Health Library News

The kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders specialist collection has launched the latest Annual Evidence Update today for the 2011 Annual Evidence Update on Male Urinary Incontinence .

To read the Mental Health and Social Care current awareness bulletin, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care current awareness bulletin, please click here

The lists of articles published by local NHS and Keele healthcare staff have been updated to include articles published during last year. You can view the staff publications lists to find out what our local researchers are doing. If you have any comments or wish any items to be added then please get in touch with the eResources Librarian .

Students are reminded that the Campus Library and IT suite will be open as follows: Saturday 8 January  – Friday 21 January 2011 The building will open at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday 8 January 2011 and will remain open until 10.00 p.m. on Saturday 22 January 2011 Campus opening hours are available here .

Users are reminded to return all items borrowed from the Campus Short Loan Collection to the Campus Library to avoid any fines. Please see news from the Campus Library for more information.

New guides have been added to the Health Library website to help you to get to grips with some of our resources. These include step-by-step guides to help you to: Learn about your Keele Athens account Register for your NHS Athens account Find eJournals on the Keele University A-Z list Find Journals on the NHS Evidence My Journals A-Z list Search using the Ebsco databases Search using the NHS Evidence HDAS databases You can find more guides and tutorials to help you to use our resources on our Online Tutorials and Support web pages Don’t forget that if you need more help you can sign-up to one of our training sessions

CASH is the Current Awareness Service for Health run as a collaborative service by Health Librarians across the country. It provides a database of literature relating to primary care, secondary care and mental health, and aims to identify literature generally published outside the main journals. You can: Search the database Browse the topic feeds You can sign-up to the RSS Feeds in order to view updates on a regular basis.

You can view the latest new items that have been added to the library catalogue during December, including: Against the odds: black and minority ethnic clinicians and Manchester, 1948 to 2009 / Emma L. Jones and Stephanie J. Snow (2010) Dementia / David Ames, Alistair Burns, John O'Brien (2010) Handbook of nurse anesthesia / John J. Nagelhout, Karen L. Plaus (2010) Operative oral and maxillofacial surgery / John D. Langdon, Mohan F. Patel, Robert A. Ord, Peter A. Brennan (2011) Rheumatology evidence-based practice for physiotherapists and occupational therapists / Edited by Krysia Dziedzic and Alison Hammond (2010) Secrets of success: getting into GP training / Jasdeep Gill (2010) Smoking cessation / Robert West, Saul Shiffman (2007)

A number of the Oxford Handbooks relating to medical subjects are now available online: Handbook for the Foundation Programme (2nd ed) Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis (2nd ed) Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills Handbook of Clinical Specialties (8th ed) Handbook of Clinical Surgery (3rd ed) Handbook of Geriatric Medicine Handbook of Neurology Handbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (2nd ed) Handbook of Paediatrics Handbook of Psychiatry (2nd ed) You will need your Athens username in order to access them.

The new training schedule for Jan Mar 2011 has been released. You can check out all the courses and dates available from leaflets within the Library and the training pages on the website. This year we have 2 new courses: Finding the Evidence Refresh your Information Skills If you need any help check out our website    or contact one of the training and information support librarians