Health Library News

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.332, 30th January 2012 please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.330, 16th January 2012, please click here

Incorrect notes about access are appearing on the ejournal entries on the NHS Evidence My Journals list. The error has been reported and we hope a correction will be available soon. The note refers to access via IP address only however many of the titles where the note is appearing are accessible via NHS Athens such as the main platforms like Wiley and Springer. Apologies for any confusion caused.

The 24/7 opening hours at the main Campus Library to cover the main exam period has now ended, however there is news for next year.

The Athens service will carry out maintenance during January 30th. This may affect Athens logins, registration, administration and access to resources for short periods during the day.

We have moved access to a number of our journals online – you can browse the list of new online titles here   These titles are available to our NHS users at: North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust NHS North Staffs or Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership: North NHS Stoke on Trent or Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership: Stoke University Hospitals for North Staffs To find any of our subscribed journal titles go to the NHS My Journals link from our journals page , and login with your NHS Athens username.

From January 23rd-29th Macmillan Cancer Support will be promoting an event to get people talking about cancer. Many people find it hard to talk to their family about the emotional effects of cancer, but this support can be vital in helping fight the disease.  And it’s not just families that can help. There are experts, doctors and a whole community of people online going through the same thing there to listen. Cancer Talk Week aims to highlight these available resources and offer patients and their loved ones the support they need. For anyone studying cancer and its effects, the Health Library offers 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 available periodicals. 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 - Palliative care consultations in advancedbreast cancer / edited by Sara Booth. ...

UHNS staff can now access: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Gastroenterology Pain Tuberculosis online using your NHS Athens username and password. These titles are available via the Elsevier ScienceDirect database. To find our subscribed journal titles go to the NHS My Journals link from our journals page http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ , and login with your NHS Athens username.

CASH – the current awareness service for health – have made their news feeds easily available via a netvibes portal Here you can find access to news and latest research across a range of topics. CASH has also expanded its range of current awareness bulletins   that you can sign-up for and receive as email alerts.

UHNS staff can now access: British Journal of Haematology Laryngoscope Pediatric Pulmonology online using your NHS Athens username and password. These titles are available via the Wiley Library Online database. To find our subscribed journal titles go to the NHS My Journals link from our journals page and login with your NHS Athens username.

You can now access the Lancet journal online using your NHS Athens username and password. Access is provided via the Elsevier ScienceDirect database. To log in it is best to go to the NHS Journals link , login with NHS Athens, search for the Lancet, then click the Elsevier ScienceDirect link. The Lancet Link on the My Journals A-Z list Users may be required to login to ScienceDirect again by clicking the login link at the top right-hand side and following the Athens links. You should then get to the Lancet journal page within ScienceDirect. The Lancet journal page in ScienceDirect

You can get help using RefWorks via their online help website, where step-by-step instructions are available, or check out their YouTube channel for video demonstrations. Links to these and more are available on our Refworks online support page. RefWorks is available to our Keele users.

Make sure that you’re following the right steps to find information effectively and efficiently – have a go at our Internet Quiz Can you spot a spoof? Try our Internet Quiz If you need help check out our other tutorials or come along for a training session .

The annual update of the Staff Publications RefWorks folders and spreadsheet has been applied to include research published during 2011. The folders also now point to the latest version of Refworks. You can browse through all the latest published research from staff based in our main organisations – Keele University, North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, NHS North Staffs, NHS Stoke on Trent and University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

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.

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.

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 health inequalities which have been published in the previous two months. Sources covered include: NHS Evidence, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.

The ebook access problem for NHS Athens users has now been resolved. You can now access our ebooks from the Health Library catalogue by clicking on the NHS Users link. We have a wide range of titles available. Latest etitles available include: CT anatomy for radiotherapy   / By Pete Bridge, David J. Tipper. Essential biochemistry for medicine / By Mitchell Fry. Essentials of Kumar and Clark's clinical medicine / By Anne Ballinger. Midwifery essentials Volume 1, Basics / Helen Baston, Jennifer Hall, Alyson Henley-Einion Parkinson's disease / By K. Ray Chaudhuri, Christopher G. Clough, Kapil D. Sethi. Search our catalogue for more titles.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Titles include: Getting started in health research / David Bowers, Allan House, David Owens.  Intelligent kindness: reforming the culture of healthcare / John Ballatt, Penelope Campling  Positive psychology : the science of happiness and human strengths / Alan Carr  Teenage parenthood : what's the problem? / edited by Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards and Claire Alexander.  The knowledgeable patient : communication and participation in health : a Cochrane handbook / edited by Sophie Hill.  Check the catalogue for the full collection.

Are the first 4 digits of your library card barcode 5000 5080 5501 5502 5608? If so your card needs to be replaced, in readiness for the introduction of swipecard access during evening and weekend opening hours from Spring 2012. This will provide greater security for customers using the library at these times. Please visit the Health Library, before 24th February, at any time during opening hours with your existing library card in order to receive your new card.

Are you struggling to find articles for your assignments, research or report? We have created a new Articles   page to help you. Find out: How to find journal articles for a particular subject How to find a specific article Why you can’t get access to everything in full-text and what you can do about it

We are experiencing problems with our ebook access from the Health Library catalogue. This is currently only affecting NHS Athens users. We are working on a solution. NHS Athens users can still access ebooks provided via NHS Evidence - see our Healthcare Resources page. Many apologies for all the inconvenience.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awarenesss Bulletin no.328, 23rd December 2011, please click here

The Athens service will undergo maintenance during the 7th January. This will affect access, registration  and administration services and may result in the loss of some services for short periods during this time.