Health Library News

Following Irene's retirement, the Health Library now has a new NHS Lead Librarian. Daryl Bate has been Project Officer on an NHS library project called SASHA ( www.library.nhs.uk/sasha ) for the last two years and prior to that has worked as manager for the Health Management Library at Stafford and has had years of experience working in library services for the NHS and higher education institutions. Daryl can be contacted on the same extension as Irene (556721) or via e-mail: daryl.bate@uhns.nhs.uk . Julie Beard will be leaving soon to go on maternity leave. She will be off from 2nd October 2006 until November 2007. During this time Alison Thornley will be Acting Library Manager. Alison should need no introduction here as she has been with the Health Library from the day we opened. Alison can be contacted on the usual library numbers or via e-mail: a.thornley@keele.ac.uk . Good luck then, to Irene on her retirement, to Julie on being about to become a mum and to Daryl and Alison wi...

All NHS staff should be made aware that this year the NHS has not renewed the national copying license with the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA). This means that with immediate effect, what you may copy and how much you may copy has become restricted. Under the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act, it is illegal to make copies of copyrighted works (such as books, journals, training materials etc) unless you have permission from the copyright holder. However, even without a license from the CLA, exceptions in the Act mean that we are still allowed to undertake limited copying without permission provided we adhere to the following restrictions. The purpose of the copy must be for private study or research for a non-commercial purpose. Therefore copying in support of the work of the NHS is allowed, and so is copying for personal use as part of your education or research. However you may not copy without permission if your research is intended to lead to financial benefit to yourself. Th...

The library can now take bookings for new training sessions throughout October, November and December for literature searching, critical appraisal, Reference Manager, Cochrane Library and health information on the Internet. For more information and to book online, click here .

As of the 1st of September, the TRIP database has reverted back to free-access for unlimited searches. Try a search at http://www.tripdatabase.com/ . The aim of TRIP is to allow health professionals to find the highest quality material available on the web. TRIP is kind of metasearch engine that simultaneously searches a wide range of evidence based health resources such as guidelines, systematic reviews, evidence based medicine journals, clinical answers services, CATs, evidence summaries, etc. It also searches a range of images collections and patient information sources. You can find out more about the aims, scope and methodologies of TRIP at http://www.tripdatabase.com/AboutUs/Index.html .