Health Library News

You can now access subscribed institutional resources at point of search from Google Scholar . To view local resources: - Select Scholar Preferences - Under Library links search for Keele or UHNS - Tick appropriate box - Save preferences Now when you search Google Scholar on that computer, look out for the Health Library print, UHNS full-text and fulltext@Keele to check for local holdings. You may need to be logged in via the appropriate Athens account to view relevant articles. Please note that UHNS holdings are also applicable to all holders of Athens accounts from NHS North Staffordshire, NHS Stoke and the Combined Healthcare Trust. Not all NHS resources have yet been added, please check the Journals A-Z for full list.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.199 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 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 latest volume of Binocular Vision and Strabismus Quarterly (Volume 24, issue 1) is now available at the Health Library. Please enquire at the Library counter or email health.library@keele.ac.uk for further information. The latest articles include: Overaction of the Inferior Oblique Muscle in 4th Nerve Palsy. Correspondence. Kushner BJ, with Mims III JL in Reply. page 16-19. Reverse Amblyopia with Atropine Treatment. Hainline BC, Sprunger DT, P:lager DA, Neeley DE, Guess MG. page:25-31. The Effect of Testing Distance on the Bielschowsky Head Tilt Test. Hunn RL, Firth AY. page 33-38. Cycloplegic Refractions as a Function of Age in Children with Infantile Esotropia. Khan AO. This title emailed to the library in PDF format by the publisher, so is inaccessible directly from the website and is no longer available in print format.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.198 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 autism, psychology 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.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.197 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 Peer repository is an ongoing trial involving the collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community running until 2011. The project will include a selection of 300 journals from some of the top publishers covering life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, social sciences & humanities. Draft copies of articles undergoing the submission process with notes on the peer review required corrections will be continually added to the repository. The aim of the project is to analysis the impact of systematically archiving on journal viability.

Zetoc table of contents and citation checker package is currently down until further notice. The problem is affecting all Mimas resources and is currently under investigation. This disrupts access both to Keele and NHS Athens users.

The annual evidence update on chest pain is now available via the Cardiovascular Specialist Library on the National Library for Health . The review covers aspects including diagnosis and risk, angina, emergency care, acute coronary care and uncertainties. Each topic looks at major reviews, guidelines, economic evaluations as well as more general resources. Full details of search methodology are included in the introduction .

Please note that the NHS purchased e-book, Handbook of Practice Management, is now accessible from the Royal Society of Medicine website using a local NHS Athens account. Please update any bookmarks to this new location.

The Medpedia Project has launched a beta version of what it hopes will become the world’s largest online medical encyclopedia. Although the project has been driven by American Universities, many other authoritative organisation have signed up to the project including NHS Choices. The project aims to create a new model of how to assemble, maintain, critique and assess medical knowledge. Only physicians and people with doctorates in a biomedical or health field will be able to edit the Medipedia knowledge base and use the network tools, but members of the public will be able to suggest articles and edits and join the communities of interest. Read original E-Health insider article here.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.195 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 obsessive/compulsive disorders, psychology and depression 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.