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Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.233 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as addictions, dementia and learning disabilities amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Click here to access bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. A list of additional Public Health and Primary Care updates produced locally is also provided. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here .

Click here to access bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. A list of additional Public Health and Primary Care updates produced locally is also provided. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here .

The library has recently had an overhaul of all the leaflets and guides available. For online assistance, please visit the new How to... area of the Library website. Here you will find a mixture of frequently asked questions and online guides and tutorials to help support your use of electronic resources from home. Remember if you get stuck, you can always contact the library for further assistance.

This week sees the launch of a new online library as part of the NHS Evidence Speecialist Collections. The quality and productivity library brings together examples of innovative practices that can be shared with all staff. The examples of improvements range from one-off studies in single organisations to robustly tested large scale changes that have been replicated in multiple organisations and have had results published in academic journals. A selection of the examples have been highly recommended as potential high impact changes, these can be found under the Recommended section .

New training dates are now availble for January through to March on the Health Library website . Sessions on current awareness and RefWorks have been suspended due to staff shortages, but one to one sessions may be available on request.

This week the library has launched a new clinical query answering service. The service offers more in-depth literature searching, including a summary of information found and some indication of the level of evidence (e.g. if the studies are randomized controlled trials or systematic reviews). The service is aimed at departments or teams of health care professionals (not just doctors) who work together and want answers to questions that arise during the every day care of their patients Initially the service is running as a pilot with 4 specific teams in the University Hospital until June 2010 when an assessment will be made. To find out more about the proposed service, please contact Rachael Lewis: Email: r.c.lewis@lib.keele.ac.uk Tel: (01782) 556563

Over the coming months NHS Evidence has many projects around different topics and issues for which they need to recruit a variety of people to help test. It is hoped to recruit volunteers from across health and social care e.g. clinicians, nurses, public health professionals, commissioners, librarians, researchers, information specialists, medical students and service managers. If you would like to volunteer - all please contact them with your name, role, the organisation you work for and a contact email address or telephone number. Initially they will be conducting pieces of research to test the usability of the service, to find out about people’s expectations and experiences of the service, general user feedback and research answering specific questions about the service. If you have provided your details they may contact you to see if you would like to take part in the research project. Full details of the aims of the research and what you would be doing will be provided so...

The Library warmly welcomes three new members of staff: ROB WESTWOOD is covering the Deputy Library Manager's (Alison Thornley) maternity leave. Rob is a chartered librarian with experience in information literacy work with NHS Scotland and Glasgow University. VIX CAMERON joins us as a Library Assistant Her background is as Library Assistant with Bournemouth Borough Council Libraries. ANITA ROY will be Library Assistant covering Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Her background includes both HE (Staffordshire University) and local government (Staffordshire County Libraries). And last but by no means least, SUSAN SMITH (Electronic Resources Librarian) will be leaving us after Friday 11 December to take up a library manager post at Leighton Hospital, Crewe. For any queries regarding Athens or electronic resources, please contact the main Health Library enquiry by email: health.library@keele.ac.uk or tel: (01782) 556565.

Due to staff shortages, the following timetabled courses have now been cancelled until further notice. Current Awareness (elements of this course will be integrated into Health Information on the Internet and Literature Searching) . RefWorks (alternate sessions may be available at the Main Campus Library ) . Individual assistance on either topic may be available as a one to one session on request.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.230 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as addictions, dementia and learning disabilities amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

The New England Journal has launched a series of interactive cases . Each case presents an evolving patient history and a series of questions and exercises designed to test diagnostic and therapeutic skills. The tests are free to register for and will provide immediate feed back on your answers. Progress can be saved so you can leave it and return to carry on work at a later date. A link at the end of the case leads to a CME examination; you can claim up to 2 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for participating.

The Library will be running a series of outreach promotional events to raise awareness on how we can support NHS staff in the work place, for KSF, course work or own personal interest concerning health information. Please feel free to visit our stall on 20th Nov (10am -2pm)in the Dining Room, City General, or 23rd Nov (11am - 2pm) in the Coffee Shop, Royal Infirmary. Our helpful library staff will be happy to answer any queries you have about the Health Library or searching for good quality health information. View promotional flyer here.

New additions to our online book collection are listed below. All items have been indexed on the library catalogue . Either a local NHS or Keele Athens account is required to access the full text book. Search across all the full text e-books for phrases or keywords, but visiting the MyiLibrary platform . The anaesthesia science viva book: clinical science Bricker, Simon. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Bipolar disorder:a family-focused treatment approach Miklowitz, David Jay, Guilford Publications, 2008 The child surveillance handbook: 3rd ed Hall, David M. B. Radcliffe Publishing, 2009 Clinical Obstetrics: The Fetus & Mother Thambirajah M. S. Blackwell Publishing, 2007 Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia. Guides to Individualized Evidence-Based Treatment. Kingdon, David G Guilford Publications, 2005 A Foundation for Neonatal Care: a multi-disciplinary guide Michael, Hall Radcliffe Publishing, 2009. Haemorrhage and Thrombosis. MRCOG and Beyo...

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.229 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as national news, anxiety and schizophrenia amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Please visit the publications section of the Health Library website to find out the latest additions and view published research from the start of the year. All comments on the new format are glady appreciated. Please contact the library if you have additional publications which you would like to see added to the list.

Edit: These problems have now been resolved and there should be full access to Medline. A number of problems have been reported this morning in relation to the NHS Search 2.0 databases. The following issues have been reported to NHS Evidence and are under investigation: * No access to Medline * Embase slow to display results or timing out * Problems re-running a search on a different database * De-duplication not returning appropriate results If you encounter any problems, please take a screen shot (press Prt Scrn button and paste into a word document) and email to s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk (tel: 01782 556581). It is useful to know if you are at work or home, what database you were in when the error occurred and what were the preceeding search steps. If the problem persist the alternate solutions are * Request a literature search from the library. * Use the Library IT Suite to search the Ebsco Databases (available through Keele walk-in access) * Use PubMed search (t...

Click here to access bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. A list of additional Public Health and Primary Care updates produced locally is also provided. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.225 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as national news, anxiety and schizophrenia amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

The Library has now developed a joint area with the Main Campus Library to host useful resources to improve your information skills including help with literature searching, current awareness, evaluating information and guides to finding journals and books. All new undergraduates now be able to view the Library area as a course in their MyWebCT page. Changes to enrollment procedures may have affected people who were manually enrolled over the last two years. If you have a problem, please contact Susan Smith (s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk) to regain access to these useful library links and resources.

PubMed is currently trialling a new interface . Further information on the redesign can be accessed here . Please note that you can view which articles can be accessed either through your NHS Athens account or are available in the Health Libray, by using the special link available on the Health Library website .

The Trip Database is a high quality database which supports clinicians in evidence based research. New features have recently been added as part of the latest upgrade including an e-portfolio to assist reflective learning, links to BMJ's doc2doc forum , better linking to medical images and faster searching. Further information on the latest update is available here .

Edit: This issue has now been resolved At present there appears to be an issue with exporting references from the Ebsco databases to RefWorks. Both companies are aware of the issue and are currently working to resolve the matter. No further problems exist to accessing either the Databases or RefWorks. Edit: This issue is affecting all Ebsco folders and not just the Keele link to RefWorks.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.224 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as national news, anxiety and schizophrenia amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

The Department of Health issues a number of current awareness bulletins aimed at different groups within the NHS. Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin - Information includes: modernising nursing careers, swine flu update, essence of care, prescribing rights for nurses. Additional bulletins include: Allied Health Professions Bulletin Chief Dental Officer Bulletin Chief Scientific Officer Bulletin Children, Families and Maternity Bulltin Emergency Care Bulletin Equality and Human Rights Bulleitn GP Bulletin Medical Director's Bulletin Social Care Bulletin FOr further information on Department of Health updates, please visit the news section of the website.

The recent monthly updates on staff publications from the NHS in North Staffordshire and the health related branches of Keele University has now moved to a new format. Please visit the publications section of the Health Library website to find out the latest additions and view published research from the start of the year. All comments on the new format are glady appreciated. Please contact the library if you have additional publications which you would like to see added to the list.

The Health Library is now offering a laminating service. Charges as follows: 20p per A4 sheet 50p per A3 sheet Please ask at the counter for further information.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.222 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as national news, anxiety and schizophrenia amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

MireSoft has recently released a new free referencing tool for PubMed called Cite Smart . Cite Smart allows you to build your own reference library from PubMed, search PubMed direct from your Word document and will insert references as appropriate. To find out more, or to download Cite Smart, click here .

The library catalogue has had another series of improvement added. Now if the book isn't available, you can hit the show similar items buttons for further suggestions. Click on the picture of the book to view the table of contents or read reviews of the book. Whne you click on a book title, to view it's availability, check at the bottom of the page for a selected list of similar titles ( click here to view example record) or if the item is available in a different format e.g. newer edition or as a CD ROM. Other new features include the tag cloud. This is a new way of searching the catalogue. Tags are keywords which anyone can add, as opposed to subject terms which operate on a very strict controlled thesaurus for choosing terms. Unfortunately the ability of users to add their own tags has not yet been added. In a tag cloud the most popular keywords are displayed in a bolder, larger font style e.g. medicine is more popular than medical as a term. Clicking on the term will...

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.221 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as learning disabilities, depression and schizophrenia amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.220 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as national news, depression and social work amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

The 2009 AEU on hepatitis B and C is now available in the NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases specialist collection . NHS Evidence Annual Evidence Updates (AEUs) attempt to draw together recently published, high quality evidence - focusing particularly on systematic reviews and published guidelines - which it is hoped will inform and enhance the decision making and planning of clinicians, commissioners and others involved in the process of health care. For this Hepatitis B and C AEU updating last year's work, a detailed literature search from 2008-2009 identified 408 potential pieces of evidence (see methods for retrieving and evaluating the evidence for more information). Following a process of filtering and peer review (with thanks to the reviewers listed below) 46 of these form the basis of this AEU.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.219 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as dementia, depression and psychology amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

This list of local articles was compiled from a monthly update searching HMIC, AMED, BNI, CINAHL, Embase, Medline and PsychInfo. Please note that contents of list are selected on the basis of date catalogued on the database, not the publication date. The list is also subject to the publication timeline of the journal, this may not always correspond with the month it states. February Cherkin D.; Kovacs F.M.; Croft P.; Borkan J.; Foster N.E.; Oberg B.; Urrutia G.; Zamora J. The ninth international forum for primary care research on low back pain. Spine, February 2009, vol./is. 34/3(304-307), 0362-2436;1528-1159. Local affiliation: Primary Care Musculoskeletal Research Centre, Keele University, Staffordshire Local access: Keele Athens , Print copy held in Library Crome I. New impetus to aim 'higher, faster, stronger'. Addiction, February 2009, vol./is. 104/2(174-176), 0965-2140;1360-0443. Local affiliation: Department of Addiction Psychiatry, Keele University School of Medicine H...

Over the summer months we have been increasing the number of books available in an electronic format, including a new selection of books hosted on Dawsonera . All locally purchased e-books have now been added to the library catalogue . Look out for the computer icon and click on the web address to read the book online. With the exception of the NetLibrary collection (Keele only - look for netlibrary in the web address), most books should be available by logging in via a Keele or local NHS Athens account. Additional nationally purchased items accessible to NHS Athens users can be searched through the NLH e-books page and the local NHS purchased book the Handbook of Practice Management . These items have not been added to the Library catalogue. For further information on e-books, please visit our online guide .

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.218 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as addictions, depression and post traumatic stress amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.216 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here. The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as schizophrenia, learning disabilities and new publications amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.215 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as schizophrenia, learning disabilities and new publications amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Click here to access bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. A list of additional Public Health and Primary Care updates produced locally is also provided. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here .

This list of local articles was compiled from a monthly update searching HMIC, AMED, BNI, CINAHL, Embase, Medline and PsychInfo. Please note that contents of list are selected on the basis of date catalogued on the database, not the publication date. The list is also subject to the publication timeline of the journal, this may not always correspond with the month it states. Ayton A.; Keen C.; Lask B. Pros and cons of using the mental health act for severe eating disorders in adolescents. European Eating Disorders Review, 2009, vol./is. 17/1(14-23), 1072-4133;1099-0968. Local affiliation: Darwin Centre, Stoke on Trent Local access: Keele Athens Foster N.E.; Dziedzic K.S.; Van Der Windt D.A.W.D.; Fritz J.M.; Hay E.M. Research priorities for non-pharmacological therapies for common musculoskeletal problems: Nationally and internationally agreed recommendations. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2009, vol./is. 10/, 1471-2474. Local affiliation: Arthritis Research Campaign National Primary Ca...

Intute is an evaluated gateway for many different resources including Medicine and Nursing, midwivery and allied health . This means that it is a search engine which will search a limited number of websites where all information has been carefully evaluated prior to inclusion on the website. Essentially it is the same as searching Google, but will only return a small number of high quality results. It also has the added advantage that you can browse by the same thesaurus headings used by Medline or the Royal College of Nursing. This week sees a revamp of the website to a new cleaner interface, providing you with the latest articles added and free personal login which allows you to save searches. The virtual training suite offers a selection of very short online tutorials to help you learn to navigate the web by creating your own shopping cart of bookmarks, advice on evaluating online information and tips on how to search. Areas of focus include allied health , dentistry and oral h...

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.213 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as addictions, social work and learning disabilities amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

The National Library for Health's Guidelines Finder is currently under review for inclusion in the new NHS Evidence interface. This freely accessible service will allow you to search from a number of different guideline producers including the Royal Colleges, NICE and a variety of charitable organisations. A seperate search can be run across international guidelines from America, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Information is also provided on the creation, evaluation and implentation of guidelines. Have your say on the future of this service by completing the following online survey: Click here to complete survey.

The NHS Athens access to the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) will cease from the 4th Aug 2009. UK Data Archives, providers of the service will be moving away from all Athens authenticated access from this date. It will be possible to register for a free personal login to the service from this date, by completing an online form available on the ESDS website . The NHS is currently reviewing online authentication method to ensure that similar losses do not occur in the future.

The previous guidance statement for reporting systematic reviews called the QUOROM Statement (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) has recently been updated and renamed the PRISMA Statement (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses). This guidance is now freely available in the latest issue of Annal of Internal Medicine (also to be published in PLOS Medicine (with further explanation and elaboration ), BMJ (with explanation and elaboration ), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (with explanation and elaboration ), and Open Medicine ). Access the full text article here . For further information on the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews, please book on to one of the library run training sessions . Specialist guidance on literature searching is also available on request.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.213 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as depression, dual diagnosis and psychology amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

We understand that the Health Library is not always the easiest place to visit and many people are trying to fit study around work, shifts and family life. To reflect this, there has been an expansion to the collection of online books. These titles can be viewed at home by logging in using either your Keele or NHS Athens account. This latest collection of a further 216 books has now been added to MyiLibrary , where titles can be browsed by subject, or using an author or title search. The other great advantage of online books is the ability to search the book content itself, either within an individual text or across the full MyiLibrary collection. For a quick overview on the use of e-books, please visit the online library guide . NHS Athens account holders can also use the NHS Evidence e-book gateway to search this collection of books inconjunction with e-books purchased nationally through the Core Content. All e-books will shortly be listed as part of the Library catalogue . Ple...

Keele University has now added the statistics package StatsDirect to the Health Library IT Suite. Students are requested to use computers in the IT Suite before requesting access to those in the Library Training Suite. Library staff are not trained in the use of this package, for further advice, please ask your department or contact Karen Rhodes for information on the next Research Statistics Advice Clinic. You can contact Karen by phoning (01782) 554334 or emailing karen.rhodes@uhns.nhs.uk.

New resources have now been added to the Anatomy and Physiology subject resource page . There is a selection of interactive models, scans, quizzes, tests, descriptions and games to help test and improve your knowledge. New additions to the list include: anatomy arcade , enhanced neurological eye simulator and a virtual autopsy . Please contact Susan Smith s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk with further suggestions on how to improve the subject resource area of the website.

Minutes of the latest meeting of the Health Library User Groups are now available on the Health Library website . Issues discussed include journal subscriptions, National Service Framework for Quality Improvement, clinical librarian service, new self-issue machines and e-books. To get involved and have your say on the future direction of the library, please contact Jonathan Hutchins for further information.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.211 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as dementia, depression and addictions amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.210 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as learning disabilities, anxiety and schizophrenia amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

This list of local articles was compiled from a monthly update searching HMIC, AMED, BNI, CINAHL, Embase, Medline and PsychInfo. Please note that contents of list are selected on the basis of date catalogued on the database, not the publication date. The list is also subject to the publication timeline of the journal, this may not always correspond with the month it states. April Dias P.J.; Gopal S. Refractory thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura following influenza vaccination. Anaesthesia, April 2009, vol./is. 64/4(444-446), 0003-2409;1365-2044. Local affiliation: University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust Local access: NHS Athens ,Print copy held in Library Hill J.; Lewis M.; Bird H. Do OA patients gain additional benefit from care from a clinical nurse specialist? - A randomized clinical trial. Rheumatology, 2009, vol./is. 48/6(658-664), 1462-0324;1462-0332. Local affiliation: Arthritis Research Campaign National Primary Care Centre, Primary Care Sciences, Keele Universi...

The National Core Content has just secured perpetual access to the archives of JAMA for NHS Athens account holders. Access has now been extended from 1883 to present day. Full text articles can be accessed through the journals A-Z , direct from JAMA homepage or from the advanced database search .

Following a decision by Library Advisory Group, from 1 August 2009 members of the University requesting Inter-Library Loans from the British Library will be required to pay the full cost of these requests. There is no change is service for NHS employees.

From the Wednesday 1st July, there will be a new course on the reference management package RefWorks. With RefWorks you can store references in easy to use folders, save attached files and insert citations as you type in Word. It only takes couple of clicks of the mouse to generate a complete bibliography of all references in your chosen style. RefWorks is only available through the Keele Athens login. Currently no reference management package is available to NHS staff. If you work for the NHS and have interest in trying either Reference Manager or RefWorks before purchase, please contact the training team to arrange an overview. Reference Manager training is still available on request, but is no longer supported by the University.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.209 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as dementia, depression and obssessive compulsive disorders amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

New services are being added to the Library catalogue over the summer months. Today saw the first of the changes with the addition of Syndetic Solutions; a product which provides a front cover picture on the catalogue book listing . Not only will it make it easier for you to identify the item on the shelves, but if the image states Reviews and more , you will be able to view a synopsis or browse the table of contents to help you find out if this is the book for you! Please note that this service is not available for all titles. More information is likely to be available for newer items. Look out for internet links on the catalogue if the book is available on the Keele network. Online books allow for fully searchable text and contents links that take you straight to the required page. NHS e-books can be searched by logging into NHS Athens account on NHS Evidence .

The monthly Health E-news produced by the Halton & St Helens Health Improvement Library Service, the Primary Care Library, and St Helens Health Partnership is now available by clicking here . The update contains information which relates to the six key areas of the Department of Health’s White Paper Choosing Health: Making Healthier Choices Easier.

Are you an NHS employee based in community or attached to NHS North Staffordshire, NHS Stoke on Trent or North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust? If so, you can get assistance from the Outreach Librarians. To find out more about training in the workplace, literature search service and the Health Library link service please visit the Outreach Service webpage . Newly added it the Annual Service report for 2008-2009.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.208 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as schizophrenia, psychology and eating disorders amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.