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Training on Ovid Medline

 New dates are available to book on our Searching Ovid Medline training course.

Searching Ovid Medline

Thinking of writing your own research paper but unsure where to begin? This one-hour course will help you develop a robust search strategy which can be transferred into other databases for maximum paper retrieval. Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build the ‘Literature review’ section of your paper using Ovid Medline.

This course is aimed at NHS staff and Keele academics and researchers working on NHS projects. You will require an NHS OpenAthens username.

Get ready

Prepare before you go - complete the etutorial Introduction to Literature Searching so you are ready to make the most of the training.

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