When should you use the Knowledge and Library Hub?

The Knowledge and Library Hub is designed predominantly to support rapid access to evidence from journals, books and other sources. It is not designed for carrying out systematic / reproducible searches of the research literature that are best delivered in the advanced interfaces such as Ovid, EBSCOHost and so on.

Core tasks the Hub is the place for:

Finding a known article and accessing it
Broad brush searches
Finding something recent on a topic
Find the names of people writing on a topic
Looking for articles and books you can access right now

Another way to think of it is that the Hub is for when your research is - Straight-forward, Simple, Quick as opposed to the databases (Medline, CINAHL etc) are for - Detailed, Complex, Lengthy.