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Helping you to get started at the Health Library

We have a number of online etutorials that can help you to get started finding and using some of our most popular resources:
  • Welcome Tour – here are some etutorials that give you the basic information about the facilities, services and resources here at the Health Library
  • Finding Resources – learn how to find and borrow your books, find journals and articles and learn how we give you access to good quality online information
  • Using Resources – learn how to make the most of resources whether it is books, journals, databases or Internet resources; we can help you to get to the information you need quickly and efficiently


You can find more help on a range of our resources via the I want to learn about page.

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