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Maternity and Infant Care takes the stress out of searching for research materials by scouring our database of over 290,000 articles at the click of a button.
Search a wide range of information resources that include more than 400 journals and other research materials to assist with your studies or career development.
Each search provides you with a list of bibliographic references and article abstracts that help you decide if the resource fits your needs.
Access archives of thousands original MIDIRS Midwifery Digest articles, dating back to 1991.
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>>Frequently Asked Questions<<
What is Maternity and Infant Care?In a nutshell, Maternity and Infant Care collates information and resources relating to midwifery. Whether it appears in an academic journal, in a government report, on a website or elsewhere, we catalogue it and create a record on our database. We currently have over 290,000 of these records, making our database the largest of its kind in the world. Midwives and midwifery students can rest assured that if it’s been written about, researched, reported on or debated, they’ll be able to find it on Maternity and Infant Care.
So what exactly is included in a record?A record consists of all the details you need to determine if an article is suitable to your needs. Typically this includes the title of the article, the author/s, journal volume and issue number, the abstract (if there isn’t one then we’ll write one), the type of content (ie. original research, commentary, and so on) and what format the information was produced in. If the article is freely available to read online, then we also provide a direct link to the content.
How do these reference details help me?Firstly, our database is a comprehensive collection of the entire midwifery landscape. Having everything in one place means you don’t have to visit several databases or libraries, saving you a great deal of time and effort. Secondly, the details we provide in each record enable you to easily track the article down elsewhere.
Why can’t I get full text online?While we would love to offer the full text of every article we catalogue, it just would not be financially viable for us or our subscribers. If you are a student, your university may supply downloadable full texts of midwifery articles, but universities charge huge fees and can thus meet the costs journal publishers charge for a full-text licence. We keep subscription costs low and focus on delivering a comprehensive service that provides midwives and students with everything they need in one place.
So can MIDIRS supply any full text?MIDIRS can supply full text of original articles printed in the MIDIRS Midwifery Digest. If you’re a member of the RCM, they may be able to provide you with copies of articles free of charge as a benefit of membership. Please click
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So in summary…If you subscribe to Maternity and Infant Care you will be able to:
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- access the reference details of over 290,000 midwifery citations;
- pay to order full-text photocopies of articles you want to read;
- or use the reference details to retrieve the full text elsewhere;
- or click on links to online full text where available.
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- Anonymous response to Maternity and Infant Care survey, February 2012
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