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  If you want to find the best evidence, then you need to complete a literature search. You need the best evidence to make clinical decisions, to write assignments, to complete research and to deliver patient care. Completing a literature search will help you to find the best evidence effectively from the most appropriate resources. Learn how to develop a literature search plan by completing our tutorials. Complete our tutorials Start with our interactive tutorial Introduction to Literature Searching . Learn about the steps you need and complete your own plan along the way Download our Literature Search Plan to keep a record of your own searches Keele students can complete the Literature Searching in a Nutshell tutorial Download a reminder and add your own search details to our Literature Searching Overview and Action Plan Get a quick reminder of all the steps from our Literature Searching Flashcards tutorial Listen to this podcast from  Study Matters for hint

 Do you need an answer quickly? Want to double-check your decision? Elsevier’s Clinical Key gives you access to quick answers at the point of care. It includes uptodate, evidence-based clinical overviews, clinical calculators, practice guidelines and patient education leaflets. You can browse through the content, filter by specialty or topic or use the simple clinical search engine to get straight to the information you need. Access Clinical Key is available to UHNM staff. Access it via the Health Library NHS Resources page or log in here via OpenAthens. Watch this video for help logging in and activating your account. Get started quickly by learning more about the Clinical Key interface: Need more help? Check our Clinical Key help page for online tutorials, videos and articles. Contact the Health Library

Make sure you stay up-to-date with all the news at the Health Library - read our latest Health Library newsletter:  Health Library Newsletter issue 3 (January 2023)

 We’re here to support you in your studies and work. Whether it is updating your skills, finding that key piece of information or just having a quiet space to sit, check how the Health Library can help you: All staff and students who are members of the Health Library can also use the Keele University Campus Library and the Health Library at County (Stafford). Watch these videos for a brief introduction to each library service: Health Library for North Staffordshire Keele University Campus Library Health Library at County Learn more about the Health Library and what we can do for you from our induction tutorials: Using the Health Library NHS Library Induction NHS Online Library for UHNM Welcome to Keele University Students All our tutorials are freely available, no login required. Complete them at your own pace, whenever you want to. Download the reflection document to keep a record of your learning. Please make sure you let us know what you think of our tutorials

The festive period, with the usual overindulgences of food and alcohol, takes a real toll on your liver and by January it is probably crying out for a break! This time of year certainly highlights the damage we can do to our liver by overeating and drinking alcohol and, according to the British Liver Trust, UK liver disease is on the rise. They say that 90% of liver disease is preventable, with the three main preventable causes being obesity, drinking alcohol and viral hepatitis.   Love your Liver Awareness Month is a campaign run by the British Liver Trust and is designed to raise awareness of the risks and causes of liver disease and encourage people to take active steps to a healthier lifestyle to improve their liver health. RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES   For anyone suffering with liver disease themselves, those treating patients with a liver condition or anyone studying liver health, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources relat

  How can the Health Library help remote learners? We've got a new presentation  for Keele University students within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, who are studying via online-only courses . It will be particularly useful for those students who also work within the NHS.  Get to grips with the online resources available to you, to support your course - complete our online presentation Online Health Library for Keele University Remote Learners . Need something else? Just let us know .

 You are living in a digital society. Do you have the right digital skills and information skills to study and work to your best? Complete our tutorials to find out: Watch our video What are digital skills? to find out what skills you need and how the Health Library can help you get them Watch our video Introduction to Information Skills to learn more about the skills you need to find information efficiently and effectively Take our quiz Check Your Skills to find out what skills you have. Get your action plan to find out how you can improve them All our tutorials are freely available, no login required. Complete them at your own pace, whenever you want to. Download the reflection document to keep a record of your learning. Please make sure you let us know what you think of our tutorials by completing the feedback form . Try it now Go straight to our Information Skills eTutorials page on the Health Library website to access all our etutorials. Need more help?

 Looking for the best evidence? Have you got the right skills? Complete our online information skills etutorials to develop the right skills to find the best evidence. They can help you to make confident healthcare decisions, start your research on the right foot, or complete your assignments with the best evidence. We have developed online tutorials especially for healthcare staff and students to help you to find the right information at the right time from the right resources. You can: Watch a video Complete an interactive tutorial Take a quiz Follow a presentation Download a worksheet All our tutorials are freely available, no login required. Complete them at your own pace, whenever you want to. Download the reflection document to keep a record of your learning. We’ll be blogging about the different tutorials over the next few weeks. Check in with our news blog to learn more about how they can help you. Please make sure you let us know what you think of our tuto

 Unfortunately the Health Library will have to close early today:  4th January 2023 5:30pm Online resources can be accessed via the Health Library website . Apologies for the inconvenience.

 Are you ready for 2023? No, me  neither. But you can stay on track by keeping uptodate with news from the Health Library. Watch our blogs, follow us on Twitter, look out for our newsletter, sign up for a bulletin We'll get the news out to you: best resources to search to find the right information update your skills to help you to find information quickly latest evidence straight to your inbox latest training courses to book Stay in touch Health Library News blog Information Skills for Health blog Follow us on Twitter @CECLibrary Current awareness options If you need any help just let us know: email health.library@keele.ac.uk or phone 01782 679500