5 Quick Tips for a Better Grade

This Wednesday 12:10 - 12:30pm in IC Collaboratory 2 Making information work for you:

Come along to this session for some top tips on finding the best information for your needs and using it wisely.

This session is open for all University members and there will be some time for questions and discussion afterwards.

Be a Sheffield Graduate: Be Information Literate.

IC Bitesize 7: Researching Employers

Wednesday May 1st 12:10pm in IC Collaboratory 2:
Stand out from the crowd: researching employers

Employer research is an essential part of preparing for a job application or interview. Everybody else will use Google. Find out how specialist databases can help you to stand out from the crowd.

This session will is open to all staff and students. Cookies included!

New titles update

We now have online access, available now, for the following item:


Glasper, E.A., & Rees, C. - How to write your nursing dissertation - Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2013.

This item will also be available in print shortly.


We also have several other new titles added to the collections at the Northern General Hopsital and Royal Hallamshire Hospital Libraries available including:

Karch, A. M. -2013 Lippincott's pocket drug guide for nurses - Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, c2013. 



 
Stanford, C.C., & Connor, V.J. - Ethics for health professionals - Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2014
 

 
 
Traynor, T. et al. -  The directory of grant making trusts, 2012/13 - London: Directory of Social Change, 2012


 
Zuckerman, J.N. (ed.) - Principles and practice of travel medicine - 2nd ed. - Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 


 
Goldsmith, D., Jayawardene, S., & Akland, P - ABC of kidney disease - 2nd ed. - Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2013




Check out a full list of items recently added to the collections at the Health Sciences Libraries here

Literature Review Tutorial

Are you planning a literature review?  If so, you may want to have a look at our our Information Skills Tutorial on the subject:

Producing a Literature Review


Producing a literature review can be a complex process, and it can be difficult to know where to start.  
Our tutorial breaks the process into 7 steps, and provides advice, strategies and further resources to help you through each one.    

Have a look at our Information Skills Resource for advice on referencing, database searching, using Endnote and much more.

Library Sessions in 301: Student Skills and Development Centre

The University Library is collaborating with 301: Student Skills and Development Centre 

The first sessions, ‘Searching for Researching: finding quality resources for your undergraduate research project’ are aimed at any undergraduate student who is carrying out their first research project. These will be held on the following dates:

Tuesday 16th April 5.30-6.30pm

Friday 17th May 12-1pm

The next session, ‘Searching for Research: finding quality resources for your research project’ is aimed at Taught Postgraduates and any Undergraduates working on their dissertations over the summer. These will be held on the following date:

Thursday 6 June 5.30-6.30pm

For booking information please see here

The new 301 centre on Glossop Road

New editions available in the RHH & NGH for March

New editions available in the RHH & NGH for March

We have added some new items to the library’s collection available in the Health Sciences Libraries this month.

Petrie, A - Medical statistics at a glance workbook - Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. [0470658487]

Moreno, J. D. - Is there an ethicist in the house?: on the cutting edge of bioethics - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press; Chesham: Combined Academic, 2005. - [0253346355]

Collier, J. A. B. -  Oxford handbook of clinical specialties. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - (Oxford medical handbooks). [0199591180]

Beatty, H, 1979 -Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain: the reality of a fashionable disorder  - London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012. - (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine). [1848933088]

Jenkins, P. F. - Making sense of the chest X-ray: a hands-on guide - 2nd ed - London: Taylor & Francis, 2013. [1444135155]




For a full list of new books, ordered by site, visit the Library Catalogue

10 of the best: 9# Health Statistics

‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ – ok so statistics can be a tricky thing, some people love them whereas some people believe they’re just used to bolster any old weak argument. They’re also not always the easiest thing to find. While a quick google search will throw up all the random facts and figures you could wish for, checking the reliability of such figures can be difficult. Yet this is absolutely crucial for anyone carrying out academic work. Statistics can in fact be a great way to add to an argument or observe general trends, particularly in the field of public health, but you need to make sure what you’re quoting is correct. 

The Library has put together a list of some of the best places to look for health statistics. 

These range from local statistics, such as the Sheffield Health and Well-being Atlas which includes interactive tools to access data at different geographic levels across Sheffield, to a whole range of national statistics. These come from official government sources such as the Department of Health and trusted charities such as Cancer Research UK . 

There’s also a list of sites for International Statistics. The World Health Organisation: European Health For All Database is a great starting point for finding out broad trends in the European Union and the WHO Global Health Atlas provides an overview of infectious diseases around the world. 

Check out a full list here.