Discovery Service & Library

Keeping up to date with published research is easy for RCC members. As part of your RCC membership package, you have free access to the Discovery Service & Library with EBSCO.

EBSCO is a leading global provider of comprehensive and authoritative research databases and evidence-based clinical decision resources for universities, colleges, hospitals, corporations, governments, K-12 schools and public libraries.

Access to the RCC Discovery Service is similar to PubMed, but with wider coverage, and allows RCC members to search a huge array of journals, books and articles in one place, including the entire contents of MEDLINE. Many millions of abstracts can be viewed, and the service provides access to more than 3000 full-text publications. The following links show alphabetical lists of full-text resources that can be accessed via the RCC Discovery Service’s integrated CINAHL Complete, Medline Complete and Psychology & Behavioural Sciences databases.

RCC members also have access to a lending library of full-text e-books – these appear in Discovery Service searches. Books can be read in full using the online reader. Depending on the publisher, short sections or whole books can be downloaded to your computer or printed. Let us know if there’s an e-book you would like us to add to the library shelf.

The RCC provide access to the Discovery Service & Library with EBSCO for its members at no cost. Click below for secure access.

Discovery Service how-to guide

A tutorial from RCC Research Director Dr Gay Swait FRCC explaining how to use the Discovery Service with EBSCOhost.

Finding research for what we do

A presentation from Keith Walker FRCC about the practical use of the Discovery Service & Library.

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