Health Library News

The library's opening hours over the Christmas period are as follows. Friday 22nd December: 8:30am - 5:45pm. Saturday 23rd December: CLOSED. Sunday 24th December: CLOSED. Monday 25th December: CLOSED. Tuesday 26th December:CLOSED. Wednesday 27th December: 9:00am - 4:30pm. Thursday 28th December: 9:00am - 4:30pm. Friday 29th December: 9:00am - 4:30pm. Saturday 30th December: CLOSED. Sunday 31st December: CLOSED. Monday 1st January: CLOSED. Tuesday 2nd January: 8:30am - 9:45pm

Following the decision of the NHS to not purchase a central copying licence from the Copyright licensing Agency (CLA) for all Trusts in England, local Trusts have had to decide whether or not to purchase their own licences. Currently, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust and Stoke-on-Trent PCT (formerly North Stoke and South Stoke PCTs) have licences. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust and North Staffordshire PCT (formerly Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire Moorlands PCTs) do not have licences. Keele University do not fall under the NHS copying licence at all and have their own licence from the CLA. What library users may photocopy, scan, print and download is contingent therefore on who they work for/study with. Please read the information below to determine what you may, or may not photocopy. Below that are some general points on copyright that will apply to all organisations using the library. Keele University students One copy of one article from ...

Finding conference papers on the Internet can be difficult, so it's always nice when a new tool comes along. Microsoft have recently produced a search service called Windows Live Academic which seems to work in much the same way as Google Scholar - i.e. it allows you to search the Internet for the more scholarly material that is out there. However it has the added benefit of a conference filter allowing you to limit your search to conference papers. To give it a try, go to: http://academic.live.com/ Other useful sources for easy conference paper searching are Zetoc ( http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk ) and Scirus ( http://www.scirus.com ).