The following step-by-step guides and tips will help ensure you make the most of your searches and effective use of our eResources. These include guidance on how to access our eBooks or eJournals, and how to conduct a literature search on our databases. Also included is a guide to critical appraisal.
How to make the most of our eResources
WorldCat Discovery is the library catalogue of the CSP’s eLibrary, Knowledge and Archive Services.
Watch this short video to find out how to access or request evidence to support your practice, research or studies via this platform:
Step-by-step guides on how to make the most of WorldCat Discovery
Basic search
- This guide covers how to do a Basic search in WorldCat Discovery, how to view full text or request a copy:
Information skills: Basic search in WorldCat Discovery
Advanced search
This guide introduces you into how to do an Advanced search in WorldCat Discovery:
Information skills: Advanced search in WorldCat Discovery
Search history and search alerts & how to cite, share and save records
This guide includes how to view your search history, how to save a search and create an alert, re-run and share search queries. It also covers how to save and share records, and how to create citations:
Information skills: Search activity & how to cite, share and save records in WorldCat Discovery
WorldCat Discovery A-Z List
- This guide is about the WorldCat Discovery A-Z List and links to external information sources:
Information skills: Resources: A-Z List and links to external information sources
Literature searching
This guide includes how to define your search as a question, provides tips on building a search strategy and limiting search results, and covers how to get the full text of articles:
Information skills: Finding the evidence: Literature searching
Critical appraisal
This guide introduces you to study design, bias in studies, and key questions to consider when critically appraising a paper; with links to critical appraisal tools and checklists:
