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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 further. These are delivered by our training librarians. They provide you with lots of opportunities to ask questions and get some hands-on practice.


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