Information Skills for Health

  It is important for both Keele students and NHS staff to understand what referencing is and how to apply it. You need to keep the references for material you use when creating your own writing, whether that be for an assignment, dissertation, article or report. You need to demonstrate to your reader which resources you have used to develop your research, argument or decision. The health Library can help. We have etutorials and other resources to help you to create and manage your references. What is referencing and why is it important? Complete our online tutorial Introduction to referencing and plagiarism to learn why referencing is so important and how you can avoid plagiarism. Where do you get the information for your references? You need to reference different types of material. What information do you need for a reference? Our tutorials can help you: Using Books – get the information you need to reference books Using eBooks – learn how the ebooks interface can...

 What is the point of referencing and how serious is plagiarism? Complete our tutorial Introduction to Referencing and Plagiarism to find out. For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

 We've updated our popular tutorial Introduction to Referencing and Plagiarism . Now includes more interactive features and quiz. Learn what plagiarism is and how important referencing is. Learn more about how to develop your information skills by  completing our online tutorials .

What is the point of referencing and how serious is plagiarism? We've got an online tutorial to answer these questions for you... and more. Complete our tutorial Introduction to Referencing and Plagiarism to make sure you understand the importance of referencing - why and where you need to use it.

Referencing is an important element to using information. A reference management tool can help you to keep track of the articles that you find as well as help when it comes to creating your bibliography and reference list. Keele University students have access to the reference management tool RefWorks. The Health Library offers a training course so that you can learn how to use it. Image listing the features of the RefWorks training - Reference list, import, edit, hands-on practice You can book online or contact the training librarians to reserve your place.

Yes! Once you have run your literature search, selected the articles you need and created your own work (assignment, dissertation, research project) you should acknowledge the work of others you have used. So you need to understand what referencing is and how to use it. Take our etutorial Introduction to Referencing and Plagiarism to learn more about referencing. Articles icon to demonstrate importance of referencing information sources

What is it? RefWorks is a reference management software. It helps you to keep track of the articles and references that you find during your searching. Key Features You can use Refworks to: Save your references Organise your references into folders Import a reference from a website, journal, database or Library Search Create references manually Edit your references if needed Create a bibliography or list of references Add tags which you can use to group references Search your References Remove duplicate references Upload documents Share your references, for example with your project team or tutor Use Cite to add citations directly into your documents How can it help you? RefWorks can help you to keep track of all your references as you work through your course. How to access it? RefWorks is only available to Keele University staff and students. More help? There are a number of places where you can get more help: You can find help about R...

Why is referencing so important? How can you avoid plagiarism? Find out by completing our new etutorial: Introduction to Referencing and Plagiarism Introduction to referencing and plagiarism etutorial screen-shot

If you are graduating from Keele this year, don’t forget that you can retain access to Refworks. This will be really useful to help you to keep a record of useful articles you find whether for CPD, revalidation or any further research you may do. You will need to contact the Keele Refwords team at library.refworks@keele.ac.uk to arrange for your account to be retained. See the Campus Refworks page for more details.

Make sure that you use a reference management tool at the START of your literature search. When you are running your literature searches you can save the articles you identify to a reference manager tool. This way you will have a record of the articles you want to use. When it comes to writing up your results you will be able to refer to your list of articles in order to create your reference list and bibliography. Depending on the tool you use, you can use folders and / or tags to organise your references and may have “cite while you write” functionality. You can find help about referencing tools on the Referencing tab on our Authorship subject page .