Whether you are looking for evidence to support patient care, complete course work or carry out research, we can help you make more effective use of a wide variety of information resources.

Our main training sessions are:

Finding the Evidence: Literature Searching

• • Introduction to the NHS Knowledge and library Hub
  • how to access and download journal articles and eBooks
  • how to construct and apply a search strategy to identify literature on a topic
  • using interfaces such as EBSCO and OVID  to search the major healthcare databases such as MEDLINE, CINAHL and PubMed

An Introduction to Evaluating the Literature

• • an overview of the different types of study
  • what to look out for when reading a paper
  • tools to help
  • some very basic statistics
  • appraisal of an example paper.

We are happy to put together training sessions to meet your specific requirements. We can offer training for groups or individuals, at the library or in your workplace. We are also happy to train on other databases (e.g. Cochrane, Trip, DynaMed) and can offer sessions on referencing.  Please contact us to arrange training.