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Health Research: Getting Started

A guide to library resources for Health Research

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For general help using the Library

At the Information Point in the Library

Tel. 01524 592516

Email: library@lancaster.ac.uk

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How do I find resources for my course?

You will usually find that your lecturer provides a resource list (or reading list) on the module's Moodle site. Look out for a link to a Resource list, or specific readings.

Start your search: OneSearch

Use OneSearch to search for books, journals, articles, DVDs etc.

Basic Search | Advanced Search 

The default search in OneSearch is Everything. You can change this to Books and more, Articles and more or Full text online once you have run your search.

OneSearch tutorial

onesearch tutorialThis interactive online tutorial: Getting started with OneSearch will help you get started using the Library's discovery tool.

At the end of this course, you will:

  • Know what OneSearch is and why you should use it
  • Be able to sign in and use OneSearch when off-campus
  • Be able to use OneSearch to find and read an ebook
  • Be able to use OneSearch to find and read an academic journal article

Cite Them Right

cite them right logo open book At Lancaster you have access to Cite Them Right : the essential guide to referencing and plagiarism.

Cite Them Right covers the range of referencing styles which can be used including

Chicago, Harvard, OSCOLA, APA, IEEE, MLA, Vancouver and MHRA.

Featured Database

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SAGE Research Methods Online supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process.

It comprises:

  • 1000 books, reference works, journal articles by world-leading academics and bespoke tools such as the Methods Map and the Project Planner to navigate through specific methods or parts of the research process
  • Case studies which provide invaluable classroom material to learn from real instances of data collection and hands-on data analysis practice
  • SAGE Research Methods Video spanning two collections with a total of 185+ hours of video, with tutorials, expert interviews, documentaries, courses, and research methods recorded in action

About SAGE Research Methods

How to use SAGE Research Methods, including User-Guides and Use Cases

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Leisure Reading

The Bad Doctor

Cartoonist and doctor Ian Williams takes his stethoscope to Dr Iwan James, a rural GP in need of more than a little care himself.

Graphic Medicine Manifesto

This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field.

Polio

All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond.

Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse

On the surface, these essays are about day-to-day life as a wheelchair user with a degenerative disease, but they are actually about family, love, and coming of age.

One Body: a Retrospective

In this searing, frank, and funny memoir by the author of When I Had a Little Sister ("A superb memoir" Sunday Times), a crisis causes Catherine Simpson to reflect―and to see how her body tells the story of her life.

Psychedelic Revolutionaries

In the early years of this psychopharmacological revolution, hallucinogens such as mescaline and LSD played as much of a role as other psychotropics. In fact, psychedelics constituted a scientific revolution in their own right, one that does not however fit the narrative of twentieth century scientific history.