Helping you to get started at the Health Library

Have you tried out etutorials yet?

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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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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