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 The Health Library is your Health Library. We are here to support Keele University healthcare students and NHS staff working for our partner organisations; giving you a pleasant study or work environment, providing specialist services to support your studies and patient care and getting you the best healthcare evidence. Come along and visit the Health Library to study in a quiet environment, use the university or NHS IT facilities, get help from our experienced staff or even pick up a book. Contact our specialist services to develop your skills or get help finding the best evidence you need. Search our wide range of healthcare specialist resources for books, articles, research and evidence to help you complete your assignments or make the best healthcare decisions. Complete our tutorial Using the Health Library to learn more about what we offer you. Access all our services and resources from the Health library website . More Libraries You can also visit our partn...

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If you are not sure where to get help about our resources or how to develop your information skills then check out our web page I want to learn about... for an A-Z list of where you can get more help. You'll find links to our help pages, etutorials, videos and training courses.

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...

Lots of people ask us lots of questions every day. We’ve put the most popular about our facilities and services here – along with the answers of course. Take a quick look and learn more about how the Health Library can help you. Screen-shot of the FAQs page

We have a number of online etutorials that can help you to get started finding and using some of our most popular resources: Welcome Tour – here are some etutorials that give you the basic information about the facilities, services and resources here at the Health Library Finding Resources – learn how to find and borrow your books, find journals and articles and learn how we give you access to good quality online information Using Resources – learn how to make the most of resources whether it is books, journals, databases or Internet resources; we can help you to get to the information you need quickly and efficiently You can find more help on a range of our resources via the I want to learn about page.

You can go on a virtual tour around the Health Library by having a look at our interactive map . It tells you what you need to know to visit us and gives you an idea of how everything is laid out. You can see photos, watch videos and link to our web pages for more details.

Lots of people ask us lots of questions every day. We’ve put the most popular about our facilities and services here – along with the answers of course. Take a quick look and learn more about how the Health Library can help you.

If you are a new nursing or midwifery student starting at Keele University we’d like to welcome you to the Health Library . We are a specialist health library and are partnered with the NHS. How can we help you? We’re conveniently located at the Clinical Education Centre; you’ll notice our main doors as soon as you walk into the atrium.  You don’t need to complete any forms to join – your Keele card acts as your library card and you are added automatically to our library system. Here you can find lots of resources to search for the information you need for your studies. Don’t worry, we have lots of help so that you can get to grips with everything. You’ll also be able to study in the rotunda, use the printing & photocopying facilities and access the nearby computer suite. See our web page for new students or check our Welcome tour for more details. Look out for more blog posts over the next couple of months highlighting our services. Hopefully we’ll see a lot of y...

Not quite sure what a term or phrase that we use means? Well, now all you have to do is check on our A-Z glossary for a brief description. Screen-shot of the glossary page

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

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.