Are you tackling a systematic review but not sure where to start? Struggling to define your review question or come up with a clear search strategy? The Library subscribes to Cochrane […]
Research support: What the library offers
The Library and Learning Resources Learning Skills Team offers high-quality guidance and support to staff and students on developing academic and information skills, literacies and digital capabilities. We also provide […]
Learning Skills Hub modules for postgraduate students and researchers
Did you know we have a selection of Learning Skills Hub modules that have been specifically created for postgraduate students and researchers? Let’s take a look: Introduction to postgraduate […]
LGBT+ History Month 2024: Researching LGBTQIA+ health
February is LGBT+ History Month. This year’s theme is Medicine #UnderTheScope. Each of our libraries has a display this month of books and/or book covers relating to health and medical […]
Your Digital Library; Cite your sources right, with Cite Them Right!
Do you struggle with referencing?
Do you know what to reference?
Are you new to referencing or maybe not new but would like to improve your grade? Well don’t panic, we’re here to take the stress out of citing those sources!
We heard from Bloomsbury’s Cite them Right, there are some updates! we wanted to pass them on to you!
Getting to grips with PRISMA
My role involves advising students and staff on literature searching, particularly searches carried out as part of a literature review. One aspect which people are asking about more frequently is […]
PICO and SPIDER and SPICE, oh my!
As a health librarian, one of the things which final year and postgraduate students ask me about most often is PICO. But what on earth is PICO? Not, sadly, a […]
The Dover Methodist Scrapbook, Herbarium Apuleii Platonici and all things Dickensian
This year the library offered two placement opportunities to Applied Humanities: Employability in Practice students – one was digitizing and researching a nineteenth-century scrapbook, and the other was processing and […]
Harvard referencing and why we sometimes get it wrong
Referencing requires an attention to detail which many people find boring and time-consuming. They therefore look for short cuts to make their lives easier. In this blog post we talk about some of the things we get wrong when we reference and how we can avoid these.