Current awareness
Keeping up-to-date with the latest news and research in your area is an important aspect of studying and working in healthcare. Use the tools below to keep up-to-date.
eTutorials
What is current awareness? - Health Library etutorial explaining what Current Awareness is.
Current awareness tools - Health Library etutorial explaining what tools you can use to help you to keep up-to-date.
Online guides
Information Skills for Health Blog - learn more about current awareness from our Information Skills blog
Setting up e-table-of-contents (eToCs) - these blog posts help you to set up eToCs for a range of platforms
Ebsco Alerts
Create a search alert on Ebsco - step by step instructions to create an alert.
Pubmed Alerts
Pubmed saving searches and setting up email alerts - short YouTube video explaining how to save searches and create alerts from your search.
Student Guide to Social Media - from university libraries of Leeds, Manchester and York. Here you can find out all about the different networks and listen to students explaining how they have used them to support their studies.
Blogs
Blogs in Plain English - YouTube video explaining what blogs are
Twitter in Plain English - YouTube video explaining how to use Twitter
What is Twitter? - from about.com