Research support

The Trust library service provides a number of services and resources to help staff involved in, or considering undertaking, research.

We offer support with the following:

Library staff can help you to identify and obtain existing relevant research and evidence by:

Teaching you how to plan and carry out a literature review.
Performing a detailed literature search for you. This will be conducted according to "The literature search process: guidance for NHS researchers" developed by South Central Healthcare librarians
Maintaining a list of key websites relevant to research activities.
Helping you to access articles or books that you need for your research project. This includes requesting articles or books from other libraries if they are not already in the Trust library collection.

Library staff can:

Help you locate possible sources of funding such as grants, fellowships and scholarships.
Provide books and other resources to guide you through the grant writing process.

During your project, library staff can help you:

Keep up to date about developments in your area of expertise by providing regular updates of recently published research.
Organise your references using reference manager to make them easy to find again and to quickly organise for inclusion in publications.
Use the library computers (Stoke Mandeville only) to access SPSS (specialist software to help you analyse your results using various statistical tests).

Library staff can help you by:

Providing books and journal articles to help you write up your results for publication or presentation at a conference.
Providing access to information about forthcoming conferences and grants to attend conferences.
Instructions for authors for hundreds of journal titles.
Research Information Network (RIN) guidelines on acknowledgement of research funding.
Providing access to Reference Manager which allows you to “cite as you write” and organise your references quickly and easily into the format required by over 900 journals.