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The Knowledge Network provides additional services to meet your information and knowledge needs. Use the tabs to explore additional services.
1Portals and Topics
The Knowledge Network provides you with comprehensive access to a wealth of resources on all aspects of health and social care. This section provides a complete browseable directory of dedicated portals and topic areas. Key Knowledge Network portals include:
Administration and Support Services
For staff working in administrative and business services in NHS ScotlandEvidence Into Practice
Evidence-based resources for clinical staff working at point of careHealth Management Online
For those working in the management, planning, policy, and development of healthcareSocial Services Knowledge Scotland
Information and learning materials for social services staffTo access the complete list, go to the the Portals and Topics page.
2Communities
Communities Tab
This area of the site provides the people aspect of knowledge management with access to communities of practice and ways to share information.A community of practice is a group of people with a common sense of purpose who agree to work together to share information, build knowledge, develop expertise and solve problems.
Communities of practice are cultivated and nurtured rather than formally managed. More detailed information about communities of practice is available here.
You must be logged in to see your communities and your network news.
Shared Space
A Shared Space is a unique collaborative workspace intended to help communities of health care staff, and partners in care - including patients, carers and public - to share knowledge and work together.Community Websites
The Community Websites provide a user-friendly platform for communities and networks to use The Knowledge Network technology to build websites quickly and easily to meet their own requirements.3Library
4Learning and CPD
The Learning and CPD area of The Knowledge Network aims to support healthcare staff to find support for learning, continual professional development and career development. It supports learners and providers of learning.
What will you find here?
e-Learning resources
A dedicated e-Learning search to limit your search to e-Leatning courses and resources. You can also browse content mapped to the six core KSF dimensions.Tools and quality assurance checklist to help you create and share e-Learning content.
IT and information skills development opportunities, including modules to support information sharing.
Help with developing your career
Various topics for educators and learners
Some principles and processes upon which effective education is founded; including learning styles and educational theory.
For more information visit the Learning and CPD page.
For help to use the tools to create and contribute e-Learning content see the instructions on each section.
5Keep Up To Date
The Keep Up To Date tab on The Knowledge Network provides a dedicated area to access resources to support you in managing new information. It offers quick access to a range of services including:
• News services;
• Alerting services;
• Table of content services;
• Current awareness bulletins.
Feeds LibraryOne way to help stay up-to-date with developments in your subject areas is to subscribe to an alerting or newsfeed service. A newsfeed allows websites to distribute their content and helps users to stay up to date with the latest content added to a site. Feeds are also known as RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary). Feeds help you take control of the information you are interested in without having to remember to visit the sites or clutter up your email box. Feed readers help you to collate all the information/feeds in one place. The My News and Updates widget provides news from selected websites and journal contents pages. You can access this from the Keep Up To Date tab or add it to your own personal space on The Knowledge Network homepage.
The (News)Feeds Library provides access to a collection of feeds relevant to NHS Scotland & Social Services Staff.
Newsfeeds or RSS can sometimes be hard to find on websites and time consuming if subscribing from many different sites. The Feeds Library allows users to search, find and subscribe all from one site.
More detailed guidance on using the Feeds Library is available within the Library itself. By clicking this link you will leave the Help and Training section. Go to Feeds Library help.
Zetoc
Through the ZETOC service you can receive e-mail alerts or RSS feeds about new content in your favourite journals. This includes table of contents alerts author alerts and title keyword(s) or phrase alerts.
Zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.
The Keep Up To Date page also provide instructions on setting up saved search alerts from key database providers such as OVID and EBSCOhost and also links to current awareness bulletins produced locally be library and information services on a range of subject specific topics.
For more information visit the Keep Up To Date page. The Keeping Up To Date guide describes step by step instructions on how The Knowledge Network can help you stay up to date in your selected area of interest.
6Tools and Apps
Tools and Apps showcases tools that are available to help you and your organisation make the most of knowledge resources.
Mobile Knowledge gives you access to a database of the latest health and social care apps, mobile websites and eBooks.
Access from a mobile device
When you access the Mobile Knowledge section from your mobile device, you will see a simplified version of the page that is optimised for use on mobile devices.
You can search and browse the database, but you will only see resources that are compatible with the device you are using.
You can link through from each resource record for further instructions and access to the mobile app, website or eBook.
If the layout of this page doesn’t look quite right on your mobile phone it is usually due to older versions of operating systems that are not fully compatible with Mobile Knowledge but you should, in most cases still be able to search and browse for resources.
Access from a computer
When you access Mobile Knowledge from your computer, you can search or browse the whole database and view resources available for all device types.
You can also link through to the supplier’s site or mobile app store for more details on access and availability for each resource.
Mobile versions of websites will be accessible from your computer but will generally have less functionality that the full version of the site. Apps are designed for use on mobile devices. You will be able to access the eBooks from your computer.
The Information Sharing Toolkit highlights downloadable search tools that can be used by individuals and organisations.