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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 ...

 Make sure you haven't missed out. Take a look at i ssue 9 of the Health Library newsletter for a quick round up of our most recent blog posts.

 Due to loss of funding, the wonderful blog Evidently Cochrane will be ending at the end of March 2024. This has been a useful resource providing easy to read evidence summaries on a wide range of conditions and diseases. It will be sadly missed. Message from the editors: We want to acknowledge the huge contribution that all of our bloggers have made. We are very grateful. We have had a wonderful time working on the blog, and have learned so much. A big thank you also to you, our readers, for being part of our journey. Evidently Cochrane Editors, Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig For help using the Cochrane Library please complete our online tutorial: Searching Cochrane Library for systematic reviews

 Welcome to the latest version of the Health Library newsletter . Here you can get a quick round up of the latest news at the Health Library including: Library Search accounts Look after yourself this winter What did you learn this #KNOWvember Hot Topics! Journal of the Week World Aids Day Cervical Cancer Prevention Week Highlights of 2023 Take a look at the Health Library newsletter online .

 Digital skills are an important aspect of daily and modern work life and particularly impact on healthcare delivery and healthcare workers ongoing professional development. The Health Library offers you a number of opportunities to support your digital skills development. Which resources may help? Health Library Information Skills eTutorials Our online tutorials are designed to give you the basics in information skills. These skills help you to identify your information needs, develop strategies to search for that information, use the best resources to obtain that information, then appraise and reference your results and communicate your findings. You can complete presentations, interactive tutorials and videos, in your own time, at your own pace. Training delivered by the Health Library To develop your skills further or if you need more tailored support book on one of our training courses. Our training team offer 3 specific courses: NHS Knowledge and Library Hub ...

Stay up-to-date with the latest changes to eresources and get bite-sized learning to make the most of them – follow our Information Skills for Health blog . We post lots of useful information about: New eresources Updates to eresources Quick step-by-step instructions to using eresources eTutorials Videos Latest training opportunities And more… We add our blog posts to our Twitter feed, so you can follow there too . 

 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

 Google feedburner will be ending the feature which allows us to automatically send blog updates to your inbox.. This means that you will not be able to subscribe to our blogs: Health Library News Information Skills for Health If you are already subscribed and receive blog posts to your email inbox then this service will end after July 2021. We will still continue to use our blogs to publish the latest news about the Health Library and our resources. You can follow posts either by: Checking the Health Library news blog manually Checking our website where we publish the blogs Following us on Twitter (where we add blog posts) Following our Facebook page (where we add blog posts) Apologies for any inconvenience caused. If you have any queries please get in touch with the eResources Librarian, Cheryl, at c.kent@keele.ac.uk

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 Do you need help to develop your skills and get access to online resources? Well, we have a resource to help you. Subscribe to our blog Information Skills for Health and get support delivered to your inbox. You'll get help: Accessing and using key online healthcare resources Step-by-step instructions to use key features of resources Online tutorials to help you develop your digital skills Videos demonstrating how to get started with resources Tips and tricks to help you to effectively work online Instructions on how to access full-text articles Support for literature searching Information about bugs and problems - with work-rounds where possible Details of bulletins and current awareness Why not subscribe today - go to the blog , click the subscribe option (on the top menu) and follow the instructions.

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If you don't get chance to come into the library for a training course, remember that we also have online learning opportunities. You can complete our etutorials to learn more about how to use our resources or develop you own information searching skills. Sign-up to our Information Skills for Health blog and get hints, tips, videos, demos and instructions to help you to get the most out of the library. Getting Started eTutorials Get started with our most popular resources such as journals and databases, learn what articles are and how you can find full-text. Tutorials are available for both Keele and NHS users. Information Skills eTutorials Developing your information skills is an important aspect of studying and working. These are skills which will help you to identify, find, evaluate and manage the information that you need so that you can effectively and efficiently find the right material for your studies and work. Completing our Information Skills etutorials wil...

There are many opportunities these days to complete online learning and you will most likely come across this either at university or work. You may opt to develop your own skills through online professional development. The Library also offers you an online, technology-enriched environment, helping you to develop the right set of information skills to find the information you need. eLearning wordle on a laptop screen You can complete our etutorials to learn how to use our resources and develop your skills: Getting Started Information Skills We also have online guides and links to providers support pages to help you to use our resources. You can follow our Information Skills for Health blog . Here we publish posts about different resources, how to use them and how to develop your skills. Our learning opportunities include demos, step-by-step instructions, video, and interactive elements.

Do you need to update or refresh your Information Skills? Do you wonder if you are looking at the right resources? Can you find full-text articles easily? Follow our blog Information Skills for Health and get the skills to help you to find the information you need quickly. Here you will find help to: Use our resources effectively Find the right resource Develop your Search Skills Get any new post directly to your inbox by signing up for updates .

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What is it? The Information Skills for Health blog is an online blog created by the Health Library. It aims to help all or any of our users to develop skills to support evidence-based practice, continuous professional development (CPD), revalidation and ultimately patient care. We post items to the blog such as: Information about our resources Tips and Tricks for finding the best information Latest news about healthcare resources Step-by-step instructions on how to use our popular resources Tips on how to literature search effectively Micro-learning opportunities to develop your skills How can it help you? You can sign-up to receive new blog items in your inbox. This blogs aims to help you to develop your skills and find the best quality information to support your work and studies. How do you access it? The Information Skills for Health blog is freely available online.

Our Information Skills for Health blog can help you to develop your information skills. You’ll find tips and tricks, resource features and etutorials that will help you to use our resources to find the information you need. Check out some of our recent blog items: Clinical Key features NHS Athens tips and tricks Latest etutorials released Nursing Revalidation news Support for Literature Searching

Have you checked out our new blog yet? The Information Skills for Health blog is here to help you to get to grips with our resources as well as support development of your information skills. You’ll find lots of short learning opportunities, including: Searching tips & tricks Resource features eTutorials Revalidation support And more… Subscribe to Information Skills for Health by Email