Training and Guides

Training - Library Skills sessions, guides and online tutorials

Queen Square Library offers free library skills support & training to UCL staff & students & UCLH staff, with a focus on UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology & the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. 

• Bookable sessions and demos - Library Skills sessions run throughout the academic year. These sessions will help you to develop your skills and to take full advantage of the many search tools on offer. The training calendar lists session dates and times. Contact us if you would like to book a bespoke training session for your department.
• Induction sessions - for a brief overview of the Queen Square Library, contact us about an induction session for yourself or your team. You can also visit UCL Library Services' Getting Started site and our virtual tour.
• One-to-one assistance: please complete the online form to book an appointment if you need advice about a literature search. Also see details of our literature search service for clinical staff.

Online guides about Queen Square Library

To find out more about the Queen Square Library please see our video (featuring interviews with Library staff and users), our virtual tour, our Library slideshow, and our TikTok. Also have a look at our latest induction presentation for NHNN and induction presentation for ION students.

Online guides to help you search and manage information

A huge range of free online guides is available on the LibrarySkills@UCL website and a focused list of the guides likely to be most useful to Queen Square people is below. You can visit our A-Z list to link to our other library services.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Using Generative AI as a source of information.
• CINAHL via EBSCOhost.
• Cochrane Library.
• EBSCOhost databases - the EBSCOhost databases platform offers access to a range of databases including CINAHL.
• Embase via Ovid.
• Emcare via Ovid.
• Endnote.
• Essential search skills for biomedical databases - an interactive tutorial detailing the steps involved in developing and carrying out a successful literature search using biomedical databases (takes approximately 20-30 minutes).
• Explore - UCL's library catalogue.
• Good academic practice in the use of sources. 
• Harvard referencing.
• LibrarySkills@UCL for NHS users - an introduction to the Library Skills support UCL Library Services can offer to NHS users from affiliated Trusts.
• Medline via Proquest.
• Medline via Pubmed.
• Medline via Ovid.
• Mendeley.
• Metrics - Bibliometrics and Research metrics (including hindex and impact factors).
• Ovid databases - the Ovid databases platform offers UCL access to Medline, Embase and PsycInfo and NHS access to Embase.
• Proquest databases - the Proquest databases platform offers NHS access to BNI, Medline and PsycInfo.
• PsycInfo via Ovid.
• PsycInfo via Proquest.
• PubMed.
• Referencing - Introduction to referencing guide.
• RPS - UCL's Research Publications Service.
• Scopus - also see Elsevier's guides.
• Systematic Reviews - a guide and tutorial providing information on how to undertake a systematic review and detailing the support available from UCL Library Services.
• Web of Science - also see Thomson's guides.

Other sources of support available at UCL and UCLH:

• Digital skills training from UCL ISD for UCL staff & students.
• courses for NHS staff on the UCLH intranet site (NB: accessible only from NHS PCs)
• courses for NHS staff from eLearning for Healthcare - including Building the Foundations (introductory modules to help you to assess your current level of skill, ensure that you are searching for information in the right place and develop a simple search strategy) and Developing the Skills (to help you use a range of searching techniques to find relevant articles quickly and easily; to narrow and broaden your search).