Keele staff and students

Building a Search Strategy Tutorial

This self-paced online workbook carefully guides you through the steps of starting to build your search strategy for your healthcare literature review. Designed by Keele Health Librarians with quizzes and further reading prompts.  It is not intended to replace any advice or work set by your tutors. Building a Search Strategy Tutorial.

1 to 1 Training

The training team offer personalised 1-to-1 training sessions. Please be prepared to discuss your project requirements and any searching you have already completed.

• Book an appointment with Rachael
• Book an appointment with Reana

Group Courses and Workshops

Searching Healthcare Databases

Navigating healthcare databases to answer clinical questions can be tricky. Why not join us for a 45-minute Nutshell session and learn some key tips to get you started? Learn how to build a robust and transferable search strategy.  Discover how to use the PICO framework, Boolean and MeSH (thesaurus) correctly. 

• Wednesday 18th February 1:10pm Book your place online
• Thursday 26th February 5:10pm Book your place online

An Introduction to Publishing BMJ Case Reports

Thinking of publishing in BMJ Case Studies but unsure where to begin? This 45-minute course will help you develop an understanding of what to include in your case study and where to submit. This session includes a quick demonstration of key websites and databases to help you add references to support your manuscript. Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build your confidence and career portfolio. Certificates are provided upon completion.

• Contact the training team to arrange a session

Critical Appraisal; mitigating bias in health research

Critical Appraisal is a key skill but why is it so complicated? This 45-minute course run by UHNM and Keele Librarians will help build your confidence in appraising a RCT. By going through key strategies researchers use to mitigate bias will help you understand common themes that feature in quantitative studies. Such as selection bias, dealing with confounders, attrition, publication bias and data dredging. This session will touch on basic statistics, the use of P values, CI and consider MID/MICD in the paper. Further support materials and signposting will also be provided.  Certificates are provided upon completion if requested.

• Contact the training team to arrange a session

Searching Ovid Medline

Thinking of writing your own research paper but unsure where to begin? This one-hour course will help you develop a robust search strategy which can be transferred into other databases for maximum paper retrieval.  Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build the ‘Literature review’ section of your paper using Ovid Medline.  

This course is aimed at NHS staff and Keele academics and researchers working on NHS projects. You will require an NHS OpenAthens username.

• Wednesday 25th February 12:30pm Book your place online
• Wednesday 18th March 12:30pm Book your place online

Campus Library Education Centre

Campus Library offer a range of learning opportunities to support your library and academic skills. These are delivered via the Library Education Centre: