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
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Guidance on identifying additional evidence with a worldwide focus can be found in the Decolonising Literature Searching LibGuide
OneSearch is a good place to start - use it to get an idea of the amount of literature there is on your subject.
However most researchers need to use specialist databases because they
You should search several different databases because:
Use your subject guide to identify the specialist databases we recommend for your subject.
Search subject and interdisciplinary databases to identify journal articles and conference proceedings which report the findings from studies.
Databases from other subject areas, such as sociology or management may also be useful. Find these from other subject guides or the Library databases A-Z.
In many subjects, books are a vital source of information.
Union catalogues bring together the catalogues of many different libraries.
Older books Search our electronic book collections, which include many texts from the 19th and 20th centuries and before.
Newspapers are a rich source of historical as well as current information.
Theses and dissertations are not indexed in most subject databases, so you should look for them separately. They matter because they often contain cutting-edge information, or go into more detail than any work the author may have published.
Grey literature includes reports, conference proceedings, standards and patents, government publications and many other important documents which aren’t books or journal articles.