Health Library News

If you work for one of our NHS partners you can join the Health Library and make the most of all the resources we have on offer. You need to complete an application form - you can find a copy on our website . You'll find help to join the library on our website

We have created a new Orthopaedics Current Awareness page which lists the news feeds for a range of our NHS orthopaedic-based ejournals: Bone & Joint Journal Current Orthopaedic Practice Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (American Volume) Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Orthopaedics and Trauma You can sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from our main orthopaedic-based journals. Check the Orthopaedics News tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

We have created a new current awareness page to help you to keep up-to-date with the latest research on elderly care, from our ejournal collection: Age and Ageing Journal of the American Geriatrics Society The Gerontologist The Journals of Gerontology You can sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from our main elderly care based journals. Check the Elderly Care News tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

The Health Library will be closed for the May Day Bank Holiday 4th May. Remember that you can still access  electronic resources online .

The Handbook of Communication Skills by Hargie can be found at shelfmark BF 637 C45 H2

Patient.co.uk have now developed a small range of apps designed to support patients. screen-shot of Apps available from patient.co.uk The main Patient.co.uk app provides access to patient-focused information leaflets on a wide range of conditions and diseases. You need to simply enter the search term you are looking for in the search box and you will be offered a number of results. Results are organised into sections for Health Information, Drug Information and Professional. The Health Information section is free, however an additional purchase is required for the Drug Information and Professional sections. Note: that there appears to be a small amount of advertising in the bottom corner.

Our Current Awareness page for Public Health has been updated to include the latest NHS-based ejournal subscriptions: Health Education Research Health Promotion International Journal of Public Health Public Health Ethics You can also see a selection of what is held by the Public Health Information Service, Stoke on Trent. Check the Public Health News tab on our Current Awareness Service for more information or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

The Health Library will not open until 11:00am on Saturday 25th April. This is due to a power outage at Royal Stoke, UHNM. We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

You can get the latest research and news headlines from a range of nursing-based ejournals by signing-up to our Nursing News bulletin: British Journal of Nursing American Journal of Nursing Clinical Nurse Specialist Evidence-based Nursing Nursing Research You’ll find all the resource feeds listed on our Nursing News Current Awareness page or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

Do you need to find a journal article? It may be online or in print. You can find links to all our journal collections on our journal page . Links to our journal collections You'll also find links to our etutorials which will help you.

Keele University have revised their IT Conditions of Use . These apply to all Keele University staff and students as well as any of our NHS users who use the Walk-in Access at the Health Library – ie a temporary Keele network username / password. There is also a set of guidelines which can help you. All users of the Keele network should take the time to familiarise themselves with the new requirements.

You can keep up-to-date with recent midwifery news by signing up to our Midwifery News page . Here you will find news feeds from a number of midwifery-based resources, or you can sign-up to receive updates in your email inbox . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

You can find Stella Cottrell's Critical Thinking: developing effective analysis and argument at shelfmark BF 441 C6

Keele Library Latest: Rang and Dale's Pharmacology latest (8th) edition ... : For those of you wanting to get hold of a copy of Rang and Dale

Our Current Awareness page for Mental Health has been updated to include our recent subscriptions: BJPychAdvances British Journal of Psychiatry Current Opinion in Psychiatry Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Journal of Family Therapy Journal of Mental Health Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease You can sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from our main mental health based journals. Check the Mental Health News tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

Are you shy? or too embarrassed to ask a question about the Health Library? Well, check out our FAQs web page - the answer might be there. Selection of questions on the FAQ page

Our Current Awareness page for Infection Control has been updated with our latest ejournal subscriptions: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (open access) BMC Infectious Diseases (open access) Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal of Infectious Diseases You can sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from our main infection control based journals. Check the Infection Control News tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out “New Books” display in the library. New books include: An introduction to oral and maxillofacial surgery / David A. Mitchell and Anastasios N. Kanatas Assessment and decision making in mental health nursing / by Sandra Walker, Diane Carpenter, Yvonne Middlewick Clinical aromatherapy : essential oils in healthcare / Jane Buckle Cognitive impairment and dementia in Parkinson's disease / Murat Emre Delirium in critical care / Valerie Page, E. Wesley Ely Infections affecting pregnancy and childbirth / Judy Bothamley and Maureen Boyle Medical terminology and clinical procedures / by Mary Bird Mentoring and supervision in healthcare / Neil Gopee Passing calculations tests for nursing students / Susan Starkings, Larry Krause The Royal Marsden manual of clinical nursing procedures / edited by Lisa Dougherty and Sara Lister New ebooks include: Hea...

You can read Edelman's Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: on the matter of the mind; find it at shelfmark BF 161 E2

Our Current Awareness page for Anaesthetics has been updated to ensure that news feeds are linked to our latest NHS subscriptions: Anaesthesia Anesthesia and Analgesia Anesthesiology British Journal of Anaesthesia Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology Clinical Journal of Pain Journal of Clinical Anesthesia Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care You can sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from our main anaesthetics-based journals. Check the Anaesthetics News tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

Keele Library Latest: Resolved - articles search problem in Catalogue Pl... : The problem whereby Catalogue Plus wasn't pulling back journal articles in search results has now been fixed by our system suppliers. Ou...

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Our NHS users will no longer be able to access the NHS Core Content ebook collection. This collection was not being maintained and many of the titles are now quite old. NHS users can access the ebook collection provided by the Health Library by searching for titles on the library catalogue . You will need to use your NHS Athens username / password to access the full-text - click the link provided on the catalogue. We have set up a number of small collections to help you to get started with ebooks – you can find them on our ebooks page . Our etutorial Using eBooks will help you to get to grips using ebooks.

Our Current Awareness page for Child Health has been updated to remove ejournals that we no longer subscribe to and include our new titles. You can sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from our main child-health-based journals. Check the Child Health News tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner.

The anticipated switch from Ovid to Proquest for Medline and PsychInfo has now occurred. Using HDAS to search Medline and PsychInfo will now refer searches via Proquest and includes some limitations. See document “HDAS Database Changes – Fields available” on our Journal Problems & Fixes page . To avoid these limitations you may wish to prefer to search via the Proquest interface. You can find a direct link to the Proquest database in our section “ Direct Database Login ”. You can find help using the Proquest databases here: Proquest training resources You can also access Medline via Ebsco. This may be a more familiar interface for some of you who have used Ebsco databases before. You will also find direct links in our section “ Direct Database Login ”. These is help using the Ebsco databases here: Ebsco Health - Advanced Searching on MEDLINE and CINAHL Databases Help Sheet

You can find  Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology at shelfmark BF 131 N6

Keele Library Latest: Articles search problem in Catalogue Plus : Catalogue Plus is having problems pulling back journal article results at present. This seems to be due to problems at one of our journal in...