Operating Department Practice

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Operating Department Practice

Reading Lists

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Independent Research - getting started

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How to identify different sources of information and links to useful books and ebooks.

Creating a search strategy

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Independent Research - beyond the basics

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For some assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough sources to work with. Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular names as a good way of finding articles. This page lists key sources for Operating Department Practice:

• Developing advanced search strategies

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How to search systematically for literature. From the initial stages of understanding your vocabulary to using advanced features in databases.

• Databases

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Collections of specialist, subject specific journal literature.

• Websites and professional organisations

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• Statistics

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Access to more than a million statistics from many different sources. Useful for finding industrial, economic and consumer market statistical trends.

 

Information related to health and social care. Includes Health Survey for England, NHS Quarterly Review, national health indicators and hospital activity statistics.

Health Profiles provide a snapshot overview of health for each local authority in England.

Statistics on public health topics

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Official statistics from the UK Government.

The official UK statistics site. The Health section includes health, care and quality of life.

 

• Newspapers

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• Audio visual resources

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• Learning Resources

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• Research Methods

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Referencing

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Guidance and support for referencing in APA7 and links to information on reference management software

Your Subject Team

 Hannah Britcher

Faculty Librarian

email hannah.britcher@port.ac.uk

 Marie Smith

Assistant Faculty Librarian

email Marie.smith@port.ac.uk