Ebsco maintenance Friday 22nd February 2013

Ebsco will be carrying out maintenance at 11:00pm on 22^nd February, carrying on through to Saturday 23^rd 3:00am. There may be some temporary disruption during this time affecting access to Ebsco databases and ejournals. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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Unmask Misinformation

Found some health information and not sure if it’s true? Work out if you can trust it by using the Misinformation Unmasked strategy . Un – Unsure Listen to your senses! If something about a post or article makes you feel unsure, it might be misinformation. M – Manipulated Blurred background? Weird wording? Poor lighting. Videos, articles and images … they can all be manipulated to create misinformation. A – Agenda Health info should put the inform in information. But misinformation usually has a secret agenda. S – Sidekick When checking for misinformation, two heads are better than one. Check with a friend or ask library staff if you see something you’re not sure is right. K – Knowledge If someone’s making bold health claims, ask yourself “What is their knowledge based on? Are they an expert?” Find out their qualifications and if they can be trusted. E – Evidence Anyone can claim anything onli...

New website for the Health Library

Our new website is going live today! The Health Library website is getting a new up-to-date look, keeping it in-line with the main Keele University look and feel. You’ll still find the same content and services to help you get to the right resources, develop your skills and practice evidence-based medicine. Some key changes: The menu is now along the top – all the original content can be found by navigating the menu. The Quick Links are listed centre-page. You’ll find the most important and popular links you’ll need here. They have been split into links for different user groups. Keep scrolling – due to the changes in the page layout you may need to keep scrolling down to find all the content. We’ve moved some sections together to reduce the number of top menu options – check the Specialist Support section for: Inter-Library Loan Service, Literature Search Service, NHS Outreach Service, More support for NHS Staff, Support for Keele academics and researchers ...

NHS HDAS Saved Searches will be Lost – instructions to save searches

From the 1 st of April the provision of the Medline and PsychInfo databases, as part of the NHS Core Content, will be delivered via ProQuest and not Ovid. Changes will be made to the NHS HDAS interface to run searches on these 2 databases via ProQuest instead of Ovid. As a consequence of these changes, any searches (and associated alerts) saved within HDAS by users, which use these databases or search across databases, will be lost. You can now find instructions on how to save your searches and alerts on our Journal Problems & Fixes page .

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