Health Services Library for NHS Staff: Literature Searching

Step 1:

Register online for an NHS OpenAthens account if you haven't registered already. If an article isn't freely available, your OpenAthens account might give you access to full text.

• University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust — BrowZine 
• Search for the journal title (not article title)

If we don't subscribe to the journal, move to Step 2.

Step 2

Our inter-library loans service can obtain the article for you. You'll need to be a registered member of the library.

1. Please submit your request by logging into Library Search.
2. Search the item you are looking for and select Request on the right of the screen.  
3. Complete the Item details and Request details sections of the form, then click Submit Request.

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:

• Module 1 - Introduction to Searching
• Module 2 - Where Do I Start Searching?
• Module 3 - How Do I Start to Develop a Search Strategy?
• Module 4 - Too Many Results? How to Narrow your Search
• Module 5 - Too Few Results? How to Broaden your Search
• Module 6 - Searching with Subject Headings
• Module 7 - Searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and bibliographic databases

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects NHS staff and learners to high quality knowledge and evidence resources in one place. 

Full access is free to all NHS staff and learners using your NHS OpenAthens account. 

Don’t yet have an account?  Register for NHS OpenAthens  

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