Training Calendar

Please email ulth.clinical.librarian@nhs.net to book a place on any of our upcoming training sessions.

Getting the best out of your OpenAthens Account

An OpenAthens account helps you unlock access to a range of e-resources. We can help you set up an account, and give you a short tour to help you access and use library e-resources and e-journals.

  • Tuesday 24th June, 10:00am - 10:45am

  • Tuesday 1st July, 10:00am - 10:45am

  • Wednesday 23rd July, 3:00pm - 3:45pm

  • Wednesday 13th August, 10:00am - 10:45am

  • Tuesday 26th August, 10:00am - 10:45am

  • Friday 12th September, 12:15pm - 1:00pm

  • Friday 26th September, 10:00am - 10:45am

Effective Searching Skills

Do you want to learn how to find relevant evidence to support patient care, service improvement, or a research project? We can teach you how to:

  • create a search strategy from a search question

  • develop and use techniques that can make your search more effective

  • identify the key concepts within a question and the relevant alternative terms, different principles and techniques for searching

Further support with searching different databases and online resources can be requested via our training request form

  • Thursday 17th July, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

  • Tuesday 19th August, 10:30am - 12:00pm

  • Friday 26th September, 2:20pm - 4:00pm