Training
See session times for 2025 below.
All Library Training will take place online.
Improve your literature searching skills at the Library.
Nursing & Allied Health Resources
Tutorial: 1.5 hours
- Design a simple search strategy
- Choose suitable subject headings and subheadings
- Refine your results
- Print, email or save results
- Save a search strategy
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Fri 18 Jul, 12:00 pm
- Thu 7 Aug, 2:00 pm
- Mon 15 Sep, 12:15 pm
- Wed 8 Oct, 2:00 pm
- Tue 18 Nov, 10:00 am
- Thu 11 Dec, 2:00 pm
Cochrane Library
Tutorial duration: 1 hour
- What is The Cochrane Library?
- Search using keywords and MeSH
- View search results
- Save search history
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Thu 17 Jul, 10:00 am
- Tue 5 Aug, 10:00 am
- Mon 1 Sep, 12:00 pm
- Wed 8 Oct, 4:00 pm
- Fri 21 Nov, 1:00 pm
- Wed 17 Dec, 2:00 pm
EndNote
Bibliographic management software that allows you to: organise references, images, PDFs and other files in a library;
and insert citations directly into your document using Cite While You Write.
Tutorial 1: 1.5 hours
Level: Beginner
- View and navigate an EndNote Library
- Import citations into EndNote from various databases
- Change EndNote preferences
- Use online search and find PDFs
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Tue 22 Jul, 10:00 am
- Fri 8 Aug, 10:00 am
- Wed 3 Sep, 2:30 pm
- Thu 2 Oct, 10:00 am
- Tue 11 Nov, 12:00 pm
- Wed 3 Dec, 2:30 pm
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: EndNote Tutorial 1
- Attach files to your EndNote references
- Generate a bibliography of EndNote citations
- Insert citations from EndNote libraries while writing a paper with MS Word
- Edit citations and understand field codes
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Wed 30 Jul, 10:00 am
- Fri 15 Aug, 10:00 am
- Wed 10 Sep, 2:30 pm
- Thu 9 Oct, 10:00 am
- Tue 18 Nov, 12:00 pm
- Wed 10 Dec, 2:30 pm
Demonstration: 2 hours
Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Prerequisite: No special preparation required; this is not a hands-on session
Includes all topics covered in EndNote Tutorials 1 & 2 in a demonstration format.
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Wed 27 Aug, 2:00 pm
- Fri 21 Nov, 10:00 am
Finding the Evidence
Overview of searching different Evidence-based practice resources. Useful for the busy practitioner. Find quick answers to your questions!
Tutorial: 1 hour
- Use PICOT and Boolean algebra to develop a search strategy
- Develop an awareness of Evidence-based practice resources
- Search a variety of Evidence-based practice resources
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Tue 22 Jul, 12:00 pm
- Mon 1 Sep, 11:00 am
- Wed 8 Oct, 12:30 pm
- Fri 14 Nov, 10:00 am
- Thu 18 Dec, 2:30 pm
Introduction to the Library
Work better, work faster. Find the information you need right now! Enjoy a demonstration of how the Library can work for you, in a casual, friendly environment.
Demonstration: 45 minutes
- Tour the Library website; learn what resources are available and how to access them
- Find journals and download articles
- Learn about off-site access
- See how to order items via Document Delivery
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Thu 31 Jul, 2:15 pm
- Fri 29 Aug, 10:00 am
- Wed 8 Oct, 11:15 am
- Tue 11 Nov, 3:00 pm
- Mon 15 Dec, 1:00 pm
Ovid Medline
This tutorial is also suitable for users of Ovid's Embase.
Tutorial: 2 hours
- Design a simple search strategy
- Choose suitable subject headings and subheadings
- Use Explode and Focus
- Use Limits to reduce results
- Save a search strategy
- Print, email or save results
Session times
- Semester 2, 2025
- Thu 17 Jul, 2:00 pm
- Tue 5 Aug, 11:00 am
- Fri 3 Oct, 10:30 am
- Wed 12 Nov, 2:00 pm
- Tue 9 Dec, 10:00 am
Other Library training by arrangement
Sessions include:
Online training
- EBSCO training
- Select an upcoming session title and follow the registration instructions to join, or see these pre-recorded sessions: Keyword searching in CINAHL and Search using CINAHL headings. These tutorials advise limiting your search to "Full text" to get a manageable number of results. This means your results will only contain references from journals that the Library subscribes to.
- EndNote
- See EndNote user guides or the EndNote YouTube channel.
- Ovid video tutorials
- Ovid support offers short video tutorials at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
- Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
- A self-paced introduction to the process of EBP from the Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at University of North Carolina.