Information Skills for Health

  Complete our updated tutorial Finding NHS Resources to find out where you can search for good quality evidence. What tools support confident clinical decisions? Where can you get drug reference texts from? How can we help your exam revision? Where can you get full-text access? What resources can help you to find guidelines and procedures? Where can you start your literature search? How can you get good quality patient information for your patients? Get the answers to these questions and more by completing our tutorial Finding NHS Resources .

 You can now search the TRIP Pro database and access additional content from anywhere. Log in with your NHS OpenAthens username to get Pro version content and functionality from home, university or work TRIP is a medical database allowing you to search a wealth of high quality healthcare resources. You can focus search results by publication type to help you get to the information you need quickly. Log in to TRIP database Go to the TRIP database - you can access TRIP directly or click the link on our NHS Resources page . Click the login button on the home page [top right]. Choose the Institution Login option to login via OpenAthens. Select your organisation - you may need to search for your organisation. TRIP should remember the organisation you have chosen for next time you log in. We support the following organisations: University Hospitals of North Midlands (search for north midlands) North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare (search for Staffordshire) GPs, GP practice staff and ...

 Add your NHS Knowledge and Library Hub to your desktop for quick access and start your searching straight away. Please note:  The URL or link that you need for your Hub is unique to the organisation you work for. The links available for the organisations that the Health Library supports are: University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) : https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=guest&custid=ns124878&groupid=main&profile=hee_eds  North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare : https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=guest&custid=ns128745&groupid=main&profile=hee_eds GPs, GP practice staff and CCG staff in Staffordshire : https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=guest&custid=ns128746&groupid=main&profile=hee_eds The instructions below are for a windows PC. Please go to the HEE Library Service website for any other instructions. Add a desktop short-cut to your NHS Knowledge and Library Hub Right click on...

 Are you searching Pubmed or checking on publishers websites and can't find out whether you have full-text access? Well now you can! LibKey Nomad is a browser extension purchased by NHS / HEE for all NHS staff to use. It gives you instant details on how you can access the full-text of articles on scholarly websites. Want to know more? Watch the video. Get it now - go to the Nomad web page and download . Make sure you select the correct organisation to get your list of resources: University Hospitals of North Midlands (search for north midlands) North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare (search for Staffordshire) GPs, GP practice staff and CCG staff in Staffordshire (search for Staffordshire) Contact the Health Library for more help. Update: Get step-by-step instructions on installing LibKey Nomad .

 Got a reference for an article? Need to check for full-text access? Can you get it with your NHS login? Need the answers? Read on... Your reference First of all get as much reference detail about your article as possible. Our tutorial What is an article? will help you out. Your NHS OpenAthens Login To access the majority of NHS online resources you'll need your NHS OpenAthens username / password. Find out more and register for your account via our NHS OpenAthens web page . Go to the Articles for the NHS page We've set up a new page to quickly get you to the full-text. Start at the Health Library home page . Use the top menu bar to go to the Articles for the NHS page - click Find , then Articles for the NHS. Who do you work for? This page contain links and embedded search boxes that search resources available to UHNM staff. If you work for a different organisation, select the button that applies to you to ensure you search the resources you have access to. The other organis...

  Are you dependent on your HDAS alerts? Have you saved your favourite HDAS searches? You’ll need to move them! HDAS – healthcare databases advanced search - is being withdrawn 31 st March 2022. You will not be able to use HDAS after this date. If you have any saved alerts or searches that you want to keep you will need to move them to the database platforms. What are the database platforms? The main NHS databases – such as CINAHL, Medline, Embase, PsyInfo etc – are hosted on the Ebsco , Proquest or Ovid platforms. Which database and platform do I need? Check out our etutorial Which NHS database do you need? How can you access the platforms? Links to the platforms are available on our NHS Resources page . You will need your NHS OpenAthens username / password to log in to the platforms. View our other blog posts to learn how to: Log in to Ebsco Log in to OVID Log in to Proquest Transfer your saved alerts and searches Our NHS colleague Tom Roper has crea...

 Complete your in-depth literature search using Ebsco databases. To search the Ebsco databases you'll need to log in using your NHS OpenAthens username. Which databases can you search? Ebsco is host to a range of specialist, research, healthcare databases, purchased for NHS users. You can search Cinahl , Medline and Medline with full-text . Not sure which database you need? Complete our etutorial Which NHS database do you need? for more help. How to log in to the Ebsco platform 1. Find the Ebsco link Get quick access to Ebsco by linking straight from our NHS Resources page . If you work for North Staffs Combined Healthcare or GP practices in Staffordshire or CCGs in Staffordshire please click the relevant button to go to your page of resources. Page down to the Literature Searching via Databases section and click the Ebsco link. This will take you straight to the openathens route to login. 2. Log in via NHS OpenAthens Enter your NHS OpenAthens username and password and click Si...