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Develop Your Search Skills

 You’ve worked out your literature search plan; you’ve created your focused question; now you’re ready to start searching. Have you got the skills? Don’t just google it; use our healthcare specialist resources. To make the most of the resources you first need to develop your search skills. Complete our etutorials to learn how to identify your keywords and thesaurus terms; learn how to combine search terms and filter your resources, to get the most relevant information you need.

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Complete our tutorials

Identify your search terms New! Learn how to use keywords, phrases, wildcards and truncation

Using a thesaurus Updated! Learn how using a thesaurus can help you to find articles via databases

Combining searches with boolean operators New! Use AND, OR and NOT to combine search terms

Applying filters to focus results New! Use filters to focus your search results

Try it now

Go straight to our Information Skills eTutorials page on the Health Library website to access all our etutorials.

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