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!
It is worth investing time in learning to use reference management software. You can collect references from a wide variety of sources and keep them in one place.
There are many different reference managers available. Lancaster University provides access to recent versions of:
It is recommended that you conduct your searches in individual databases and bring all of the results into EndNote or other software to de-duplicate.
Before you de-duplicate:
To de-duplicate:
After de-duplication:
The Library provide guides to using EndNote and EndNote online, and you can book onto workshops using the links at the bottom of this page.
Alternatively, the videos below can help get you started with Endnote.
Upcoming training sessions on Reference management software.
The University does not currently supply access to reviewing software such as:
You might find free software Rayyan useful.
At the moment individuals and research teams are responsible for paying to access these.
Cochrane authors can access a suite of tools and software for free.
We are gathering evidence for institutional access to Covidence. If you would find this software useful, please register your interest.