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Keele Library Latest: Keele Research Repository and Catalogue Plus : This morning we launched another new feature in Catalogue Plus. Anything you put into the search box now searches across Keele's Researc...

Athens services are scheduled for maintenance 1 st July 2014 and 3 rd July 2014 between 07:00 am and 09:00 am UK time. This will mainly affect admin functions but may also impact on the user self-registration services.

Keele Library Latest: Dawson e-books - access restored : Access to our Dawsonera e-books seems to have restored after the problems they've been having. Please let us know if you notice any prob...

Keele Library Latest: Dawson e-books - current lack of access : Unfortunately there is currently no access to our Dawsonera ebooks. The platform providers, Dawson, are having severe problems with their co...

Keele Library Latest: Campus Library summer opening times : Friday 13th June is the end of the spring semester, so the Campus Library is now moving over to summer vacation opening times. The building ...

By 2035 it is estimated that the number of people living with diabetes will rise to 535 million. Over the last two years it has led to the deaths of between 1.5 and 5.1 million people world-wide. Diabetes UK is the UK’s leading diabetes charity and aims to care for, connect with and campaign on behalf of all people affected by and at risk of diabetes; reaching people with diabetes in local communities across the UK.   This year Diabetes Awareness Week falls between the 8 th and 14 th June. The theme is ‘i Can’. Diabetes UK are seeking stories from individuals living with diabetes. In doing so the goal is to raise awareness of the disease among the population of the UK in order to prevent its increase.  For further information please see: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/ http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Get_involved/Diabetes-Week/ RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES For anyone interested in diabetes and the management of diabetes, the Health Library offers numer...

From 30 May 2014 Map of Medicine's direct access has closed. You can access Map of Medicine within the North, Midlands and East region of England. You will need either your NHS Smartcard or your NHS Athens username and password. Map of Medicine provides access to a wide range of evidence-based pathways, including local care pathways where available. There is public access to national pathways via NHS Choices Map of Medicine Healthguides .

The Oxford Handbooks ebook collection has been updated to include new titles - Oxford handbook of: Children’s and Young People’s Nursing Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing Epidemiology for Clinicians Gastrointestinal Nursing Medical Statistics Midwifery (updated version) Pain Management eBooks can be accessed at any time and there are no fines. You can find more help on how to access ebooks via our Using eBooks etutorial or watch our video below:

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 manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests / edited by Frances Talaska Fischbach, Marshall Barnett Dunning III Acute medicine in the frail elderly / Henry Woodford and James George Anaesthetics for junior doctors and allied professionals : the essential guide / edited by Daniel Cottle and Shondipon Laha Atlas of human brain connections / by Marco Catani, Michael Thiebaut de Schotten Clinical anatomy : applied anatomy for students and junior doctors / Harold Ellis, Vishy Mahadevan Communication skills in mental health care : an introduction / edited by Xavier Coll, Alexia Papageorgiou, Ann Stanley, Andrew Tarbuck Ross and Wilson anatomy and physiology in health and illness / Anne Waugh and Alison Grant The modern guide to GP consulting : six S for success / Alex Watson and David Gillespie The new politics of the NHS : from creation to rein...

As a part of the NHS pilot arranged by Jisc Collections, Springer is giving all NHS employees, and entitled personnel, free access to Springer´s medical and health content at health.springer.com until the 31st of October 2014. See here for instructions to access the titles .