Hospital staff membership

With a Hospital Library Membership, you can:

• Borrow from the Library 
• Visit our libraries during usual opening hours
• Request an item for delivery to your campus library 

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Let our team of librarians search the databases for you. Our searches provide you with clinical evidence to inform specific patient cases, organisational changes and update clinical guidelines. 

Request a literature search

Use our free document delivery service for an item not available through the Library or the Clinical Knowledge Network (CKN).

Request document delivery

• Clinical Knowledge Network (CKN) is an online collection of key health databases, books and journals, available to all Queensland Health staff. See our CKN guide.
• Access a selection of UQ databases, ebooks and ejournals from Library computers. 
• Hospital and Health Services staff can access additional electronic resources that are not available on CKN. For example, Metro North Health has a subscription to UpToDate.

• The Library can assist you with the best ways to search online resources such as PubMed and others available via CKN. This includes support for researchers conducting systematic or scoping reviews. Our information on systematic searching can help you get started. Contact the Outreach Librarian (below, on this page) for personalised searching support.

• Health Information and Research Essentials online modules provide an overview of essential health information, including an introduction to health, evidence-based practice, reliable health information, and health research. They are suited to a diverse audience, including students, researchers, clinicians, as well as patients and consumers.

• If you are undertaking research, you will need to set up persistent digital identifiers that uniquely distinguish you as a researcher and connect you to your research activity. The most important of these identifiers is ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). Use our information on ORCID for hospital staff to guide you. 

• Our referencing guides will help you format your reference list in styles such as APA and Vancouver.
• EndNote software stores and manages references from databases, Google Scholar and more. Use it to quickly create a reference list. View our training information on this page for upcoming EndNote training. For further EndNote help contact the Hospital Librarian.
• Queensland Health has moved to EndNote 21. Staff using a Queensland Health computer can access the Software Center to download and install EndNote. Hospital and Health Service staff may also install EndNote on their personal computer by requesting a copy of the installation file. Staff who are members of UQ Library can contact Herston Health Sciences Library via email hhsl@library.uq.edu.au. Staff not eligible for UQ Library membership can contact the Queensland Health Library that serves their Hospital and Health Service.

We offer customised training sessions in the Library, in your department, or online. We can provide in-service training or individual consultations.

View upcoming training (below, on this page).