LibGuides@Southampton: Health Services Library for NHS Staff: Literature Searching

Accessing Journal Articles

Step 1: Check the journal title on the Journals A-Z list (OpenAthens account required)

Your article not available?

Step 2: Request it via WebCat

How to request articles
Request articles via WebCat

Online Training: e-Learning for Healthcare

e-LfH is an NHS website with a wide range of online tutorials related to many aspects of your work. It includes a section on literature searching with seven modules:

Introduction to Searching
Where do I Start Searching?
How do I Develop a Search Strategy?
How to Narrow Your Results
How to Broaden Your Search
Searching with Subject Headings
How to Search the Healthcare Databases (HDAS)

Help with Searching NICE Evidence search & Healthcare databases

We are gradually moving away from using HDAS and moving towards provider interfaces (EBSCO, ProQuest and Ovid).

HDAS will be retired completely in March 2022.

In this page you can see the helping guides for HDAS and Ovid Database.

If you need help with your literature search, please submit the following form:

https://library.soton.ac.uk/nhs/searchrequest

NHS Learning Hub via OpenAthens

NHS Learning Hub - A platform for sharing resources

A powerful digital platform enabling the health and care workforce to contribute and share a wide variety of learning resources for other learners to use.

Who can access the Learning Hub?

Resources on the Learning Hub are contributed by the health and care workforce and are not reviewed by Health Education England.

Help with Referencing

The following links will help you to reference just about any source, and understand how to avoid plagiarism.

Harvard Referencing Guide (Anglia Ruskin University)
Neil’s Referencing Toolbox
This tool takes in the raw information – author, title, year of publication – and creates the reference in the correct form.