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, 2. how can the health library help, 3. introduction to literature searching, 4. analyse your question, 5. search skills, 6. resources, 7. evaluate, 8. use and 9. communicate information, 10. managing information and current awareness, 11. more training, 12 more help.
1. What are information skills?
- What are digital skills? 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 Complete the short quiz to check if you are an effective searcher
2. How can the library help?
- Health Library for North Staffordshire Watch the short video for an overview of the Health Library
- Health Library at County 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 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 Here is a quick overview of how the Health Library can help you to succeed on your course.
- Getting started with your library: nursing students Video induction for Keele nursing students
- Online Health Library for Keele Remote Learners How can the Health Library help remote learners?
3. Introduction to literature searching
- Introduction to literature searching 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 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 Learn how to breakdown your question to help to identify the information you need
- Using PICO Use the PICO tool to develop a clinical question
- More analysis tools 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 Learn how to use keywords, phrases, wildcards and truncation
- Using a thesaurus Learn how using a thesaurus can help you to find articles via databases
- Combining searches with boolean operators Use AND, OR and NOT to combine search terms
- Applying filters to focus results Use filters to focus your search results
6. Resources
- Select the right resource What's the best resource for the right information?
- Keele Resources Learn more about Keele-based resources for staff and students
- NHS Resources Learn more about NHS-based resources
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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 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 Learn why referencing so important and how you can avoid plagiarism.
- Manage your references in a nutshell (Keele login) Learn about the tools you can use to manage your references
9. Communicating
- Writing an academic paper Get hints and tips on how to write an academic paper
- How to create an academic poster Hints and tips on what to consider and how to create your academic poster
- 10 steps to creating patient information New! Hints and tips to get you started developing your own patient information
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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
- Introduction to KnowledgeShare Watch this video for an overview of KnowledgeShare for NHS staff