Health Library News

The Handbook of Practice Management is the latest key resource to be added locally to NHS Athens accounts. Full text can now be accessed online by visiting www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/hpm . Access is direct via computers in the Health Library, or by NHS Athens login elsewhere. The handbook is published by the Royal Society of Medicine, and details aspects of primary care organisations and teams, people management, issues relating to drug and information managament and finance. This resource is relevant to all staff employed in a primary care setting. The online version also contains additional links to further resources.

The Medical Search tool comprises of 3 medical information search packages that can integrate with Microsoft Office applications, windows desktop, as well as a secure document sharing tool. These tools can only be accessed through computers on the NHS network (N3). The tools have been developed through support from the National Library for Health and Connecting for Health, utilises a vast knowledge bank of credible sources such as the National Library of Health evidence based medicine, guidance, medical dictionary and specialist libraries, British National Formulary and Medicines.org.uk. The search tool sits in existing popular software and can provide NHS users with easy access to reliable medical information that is completely up-to-date. The NHS Medical Search project has developed three tools to do this: The Office Research pane The first uses a feature of Microsoft Office called the research task pane. An augmented version has been developed for the NHS that allows ...

The annual review of the Outreach Service is now available on the Outreach pages of the Health Library website. Find out about the recent activities to support staff in Public Health, Combined Healthcare and the Primary Care Trusts. The report provides key resources for people working in the community and details new developments in improving access to information, and training at the workplace.

Due to the number of uncollected article requests, the library will now require full payment for interlibrary loans at the time of ordering. The interlibrary loans system is a subsidised service. It has always been the written policy of the library to charge upfront for requests, but abuse of the system now means that the policy will now need to be enforced. Urgent requests will still be accepted by fax, phone or online submission, with payment on collection. Refunds will be provided for items that prove to be unobtainable. All uncollected or unpaid requests will be charged against the appropriate library record and may lead to a withdrawal of the service in the future.

Please help us maintain our high standard of service by considering what it is you are requesting. Here are a few helpful tips to save your own money and staff time: If the article is only 1 page, then generally it will be a letter, comment or poster abstract from a conference. The full research might not necessarily have been published. When performing a literature search, if a title is in brackets, then the full text is in a foreign language. All abstracts are published in English, but this doesn't mean the rest of the document is. Please check that the article is not published ahead of print. This is a premium rate service offered by publishers, but libraries generally don't have access until it has gone to print. If renewing a book loan from the British Library, please can you let the library know if it is required for a couple of days or a full renewal.

The Health Library will be resuming NHS literature searching training courses from the start of May, details and online booking available on the Health Library website . This course is now available to all Keele nursing and medical students, and supporting staff. Additional help sessions are also available for all Keele health faculty staff and students using the Ebsco database interface. Details on courses offered are on the Health Library website . Please contact the Library for further details on training in the workplace or one to one refresher sessions.

Access to NHS databases via Dialog Datastar has now been extended until 30th June. This will allow for the continuing development of the Search 2.0 interface and provide time for familiarisation. This is a development which is responsive to NHS needs, please contact Susan Smith (s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk) to report any problems or suggest improvements that can be made to Search 2.0.