Library Services
Welcome to Greater Manchester Mental Health Library and Knowledge Services.
Our aim is to help all staff, learners and service users make best use of our services and enable them to find the right knowledge and evidence to achieve excellent healthcare and health improvement.
Library and Knowledge Services include:
- Search our library catalogue for books, reports, journals and multimedia resources
- Enquiry service
- Literature Searching services
- Training on literature searching via MS Teams tailored to your needs
- Tailored Bulletins on recent evidence
- Access to electronic resources including e-books and journals
- Access to books from other libraries
- Study Space and Access to PCs
- Searching the evidence base using the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
- WI-FI access for personal devices
- Library inductions delivered online
- Fully illustrated guides for practical clinical skills procedures at ClinicalSkills.net
Library and Knowledge Service Quality Standards
GMMH Library and Knowledge Services work to continuously uphold the following quality standards:
Enquiries: Respond to all enquiries within 1 working day.
Literature Searches: All searches delivered within a maximum of 15 working days.
Inter-library Loans and Document Supply: Items requested through our document supply service will be delivered within 2 weeks.
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Request a literature search
What is a literature search?
A literature search is a detailed, comprehensive, and systematic search of the published and unpublished literature about specific topics or conditions.
The search yields a set of results on the topic in question – usually a list of journal articles and reports.
Our literature searches typically take up to 15 working days, and deadlines may need to be negotiated during periods of high demand. If your request is urgent, then we may be able to offer a quicker turnaround, so please contact us directly to discuss.
This service is not available to students for completing assignments or coursework, however we can support you to undertake a literature search yourself. To arrange a training session please contact the library directly at library@gmmh.nhs.uk or visit our Training webpage to find out more.
What can it be used for?
- Patient care
- Quality or continuous improvement projects
- Commissioning
- Audit
- Policies, procedures, guidelines or business cases
- Patient information resources
- Research or writing for publication
- General interest or Continuing Professional Development
- Systematic reviews
- Teaching or presentations
How do I request a search?
To request a search please fill out our Literature Search Request Form with as much detail about your topic/query as possible. Once completed you will receive an automatic acknowledgement by email. Your request will then be assigned to one of our expert searchers who will contact you if they need any further clarification on your topic.
Order an article
Order an article
If we do not have a book or journal that you require, we can usually obtain it from another library for you.
We are part of a number of library networks that allow us to request items for our users.
When you are searching the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub you will see that some references have a link below them saying 'Request this item'. If you click on it, you can then put your personal details in the form that appears, and send an e-mail request to the Library Service for that reference.
If you prefer, you can just e-mail any requests to the library e-mail at library@gmmh.nhs.uk
Book a training session
Book a training session
To request an information skills training session for you or your team, contact the library team on library@gmmh.nhs.uk
Download our Library and Knowledge Service Leaflet
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