Health Library News

  The Health Library will be closed on Monday 6th May for the May Day Bank Holiday. Online resources  will be available as usual.

 Keep your skill set up-to-date with the Health Library Information Skills etutorials . Check out our latest poster below for more details. eTutorials A4 poster by Cheryl Kent

  Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common disorders of the digestive system.  It is often stigmatized and misunderstood but the symptoms have a significant impact on the quality of life for many people.  IBS Awareness Month falls in April each year with the aim of raising awareness of the condition and encouraging frank and open conversations about toilet habits.   RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES     The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  This document covers the following resources – books , journals , journal articles and patient information .   BOOKS       Sleise nger and Fordtran's gastrointestinal and liver disease: pathophysiology/diagnosis/management ; Feldman, Mark, editor...

 The Oxford Medicine Online ebook collection, subscribed to by NHS England, has been extended to include the Specialist Handbook series. This collection is available to all NHS staff via your NHS OpenAthens username. Link to the collection via our eBooks page . The list of new titles include the following: A Resuscitation Room Guide Addiction Medicine Adult Congenital Heart Disease Advanced Respiratory Critical Care Anaesthesia for Emergency Care Applied Medicine and Surgery in Dentistry Burns (OSH Surgery) Cardiac Anaesthesia Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Intervention Cardiac Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation Cardiothoracic Critical Care Cardiothoracic Surgery Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Cardiovascular Imaging Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Colorectal Surgery Day Case Surgery Dementia - from advanced disease to bereavement Echocardiography End of Life Care in the ICU - from advanced disease to bereavement Epilepsy Fetal Cardio...

 AMED is the  Allied and complementary medicine database, providing abstracts covering subjects within allied health therapies as well as some nursing topics. This has previously been provided to NHS staff via the Ovid platform. Access to this database has now moved to the Proquest Dialog platform; note that this is different from the Proquest platform that we currently use for other databases. AMED is provided by NHS England as part of the NHS core content collection. Proquest provide additional help to using their resources on this website . All relevant links have been updated in the NHS Resources page on the Health Library website . You will need your NHS openAthens login to access this database. If you need any assistance using this database please contact the Health Library training librarians  library.healthlibrarytrainers@keele.ac.uk

 Issue 10, for April 2024, of the Health Library newsletter is now available. You can read it online . Over the beginning of this year we have been posting all about the different ways you can develop your digital skills and how the Health Library can help. This issue of the bulletin is a special themed issue on digital skills. So, if you want to prepare your literature search plan, use resources more effectively and get referencing right, take a look at the newsletter .