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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 electronic online 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.

The West Midlands Public Health Observatory (WMPHO) can provide you with lots of information and data about public health issues. You can find links to reports, charts and data for a wide range of topics from alcohol issues, to climate change and health, long term mortality trends, older people’s health issues and social care with many more in-between. You can also view local profiles across a range of measurements, where the data can be broken down by NHS trust or geographical area. Please note that during 2013 the public health observatories will be incorporated into Public Health England's Knowledge and Intelligence Team (West Midlands).

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 HealthcareDatabases Cochrane Library introduction - for systematic reviews 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. Don’t worry if you can’t make the scheduled dates our trainers are happy to organise a convenient date for you to attend a 1-to-1 session if nee...

Keele Library Latest: Refworks Downtime Sunday 25 August 2013 : Refworks have scheduled essential system maintenance in the UK for Sunday 25 August 2013, from 3.00am until 9.00am. Users will not be a...

Remember that the Health Library will be closed Monday 26th August for the Bank Holiday. You can still access our online resources such as ebooks, ejournals and databases. Try our etutorials or online guides if you need a little help to get started. You can renew your books online.

If you work in Occupational Therapy you might want to check out the Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics (OT CATs). A CAT is a short summary of the evidence around a particular topic. It usually looks at a number of studies related to the same problem or clinical question in order to try to identify an answer to the query. On this site you can find CATS related to a number of occupational therapy based specific topics. The CAT will include a detailed description of the problem being investigated, the search strategy used, a list of the references identified, a summary of the evidence found as well as a bottom-line conclusion.

The ejournal titles that we subscribe to and are published by the Royal Society of Medicine are being moved to the SAGE Journals platform. Unfortunately SAGE are having some problems providing like-for-like access and this is affecting our ability to access these titles. This involves 3 titles: Clinical Risk, Health Services Management Research and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. At the moment many of the articles seemed to be freely available and we do have access to some holdings via other collections and in print. We have reported the problems and hope that the publishers can resolve this issue soon. You can report any problems you experience with our eresources using our technical support form . Our journals page will show you the latest errors and fixes that we are encountering with our journals access. To access our journals collections go to the journals page on our website.

If you work for one our NHS partner organisations you can sign-up for an NHS Athens username and password. This will give you access to the many online ejournals and databases that we subscribe to on your behalf. You don’t have to be on a course to sign-up; you can use the resources to support: continuing professional development, evidence-based medicine and patient care. You will find all the information to help you to register on our Athens page . We also have an etutorial that will explain what Athens is and will take you through the registration process step-by-step.

We have been experiencing a number of problems with access to a small number of our journal titles. Several of these have now been resolved. Please check our journals page for a list of fixed and outstanding issues. If you experience any problems accessing our electronic resources please report them to the eResources Librarian or use our technical support form .

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.

Keele Library Latest: Download Dawsonera e-books to mobile devices ... : We are pleased to announce that Dawsonera  e-books can now be downloaded to Android and Apple iOS  (e.g. iPad ) devices Look out for  the ...

The new edition (2013/14) of the Medical Guidelines for general adult medicine are now available on the staff intranet. Just go to Clinicians/Clinical Guidance/Clinical Guidelines and choose Medical from the selection of guidelines. This year, they are no print copies available in the Library so please refer to the intranet to access this useful resource. You''ll also find the latest guidelines for a number of other areas too including Emergency Medicine, Obstetric and Surgical.

The Health Library will be closed on Monday 26th August for the Bank Holiday. Our electronic resources such as ebooks, ejournals and databases will all be available online. You can also renew your borrowed items online if you wish.

If you are just starting a new job with the NHS in North Staffordshire we’d like to introduce you to our Health Library . We are a specialist health library partnered with Keele University and a number of local NHS Trusts. How can we help you? We’re located at the Clinical Education Centre , on the UHNS site, off Newcastle Road. You can see our main doors as soon as you walk into the atrium at the CEC. We support a range of different medical and healthcare workers. You don’t need to be on a course. We are here to support continuous professional development, evidence-based medicine and patient care. Pop along to the library to join . You’ll find lots of different types of resources here, as well as a comfortable learning space and access to a number of IT-based facilities. We can help you to find information easily – we have lots of training opportunities and we can even do the searching for you . Would you find it difficult to visit us? If you work in the community our ...

The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine offers a range of courses and tutorials to help clinicians to develop the skills to practice evidence-based medicine. It also makes available a range of tools, presentations and publications to support practitioners and the teaching of EBM. You can find a number of tools to help you with the step-by-step process: Using PICO to help you to develop a clinical question Where to look for evidence Critical Appraisal tools and worksheets Application of the results to your own situation CEBM also have a youtube channel .which includes videos of presentations and tutorials. Check out this PICO video . We also have a number of etutorials to get you started with the basics.

Two new printers have been installed in the IT suite at the Clinical Education Centre. Please be aware: Both printers are colour printers – you no longer need to select which printer you need Printing charges for black / white is now 4p per page You can now print double-sided – check the options in the printer properties before sending the print Note that the default option is to print in colour – you will need to select black/white in the printer properties before sending the print Printing charges for colour is still 14p per page You release your print to the printer from the 3 release stations as before. Please check the costs are what you expect before you do.

The error we experienced accessing volumes and issues from the journal pages in Medline with full-text has now been resolved. You should now be able to click the year on the journal page in order to drop-down the list of issues available. Screen-shot of journal page with volume/issue drop-down visible Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

The Athens systems will be undergoing maintenance 7:00 to 9:00 am on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th August. There may be some disruption to access to ejournals and databases during this time. Apologies for any inconvenience.

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.

Why not “like” our Facebook page ? Stay up-to-date with the latest news from the Health Library – new resources and service updates.  We also share news from other university pages and health-related organisations. You can get in touch with us here by posting comments. Let us know what else you would like to see on our page.

You can go on a virtual tour around the Health Library by having a look at our interactive map . It tells you what you need to know to visit us and gives you an idea of how everything is laid out. You can see photos, watch videos and link to our web pages for more details.

Pubmed is a freely available, online, searchable, bibliographic database, which includes data from Medline. You can use it to complement and supplement your literature searching. You use the main text box to enter your simple free-text search terms or the more sophisticated advanced search options to combine searches and apply limits. The results list will often include links to freely available article pdfs, though you will need to check on our journal lists for access to most journal titles. The search results list can be filtered, emailed or exported. If you sign-up and create a free login you can also save your searches and set up alerts. Pubmed also has a citation matcher which is really useful when you are trying to track-down a reference where you have only part of the details. There are a range of tutorials to help you to get to grips with Pubmed.

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.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. Titles include: Clinical anatomy: a core text with self-assessment / Stanley Monkhouse Golden hour: the handbook of advanced pediatric life support / [edited by] David G. Nichols ... [et al.]. How to teach : a handbook for clinicians / by Shirley Dobson, Lesley Bromley and Michael Dobson Maternal-fetal evidence-based guidelines / edited by Vincenzo Berghella Noninvasive cardiovascular imaging: a multimodality approach / editor Mario J. Garcia Obstetric guidelines 2013-15 / The Bedside Clinical Guidelines Partnership in association with The Staffordshire, Shropshire & Black Country Maternity Network Panic disorder: the facts / by Stanley Rachman and Padmal de Silva The principles of health visiting : opening the door to public health practice in the 21st century / Sarah Cowley, Marion Frost. New eBooks include: Aquatic exercise for pregnancy [electr...

If you are embarking on an elective in the next few weeks, to ensure you do not incur any fines it is advisable to return your books to the library before starting your placement. Students are welcome to continue to borrow items, but please be aware that normal requirements to renew items, and the possibility that items will be recalled or fines incurred for late return/renewal, will still apply.

We are aware that users have experienced problems accessing journal articles from Medline with FullText when trying to click on volumes / issues from the journal title page . For some reason when you click on the years of the journal you are not being given a drop-down list of the volumes / issues. Example of journal page in Medline with Fulltext; there is an error when trying to click the year link for the volumes and issues If you search for the article title within Medline with fulltext you should get through to the article full-text. To do this, click on the “New Search” link in the top left-hand corner, copy your article title into the search box and click “Search”. Your article should appear in the search results. (Remember to check that we have the holdings for the issue you need). We have reported the problem to our providers and hope to have it resolved soon. Apologies for the 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.

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.

Please be aware that IT Services are planning some testing of emergency procedures on Saturday 3rd August between 09:00 and 16:00. As a result there may be very little or no access to Keele IT facilties, printing and photocopying during Saturday. Most of the library systems will also be affected at some point during the day, including the library catalogue and self-service machines. Library print holdings, NHS PCs and associated printer will still be available; and checkouts and returns can be placed at the library counter, instead of the self-issue machine. Our apologies for any inconvenience

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’re conveniently located at the Clinical Education Centre; you’ll notice our main doors as soon as you walk into the atrium.  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. Here you can find lots of resources to search for the information you need for your studies. Don’t worry, we have lots of help so that you can get to grips with everything. You’ll also be able to study in the rotunda, use the printing & photocopying facilities and access the nearby computer suite. See our web page for new students or check our Welcome tour for more details. Look out for more blog posts over the next couple of months highlighting our services. Hopefully we’ll see a lot of y...