Health Library News

December 1st is World AIDS Day, an international campaign aimed at raising awareness of HIV. Between 1981 and 2007 more than 25 million people have died from the virus worldwide and currently more than 90,000 people live with HIV in the UK. The day offers an opportunity to learn more about the facts, the methods of prevention, as well as helping remove the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV. Here at the Health Library we have numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find our most popular items, information on materials recently added to our collection and periodicals related to AIDS and HIV. To locate these items simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. M O S T   P O P U L A R - Drugs in HIV and AIDS / by Adrian Palfreeman et al, 1998 - Joint ILO/WHO guidelines on health services and HIV/AIDS / World Health Organization, 2005 - HIV/AIDS and the older adult / edited by Kathleen M. Nokes, 1996  N ...

We often get asked how to find journal articles on a particular subject and users often seem to think that it is something that you can do in a couple of minutes. But you need a little more time to get to grips with the tools and techniques to search effectively. Even though we have lots of journals on the shelves, searching for articles isn’t a case of wandering along the shelves and picking out a journal that looks interesting. You need to search an index and the indexes are maintained on bibliographic databases. So… to do effective searches for journal articles you need to get to grips with online databases . Start by having a look at our FAQs – check the section on Finding Resources You can watch our introduction videos on using Internurse and using Cinahl   in our tutorials section Using Resources Don’t forget that we have a number of training courses that you can book on. And our training librarians are there to support you if you need more help – just allow more tha...

The login screen to access your library record has been updated. There is now a single set of boxes which can deal with any type of card number. This should make it easier for you to login to renew loans or reserve books, while also freeing things up for us to make further improvements. Catalogue Login Screen

Many of our very popular Oxford Handbook series are available online as ebooks. So avoid the wait and overdue charges – check out the list online . 

New printing arrangements in the IT Suite are now fully in place. Keele card printing is available via the first 8 rows of computers. Printing with EMOS cards is available from the 2 rows of computers at the back of the room.

Maintenance will be carried out on the Athens service during Tuesday 22nd November. Users may experience some loss of service, including access to administration and registration services .

Please note that the Campus Library will be open 24/7 from the night of Saturday 26th November to the night of Thursday 15th December. Full details of the opening times are available here .

Dynamed is now available to UHNS Athens users. DynaMed provides clinically-organized summaries for nearly 3,000 disease and condition topics, incorporating over 800 drug topics.  DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals, using a 7-step methodology for selecting and critically appraising each selected article. DynaMed is updated daily and is available via mobile devices. You can access Dynamed from our Health Information Resources page. Help is available to get you started.

The for sale book trolley will be refreshed today with more pearls of wisdom at bargain prices. Below is a selection of some of the discarded texts which have been added to the trolley. Items are sold on a first come, first served basis. Payment may be by cash or credit/debit card. ABC of Colerectal Cancer by Kerr, D. et al. 2001, BMJ Books Breast Cancer (Fast Facts) [2 nd Ed.] by Baum, M. 2002, Health Press Limited The Endocrine System At A Glance (2 nd Ed.) by Greenstein, B. 2006, Blackwell Publishing Legal Aspects of Nursing (5 th Ed.) by Dimond, B. 2008, Pearson Education Oxford Handbook of Urology by Reynard, J. et al. 2006, Oxford University Press Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach (3 rd Ed.) by Hoppenfeld, S. 2003, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Printing arrangements in the IT Suite will be changing. Keele card printing will be available via the first 8 rows of computers. Those wishing to print using EMOS cards will need to use the 2 rows of computers at the furthest end of the room . These arrangements will be implemented during the week of 14th - 18th November.

The majority of Keele University computers in the IT Suite will be upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010 during the week of 14th - 18th November. Disruption is expected to be minimal but please bear with us whilst this process is under way.

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.

Message from NHS Evidence regarding the availability of the Zetoc service: “We are writing to notify you of a change in circumstances which may affect the provision of the Zetoc service to the NHS with effect from the 15th of November. Zetoc is a JISC-funded service and as such has to be compliant with JISC terms and conditions. MIMAS, the organisation which hosts Zetoc, will launch a new Zetoc platform on the 15th of November which will be configured to facilitate access to Zetoc through the JISC-supported UK Access Management Federation. The Zetoc platform will no longer be configured for use with OpenAthens.   Negotiations have been ongoing for a number of months between NHS Evidence and relevant parties to try to enable continued access to Zetoc through OpenAthens, however the NHS has been informed that they would have to join the UK Access Management Federation to continue to access Zetoc. This is not something that NHS Evidence feel that they are in a position to do on behalf...

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no. 323, 7th November 2011, please click here

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You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Titles include: Medicine, patients and the law / Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave Medical terminology and clinical procedures / Mary Bird Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and spine / edited by Scott W. Atlas Physical examination and health assessment / Carolyn Jarvis original illustrations by Pat Thomas assessment photographs by Kevin Strandberg. Neonatal behavioral assessment scale / T. Berry Brazelton and J. Kevin Nugent  Check the catalogue for the full collection.

The Trip Database has been recently updated to included additional functionality:   Easily identify new content for particular searches and or over 25 broad clinical areas (e.g. cardiology, oncology).  See the Trip blog for more details Refining the search by clinical area.  For more details see the Trip blog The Trip Database allows you to search across a range of high quality healthcare evidence.

The Map of Medicine has been updated to include new functionality to: See local care maps Bookmark your favourite care maps Change your default view Search within each care map Print a single care point Map of Medicine provides access to a variety of condition-specific evidence-based care maps. For more details see this bulletin