HSMC Knowledge and Evidence Service (KES)

KES Services

• Literature searching
  To our academic staff as well as to our contract users we provide support at all stages of a literature search. We also carry out literature searches to a specific brief.
• Current awareness services
  We compile a number of current awareness bulletins on topics such as: public health, leadership, commissioning, patient and public involvement. In addition to these specialist bulletins we provide a daily health-related news digest, and we send out the results of two comprehensive subject-focused searches per week.
• Training
  We provide tailored training sessions to contract users, current staff and students on topics such as: strategies for literature searches; databases; referencing; referencing software.

• Book lending and article supply
  From our comprehensive collection we can supply books and other material. Books can be borrowed either in person or via our postal loans service. We can also provide access to articles published in a wide range of specialist academic journals.

If you would like to find out more about the services on offer, please contact KES manager Rachel Posaner.