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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...