Health Library News

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...