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 New dates are available to book on our Searching Ovid Medline training course. Searching Ovid Medline Thinking of writing your own research paper but unsure where to begin? This one-hour course will help you develop a robust search strategy which can be transferred into other databases for maximum paper retrieval. Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build the ‘Literature review’ section of your paper using Ovid Medline. This course is aimed at NHS staff and Keele academics and researchers working on NHS projects. You will require an NHS OpenAthens username. Wednesday 25th February 12:30pm Book your place online Wednesday 18th March 12:30pm Book your place online Get ready Prepare before you go - complete the etutorial Introduction to Literature Searching so you are ready to make the most of the training.

  Get the right evidence for your studies, revalidation, professional development and work. Search the Ovid databases for good quality, topic-specific articles. Which databases? Our users can access a range of databases from different platforms (Ebsco, Ovid, Proquest). Keele staff and students have access to Maternity and Infant Care from Ovid NHS staff can access AMED, Embase, Emcare, HMIC, Medline and Social Policy and Practice from Ovid NHS staff can complete our tutorial Which NHS database do you need? to learn more about NHS databases and platforms. Who can access them? Ovid databases are purchased for you. They are not freely available on the Internet. You will need a login to access them: Keele staff and students – access your resources immediately on campus via the Keele network. Off-campus you will need to log in using your Keele login details. Find more information on the campus online resources help page NHS staff can log in using your NHS OpenAthens use...

** NHS HDAS (healthcare advanced search database) will close 31st March 2022. ** If you use NHS HDAS to complete your literature searching and set alerts then you need to act now! If you use NHS HDAS to search Cinahl, Medline, Amed, Embase or any NHS bibliographic database, then you need to act now! Which database should you search? Which platform hosts them? Check our online tutorial Which NHS database do you need? to find out. Make the switch! Move any saved searches and alerts to the database host platforms Start your literature searching on the host platforms Get more help from our NHS databases help page Contact the training team for help using the host platforms

Ovid will be carrying out maintenance of their services over the next few days: Thursday 24th August Saturday 26th August Monday 28th August This may impact on access to our Ovid resources for short periods, in particular: Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) database eJournals hosted by Ovid Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

We have subscribed to a range of ejournals via the Ovid Journals database. New titles at Ovid include: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Anaesthesia British Journal of Haematology Cancer Cancer Cytopathology Current Opinion in Hematology Current Opinion in Oncology Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology International Journal of Clinical Practice Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Journal of Family Therapy Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise   Some of these titles have been moved to Ovid from other platforms. We hope that this will improve access. Other Ovid titles include: A & A Case Reports Advances in Nursing Science Age and Ageing American heart journal American journal of nursing (AJN) American journal of occupational therapy American Journal of Surgical Pathology Anesthesia and Analgesia Anesthesiology Annals of Emergency Medicine Annals of Surgery BJOG: An International Journal o...

Edit: Athens authentication has now been fixed There is currently an issue regarding Athens authenticated access to Ovid resources. For the NHS this effects all major databases with the exception of CINAHL and HMIC. The issue has been reported and is currently under investigation. Alternate access to Medline is available through the Health Library IT Suite. Please ask library staff for details. A free literature search service is also available to all NHS staff, with online request form available on the Health Library website.

Over the festive period, Ovid who manage NHS access to the Medline database on Search 2.0, take the opportunity to update and re-build the database. This may cause some periodical disruption to access. Current slow operation and timing out issues have been reported to the appropriate people, and is currently under investigation. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause in the mean time. Edit 6th January: Although the major issues have now been resolved, some intermittent problems may occur throughout January and no new articles will be added to the database during this time. PubMed remains unaffected. Alternative access to the full database is available via the Keele Ebsco access , which can be accessed through computers in the Health Library IT Suite.