Health Library News

Keele Library Latest: Over a thousand more full-text e-journals now avai... : Over the summer Keele University Library has increased the number of full-text e-journals which Keele students and staff can access. Over 15...

We have a large number of the "at a glance" series of textbooks. You can find MRI at a Glance (Westbrook) at shelfmark RC 78 7 N83 W3.

If you are looking for library resources that you can use on your mobile devices, then check out our Mobile page . You can find out where to access mobile versions of some of our essential resources. There are also guides to get you started.

If you have an NHS library card and have received a card renewal letter from us in July / August, please get in touch with the library to update your library card. Library cards which have expired will be removed from the system shortly. Your library card allows you to: borrow books photocopy items request temporary logins to the Keele network and wifi access the library automatically during evening and weekends

Look in the library at shelfmark RC 65 A4 for Clinical Skills Explained by Akunjee et al.

We are currently experiencing problems receiving in-coming telephone calls.  If you need to get in touch please email us at health.library@keele.ac.uk We hope the problem will be resolved soon.

The Statistics for Healthcare current awareness feed has now been updated. If you are already subscribing to this email update there should be no need to change your subscription. The feeds are now combined using feed.informer rather than Yahoo.Pipes.

The Health Library for North Staffordshire is a joint NHS / HE library funded by Keele University and our NHS partners. You can find out who our partners are here .

The following current awareness feeds have now been updated: Palliative and End of Life Care Physiotherapy Public Health Social Care / Work If you are already subscribing to the email update there should be no need to change your subscription. You can subscribe on the relevant topic page. The feeds are now combined using feed.informer rather than Yahoo.Pipes.

The following current awareness feeds have now been updated: Nutrition Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ophthalmology Orthopaedics If you are already subscribing to the email update there should be no need to change your subscription. You can subscribe on the relevant topic page. The feeds are now combined using feed.informer rather than Yahoo.Pipes.

You can find Essential Medical Genetics (Tobias et al) at shelfmark RB 155 C6. If all the texts are on loan - try the ebook .

The Mental Health current awareness feed has now been updated. If you are already subscribing to this email update there should be no need to change your subscription. The feeds are now combined using feed.informer rather than Yahoo.Pipes.

Even we have to admit that the silent study room hardly looks… inspiring. We are hoping to carry out some refurbishment of this room. What would like to see? ??? ** new chairs  **  more study desks  **  more power points  **  bean bags (!)  **  inspiring posters  **  individual study space  **  green walls  ** ??? Let us know what you would like to see here: Add a comment to this blog entry Fill out an ideas form in the library Contact the Health Library We won’t be able to carry out every idea but we’re open to suggestions.

If you want to use a computer at the Health Library check out the facilities available via our IT facilities web page .

Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out the “New Books” display in the library. New books include: Equipment in anaesthesia and critical care : a complete guide for the FRCA Daniel Aston, Angus Rivers, Asela Dharmadasa. Essential clinical skills for nurses : step-by-step / edited by Catherine Delves Yates Hodson and Geddes' cystic fibrosis / Andrew Bush, Diana Bilton, Maragaret Hodson Law and ethics for midwifery / Elinor J. Clarke Murtagh's general practice / John Murtagh New clinical genetics / Andrew Read and Dian Donnai New ebooks include: Before we are born [electronic resource] essentials of embryology and birth defects / edited by Keith L. Moore, T.V.N. Persaud, Mark G. Torchia. Gray's anatomy for students [electronic resource] / by Richard L. Drake, A. Wayne Vogl, Adam W.M. Mitchell illustrations by Richard Tibbits and Paul Richardson photographs by Ansell Horn. Nu...

The following current awareness feeds have now been updated: Infection Control Leadership and Management Musculoskeletal If you are already subscribing to the email update there should be no need to change your subscription. You can subscribe on the relevant topic page. The feeds are now combined using feed.informer rather than Yahoo.Pipes.

We are hoping to refurbish the Rotunda. What would like to see? ??? ** new chairs  **  group study space  **  more power points  **  self-service  **  casual seating  **  help point  **  individual study space  ** ??? Let us know what you would like to see here: Add a comment to this blog entry Fill out an ideas form in the library Contact the Health Library We won’t be able to carry out every idea but we’re open to suggestions.

The following current awareness feeds have now been updated: Medicine Midwifery Nursing If you are already subscribing to the email update there should be no need to change your subscription. New subscribers can request an email update here . The feeds are now combined using feed.informer rather than Yahoo.Pipes.

There are plenty of copies of this popular title "Robbins Basic Pathology" by Kumar et al in the Health Library. Check the shelves at classmark RB 111 K8.

Are you an NHS member of staff working for UHNM? You can attend one of our training courses to help you to develop your literature searching and information skills. Courses available include: Health Essentials Online Literature Searching Healthcare Databases Cochrane Library and Others Rapid Critical Appraisal All courses are free to UHNM staff. You can book online .

You can now access the Keele Wifi service (Eduroam) across many of the main buildings at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. This includes all floors of the main Lyme, Trent and Maternity buildings as well as the Courtyard Annexe and HCSA. You may not find a Keele connection absolutely everywhere across the site and please be mindful that you won’t have the same bandwidth available in the main hospital areas as within Keele-based buildings (for obvious clinical considerations). However hopefully this will represent an improved service to Keele students and staff. Useful access that you might like to consider: Keele App – to access your library account BNF / BNFc App – for up-to-date drug reference (use your NHS Athens username) Dynamed – evidence-based point-of-care resources (use your NHS Athens username) Twitter App – keep up-to-date with news at the Health library by following our @CEClibrary twitter feed NHS staff wanting to use the hospital wifi sh...