Health Library News

Users are reminded that from the 1st of August the overdue charges for late return or late renewal of items borrowed will change. Agreed overdue charges from 1 Aug 2011 Loan Period: If not reserved: If reserved by another borrower: Short Loan 25p per hour   / £3.00 per day (to a maximum of £20 per item) N/A Week Loan 25p per day (to a maximum of £5.00 per item) £1.00 per day (to a maximum of £20.00 per item) Standard Loan 25p per day (to a maximum of £5.00 per item) £1.00 per day (to a maximum of £20.00 per item) Loan & Renewal Threshold £10.00 and over per borrower NB: Inter Library Loan overdue charges would remain unchanged at 50p per day Remember that you can renew your items online or by contacting us by phone

The latest published research by Keele University and our 4 main NHS partners can be viewed via a feed from Pubmed. You can also sign-up to receive updates via email. See our Staff Publications page for more details or view our Staff Publications feeds on our Current Awareness Service.

You can now search for or browse the research published by Keele University academics via the Keele Research Repository . This aims to record, store and make available scholarly research published by Keele members of staff. You can access the links on the Health Library Staff Publications page to allow you to search the repository or browse through the collections for the Institute of Science and Technology in Medicine and Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences.

From the 1st of August the overdue charges for late return or late renewal of items borrowed will change. Agreed overdue charges from 1 Aug 2011 Loan Period: If not reserved: If reserved by another borrower: Short Loan 25p per hour   / £3.00 per day (to a maximum of £20 per item) N/A Week Loan 25p per day (to a maximum of £5.00 per item) £1.00 per day (to a maximum of £20.00 per item) Standard Loan 25p per day (to a maximum of £5.00 per item) £1.00 per day (to a maximum of £20.00 per item) Loan & Renewal Threshold £10.00 and over per borrower NB: Inter Library Loan overdue charges would remain unchanged at 50p per day Remember that you can renew your items online or by contacting us by phone

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no. 308, 25th July 2011 please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.307 18th July 2011, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.306 11th July 2011, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.305 4th July 2011, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.304, 27th June 2011 please click here

Click here to access the 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, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.

Keele users should note that there will be an upgrade to the latest version of Web of Knowledge soon. Get more details here.

The Athens system will undergo maintenance during the morning of the 19th July. There may be some disruption to services. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The Royal College of General Practitioners have released the Commissioning Competency Framework . Our NHS Outreach team have put together a checklist to let you know what support, services and resources we have available to help you to work towards the framework.

The Public Health Observatories have released the new Health Profiles for 2011 . These give an overview of health for each local authority in England. Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire Staffordshire Moorlands Stoke-on-Trent See our Health Promotion & Public Health subject links page for more links related to public health.

The library catalogue will be unavailable on the morning of 19th July due to a system upgrade. More details here .

Essential maintenance to the university network equipment will be carried out this week 11-15th July. This may result in loss of some access. The upgrades will be carried out between the following times. Between 8am and 8-30am After 5-30pm Please refer any queries to IT .

Users should be aware that the Keele University IT systems will be updated on Saturday 23rd July. This will result in some disruption to network services. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The Athens self-registration service will be undergoing maintenance on Tuesday 12th July. Users should be aware that there may be some disruption to the service during this time.

The access route for the ejournal Physiological Measurement has changed. The full-text is now available to our NHS users via your Athens username / password. Please see the entry on the NHS My Journals list for details. You can access the NHS My Journals list using your Athens username and password.

The Map of Medicine have released their latest newsletter This reports on: 9 new Care Maps 48 Updated Care Maps Map of Medicine is available to both Keele and NHS users via your Athens username.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue this month. Titles include: Caring for the seriously ill patient / edited by Mike Macintosh, Tracey Moore Diagnostic imaging: brain / [edited by] Anne G. Osborn, Karen L. Salzman, A. James Barkovich Mentoring and supervision in healthcare / Neil Gopee Nurses! test yourself in anatomy and physiology / Katherine M.A. Rogers and William N. Scott Nurses! test yourself in pathophysiology / Katherine M.A. Rogers and William N. Scott New ebooks available include: 1001 healthy baby answers; pediatricians' answers to all the questions you didn't know to ask / By Gary C. Morchower Clinical trial methodology / By Karl E. Peace, Din Chen Diagnosis in acute medicine / By Sherif Gonem Making sense of the chest x-ray; a hands-on guide / By Paul F. Jenkins The ultimate guide to passing surgical clinical finals / By Mohammed Faysal Malik and Asiya Maula Check the catalogue for the full collection.