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Keele Card online top-ups

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.

Clinical Effectiveness Bulletin no. 69 October 2012

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.

Access to JAMA update

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.

NHS Athens access to Medline with full-text restored

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.

Update to access to the American Journal of Psychiatry

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.

Mini Book Sale starts Tuesday 13th November

From Tuesday 13 th November a new batch of recently withdrawn books will be available for sale on the Book Sales trolley in the rotunda of the Health Library.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.),

Have you tried our Current Awareness Service?

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

How to find the latest journal articles

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.

How to get access to eresources

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

NHS Databases and Journals maintenance Sunday 4th November

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.."