Health Library News

NHS Connecting for Health is conducting a consultation with the public and healthcare professionals on the use of patient information for purposes such as health research and managing and planning care. Although aimed at both public and health professionals, there is particular interest in the comments from clinical research on the use of NHS data. Currently researchers only account for 2% of returns and are considered under-represented. Please take the time to complete this survey and advertise where appropriate.

From 1st January 2009 inter-library requests will be increasing to £2.00 each. There will also be an additional £2.00 charge per each loan renewal. This price increase is necessary due to the continued rise in inter-library request costs. This is the first increase in charges since the current £1 charge was introduced over a decade ago. The Health Library will continue to heavily subsidise the full cost of each request.

A new service providing free electronic access to doctoral thesis from UK based Higher Education Institutes, will be launched Tuesday 14th October. As a result of the EThOS (Electronic Thesis On Line System) service, the British Library will no longer be offering a microfilm loan service. Visit http://ethos.bl.uk/ to search the EThOS service and download one of the thousands of theses already digitised. If the document you are searching for is not available, EThOS can be requested to obtain and digitise it. The researcher will not normally be charged for this unless the institution supplying the thesis requires it. Further information is available at http://www.ethos.ac.uk/ .

Staff from the School of Nursing are hosting IT drop in sessions every Wednesday lunch time throughout October between 12.30pm and 1.30pm. So if you are have questions about WebCT (KLE) or problems with any of the Microsoft Office packages, University email or other course related computer issues, why not pop along for some assistance. Because it is a drop in session, you can visit at any time for a quick query or take the full hour to sit down and practice your skills.