Health Library News

Keele students and staff can now top-up their Keele cards online via the Keele University website   You can use your Keele card to pay for printing and photocopying at the Health Library. There are still re-loader machines in the photocopying room if you want to use cash or your credit / debit card.

The textbook Normal Midwifery Practice is now available at the Health Library - recommended reading for Module 1 Midwifery.

A new title The Situational Judgement Test At a Glance has been added to the growing collection to support this topic. Copies are currently still available on the shelves.

Elsevier will be carrying out maintenance to its ScienceDirect platform during Saturday 1st December. There may be some temporary disruption to access to these ejournals during the day. You can find more details on the SciVerse blog .

The Health Library opening times for the Christmas holidays are now available. Please check them before you visit. Remember that you can renew your books online  and our electronic resources are always available online 24/7. You can find information about the Campus Library Christmas opening times here .

NHS Evidence will be carrying out essential maintenance on the NHS databases (HDAS) and journal systems during Monday 3rd December 2012. Thus the NHS healthcare databases advanced search (HDAS) and NHS My Journals list will be unavailable between 5:00 and 10:00 pm. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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.

We have been experiencing problems with our NHS Athens access to the Journal of the American Medical Association - JAMA - and associated "Archives of..." titles. This has now been corrected for NHS Athens users at the UHNS. We hope to have our other NHS Athens groups corrected soon. Apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.

Our suppliers have corrected the problem we were having with some access to Ebsco Medline with full-text. Our NHS Athens users should now be able to access ejournal titles within this database. This subscription covers our main 4 Athens groups which includes: Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership: North University Hospital of North Staffordshire Apologies for any inconvenience caused while this problem has been sorted out.

The publishers have updated our access details to the American Journal of Psychiatry for our NHS users. This journal is accessed via a username and password. The updated details are available via the NHS My Journals A-Z list . Please login to view the list with your NHS Athens username and password, then search for the journal title in order to obtain the new login details.

From Tuesday 13 th November a new batch of recently withdrawn books will be available for sale on the Book Sales trolley in the rotunda of the Health Library. The books are available on a first come, first served basis and payment can be made either by cash or debit card. Titles available include: Chew, R: Crash Course: Gastrointestinal System (3 rd Ed.), 2008, Mosby Thomas, R: Crash Course: Renal & Urinary Systems (3 rd Ed.), 2007, Mosby Guyton, A: Textbook of Medical Physiology (11 th Ed.), 2005, Saunders Keshav, S: The Gastrointestinal System At A Glance, 2004, Wiley-Blackwell Dawson, C: ABC of Urology (2 nd Ed.), 2006, Wiley-Blackwell Chew, F: Musculoskeletal Imaging: A Teaching File (2 nd Ed.), 2005, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Cottrell, S: Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis & Argument, 2005, Palgrave Wilkins, R: Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences, 2006, Oxford University Press Carpenter, R: Neurophysiology (4 th Ed.), ...

Check out the new video about our Current Awareness Service: You can: view topic-specific pages browse the latest journal articles read the latest news and headlines subscribe by email

The interface for our Current Awareness Service has been updated. The tabs for the different topics now run across the page in a single row. You need to click the arrows at the end, on the right-hand-side, to move along the row. Example screen-shot of the Current Awareness Service The Current Awareness service offers you the opportunity to browse the latest releases from a wide range of different journals. You can also sign up to receive updates in your email box. You can find more information about keeping up-to-date on our website.

There are now 2 new etutorials to help you to get the right username and password to access our eresources: Keele Access to eResources - for Keele users; learn how to use your Keele username and password to access eresources off-campus NHS Athens Registration - for NHS users; learn how to register for an NHS Athens username and password to access NHS-based eresources

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Check the catalogue for the full collection. Like our Facebook page for the latest info about our popular titles.

Message from NHS Evidence regarding access to the NHS databases and journals: " The suppliers of our full text link resolver service are conducting essential maintenance between the hours of 2am and 8am EDT (5am and 11am UK time) on Sunday, 4th November. During this period collection administration and full text links in HDAS search results may not be available. We wish to apologise for any inconvenience.."