Faculty librarians for Health and Medicine are available to meet staff and students for one to one appointments to discuss:
Appointments can be over the phone or online using Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
You will receive an initial confirmation email to your Lancaster University email address. This will be followed up with an email specifying room details, or a link to the online meeting. It may be possible to arrange a meeting outside of these times. Contact facultylibrarians@lancaster.ac.uk
We'd love to hear from you at any time with your feedback or success stories!
Guidance on identifying additional evidence with a worldwide focus can be found in the Decolonising Literature Searching LibGuide
Use your subject guide e.g. Health Research and the Library databases A-Z to find useful databases.
Systematic searches usually search each database individually to benefit from its unique structure and indexing.
If your topic is focused on worldwide issues, or concerns multicultural topics, it is recommended to read the Decolonising Literature Searching LibGuide for additional guidance.
Create personal accounts on the database platform for the database, e.g. EBSCO. This will enable you to save your search strategy and save your results in folders.
Conducting an advanced search requires you to formulate your search terms and decided how you plan to combine them, for example with Boolean operators AND and OR.
This video tutorial describes how to search EMBASE using the OVID platform. It has been produced by a trainer at OVID Product Training, and as such is very detailed and comprehensive.
There are 4 search modes at your disposal: