Health Library News

Currently there is a nationwide problem with the adminstration of NHS Athens accounts. The adminstration site has been taken off line until all issues have been resolved. As a result any new accounts, reset passwords or account extensions created from the 25th Sept onwards may be lost. Please contact the library if you have any problems.

Hello and welcome, to all new and returning students. To help your orientation of the Health Library, we have compiled a short induction video available through the Library section of WebCT. This 7 minute induction is designed to give you the basic information regarding joining the Library, getting started with computers, and where to go for help. This has been designed as a quick overview and reference tool to compliment the Library induction session as part of your teaching programme. Please let us know what you think of it, and what other guides you would find useful to get you started.

Apologies to all that have been experiencing problems with NHS Athens account of late. There appears to have been a problem between the databases and log in authentication system. The problem now appears to have been resolved. If the problem occurs again, please contact the Health Library with regards to alternative means of literature searching.

Athens has introduced a new look to their MyAthens pages. The changes now allow greater personalisation of the Athens resources. The new panel system enables you to hide or remove irrelevant information, then move the sections around the screen for improved navigation. You can now create quick links to your favourite Athens resources on your front page and receive current updates from some of the most popular news sites. Links to services provided by the Health Library, will now make it easier for you to obtain the information you need. The Help section provides further information on how to you can organise your display.

The National Library for Health , provides a number of specialist libraries to keep you up to date with the latest information in your field. The Cardiovascular Library provides a monthly bulletin with the latest updates in guidance, systematic reviews, news and conferences. Click here to view the August issue.

The Health Library has now opened up all it's training sessions to both NHS and Keele staff and students. Literature searching still remains split into two separate sections due to the differences in search interfaces for the two organisations (NHS- Dialog and Keele - Ebsco). Please check our new joint training page for further information or to book a session.

Are you looking for some advise on how to get published? The Health Library web page has collected together some useful sites and advice for first time authors on how to decide where to submit your research paper. The Authorship section of Subject Resources brings together information on open access publishing, citation guides, judging journal quality and online reference management that can be shared with colleagues.

Keele will now be renewing their subscription to NetLibrary's e-books . The package has been subscribed to through a consortium, which provides improved purchasing power. The return around decision has been reached on the back of the consortium's decision to renew the subscription. E-books are the ideal reference tool. Text is readily searched without the hassle of checking indexes and flicking through pages. It allows access to books whenever it suits you, and is an easy way of obtaining books under popular demand without the wait or the restricted loan period. Why not check out this resource to see how it can help you!

If you are having problems setting up your NHS Athens account then why not follow the new step by step guide. The guide is located under the Athens menu on the Health Library website. If you have problems viewing the split screen guide, you may need to enable your web browser to accept the cookies. Instruction will be given at the top of the screen on how to do this.

Keele students may be disappointed to learn that the University will not be renewing it's subscription to NetLibrary. NetLibrary provided access to a wide range of e-books, but the University wishes to be more selective to improve the quality of books made available. It is hoped that a number of new electronic books will be purchased from Coutts iLibrary, to be made available for the new term. For further information on e-books, please contact the Library.

The National Library for Health has now launched its latest innovations. Amongst the improvements is the new restructuring of Patient Resources area, for easier searching by topic, providing immediate access to patient information leaflets. Additional information is also now available to patients through the NHS Direct Online Health Encyclopaedia. For health professionals there is a new online medical dictionary, which accesses Black’s Medical Dictionary and The Royal Society of Medicine: Medicines. The tool section also provides a downloadable NLH toolbar to improve your searching and provide instruction on how to keep up to date with the latest research through RSS feeds. Looking for pictures and diagrams to include in you presentations; then why not check out the new Images section. This incorporates the Images.MD database, but now you can browse or run an integrated search on many more resources including Gray’s Anatomy and the ECG Library. This will provide you with a series of th...

WHO have recently launched a new portal ( http://www.who.int/trialsearch/ ) to bring together quality information on clinical trials. Designed to improve transparency in research, and keep you up to date with current research. It pulls together 50,000 clinical trials provided by three registers (Britain, Australia/New Zealand and the US), combining published and unpublished work. All trials are required to meet quality checks prior to recruitment phase.

Feeling lost in the world of online information? Why not come along to one of the Library training sessions. A new timetable of events is now available. Many of the sessions are suitable for Keele staff/students and NHS employees alike. Please contact the Health Library for further information.

Find out what the outreach Librarian's service has been involved in over the past year in their recent annual report (pdf, 470kb). For further information about the service please contact Clare or Marilyn .

MyJournals is the new, searchable, list of locally and nationally purchased NHS electronic journals. Login with your NHS Athens account to view and access all the available titles. For more information or training, please contact the library , or download the 'NHS E-Journals ' leaflet (pdf, 77kb).

The library can now take bookings for training sessions throughout April, May and June 2007. For the first time we are also able to offer evening training sessions! Book for literature searching, critical appraisal, Reference Manager, Cochrane Library and health information on the Internet. For more information and to book online, click here .

The library can now take bookings for new training sessions throughout January, February and March 2007 for literature searching, critical appraisal, Reference Manager, Cochrane Library and health information on the Internet. For more information and to book online, click here .

Due to severe staff shortages we have reluctantly taken the decision to reduce the library's opening hours. This is a temporary measure until a new librarian is in post at which time the opening hours will return to normal. From January 2nd 2007 our opening hours will be: Monday 08:30 - 21:45 Tuesday 08:30 - 21:45 Wednesday 08:30 - 21:45 Thursday 08:30 - 21:45 Friday 08:30 - 17:45 Saturday 10:00 - 16:45 The Keele University campus library is open until 10pm 7-days a week for quiet study. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.

The library's opening hours over the Christmas period are as follows. Friday 22nd December: 8:30am - 5:45pm. Saturday 23rd December: CLOSED. Sunday 24th December: CLOSED. Monday 25th December: CLOSED. Tuesday 26th December:CLOSED. Wednesday 27th December: 9:00am - 4:30pm. Thursday 28th December: 9:00am - 4:30pm. Friday 29th December: 9:00am - 4:30pm. Saturday 30th December: CLOSED. Sunday 31st December: CLOSED. Monday 1st January: CLOSED. Tuesday 2nd January: 8:30am - 9:45pm

Following the decision of the NHS to not purchase a central copying licence from the Copyright licensing Agency (CLA) for all Trusts in England, local Trusts have had to decide whether or not to purchase their own licences. Currently, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust and Stoke-on-Trent PCT (formerly North Stoke and South Stoke PCTs) have licences. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust and North Staffordshire PCT (formerly Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire Moorlands PCTs) do not have licences. Keele University do not fall under the NHS copying licence at all and have their own licence from the CLA. What library users may photocopy, scan, print and download is contingent therefore on who they work for/study with. Please read the information below to determine what you may, or may not photocopy. Below that are some general points on copyright that will apply to all organisations using the library. Keele University students One copy of one article from ...