Health Library News

 Are you ready for 2023? No, me  neither. But you can stay on track by keeping uptodate with news from the Health Library. Watch our blogs, follow us on Twitter, look out for our newsletter, sign up for a bulletin We'll get the news out to you: best resources to search to find the right information update your skills to help you to find information quickly latest evidence straight to your inbox latest training courses to book Stay in touch Health Library News blog Information Skills for Health blog Follow us on Twitter @CECLibrary Current awareness options If you need any help just let us know: email health.library@keele.ac.uk or phone 01782 679500

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The Health News 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. New subscribers can request an email update here .

We have revamped the Dentistry, Oral & Maxillofacial Care News tab on our Current Awareness Service. You can now sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research: BMC Oral Health British Dental Journal (print) British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery European Journal of Orthodontics Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Journal of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology (print) The Dental Elf Check the Dentistry, Oral & Maxillofacial 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.

Sign-up to receive the latest health-related news in your inbox . Our bulletin will give you a selection of the latest headlines and stories from good quality media outlets such as: BBC Health Guardian Healthcare Network Independent Health News News from the Department of Health NHS Choices – Behind the Headlines Telegraph Health News You can browse the full list of news feeds on our Health News Current Awareness page . Email bulletins are delivered via Feedburner; our Current Awareness Service uses Netvibes – you don’t have to join to view the pages. For more information about our Current Awareness Service watch our video:

Why not start the year by following the Health Library on Twitter? You can keep up-to-date, via your mobile devices, wherever you are, with the news from the Health Library by following us on twitter. For a quick step by step guide check the help page on our website. You will be able to: Learn about new resources Get updates about any changes at the Health Library Discover more about our services Keep up-to-date with important health-related headlines Screen-shot of the Health Library twitter feed

Why not “like” our Facebook page ? Stay up-to-date with the latest news from the Health Library – new resources and service updates.  We also share news from other university pages and health-related organisations. You can get in touch with us here by posting comments. Let us know what else you would like to see on our page.

Would you like to get the latest headlines and table of contents from your subject specific journals? You can sign up to receive email updates from our CurrentAwareness Service .  You only get an email when new articles are published. You can link through to the online articles that we subscribe to. It is simple to unsubscribe if you don’t like it. We have a range of subject topics available. If you can’t see the subject you need then get in touch with our eresourceslibrarian and we can set one up for you. Here is an overview of the service: Our service uses Netvibes and Feedburner, however you don’t have to join these to use the service. Why not try it? We have more information to help you to keep up-to-date; check out our CurrentAwareness page or see our online guides for help setting up alerts, using RSS feeds and trying social networking.

I have updated our Medical News current awareness page to include links and feeds from our current ejournal subscriptions: British Journal of Medicine The Lancet New England Journal of Medicine As well as from BMA blog Royal College of General Practitioners news feed You can sign-up to receive the latest journal articles and news from the BMA and RCGP in your email inbox. Unfortunately I have had to remove the link to JAMA until we can get a current subscription sorted out. We have more help on keeping up-to-date with healthcare news on our website.

We have a new current awareness page to keep you up-to-date with the latest published research in paediatrics and child health. Journals monitored include: Acta Paediatrics (NHS) Child Pediatrics (NHS) Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (NHS) Pediatrics (NHS) Academic Pediatrics (Keele University) Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Keele University) You can sign-up to receive updates in your email inbox.  You can find out more about our Current Awareness Service via this video. We have more help on keeping up-to-date with healthcare news on our website. 

Over the next year I’m going to tell you about different resources that are available to help you to find health-related information to support your studies and work. I’m aiming for 1 item per week so we should be done just before Christmas. If I miss a week do let me know. So the first resource is the Health Library blog – you’re reading it now. We use the blog to tell you all about the latest news at the library. Here you can find out about any changes to our facilities and services such as changes to opening times, printing procedures, expected maintenance and so on. We also let you know about any new resources that we purchase, such as books, journals and databases, and promote our current resources. There are lots of extra features on the blog. You can: View our latest tweets on Twitter – news from health organisations that we monitor as well as our own news Browse through the latest news headlines we have collected Check out any new videos we’ve added to YouTu...

The current awareness pages have been re-vamped to help you to find the information you need. You can now find resources to help you to keep up-to-date with: Current news —such as issues affecting the NHS and its services Professional news —latest developments & guidance affecting your profession Research news —in-depth awareness of research in your study / work area You will also find help to learn how to set up database alerts, where to go to find bulletins and the latest guidance, and how to use social networking tools such as twitter, blogging and RSS feeds.

Our Medical Current Awareness page lets you browse thru the latest headlines and journal articles from the main medical journals such as BMJ, the Lancet, JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine. You can sign-up for email updates.

Our Nursing Current Awareness page lets you browse thru the latest headlines and journal articles from the main nursing organisations and journals. You can subscribe to email updates.

Facebook for all the latest news and information about the Health Library . Twitter for day to day news as well as the latest news affecting the NHS in North Staffordshire .  YouTube for videos to help you get to grips with our facilities, services and resources.

You can now access the Health Library news blog from your mobile phone. Just link to the blog web address http://hlnews.blogspot.com or scan in the QR code below.  You can then check out the latest Health Library news while you are on the move.