Information skills eTutorials
Developing your information skills is an important aspect of studying and working. These are skills which will help you to identify, find, evaluate and manage the information that you need so that you can effectively and efficiently find the right material for your studies and work.
Check all 12 sections below for videos, presentations, tutorials, infographs or quizzes.
1. What are information skills?
- What are digital skills? New! Identify your digital skills and improve them with the Health Library
- Introduction to information skills Overview of the information skills you need
- Check your skills Updated! Complete the short quiz to check if you are an effective searcher
2. How can the library help?
- Health Library for North Staffordshire Updated! Watch the short video for an overview of the Health Library
- Keele University Campus Library Updated! University staff and students can also use campus services
- Health Library at County Updated! Learn more about the Health Library at County, Stafford from this video
- Using the Health Library Details of our facilities and services
- NHS Library induction Updated! Learn how the library can support your work, education and patient care
- NHS online Library for UHNM Online services and resources to support UHNM staff
- Welcome to Keele University students New! Here is a quick overview of how the Health Library can help you to succeed on your course.
- Online Health Library for Keele Remote Learners New! How can the Health Library help remote learners?
3. Introduction to literature searching
- Introduction to literature searching Updated! Follow these easy steps to create your own search plan
- Literature Search Plan (361KB)
- Literature searching in a nutshell (Keele login)
- Literature searching overview and action plan (127KB) Download and update your own steps infographic
- Literature searching flashcards Updated! A quick reminder of the steps to follow to create your search plan
- Study Matters interview Get hints and tips on good literature searching from a member of the Librarian team
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4. Analyse your question
- Identify your question Updated! Learn how to breakdown your question to help to identify the information you need
- Using PICO Updated! Use the PICO tool to develop a clinical question
- More analysis tools New! Do you know your SPICE from your PICO? Learn about more tools to help you to analyse your question
5. Search skills
- Identify your search terms New! Learn how to use keywords, phrases, wildcards and truncation
- Using a thesaurus Updated! Learn how using a thesaurus can help you to find articles via databases
- Combining searches with boolean operators New! Use AND, OR and NOT to combine search terms
- Applying filters to focus results New! Use filters to focus your search results
6. Resources
- Select the right resource Updated! What's the best resource for the right information?
- Register for NHS OpenAthens Get your NHS OpenAthens username to access online resources
- NHS OpenAthens - what's fact or fake New! What do you know about NHS OpenAthens? Take this short quiz
- Using books Get information quickly from books
- Using ebooks Make the most of online books
- Library in a nutshell (Keele login) Learn how to find Keele resources
- Library Search for NHS users Presentation for NHS staff; step-by-step instructions to the main features of Library Search
- What is an article? Learn how to recognise and find academic articles
- Finding NHS Resources An overview of the resources that the Health Library provides for our NHS staff
- Which NHS database do you need? New! Check which database will be most useful for your needs
- Find full-text articles and journals for the NHS New! Quickly find full-text articles from NHS-subscribed journals by completing this tutorial
- Using BMJ Best Practice New! Find out how this essential tool can help you
- Get started with Clinical Key (UHNM only) Learn how to run searches, access key resources and use advanced features in Clinical Key
- Searching Cochrane Library for systematic reviews Find systematic reviews for clicnial questions
- Finding good stuff on the Internet Tips and tricks on using google to find healthcare information
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7. Evaluate information
- Evaluate your search results What is the CRAAP checklist?
- Evaluating information on the Internet Use this checklist for simple evaluation of information
- Critical appraisal tools Updated! An overview of a number of tools that can help you to critically appraise the literature that you find
8. Using information
- Introduction to referencing and plagiarism Updated! Learn why referencing so important and how you can avoid plagiarism.
- Manage your references in a nutshell New! (Keele login) Learn about the tools you can use to manage your references
9. Communicating
- Writing an academic paper New! Get hints and tips on how to write an academic paper
- How to create an academic poster New! Hints and tips on what to consider and how to create your academic poster
- Authorship Coming soon!
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10. Managing information
- What is current awareness? And why do you need it
- Current awareness tools Learn more about the tools you can use to stay uptodate
- Setting up alerts Coming soon!
- Introduction to KnowledgeShare New! Watch this video for an overview of KnowledgeShare for NHS staff