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Our online etutorials give you step-by-step instructions on how to access and use many of our most popular resources – catalogue, ebooks, databases and ejournals. You can also try our Information Skills etutorials to help you to develop your research skills.

If you are planning to visit the Health Library over the Christmas holidays please check our Christmas opening hours . Note that you can check your Library Account online and access our online electronic resources 24/7.

You can find out how to access Keele eresources such as ebooks, ejournals and databases, via the Campus Library website here . They have also created a number of videos showing you how to log on to the various journal platforms.

The Health Library access issues have been resolved. We will be open over Christmas as previously advertised. Our opening hours available at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/usingthehealthlibrary/openinghours/xmasopeninghours/

If you are planning to visit the Health Library over the Christmas holidays please check our Christmas opening hours . Note that you can check your Library Account online and our online electronic resources are available 24/7.

If you are developing your dissertation or planning a research project, then check out our Researchers Online Reference collection. We’ve put together a list of ebooks that can help you to prepare and deliver your research projects: Getting Started Appraise the Evidence Evidence-based Medicine Using Statistics Writing Up & Getting Published You don’t have to come to library to pick one up, you don’t need to wait to take one out, you can access it at any time of day and you’ll never incur any fines. Try our quick Using eBooks etutorial for step-by-step instructions to the basics of using ebooks.

Do you struggle to find reliable sources of information? Do you want to improve your literature searching skills? Why not book yourself onto one of our training courses : Get help finding the right information via the Internet Learn how to conduct a literature search and use our databases to get information quickly Find high-level good quality systematic reviews and evidence summaries using the Cochrane Library, Joanna Briggs Database and similar resources Start to develop your critical appraisal skills Get to grips with Refworks All these sessions are: Run at the Health Library: Presented by qualified librarians Delivered to small groups Give you plenty of hands-on practice Book yourself on a session by getting in touch with our Training Team or book online .

We know that our collection of Oxford Handbooks is very popular. But did you know that we have many of the texts available online as ebooks? You don’t have to come to library to pick one up, you don’t need to wait to take one out, you can access it at any time of day and you’ll never incur any fines You can see the list of Oxford Handbooks titles that we have via the Oxford Handbooks Online collection that we have put together. Try our quick Using eBooks etutorial for step-by-step instructions to the basics of using ebooks.

The App of the month for December is NICE Guidelines. NICE provide evidence-based  guidance and advice for a wide range of conditions, diseases and public health issues. You can access the NICE guidelines via your mobile device. Download the app and you will be able to refer to any guideline off-line – helpful in meetings or discussing the latest evidence with patients. For a quick step by step guide check the help page on our website. You will be able to: Browse through the NICE guidelines Search for a guideline Read guidelines off-line Bookmark sections that you need to refer to regularly Receive the latest updates and new guidance from NICE NICE Guidance App

Not surprisingly our collection of anatomy books at the library gets a lot of use. But we also have a number of anatomy ebooks available. You don’t have to come to library to pick one up, you don’t need to wait to take one out, you can access it at any time of day and you’ll never incur any fines We’ve put together a list of anatomy ebooks to get you started: Anatomy Online Reference . Try our quick Using eBooks etutorial for step-by-step instructions to the basics of using ebooks.

If you can’t get into the library or find that you have to wait for a popular text, why not try our ebooks? Our ebook collections are accessible online via the Internet and can be accessed 24/7. You can easily search them for the information you need and can often add your own notes. To find an ebook search the catalogue and click the relevant link to login. You will need either your NHS Athens username / password or your Keele computer username / password. We have gathered together a number of small collections to help you to get started: Anatomy Online Reference Midwifery Online Reference Nursing Online Reference Oxford Handbooks Online Researchers Online Reference Take a look at our quick Using eBooks etutorial for step-by-step instructions to the basics.

Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out “New Books” display in the library. New books include: Becoming influential : a guide for nurses / Eleanor J. Sullivan Decision making in health and medicine : integrating evidence and values / M.G. Myriam Hunink [et al.] Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing : a communication approach to evidence-based care / Elizabeth M. Varcarolis Fundamentals of palliative care for student nurses / edited by Megan Rosser, Helen Walsh Health promotion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities / edited by Laurence Taggart and Wendy Cousins Orthopaedics and rheumatology on the move / Terence McLoughlin, Ian Baxter and Nicole Abdul Oxford handbook of neurology / Hadi Manji, Seán Connolly, Neil Kitchen, Christian Lambert, Amrish Mehta Oxford handbook of ophthalmology / Alastair K.O. Denniston, Philip I. Murray People under three : play, work an...