If the date and time of this class is not suitable please contact the event organiser or help@strath.ac.uk . We will always schedule a new class when there is sufficient demand.

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Database training: Social Policy and Practice (Ovid, Wolters Kluwer Health) Online

This one hour online training session will introduce you to the Social Policy and Practice database (on the Ovid platform).

The training is led by a member of the Wolters Kluwer Customer Success team and will cover:

  • How to navigate the Ovid Platform,
  • The content covered in Social Policy and Practice,
  • How to search effectively, and
  • How to refine and work with your search results.

This session is repeated on Wednesday 30th October 2024.


Social Policy and Practice (SPP) is a bibliographic database for those working or studying in the health and social care sectors - bringing together information from five leading UK collections of health and social care resources: AgeInfo - Centre for Policy on Ageing; NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Planex - IDOX Information Service; Social Care Online - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE); ChildData – National Children’s Bureau (NCB).Social Policy and Practice contains over 400,000 bibliographic records and abstracts dating from 1981, with over 24,000 new records added every year.

You can access Social Policy and Practice via the SUPrimo catalogue

Strathclyde users must sign in to access many library eResources. Please follow any on-screen instructions and enter University email address and password with multifactor authentication where prompted.

Please note that this resource permits access for 12 simultaneous users.

Date:
Monday, October 28, 2024
Time:
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Time Zone:
UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  All Welcome     PhD     Postgraduates     Staff     Undergraduates  
Categories:
  Online class  
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Event Organizer

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Gareth Ryan