Keele staff and students training

Learn more about the sessions available and book your slot by clicking on the options below.

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.

Group Courses and Workshops

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.

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:

  • Study guides and subject resources
  • Skills seminars
  • One-to-one appointments