Training Calendar

Please email clinical.librarian@ulh.nhs.uk 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.

  • Thursday 6th February, 11:00am-11:45am

  • Monday 17th February, 12:15pm-1:00pm

  • Tuesday 11th March, 10:15am -11:00am

  • Monday 24th March, 12:15pm-1:00pm

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 can be requested via our training request form

  • Friday 21st February, 10:00am-11:30am

  • Friday 28th March, 2:00pm-3:30pm

Discover BMJ Best Practice

Learn more about how to access and use BMJ Best Practice to support your patient care decisions, to find best practice, or the delivery of your training or teaching.

  • Thursday 6th February, 11:00am-11:45am

  • Wednesday 26th February, 2:00pm-2.25pm

  • Monday 10th March, 9:30am-10:15am