Knowledge and Library Services
The Knowledge and Library Service helps staff and students at STH find evidence to support all aspects of their work and study. We provide books, journals, literature searches, skills training sessions, study space, and up-to-date evidence alerts.
Find us at: iStation, Medical Education Centre, Northern General Hospital, RHH Library, D Floor, Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Contact us: sth.library@nhs.net
To become a member or browse our book collection, view our catalogue and select Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Northern General Hospital
iStation and Forge Hub, Medical Education Centre,
Opening Hours: 8:30-5:00, Monday-Friday
0114 2714659
Email: sth.library@nhs.net
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
RHH Library, D Floor,
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Staffed hours Mon-Wed 8.30-4.30, Thurs & Fri 9.00-4.00
24/7 with your STH staff badge
0114 2268460
Email: sth.library@nhs.net
The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub is the ‘one stop shop’ for high quality journals and databases which includes:
- Journals
- Databases
- E-books
- Clinical decision support resources including
- BMJ Best Practice and NICE Guidelines
Once you have found useful articles, you will be able to get full-text access with one click or request a copy.
Full access is free to all NHS staff and learners using your NHS OpenAthens account. Don’t yet have an account?
You will also be able to use the BrowZine Library to find the journals to which you have access.
Want more information or to book training for the new system?
Email sth.library@nhs.net
You can request a literature search on any topic to support your work, and we will send you high-quality evidence.
Research papers and information can be requested for a number of reasons including the development of guidelines, service improvement, care of a specific patient, CPD and research projects.
All you need to do is let us know what information you need, and we can do the searching for you. We search a wide variety of databases and aim to find the best available evidence for your particular clinical or non-clinical query.
If you would like to request a search, either email sth.library@nhs.net or complete this form.
Request an article
STH staff members can also request articles free of charge. If you want to request a full text version of an article, you can complete this form. Alternatively email details of the papers you are after to sth.library@nhs.net
We are here to help you find and critique relevant information. The library offers a wide variety of information skills sessions, which are available via MS Teams or face-to-face.
To book any of our sessions, contact us at sth.library@nhs.net
Literature searching
We deliver one to one training sessions on literature searching. This 1 hour session will talk you through building a comprehensive search strategy and selecting relevant articles.
Introductory evidence based practice
This one-day workshop introduces the concept of Evidence Based Practice, and provides an opportunity for participants to learn about different types of research, how to find evidence on clinical research databases, and how to appraise a clinical research paper.
Advanced evidence based practice
Over five days you will take an in-depth look at literature searching, research methods and critical appraisal. You will use the skills you've learned to conduct a small piece of research in your area and produce a poster to show your results.
Study skills
This two hour session is aimed at giving you the confidence to pursue new academic training opportunities. You will learn about evaluating sources, planning your time, how to read articles, note taking, reflective practice, essay structuring and referencing. This course is suitable for beginners and people who have not studied in a long time.
Writing for publication
This one-day workshop will assist candidates in taking the next steps in the process of publication. You will gain essential skills in literature searching, methodology writing, and journal selection, while learning the benefits of sharing your work with the wider healthcare community. It will be followed up by a Teams session for ongoing support.
Critical appraisal
We deliver sessions to groups on how to systematically evaluate research to judge its trustworthiness, validity, and relevance, using tools such as CASP.
Knowledge mobilisation
Knowledge Mobilization is the sharing, capture, creation, utilisation or reuse of organizational knowledge. The library can work with teams to ascertain how they can make better use of knowledge and information.
Journal club support
We offer support with setting up and running a journal club.
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We use KnowledgeShare as our current awareness tool. If you sign up to KnowledgeShare, you will receive personalised email updates which help you keep up to date with current research to support your clinical practice and professional development.
You can tailor it to be clinical or non-clinical, broad or specific, and you can restrict updates to your setting or a patient age range. KnowledgeShare includes guidelines, policy documents and a wide range of summarised evidence so that you will not be inundated with primary research articles. You can select your updates to be sent monthly or two-weekly.
KnowledgeShare is available to all staff at STH.
All STH staff members have access to BMJ Best Practice, which is a trusted clinical decision support tool. With BMJ Best Practice, you can find the latest clinical information wherever and whenever you need it.
BMJ Best Practice is also available as an app that can be used offline, ensuring that you always have the information you need, when you need it.
BMJ Best Practice includes:
• A modern, fresh user interface and navigation
• Enhanced differential diagnosis and treatment algorithms
• Videos covering the most common clinical procedures
• Improved page designs with quick links to increase speed to answer
• More than 250 integrated medical calculators
• Patient discussions and nearly 400 patient leaflets
• The latest evidence and Cochrane Clinical Answers
Plus, an award-winning app that can be used offline, ensuring that you always have the information you need, when you need it.
To Access BMJ Best Practice:
1. Visit bestpractice.bmj.com and click 'Log in'.
2. You will be presented with an ‘Access through your institution’ button.
3. When selected, you will be asked to search for your institution. Please type and select ‘NHS in England’, and then log in using your OpenAthens username and password.
4. Click 'continue' to link your OpenAthens account with your BMJ Best Practice personal account. You can use these personal account details to log in and access BMJ Best Practice anywhere.
