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 The Health Library can help you to find information effectively and efficiently by supporting your information skills development. Get the right information quickly to complete your assignments, start your research or to support your professional development.

Check our Information Skills for Healthcare blog for the latest news on resources and training opportunities.

We’ve now updated our blog tab pages to help you get to the essential support quickly.

  • Literature Searching - take a look at our etutorials and blog posts to learn about the steps you need to complete to be a successful literature searcher.
  • Databases and more… - find a list of etutorials, help pages and blog posts to help you to get to grip with some of our most popular and key resources.
  • Access Resources - use our good quality, healthcare specific resources to find the evidence you need to support your studies, research and work, to make confident decisions and deliver evidence-based practice.

More help

Complete our Information Skills etutorials to learn more about the skills you need.

Contact our training teams if you need more support to develop your information skills.

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