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When you’re looking for information on the Internet make sure you get to the good stuff quickly and don’t waste time on irrelevant information. Our etutorial Finding Information on the Internet gives you some hints and tips as well as some examples of good quality resources. Finding information on the internet info card You can find all our etutorials online via our website .

Of course there is a lot of information available via the Internet – perhaps too much? Is it good quality? If you feel a little overwhelmed we can start you off with a few good quality resources. Our Finding Information on the Internet etutorial will give you a few pointers to look out for and lists a number of resources that it is always worth checking. Our Literature Searching Sites web page gives you a pretty comprehensive list of some good quality information sources that might be useful during your studies and career. Whether you are searching for articles, trying to find reviews or looking for guidelines this is a good place to start.

Why not have a go at our Finding Information on the Internet etutorial. Let us know what you think about it and you can enter our prize draw. You could win a selection of useful stationery goods, including a memory stick, and the lucky first prize also gets a £20 voucher. Our etutorials include presentations, photo tours, video demonstrations and interactive quizzes. They are short and most only take a couple of minutes to complete. You can access them online via our website at any time.

You can now book on our scheduled training courses for October through to December. Our training courses include: Health Essentials Online   – a revamped course helping you to find all the essential websites for good quality health-related information Literature Searching – using either Keele-based Ebsco databases   or NHS-based HDAS databases , learn how to find relevant journal articles for your research Cochrane Library introduction   – a thorough introduction to help you to find systematic reviews Refworks – (Keele users only) a hands-on course helping you to get to grips with this reference manager tool Rapid Critical Appraisal   – a practical course providing you with an introduction to critical appraisal, including discussion of a journal article. We have a special full-day course Finding the Evidence   for NHS users, which incorporates key aspects of many of the courses listed above. You can book online or contact the training team t...

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Make sure that you’re following the right steps to find information effectively and efficiently – have a go at our Internet Quiz Can you spot a spoof? Try our Internet Quiz If you need help check out our other tutorials or come along for a training session .

Our latest online tutorial – Finding Information on the Internet – will help you get started looking for health-related information. You’ll learn where to look on our website for: ** Databases ** Journals ** eBooks ** We’ve got links to condition-specific Internet sites that you can try as well as a comprehensive list of literature searching sites . There are also videos that show you how to get started with popular NHS-based freely available resources such as: ** NHS Evidence ** Map of Medicine ** NICE **

Intute is an evaluated gateway for many different resources including Medicine and Nursing, midwivery and allied health . This means that it is a search engine which will search a limited number of websites where all information has been carefully evaluated prior to inclusion on the website. Essentially it is the same as searching Google, but will only return a small number of high quality results. It also has the added advantage that you can browse by the same thesaurus headings used by Medline or the Royal College of Nursing. This week sees a revamp of the website to a new cleaner interface, providing you with the latest articles added and free personal login which allows you to save searches. The virtual training suite offers a selection of very short online tutorials to help you learn to navigate the web by creating your own shopping cart of bookmarks, advice on evaluating online information and tips on how to search. Areas of focus include allied health , dentistry and oral h...