related.

NHS health and social care information resources

Access a range of evidenced-based information through the NHS Evidence in Health and Social Care portal.

The A-Z of Topics is free to browse but a SCIE Athens account gives access to a wide range of additional journals and databases including AMED, BNI, CINAHL, Embase, Health Business Elite, HMIC, Medline and PsycInfo.

The databases commonly used to find social care information are:

British Nursing Index (BNI), is a database covering all aspects of nursing, midwifery and community health from 1985 to the present. It indexes articles from the most popular English language nursing journals published primarily in the UK, and is updated monthly.
CINAHL, database of nursing and allied health journals with almost 600 titles in full text dating back to 1981.
PsycINFO, which provides extensive international coverage of the literature on psychiatry psychology and social sciences

Search Social Care Online

Social Care Online has the UK's most complete range of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work.

A SCIE Athens account adds extra value to the specialist material available through Social Care Online by making more of the journal articles indexed available in full text.

Search Social Care Online now

Guides to Using SCIE Athens Resources

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

More information about the SCIE Athens service can be found in the FAQs section on the SCIE website.

Contact the SCIE Athens team

If you have any feedback or suggestions for additional content for the SCIE Athens service please contact us at athens@scie.org.uk

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