Information Skills for Health

 During your studies or your work, you’ll need to get good quality, up-to-date information for your assignments, research, current practice and professional development. You can use databases to find the key information you need. Bibliographic databases contain the details of thousands of articles. Sophisticated search tools help you to find the latest research, best practice, commentary and professional support for your healthcare topics. Databases offer you these essential benefits: Subject Specific Databases are often specific to healthcare subjects, covering medicine, nursing, midwifery and allied health. We subscribe to a wide range of databases to support you. Run searches You can run searches to efficiently and effectively find the information you need. A range of tools help to focus your search results. Save results You can save your search results and searches to return to or re-run later. Set alerts Set alerts on your searches to receive updates of new...

eJournals provide you with the latest research as well as articles to support best practice and your professional development. The Health Library and NHS England subscribe to a wide range of healthcare-based journals. How to access Journals Most of our journals are available online. You will need a username and password to access them. This is your NHS OpenAthens username . To register for your username complete the online form . Browse for a journal title Use Browzine to browse for journal titles. This tool contains hundreds of journal titles, including the titles we subscribe to. Search for a title, view the issues and link directly to our subscription. It’s the easiest way to get to our content. For any titles or issues not included in our subscription you will be prompted to make a request – this is sent to our team and they will try to get a copy for you. Browse your list of journals by using the links to Browzine on our journals page . Find full-text for an article To find the fu...

  We’re going to be showcasing some of our journal titles this year by a Journal of the Week blog post. They may be popular titles, or subject specialist, or especially for a particular group of healthcare workers. But what are journals and why do you need them? Journals are the source of articles written by academics, researchers and experts in their subject areas. They are published on a regular basis as an issue , in print and/ or online. Most of our journals are available online. You should read articles on a regular basis to stay up-to-date with changes and research in your area of practice, to support your professional development or to find good quality information for your studies. Articles may be written about: New research Best practice Professional development Discipline or specialty topics Expert commentary or opinion Articles are often peer-reviewed to ensure that content is trustworthy and of good quality. Here’s a quick summary: Learn more about artic...

 Got an article reference and need to find the full-text? Need to check NHS resources for full-text? Learn more about the tools to help you to get straight to full-text articles. Complete our online tutorial Find Full-text Articles and Journals for the NHS . You will learn: How get your OpenAthens username to log in to full-text Which Health Library web page contains the help you need How to search for full-text using an article DOI How to search for full-text with just the article title How to find a journal title on Browzine How great LibKey nomad is How to use Google Scholar library links to get to full-text articles For more help just get in touch with the Health Library .

 Got an article title you want to find but don’t have the full reference? Maybe a colleague has told you about a good article to read but they don’t have all the details. How can you find it? Here is an example: Health-related quality of life in youth with type 1 diabetes by Shapira Search for the full-text by article title 1. Go to the Health Library web page Articles for the NHS . 2. Page down to the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub section. 3. Enter your article title in double quotes. 4. Click the “Search” button. You will be taken to the Hub search results article page.  What if the search returns lots of results? What can you do? Use the filter options Select from the various filter options to focus the number of entries in the search results. You might try: publication date range if you know the journal is recent journal article source type subject filter option Use the Hub advanced search options Use the advanced search to focus your result...

 Have you got an article reference and want to find the full-text? Does your reference include the DOI or PMID? DOI is the digital object identifier. This is a code which uniquely identifies an article. So, no matter which platform the article is hosted on or even if the publisher changes, the article will have the same DOI. PMID is the pubmed identifier. This is a reference number for the article held on the Pubmed database. You will always see a PMID for an article if you are searching on Pubmed. Here is an example of a reference: Ultrasound-guided genicular nerves block vs. local infiltration analgesia for total knee arthroplasty: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial, Cuñat et al Anaesthesia, 2023 Feb;78(2):188-196. doi: 10.1111/anae.15909 PMID: 36351436 . I’ve highlighted in bold the DOI and the Pubmed ID: see them below: DOI = 10.1111/anae.15909 PMID = 36351436 You can now use these bits of the reference to find whether the library has the full-text...

  Got a reference? Need to find the full-text? You can check for NHS full-text articles and journals by using tools to search NHS resources.  Learn how to quickly find full-text articles from NHS-subscribed journals by completing the tutorial  Find Full-Text Articles and Journals for the NHS . For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

 You need to find and use scholarly, academic articles in your studies and literature searching. Make sure you can recognise academic articles by completing our tutorial What is an article? Learn more about academic articles: why you need them how they are published what bibliographic details you'll need For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

  M idwifery students need to find the best, most relevant information and evidence to complete their assignment s .   Keele University buys a wide range of different types of resources to give you access to good quality information.   Books and eBooks   You can borrow bo oks and access ebooks by searching for your topic on Library Search. Library Search holds information about all the books / ebooks available to Keele students. You can borrow books from either the Campus Library or Health Library .   Read our blog post f or instructions on how to read a n ebook on Library Search .   Running a s imple s earch on Library Search   You can also run quick, simple searches on Library Search for articles and journals , as well as books / ebooks . The results may include a wide range of content as Library Search includes resources across the many disciplines covered by Keele courses.   See our blog post for instructions on running simple search...