Guides and video tutorials

Get the most out of Wellcome Library resources with these introductory guides and video tutorials. The guides highlight relevant resources for popular topics. Video tutorials will show you how to use the Wellcome Library catalogues to explore our physical and online collections.

Looking for primary source material on a wide range of topics? The Library has also produced a number of sources guides and supplementary handlists to help identify resources from our Archives and Manuscripts collection.

Using the Library catalogue
Using the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue
Using Wellcome Images

Finding materials in specific subject areas

History of medicine

Getting started with History of Medicine resources
Biography and family history
Populations and society
Medicine and food

Current health and biomedicine

Consumer health and medicine
Biomedical research

Medical humanities and social sciences

Medicine and literature
Medicine and art
Science communication