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Some of you may have received an email from libhelp@keele purporting to be from the Library talking about a new library system and asking you to activate a new library account. Please DO NOT click on this - it is a scam and the link actually goes to a server in Iran which has nothing to do with Keele University, Campus Library or the Health Library. More advice about Internet safety is available from IT Services: http://www.keele.ac.uk/it/students/myaccount/policiesandprocedures/

Just a reminder that we will be open for reduced hours over the Christmas holiday period. Please check our website for the opening times if you are planning to visit. Online electronic resources will be available as normal. You can: renew your borrowed items online view ebooks find ejournals use databases We have a range of online help , including etutorials, videos and guides.

For those of you who might be away from campus during the holiday period, here is a reminder of how to access our eresources: To check or renew your books Most books should have a return date for after the Xmas holidays. If you do need to renew your loans or you want to check your account then you can do so online via the catalogue . You will need to enter your Keele computer username and password. To read an ebook We have many online ebooks including some popular reading-list texts. Just search the catalogue for the title you are looking for and click the appropriate login link. You can get more help on using ebooks from our Using eBooks etutorial . To access our databases to search for articles Use the links to the databases on your subject page: medicine , midwifery or nursing . These links take you directly to the correct login screen. You will need to enter your Keele computer username and password. You can find an example of how to do this in the vid...

We are led to believe that the problems users have been experiencing over the past week, trying to access NHS Athens resources, have now been resolved. If you have any problems accessing our online resources please report it via the technical support form or contact Cheryl , the eresources librarian.

I hope that you have found some useful resources over the past year, during this series. You can find links to all the resources mentioned, as well as many more, via our delicious bookmarks . Here we also include links to support and provide information about a wide range of conditions and diseases. You can also look through the previous blog entries if you need a reminder about a particular resource. Don’t forget that you can sign up to receive updates in your inbox from our blog; so you’ll always know about the latest resources we have on offer. You can also follow us on Twitter or stay in touch via Facebook .

There appear to be on-going problems accessing NHS-subscribed resources using NHS Athens usernames / passwords. Access seems to be patchy and is affecting access to databases, ejournals and ebooks. We have informed both NICE (main supplier of databases) and Eduserv / Athens. Please report any problems that you are having so that we can escalate the issue.

If you are a researcher either at Keele University or with one of our NHS partners we can support you in a number of ways. We have now added a list of research funding organisations to our researchers page .

If you need a bit of help finding the information you need, then book yourself onto one of our training courses and we’ll show you the way. For: help finding information on the Internet support in using our resources making the most of your NHS Athens account help putting together a literature search finding systematic reviews learning about critical appraisal and more… You’ll find all the details about our courses here . New training dates are available for 2014. Why not book online now or get in touch with our training team .

The Athens systems will be undergoing maintenance on the 5th and 10th December between 7 and 9 am. This may affect users ability to access ebooks, ejournals and databases at that time.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. New books include: A time to speak: diary of an NHS whistleblower / Graham Pink Aunt Minnie's atlas and imaging-specific diagnosis / edited by Thomas L. Pope, Jr. Care planning in mental health: promoting recovery / edited by Angela Hall, Michael Wren, and Stephan D. Kirby Electives and international midwifery consultancy : a resource for students, midwives and other health professionals. Tiger stripes and tears/ Gaynor D. Maclean Introduction to community nursing practice / Jane Arnott ... [et al.] Psychosocial nursing care : a guide to nursing the whole person / Dave Roberts Qualitative methods for health research / Judith Green and Nicki Thorogood Revision notes in psychiatry / Basant K. Puri, Annie Hall and Roger Ho Safeguarding babies and very young children from abuse and neglect / Harriet Ward, Rebecca Brown and David Westlake The modernization o...

Here is a resource to help your patients. It is a library of mobile apps that are aimed at patients and have been reviewed by the NHS to ensure that they are clinically safe. There are official NHS apps as well as apps developed by external providers. Some are free, others need to be paid for. Many of the apps also include a rating. There are apps for: A range of conditions and treatments Health living eg mental health, smoking cessation, fitness and weight-loss Health Information eg. where to find services Social Care

We have received the following notification regarding expected maintenance to Wiley Online and the Cochrane Library: Event Title: Wiley Online Library Release & The Cochrane Library Scheduled Maintenance Downtime December 2013 Date : Saturday 7th December 2013 Time:  10:00 am UK Duration: 5 hours (approximate). How it will effect users: The Cochrane Home page will be available but reviews and search functionality will be unavailable. Is there a workaround: There will be no workaround When can users expect will it be backup: The expectation is for the systems to be back up at approximately 15:00 (UK) Saturday 7th December. (Subject to testing) Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

NICE Evidence Search is a healthcare specialist search engine. It will allow you to search across a wide range of accredited resources that have been approved by NICE Evidence. Thus you can be confident that the results you find will be of good quality. The results screen includes topic guides, if available, as well as your search results. You can also use the filters to focus your results more. Filters include: Area of interest Types of information Type of Clinical Query Sources Medicines & Devices Published Date Screen-shot of results from a simple search The results will often link to the full-text. This search engine does not search across journals for primary research. You can find out how to use NICE Evidence Search by watching our short video .

Medicines Complete have updated their home page and login screen. The home page now looks like this: Screen-shot of Medicines Complete home page To login you will need to click the “ Sign in ” link on the right-hand-side. You are then given a number of options: Screen-shot of Medicines Complete login options NHS Users (using an Athens username and password) Click the option “ Sign in via OpenAthens ” Enter your NHS Athens username / password when prompted Keele University Users (using your Keele computer username and password) Click the option “ Sign in via your home organisation ” Enter the organisation Keele University and click the link when it is presented. Enter your Keele computer username and password when prompted Contact the eResources Librarian if you experience any problems.

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.

Google Scholar is an online search engine that limits its search to scholarly literature that is in the public domain. It searches across a wide range of subject areas. You can reach the advanced search options by clicking the down arrow on the search box. The advanced options allow you to include limits for an author, journal and date range as well as allowing you to include combinations of search terms. Google scholar is helpful for trying to find particular articles where you don’t have the complete reference and for searching for open access articles. However remember to check our journal A-Z lists to see whether we have a subscription for the full-text and which collection it will be available in. Screen-shot of Google Scholar advanced search options

Twitter can be used for a number of reasons: To keep in touch with the latest news To monitor specific organisations For professional support To network with like-minded individuals To get you started we have listed some organisations that you might find helpful and grouped similar tweeters together. You can find links to these lists on our new page Social Networks . They include networks for: Healthcare professional support Keele-base groups Midwifery-based chat groups and organisations Nursing-based chat groups and organisations Our local NHS organisations National NHS and healthcare-related organisations

Keele Library Latest: More new features in Catalogue Plus : In Catalogue Plus we want to give you as much information as we can anything you find so that you can decide whether it is useful to you. To...

The Athens / Eduserv email service will be undergoing maintenance between 07:00 and 09:00 UK time, on Tuesday 19th November. As a result emails may be delayed. This may impact upon new users registering and password reset requests. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

·             - Are you an NHS employee working in North Staffordshire?       - Need help finding the latest evidence to support your practice, research or CPD? Save yourself time and effort, and use our free Literature Search Service . One of our qualified librarians will carry out a comprehensive search across relevant evidence based information resources to provide you with quality, up to date information. - Results sent to you directly via email - Results list includes search strategy, list of relevant citations and  abstracts/summaries - Fast efficient service (within 3 days as standard. For urgent queries,  deadline set by requester) To use this service, please fill out our online form:   http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/formsa-z/literaturesearchrequest/  Requests made must be for NHS related work/research and not to   support courses of academic study. ...

The Health Library will be operating different opening hours during the Christmas holidays. Please check the revised times before visiting library - click here to view opening times . You can renew your loans online throughout the holidays via the library catalogue. Campus Library's Christmas opening times will be publicised on the Campus Library website .

If you are looking for a job within the NHS, then try NHS Jobs . You can search for jobs using the simple text box or try the advanced search options to limit your search to particular employers, staff group or location. When you register you can set up alerts so that you are notified when new jobs are posted, apply for posts online and save your application forms.

Keele Library Latest: New feature in Catalogue Plus : A new feature has gone live in Catalogue Plus this week.If you have searched for a journal title which we have in print, such as New Sc...

Have you been pulling your hair out trying to get to the full-text of the articles that you have found? Everything not quite as freely available on Google as you thought? Here are a few hints and tips to getting your hands on the articles you need. Know your reference You need to know as many the bibliographic details about the article as you can find. Just the article title won’t be enough, so make sure you know: Where it was published – the Journal title When it was published – the I ssue it was published in; this will include the Year it was published, also possibly the Volume and Issue N umber , sometimes also a Date . Who wrote it – the Authors You’ll need all this information for your reference list. Search our Collections Once you have the Journal title and issue you can start to look in various collections: 1. Print Journals at the Health Library We still have a print collection located in the rotunda at the Health Library. To look for a print journal ch...

NHS Improving Quality works to improve health outcomes by providing improvement and change expertise. They work to research and identify best practice from within the NHS as well as globally. They are investigating a number of topic areas: Patient Safety Seven Day Services Integrated Care Experience of Care Long Term Conditions NHS Health Check CCG Capability NHS Change Model You can search the website for publications and case studies. You can find improvement tools, guides and reports as well as posters and leaflets.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. New books include: 150 ECG problems / John R. Hampton Action research / by Ernest T. Stringer Developing advanced assessment skills : patients with long-term conditions / edited by Ann Saxon and Sue Lillyman Introduction to nursing research : incorporating evidence-based practice / edited by Carol Boswell, Sharon Cannon Legal aspects of midwifery / Bridgit Dimond Neonatology: management, procedures, on-call problems, diseases, and drugs / editor Tricia Gomella New eBooks include: Care of the difficult patient : a nurse's guide / Peter J. Manos and Joan Braun Diet and nutrition in palliative care / edited by Victor R. Preedy Doing practitioner research / By Mark Fox, Peter Martin & Gill Green. Evidence and skills for normal labour and birth : guide for midwives / Denis Walsh Quality caring in nursing and health systems : implications for clini...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is a charitable organisation that is interested in society and social justice and funds research with the aim to identify issues and develop solutions impacting on poverty and inequality. They publish a range of reports relating to a wide variety of topics affecting society and specific communities. One of the categories is Health and Care. In this section you can find topics such as: Carers Community Care Disabled People Health Independent Living Mental Health Residential Care Sexual / Sexuality Social Services You might find this website useful when looking for background information or case studies.

If you need a little more help trying to use our resources you should check out our YouTube video channel . We have lots of very short video demonstrations on how to find and use some of our most popular resources. Most of our videos are used within our etutorials – so if you want a more rounded explanation of something try out these too . What do you need more help with? Let us know if you have a suggestion for a video demonstration. Here is an example of one of our videos.

Students who are on placement with NHS organisations can apply for an NHS Trust Athens account in order to access that organisation’s electronic resources. This is available for the duration of the placement. To apply for an account complete the online form and… Use an NHS trust email account and any computer to register OR Use an NHS-networked computer and any email address to register Note that if you already have an NHS-HE Athens account from your university then you will not be able to use your university email address to register. Email accounts can only be used once within the NHS Athens system. For more help on registering with NHS Athens see our etutorial .

Do you like to use Facebook? Why not “like” our Facebook page ? Stay up-to-date with the latest news from the Health Library – you will be notified about new resources and service updates. We also share news from other University pages and health-related organisations. Don’t worry we don’t get to see all your personal stuff, you just get the opportunity to stay in touch with us.  You can let us know what you think about us here by posting comments. What else would like to see on our page? Screen-shot of our Facebook page

If you work at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and want to find health-related information we can help you. We offer a regular training programme to support you and help you to develop your information skills so that you can find information efficiently and effectively. Whether you need to get to grips with good quality information sources online, you want to improve your literature searching skills or need to find systematic reviews, we can help. We offer: Health Essentials Online Using NHS Athens Literature Searching using Healthcare Databases Cochrane Library introduction Rapid Critical Appraisal All the sessions involve lots of hands-on practice and the trainers encourage you to bring your topic details along with you. You can find a list of the full programme on our website. Dates are available up to December. Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled dates our trainers are happy to organise a convenient date for you to attend if needed. They can also del...

A quirky name but a useful resource. The elves help you to keep up-to-date with the latest evidence-based literature on a number of topics: The Commissioning Elf The Dental Elf The Diabetes Elf The Education Elf The Learning Disabilities Elf The Lifestyle Elf The Mental Elf The Musculoskeletal Elf They highlight the latest reviews, guidelines and policy changes and appraise the studies presented. You can sign-up to receive the latest updates by email or follow their RSS feed or Twitter feed.

The Athens / Eduserv services will be undergoing maintenance between 7:00 and 9:00 am on the 24th October. This may affect users logging on and accessing ejournals and databases during this time Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

If you like to track the latest news using Twitter, why not follow the Health Library too @ceclibrary We let you know all about the latest news at the Health Library – new resources and service updates. We follow a wide range of health-related organisations, including our local trusts, NHS departments and nursing and medicine based colleges and societies. We often re-tweet important news and resources so you can keep an eye on the important events of the day. Let us know what else you would like to see here.

When we refer to articles we are usually talking about articles from a journal. This may be a print journal or an ejournal (electronic or online journal). Journals are published on a regular basis throughout the year, for example monthly or quarterly, and contain many journal articles. You may come across references to articles either from your tutors or colleagues or during your reading. We give you access to a wide range of articles via our journal collections. You’ll find all sorts of articles – published research, reporting and discussion of guidelines and best practice, as well as opinion and reflective pieces. You may need to look for journal articles on a specific topic or you might be looking for a particular article reference. We can help you to find articles: Read through our Articles page on our website for more information Try our Finding Articles etutorial to go through the process step-by-step Sign-up for one of our training courses to learn how to use Keele or ...

This is an interesting blog where topic-specific literature search strategies are shared. The suggested searches give you Mesh headings as well as possible free-text phrases related to a specific topic the author is investigating. The tag cloud gives you an indication of the type of topics covered. The searches are pretty detailed and comprehensive. It is an interesting place to look if you are struggling to think of your own search terms. screen-shot of a selected pubmed search strategy

The anatomy section at the Health Library is, unsurprisingly, one of most popular sections and lots of the books can often be out on loan. However you can use our ebook collection of anatomy books instead. We have put together a list of some of our popular ebooks on this topic so that you can access them easily. You’ll find the Anatomy Online Reference collection on our ebooks page . Remember that ebooks: Are available 24/7 Don’t incur fines Can be accessed off-campus using your Keele computer username / password or NHS Athens username / password. Screen-shot of the Anatomy Online Reference collection If you need more help using ebooks you can try our short etutorial or look through our online guide . The video below will briefly show you one of the ebook platforms.

If you don’t want to queue at the counter we have a self-service machine for you to use. You can take out books, renew your books, return items and pay fines (cash only). You must have your Keele / Library card with you to use it. It is easy to use: Follow the on-screen instructions Complete our step-by-step etutorial Ask a member of staff to help you Checking out a book on the self-service machine

If you are not sure where to start to look for books on your reading list try our etutorials: Find a book on the Catalogue – use the catalogue to search for books on your reading list or on the topic that you are looking for Find a book on the Shelf – learn how to locate a book on the shelves within the Health Library Make sure that you are using textbooks efficiently, try our Use a Book etutorial . Here is one of the videos included in the tutorial:

Lots of people ask us lots of questions every day. We’ve put the most popular about our facilities and services here – along with the answers of course. Take a quick look and learn more about how the Health Library can help you. Screen-shot of the FAQs page

NICE will be carrying out maintenance on its Evidence Services websites between 5-6pm on Tuesday 15th October. This may affect users trying to access these sites during this time. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Have you tried out etutorials yet? We have a number of online etutorials that can help you to get started finding and using some of our most popular resources: Welcome Tour – here are some etutorials that give you the basic information about the facilities, services and resources here at the Health Library Finding Resources – learn how to find and borrow your books, find journals and articles and learn how we give you access to good quality online information Using Resources – learn how to make the most of resources whether it is books, journals, databases or Internet resources; we can help you to get to the information you need quickly and efficiently You can find more help on a range of our resources via the I want to learn about page .

Pedro is a physiotherapy evidence database. Here you will find randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines specific to physiotherapy topics. It is free to search, no login is needed, though you may not get access to all the full-text articles it contains – check our journal collections to see whether we have the full-text.  The database is updated regularly and you can sign-up to an email list so that you can receive the latest updates in your inbox. Using Pedro will help you to focus your literature search on selected, good quality, subject specific material.

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.

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.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. New books include: Autism spectrum conditions and offending / guest editors Eddie Chaplin and Jane McCarthy Critical thinking and writing for nursing students / by Bob Price, Anne Harrington Key concepts in medical sociology / edited by Jonathan Gabe and Lee F. Morgan Practical ultrasound: an illustrated guide / Jane Alty, Edward Hoey Quality with compassion: the future of nursing education / Willis Commission on Nursing Education The basic science of oncology / edited by Ian F. Tannock ... [et al.] New eBooks include: A nurse's survival guide to the ward / Ann Richards, Sharon Edwards Adult nursing preparing for practice : preparing for practice / edited by Dave Barton, Andr e le May Developing change management skills : a resource for health care professionals and managers / Valerie Iles and Steve Cranfield Medicines management in adult nursing /...

If you are a new nursing or midwifery student starting at Keele University we’d like to welcome you to the Health Library . We are a specialist health library and are partnered with the NHS. How can we help you? We are here to support you and help you to successfully complete your course. You’ll find us on the ground floor at the Clinical Education Centre . You can see our main doors as soon as you walk into the atrium. Main doors of the Health Library You don’t need to complete any forms to join – your Keele card acts as your library card and you are added automatically to our library system. We can help you to find all the information you’ll need for your studies and assignments. You’ll find lots of different types of resource, online as well as in print – books, of course, but also articles, journals, databases and links to good quality Internet resources. It might seem a bit overwhelming but don’t worry we have lots of help so that you can get to grips with everyt...