Health Library News

You can now access information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals in the Merck Index, via RSC Publishing, as part of the “Finch” pilot to extend access of academic licensed content to NHS users. You can only access this content via the NHS network (IP address). Access will continue until 31 st March 2015. To access the Merck Index Online go to the Healthcare Resources page on the Health Library website and click the relevant link.

The Athens system will be undergoing maintenance during Tuesday 22nd July. This will particularly affect administration functions but may also impact on user activities and access. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Keele Library Latest: Essential IT resilience testing : IT are conducting an exercise throughout the day on Saturday July 19th from 08:30 onwards in which many of the core IT services will be disr...

Keele Library Latest: Off-campus access at risk period Friday 18th July ... : Off-campus access to our library online resources relies on an authentication service which IT need to upgrade on Friday 18th July. The upgr...

Did you take part in our survey? What did you think about us? Did other people agree? You can read the executive summary or watch the slide show to find out what our users thought of the Health Library. Results from Health Library Survey 2014

Keele Library Latest: Dawson e-books - more problems : Dawsons have notified us that they are having intermittent connection problems with their Dawsonera e-books service. In most cases these sho...

We are adding more stock to our very popular section on mentorship. On the shelves now Updated edition: The Nurse Mentor’s Handbook: supporting students in clinical practice / Walsh ( ebook ) New books: Mentoring Nursing and Healthcare Students / Kinnell & Hughes Mentoring, Learning and Assessment in Clinical Practice: a guide for nurses, midwives and other health professionals / Stuart Practice-based Learning in Nursing, Health and Social Care: mentorship, facilitation and supervision / Scott & Spouse ( ebook ) Extra copies: Learning in the Workplace: a toolkit for facilitating learning and assessment in health and social care settings / Mulholland & Turnock ( ebook ) Mentoring and Supervision in Healthcare Update Book / Gopee ( ebook ) Mentoring in Nursing: a dynamic and collaborative process / Grossman ( ebook ) Successful Mentoring in Nursing / Aston & Hallam The Nurse Mentor and Reviewer / Murray, Rosen & Staniland ...

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 very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about qualitative research / David Silverman Anatomy and physiology for dummies / by Maggie Norris and Donna Rae Siegfried Clinical evidence made easy / Michael Harris, Gordon Taylor and Daniel Jackson Dictionary of statistics & methodology : a nontechnical guide for the social sciences / W. Paul Vogt, R. Burke Johnson. How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine / Trisha Greenhalgh Nursing research : principles, process and issues / Kader Parahoo Study skills for Master's level students : a reflective approach for health and social care / Debbie Casey, Liz Clark and Sally Hayes The hands-on guide to surgical training / Matthew Stephenson The nurse mentor's handbook : supporting students in clinical practice / Danny Walsh The student's guide to writ...

Athens services are scheduled for maintenance 8th, 10th, 15th July 2014.  This will mainly affect admin functions but may also impact on user access to resources for short periods.

You can now try our new subject links page, Leadership & Management . Here you will find links to various resources available on the Internet to support this subject. We have also added links to books you can find on our catalogue. You can also link to a current awareness page for Leadership & Management . Here you will find the latest research, news and headlines from a range of journals and online resources. You can sign-up to receive the latest news in your email inbox. Subject links pages are a useful place to start if you are looking for information in a new subject.

You can now find more help available when accessing NHS ejournals. The NHS Journals help page has been revamped, you can now find: General Hints & Tips Help by Journal Title Help by Publisher / Platform / Database Journal Changes – yearly subscription changes as well as any new collections Journal Problems and Fixes – known bugs with work-rounds If you would like anything else to be added here just get in touch with the eResources Librarian . If you experience any problems accessing the NHS electronic online resources please report it to the eResources Librarian or complete the eResources Technical Support form .

Do you need some help finding the right information on the Internet, are you struggling with your literature search, do you want to get to grips with Refworks? Then check out our training courses : Get help finding the right information via the Internet Learn how to conduct a literature search and use our databases to get information quickly Try an introduction to the Cochrane Library Brush up your critical appraisal skills Get to grips with Refworks All these sessions are: Run at the Health Library: Presented by qualified librarians Delivered to small groups Give you plenty of hands-on practice Book yourself on a session by getting in touch with Mariet or Rachael or book online .