Finding Books at the Health Library

If you are not sure where to start to look for books on your reading list try our etutorials:

Find a book on the Catalogue – use the catalogue to search for books on your reading list or on the topic that you are looking for
Find a book on the Shelf – learn how to locate a book on the shelves within the Health Library

Make sure that you are using textbooks efficiently, try our Use a Book etutorial. Here is one of the videos included in the tutorial:

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NEW! Search the Health Library website

We've introduced a new feature to help you to find what you need on our website. Use the Health Library search box to find resources, services and training opportunities. Try it now! You'll find a link to the search box on our home page , in the banner. What does it do? This new feature runs a simple search on google. Your search results are limited to the Health Library website and etutorials. Google decides on the relevancy of your results. This search option is good for looking for named resources (such as databases), library services and training opportunities. What doesn't it do? This search option does not search any of our resources. So, it will not find information for your assignments or work such as articles or books - you'll need a database for that. But you can search for a database! What do you think? We're running this as an experiment. What do you think? Is it useful or not? Send any comments, good or bad, to Cheryl, our eresources librarian, at c.ke

Are you an effective searcher? Check your skills here

Are you searching effectively? Do you want to improve your skills? Whether you are looking for articles for your assignments or you need to check the latest evidence for your work, you need to have the right skills Complete our short quiz Check Your Skills and find out what information skills you have and how you can improve them. Answer all the questions and download your action plan to help you to improve.

50 Resources for Healthcare: 42. Pubmed Search Strategies

This is an interesting blog where topic-specific literature search strategies are shared. The suggested searches give you Mesh headings as well as possible free-text phrases related to a specific topic the author is investigating. The tag cloud gives you an indication of the type of topics covered. The searches are pretty detailed and comprehensive. It is an interesting place to look if you are struggling to think of your own search terms. screen-shot of a selected pubmed search strategy

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