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Want to find information quickly? Need to brush up on your literature searching skills? Why not  book yourself onto one of our training courses ? Health Library training courses are presented by qualified librarians, usually to small groups and offer you plenty of time for hands-on practice. Our courses include opportunities to: ·                   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 and similar resources ·          ...

The Health Library will be closed for the Bank Holiday, on Monday 28th August 2017.

Ovid will be carrying out maintenance of their services over the next few days: Thursday 24th August Saturday 26th August Monday 28th August This may impact on access to our Ovid resources for short periods, in particular: Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) database eJournals hosted by Ovid Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Here at the Health Library we support NHS staff working for our partner organisations: University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership (SSoTP) Stoke on Trent Clinical Commissioning Group North Staffs Clinical Commissioning Group Stoke on Trent Public Health We have more than just books to help support your work. With your library card you will be able to: Borrow items from the library (we have DVDs as well as books) Request Inter-Library Loans Request a Literature Search Book on a training course Access the Keele network via walk-in access Learn about what we do from our video Why don’t you come along and join. Complete our application form and bring it with your NHS ID to the library counter. For access to our online resources make sure that you register for an NHS Athens username .

The painters have finished and the IT suite is now available for use.

Develop your information skills and learn how to complete a literature search – our Information Skills etutorials can help Our Information Skills etutorials are short, interactive tutorials that help you to develop the skills you need to find information effectively. Start with an Introduction to Literature Searching – complete the starter search plan for your project or assignment. Then go on and complete more etutorials to improve your search skills . You can learn: How to identify your question clearly Use the PICO tool Find information effectively Evaluate Information How to find critical appraisal tools You can complete and save our etutorial reflection document to keep a record for your eportfolio. Here is a quick taster of the skills you can develop:

The IT suite next to the library will be closed for maintenance from Monday 14th August. Hopefully it will be available again before Friday 18th August. This is so that painting can be completed. The IT training room will be made available where possible to allow staff and students to access computers on the Keele network. Note, however: there will be NO access to the NHS network there will be NO self-service printing, please add your documents to a memory stick and then bring this to the counter where staff can print out for you Note that Keele students can use the IT facilities available at Campus. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

If you are not sure how to find or use our online resources, then try our Getting Started etutorials . You’ll learn how to get access, how to search and how to access full-text. eTutorials are available for our most popular online resources, both Keele and NHS. Most are very short; you can jump to the section you need and most include either step-by-step instructions or video demonstrations. You can learn how to: Use Dynamed to find evidence-based information Search Clinical Key and learn about all its different features Find systematic reviews on the Cochrane Library Find articles and journals Search our popular bibliographic databases Access ebooks All our etutorials allow you to download and save our etutorial reflection document which you can add to your portfolio.

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