Literature Searching Skills for Students

Here is a reminder of how the Health Library can help support students’ literature searching skills.

Literature searching is an important element of delivering evidence-based healthcare. During their courses students will be expected to develop literature searching skills, preparing them for a career in healthcare.

The Health Library etutorial programme has been created to help students develop their literature searching skills. Our etutorials include:

• Presentations
• Interactive elements
• Multi-media content
• Reflection document (that can be downloaded, saved and added to a portfolio)
• Online learning opportunities

Our etutorials include the following:

• Check Your Skills – students can assess their own literature searching skills; an action plan is available at the end to help them to develop their skills.
• Information Skills video – what are information skills? This short video shows you.
• Information Skills – here is our full suite of Information Skills etutorials.
• Introduction Literature Searching – learn the basic steps to literature searching; you can complete a literature search plan as you go along
• Literature Searching Flashcard Revision – quick reminder of the steps needed to complete a literature search; you can download a search plan to use

You can find links to all our training courses and etutorials on our website in the training section.