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Queen Square Library offers free library skills support & training to Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ staff & students & Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾H staff, with a focus on Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Queen Square Institute of Neurology & the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. You must be a registered library member to attend training. NHS users: please contact us to check if you are not sure whether or not you are registered. 

  • Bookable sessions and demos - Library Skills sessions run throughout the academic year. These sessions will help you to develop your skills and to take full advantage of the many search tools on offer. The  lists session dates and times. Contact us if you would like to book a bespoke training session for your department.
  • Induction sessions - for a brief overview of the Queen Square Library, contact us about an induction session for yourself or your team. You can also visit Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Library Services' Getting Started site and our virtual tour.
  • One-to-one assistance: please complete the  to book an appointment if you need advice about a literature search. Also see details of our literature search service for clinical staff.

Online guides about Queen Square Library

To find out more about the Queen Square Library please visit our PDF guide, our video (featuring interviews with Library staff and users), our virtual tour, our Library slideshow, and our . Also have a look at our latest induction presentation for NHNN staffÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý.

Online guides to help you search and manage information

A huge range of free online guides is available on the  website and a focused list of the guides likely to be most useful to Queen Square people is below. Visit the full range of guides offered by Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Library Services. You can visit our A-Z list to link to our other library services.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Using .
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  • Current awareness - keeping yourself up to date.
  •  - the EBSCOhost databases platform offers access to a range of databases including CINAHL.
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  • Essential search skills for biomedical databases - an interactive tutorial detailing the steps involved in developing and carrying out a successful literature search using biomedical databases (takes approximately 20-30 minutes).
  •  - Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾'s library catalogue.
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  •  - an introduction to the Library Skills support Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Library Services can offer to NHS users from affiliated Trusts.
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  • Metrics - Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýÌý(¾±²Ô³¦±ô³Ü»å¾±²Ô²µÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý).
  •  - the °¿±¹¾±»åÌý»å²¹³Ù²¹²ú²¹²õ±ð²õ platform offers Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ access to Medline, Embase and PsycInfo and NHS access to Embase.
  •  - the Proquest databases platform offers NHS access to BNI, Medline and PsycInfo.
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  • References, citations and avoiding plagiarism.
  • RPS - Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾'s Research Publications Service.
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  • Skills in Seconds - a series of short films introducing print and online resources available from Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Library Services.
  •  - a guide and tutorial providing information on how to undertake a systematic review and detailing the support available from Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Library Services.
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Other sources of support available at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ and Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾H:

  • Critical appraisal - the Queen Square Library does not currently offer critical appraisal training - please see suggested tools for critical appraisal provided elsewhere.
  • Digital skills training from Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ ISD for Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ staff & students.
  • courses for NHS staff on the  (NB: accessible only from NHS PCs)
  • courses for NHS staff from  - including  (introductory modules to help you to assess your current level of skill, ensure that you are searching for information in the right place and develop a simple search strategy) and  (to help you use a range of searching techniques to find relevant articles quickly and easily; to narrow and broaden your search).