Information Skills for Health

  On 28 July 2022  the Ovid journals platform will be unavailable for around 45 minutes during the day due to maintenance work. This will affect access to journal articles hosted on the Ovid platform. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

  The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a discovery tool that allows you to search across a range of NHS and healthcare-based resources. The types of resources includes journals, databases and ebooks. eBooks offer you easy access to key established information. We purchase books from a number of platforms and you can search some of them from the Knowledge and Library Hub. Find ebooks on the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub 1. Log in to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub See our blog post Log in to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub – step-by-step instructions. 2. Enter your search criteria Enter the keywords for your topic or the title of the book you are looking for. You will be presented with suggested text. You can select one of these or continue with your own text. Click the “search” button to run your search. 3. View results Results matching your search criteria are presented. 4. Use the filter options to focus your search If too many results are returned or you can’t eas

  The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is a discovery tool that allows you to search across a range of NHS and healthcare-based resources. The types of resources includes journals, databases and ebooks. The instance of the Hub is set up to match the resources and services available to your NHS organisation. This means that you need to ensure that you get the right version of the Hub so that you can easily access the resources available to you. How do you get to your version of the Hub? Well, there are a couple of routes… Here at the Health Library we keep all links to NHS-based resources on our (aptly named) NHS resources web page . Find out more about the NHS Resources page Watch the video View our blog post Access your NHS Knowledge & Library Hub 1. Go to the NHS Resources page . 2. Choose your page - if you work for UHNM you can use this page, otherwise select the page for the organization you work for. 3. Go to the Knowledge and Library Hub Option 1 - page down

 Are you getting straight to the information you need or are you wading through irrelevant content? Complete our updated tutorial Select the Right Resource to learn more about the different types of resources you can use. You can learn more about some of our most popular resources by checking the Resources section on our Information Skills etutorials page .

  Nurses working in the NHS can get support from specialist nursing resources to help them deliver the best care. Make sure you get the best evidence to:   Support confident decisions   Promote good practice   Reflect on for  your revalidation   Promote your professional development   Contribute to good patient care   Key Resources for Nurses   Oxford Medicine Online for Nurses : Get essential texts to support nursing practice across a wide range of specialties   Royal Marsden Manual Online for Nurses : use this easy to read format for advice and support about nursing procedures   Journals for Nurses : find out what key nursing journals you can access   Stay up-to-date with the latest nursing journals published by the RCN : register for updates on research and professional development sent straight to your inbox   Register with KnowledgeShare to stay up-to-date with key evidence for your specialist topics   For links to more resources please see our   NHS Resources web page .     Ho