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Here at the Health Library for North Staffordshire we offer you a number of online learning opportunities: eTutorials Online Guides & Support Health Library YouTube channel Information Skills for Health blog You can use these services to learn more about the Health Library’s resources and develop your information skills. Online learning is sometimes also referred to as elearning, technology-enhanced learning, technology-enabled learning or learning online. We would like to know more about what online learning opportunities you need from the Health Library and how we can best deliver them. Please complete our   survey to let us know how we can improve our service. Even if you don’t use our services we would like to learn more about why that is.

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.

If you are looking for help finding information or using library resources then check out the Online Guides and Support section on the Health Library website. You'll find links to guides, instructions, etutorials and can even check out our face-to-face training opportunities.

If you need help using library resources check out the Online Guides & Support section of our website. Here you will find guides, etutorials, instructions and training courses to help you.

You can find lots of help on our website to help you to get to grips with all the resources that we provide for you. Our Online Guides and Support pages provide links to: ** help pages ** online tutorials ** printable guides ** Screen-shot showing the list of resources Here you will find more help for: Articles BMJ Case Reports Catalogue Databases Dynamed Joanna Briggs Institute and more...

Do you need a bit of help getting to grips with finding the right information for your studies and work? You can find help from our guides, etutorials and training courses, now all on one page . Here you will find an A-Z list of our information resources and tools linked to the range of help services that are available to get you started, including: Web pages PDF guides eTutorials Videos Training Courses A-Z of help on one page

Just in case you want to continue studying over the Christmas break here is a reminder that our online resources are available 24/7. If you work for the NHS you can access NHS-based resources such as ebooks, ejournals and databases from our healthcare resources page. Our Keele users can access school specific databases: Nursing databases Midwifery databases Medical databases You can search our ejournals lists online too. We also have a number of online guides and etutorials to get you started with most of our main resources.

We now have a short guide   listing some of the most relevant mobile apps and mobile-friendly websites that will help you to get to the health-related information you need. More information about mobile apps is available on our website .

We use a number of different platforms to provide you with access to our ejournal collection – such as Elsevier ScienceDirect and Wiley Online Library. It can sometimes be a bit confusing working your way around the different interfaces to find your articles and some of them have a number of strange quirks. To try to help you out we have created some online guides; here you can learn: Where the Athens login link is Find journal titles View journal articles What’s weird? You can find the guides on our NHS eJournals Tips & Hints page . Let me know if you find these useful or whether you have any trouble with a particular platform.

New online guides are available from NHS Evidence to help you to use the NHS Evidence search engine and the NHS Evidence Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) . You can find links to the guides on the Databases page of our Online Tutorials section

New guides have been added to the Health Library website to help you to get to grips with some of our resources. These include step-by-step guides to help you to: Learn about your Keele Athens account Register for your NHS Athens account Find eJournals on the Keele University A-Z list Find Journals on the NHS Evidence My Journals A-Z list Search using the Ebsco databases Search using the NHS Evidence HDAS databases You can find more guides and tutorials to help you to use our resources on our Online Tutorials and Support web pages Don’t forget that if you need more help you can sign-up to one of our training sessions

The library has recently had an overhaul of all the leaflets and guides available. For online assistance, please visit the new How to... area of the Library website. Here you will find a mixture of frequently asked questions and online guides and tutorials to help support your use of electronic resources from home. Remember if you get stuck, you can always contact the library for further assistance.