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Using Databases to Find Information

Databases hold bibliographic information about articles related to particular topics. They offer you a number of search tools to help you to find articles that match the topic you are looking for.

We subscribe to a number of health-specific databases that can help you to focus your search and find the information you need effectively.

Getting to grips with these resources can take a bit of time but it is worth it in the end.

To get you started we have a number of short etutorials that you can try:

These will give you step-by-step instructions and include links to video demonstrations.

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