Finding resources on the Health Library website

You can access a wealth of healthcare-based resources as well as a range of specialist services from the Health Library website. These are specially developed to support your studies, research, work and professional development.

Make sure you get the best evidence you need from good quality resources.

Go to the Find section to get lists of our various resources. These include resources that are subscribed either by Keele University or our NHS partners, as well as key, good quality resources that are freely available. They include our book collections, both in print and online, journals collections to provide full-text access to articles, databases for literature searching and many more specialist tools and websites.

We’ve organized them by user group and type of information to make it easier for you to find what you need.

Go straight to a sub-section by clicking on the menu options on the top, blue menu bar.

Find section of the website showing the top menu bar

Find section top menu options

Go to our most popular options by paging down to the images. Click on the relevant image to go straight to the options Journals, NHS OpenAthens, Nursing and Midwifery Databases (Keele) and NHS Resources.

Find section images showing the popular options

Find section popular items

Page down again and you’ll find links to pages that cover:

Library Search, books, ebooks and Keele reading lists
Articles, articles in the NHS, articles for Keele, Medical databases (Keele), current awareness and staff publications
Subject links, RefWorks (Keele) and local NHS library services

Find web page showing links to the sub-sections

Find section other resources listed

Access the Health Library website

The Health Library for North Staffordshire, based at the CEC (Royal Stoke University Hospital) supports Keele University healthcare-based staff and students as well as NHS staff working for our partner organisations.

The Health Library website is freely available online. You can find information about our facilities and services as well as links to access our specialist healthcare resources.

Need more help?

Please contact the Health Library for any help accessing Health Library facilities, services and resources.

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