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.

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

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

  • Wednesday 8th October, 9:30am - 10:15am

  • Tuesday 14th October, 10:00am - 10:45am

  • Wednesday 5th November, 11:00am - 11:45am

  • Friday 21st November 9:30am - 10:15am

  • Tuesday 16th December 2:00pm - 2:45pm

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

  • Friday 26th September, 2:30pm - 4:00pm

  • Tuesday 28th October, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

  • Monday 17th November, 9:30am - 11:00am

  • Wednesday 17th December, 9:30am - 11:00am