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Here is a quick run-down of how you can access the NHS-subscribed online resources you need: Log In You will need your NHS OpenAthens username and password to get access to subscribed resources. Please see our NHS OpenAthens page for information about how to register and maintain your account. If you are having problems with your account please contact your OpenAthens administrator or the eResources Librarian. Library Search You can use Library Search to find ebooks. The journals and articles available via Library Search are Keele subscriptions and you will not be able to access these Many of our popular print books are also available as ebooks. Follow these simple steps to read an ebook . Oxford Handbooks Online We have an online collection of Oxford handbooks for UHNM staff. Note that this collection is not available via Library Search. Please go to the Oxford handbooks page on our website for a list of titles available and link to the ebook. You will ...

There have been a number of changes to the individual journal subscriptions this year for NHS staff. New Titles The Health Library has subscribed to a new collection this year, called the Ovid High Impact collection. This collection includes 85 titles: A&A Case Reports A&A Practice Academic Medicine Advances in Anatomic Pathology AIDS AM Express American Journal of Gastroenterology American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation American Journal of Surgical Pathology Anesthesia & Analgesia Anesthesiology Annals of Plastic Surgery Annals of Surgery Arteriosclerosis Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis: A Journal of Vascular Biology Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology Cancer Nursing Circulation Circulation Research Clinical Journal of Pain Clinical Journal of...

If there is a book or journal or other resource that you think the library needs to include in its collection then you can make a suggestion to the management via our online form . Please include as much information about the resource as you can and indicate why you think it is important and what sort of users are likely to use it.

If you are a busy NHS member of staff and need a literature search completed we can do it for you. Our qualified staff can complete complex searches on your behalf. You will be provided with a report detailing the articles that match your search question. You can make a request online or pop into the library to have a chat with a member of staff.

If you are not sure how to start to look for articles or are struggling to locate that recommended reference, then check on our Find Articles page for help: How can I find articles for a particular subject? How can I find a specific article? Why can't I access the full-text of all the articles I find? Screen-shot of our Articles page We also have an etutorial " Finding Articles ", that explains what articles are and takes you step-by-step through the process of finding articles.

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.

Have you got to grips with journals and articles? Are you confused by volumes and issue numbers? Well, we are here to help. Start by having a look at our short etutorials: Finding Articles Using a Journal You will learn what a journal is, what an article is, how to find them and what you will need for your references. Journals at the Health Library

The Health Library is offering a new service to our busy NHS members – you can now request copies of journal articles available in our print journal collection. We will photocopy the articles and send them out to you. You can check our print journal collection via the NHS My Journals A-Z list . For more information please view our web page here .

Take just 5 minutes to complete our photo-tour etutorial Introduction to Keele University Resources and learn what resources we have to help you with your studies. Screen-shot of the etutorial

Find out in 5 minutes what resources the Health Library can offer you and how you can access them – try our new etutorial Introduction to NHS Health Library Resources . Screen-shot of the etutorial

The current awareness journal feeds are being updated to remove any journal titles that are no longer subscribed to. You can find the current awareness journal feeds here . Our video shows you how to use the current awareness service. If you experience any problems or have any queries please get in touch with Cheryl , the eresources librarian.

Let us know if you use our print journals. We are running a survey during March and April to assess how much the print journals are used. Please use the yellow tick sheets attached to the journals, or journal boxes, to record if you have used them. Use the journal tick sheet to record your usage

There is now a leaflet display in the IT suite. You can pick up a leaflet to help you to get to grips with our NHS resources, including: NHS My Journals List NHS HDAS - database searching and many more NHS resources leaflet display

Let us know if you use our print journals. We are running a survey during March and April to assess how much the print journals are used. Please use the tick sheets attached to the journals, or journal boxes, to record if you have used them. Use the journal tick sheet to record your usage

Using the NHS Journals A-Z list is the best way to find out whether we have a subscription for the journal that you are looking for. However following a recent enhancement by NICE, there is currently a bug in the login process. To search for our NHS journal subscriptions: Go to our Journals page Click the NHS Journals link Click the link “OpenAthens Login” (top-right-corner) Login with your NHS Athens username / password Click the link “OpenAthens Login” (top-right-corner) again until this displays your name You can then search for your journal title. Keep clicking the OpenAthens Login link until you can see your name

Google Scholar is an online search engine that limits its search to scholarly literature that is in the public domain. It searches across a wide range of subject areas. You can reach the advanced search options by clicking the down arrow on the search box. The advanced options allow you to include limits for an author, journal and date range as well as allowing you to include combinations of search terms. Google scholar is helpful for trying to find particular articles where you don’t have the complete reference and for searching for open access articles. However remember to check our journal A-Z lists to see whether we have a subscription for the full-text and which collection it will be available in. Screen-shot of Google Scholar advanced search options

Have you been pulling your hair out trying to get to the full-text of the articles that you have found? Everything not quite as freely available on Google as you thought? Here are a few hints and tips to getting your hands on the articles you need. Know your reference You need to know as many the bibliographic details about the article as you can find. Just the article title won’t be enough, so make sure you know: Where it was published – the Journal title When it was published – the I ssue it was published in; this will include the Year it was published, also possibly the Volume and Issue N umber , sometimes also a Date . Who wrote it – the Authors You’ll need all this information for your reference list. Search our Collections Once you have the Journal title and issue you can start to look in various collections: 1. Print Journals at the Health Library We still have a print collection located in the rotunda at the Health Library. To look for a print journal ch...

When we refer to articles we are usually talking about articles from a journal. This may be a print journal or an ejournal (electronic or online journal). Journals are published on a regular basis throughout the year, for example monthly or quarterly, and contain many journal articles. You may come across references to articles either from your tutors or colleagues or during your reading. We give you access to a wide range of articles via our journal collections. You’ll find all sorts of articles – published research, reporting and discussion of guidelines and best practice, as well as opinion and reflective pieces. You may need to look for journal articles on a specific topic or you might be looking for a particular article reference. We can help you to find articles: Read through our Articles page on our website for more information Try our Finding Articles etutorial to go through the process step-by-step Sign-up for one of our training courses to learn how to use Keele or ...

The ejournal titles that we subscribe to and are published by the Royal Society of Medicine are being moved to the SAGE Journals platform. Unfortunately SAGE are having some problems providing like-for-like access and this is affecting our ability to access these titles. This involves 3 titles: Clinical Risk, Health Services Management Research and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. At the moment many of the articles seemed to be freely available and we do have access to some holdings via other collections and in print. We have reported the problems and hope that the publishers can resolve this issue soon. You can report any problems you experience with our eresources using our technical support form . Our journals page will show you the latest errors and fixes that we are encountering with our journals access. To access our journals collections go to the journals page on our website.

We have been experiencing a number of problems with access to a small number of our journal titles. Several of these have now been resolved. Please check our journals page for a list of fixed and outstanding issues. If you experience any problems accessing our electronic resources please report them to the eResources Librarian or use our technical support form .