Information Skills for Health

You can find many of our ebooks on the library catalogue - Library Search. Our ebook collection includes many key texts for medicine, midwifery and nursing topics. We have created some online guides to help you to find and access our ebooks on Library Search. Go to our recently updated eBooks Help page in the Online Guides and Support section of our website.

You'll need articles to include in your assignments, dissertation, research, work and reflective practice.  Are you sure you know what you're looking for and how to find it? We've put together some help to get you started - get the basics of what an article is, where you can look for them, how to access the full-text and more. Go to our recently updated help page on the Health Library website  to learn more. Do you need more information on the help page? Let us know what you want by adding a comment below.

ALERT: A dosage error has been found and corrected in  Cornea , 4th edition. There was a drug dosage error in Chapter 80, Table 80.1, under the entry for the drug Voriconazole. The entry under “Intracameral” administration for Voriconazole should read “50 mcg/0.1 ml”. The text has been corrected on ClinicalKey products. Please change the entry in your print product and contact Elsevier Customer Service for an errata sticker. Mention this number:  Part number 9996132560. USA:  1-800-545-2522 Asia-Pacific:  AsiaBKInfo@elsevier.com Europe, the Middle East, and Africa:  Eurobkinfo@elsevier.com Thank you for your patience.

Make sure that you are using good quality resources on the go. Check out the lists we have that will help you to use our resources via your mobile devices. Mobile Essentials for NHS staff Mobile Essentials for Keele Students Some resources will have their own apps, others will have responsive websites. You may need to be connected to the Internet to access the information held within the resources.

New Clinical Overviews – CK Global Binge-eating disorder Klinefelter syndrome Updated Clinical Overviews – Selected Topics Acute coronary syndromes Community-acquired pneumonia in adults Diabetes mellitus type 1 in children Diabetes mellitus type 2 in children Hodgkin lymphoma Journal Removals – CK Global Hospital Medicine Clinics;  ISSN: 2211-5943; Package/Collection: Internal Medicine Essentials. Journal discontinued. Recommended alternative – Medical Clinics of North America. IJC Metabolic & Endocrine;  ISSN: 2214-7624; Package/Collection: Cardiovascular Disease Extended. Journal discontinued. Recommended alternative – American Journal of Cardiology. Books Added – CK Global Essential Orthopaedics  (Miller, Mark) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9780323567053; Package/Collection: Family Medicine; New edition (replaces 9781416054733);  https://www.clinicalkey.com/ dura/browse/bookChapter/3-s2. 0-C20160046302 Essentials of Radiology  (Mettler, Fred) 4th ed; ISBN: 978032350887

Hopefully by now you do! This is the final post in this SearchSmart series. We’ve covered quite a bit of ground. You’ll find all the posts together using the hashtag SearchSmart . If you want a quick reminder of what is involved in literature searching, the take our Literature Searching Flashcards Revision etutorial, or watch our short video: If you want to make any comment about this series you can do so using the comments options at the bottom of the post.

We provide you with lots of opportunities to develop your literature searching skills. Book Collection You can look for items within the library by using Library Search . The following shelf-marks will be particularly useful – LB2369.O6, R118.6 and RT81.5. Information Skills for Health Blog Our Information Skills blog provides posts about resources and how to use them. You can sign-up to receive email updates in your inbox when new content is added. Online Guides and Support Most of our main resources have their own help page in the Online Guides and Support section of the website . Here you will find links to etutorials, guides, videos etc to help you to the most out of the resources we have. Online eTutorials We have developed a number of online etutorials to help you to get started with our main resources and develop your information skills . Training Programme You can book onto one of our scheduled training sessions to develop your skills

Don’t forget that you can check your literature searching skills at any time by taking our Check Your Skills etutorial. Complete the quiz to learn about the skills you have, then check on the action plan what you can do to improve them. Screen-shot of the Check Your Skills etutorial