Health Library News

The latest library based training timetable for April to June 2008 is now available on the Health Library website . New courses include current awareness using RSS technology and refresher literature search training on the new Search 2.0 interface. Search 2.0 training will be open to all NHS staff as well as all Keele nursing and medicine staff and students. Priority will be given to CINAHL database users as this will be the first database to be fully released on the new interface. The Dialog interface will be available through until the end of June. There will be a reduction in the number of library run literature sessions, until the full transition to the new interface is complete. Please contact the library if you have any queries or urgent training needs.

The Outreach Librarians work in partnership with the North Staffs Health Information Forum. The Forum is holding a workshop on Promoting Mens Health on Thursday 15 May 2008, between 1.30 – 4.30pm, at Bentilee Neighbourhood Centre. This free half day workshop is for any NHS staff across North Staffs, who are interested in promoting health information or health services to men in more effective ways. The workshop will look at key facts about male health and illness and men’s attitudes towards health services. It will also help participants to draw on best practice and skills-based tools that can help improve local provision and support gender sensitive services. The facilitator is Robbie Porter, the national training officer for the Men’s Health Forum http://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/ . There is no cost for the event and a free healthy buffet lunch will be available from 1:30pm, but places are limited. Please register for the event by sending an e-mail to Pam Dunning, e-mail: p.dunning...

The Health Library will be closed from Friday 21st until Monday 24th March inclusive. Normal hours will resume on the Tuesday.

Safe Births: Everybody's business is the new independent inquiry reviewing the safety of maternity services in the UK. The executive summary and full report are available from the Kings Fund website ( www.kingsfund.org.uk/current_projects/maternity_services_inquiry/index.html ). Resource recommended by Carolyn Roth. Print copies are now on order for the library.

A recent review of NHS health libraries, by Professor Peter Hill, is now available from the National Library for Health ( http://www.library.nhs.uk/aboutnlh/review ). The review highlights the importance of library centrality within the organsation and identifies the role of the library in the support of clinical decision making, lifelong learning by health professionals, research, commissioning decision and health policy making.

The purchase model for the NHS national core content journals will be changing from the first of April. Previously most journals have been provided via Proquest. After extensive consultation it has been decided to purchase a smaller quantity of higher quality journals. This will provide users with greater access to more up to date material. The first change was the introduction of JAMA and the associated Archives collection published by the American Medical Association. From April we will be obtaining online access to the British Medical Journal and many other titles available via Full Text CINAHL (including the New England Journal of Medicine). The April launch of the new package has meant that there may be a brief lapse in electronic access to the journals. New content will be listed nationally through My Journals resource (requires NHS Athens login). For further information, please contact Susan Smith (01782) 556581 or email s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk.

The Health Library will be open this coming Sunday as part of the Keele open day for prospective students. The Library will be open for business as usual between 12.30pm and 3.30pm.

The latest minutes of the Health Library User Group are now available from the Health Library website http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/li/hl/ (link at bottom of the page). Issues covered include library training and promotion, Sunday opening, the Keele Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and forthcoming changes to NHS e-resources. For further information on the User Group , please contact the Library Managers (Julie Beard or Anne Webb) on 01782 556592.

Now you can now reset your own password. All you need to do is go to My Athens login screen ( http://auth.athensams.net/my ), and select login help located below the login box. You will need your username and the email you registered it against to hand. If you have any further problems or questions, then contact your local administrator direct. Their contact details can be found by searching for your organisation in the search box provided on the My Athens login screen. This applies to both Keele and NHS Athens accounts.

As part of the ongoing improvements, the National Library for Health (NLH) has reorganised and improved the search capacity on the health related RSS feed directory . The directory can now be used to search for latest news articles posted within the last 90 days, or for RSS feeds to receive news updates on your areas of interest. The RSS directory is available free to all. Simply view the feed, then cut and paste into an RSS reader e.g. Bloglines or Google reader . If you hold an NHS Athens account, then by logging into the NLH website, you can update the feeds directly into My Updates or My Links sections of My Library to receive regular current awareness updates. For further information on current awareness, RSS feeds and NLH changes please contact the Health Library.

From the 8th January, there have been some changes to e-journals subscriptions available through Science Direct. Discrepancies in the Library A-Z journal listings may exist temporarily - automatic updating will occur only once the first issue of the journal has been published. New additions to the list include titles such as: Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Journal of the American College of Surgeons Journal of Tissue Viability Psychiatry Surgery (Oxford) The American Journal of Cardiology The Foundation Years Titles no longer available include: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology American Journal of Hypertension AORN Cardiovascular Research Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Journal of the American College of Radiology Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Seminars in Radiation Oncology Articles may still be obtained through the inter-library loan service. Pl...

Due to restructuring of the National Library for Health website, no service will be available Monday 14th January between approximately 5-6.30pm. Full service is hoped to be restored later on that evening. The website is currently undergoing a number of staged changes running through to April of this year, with several such maintainence sessions planned. Library held training sessions will be revised in April once all changes have been implemented. Please contact Susan Smith ( s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk ) for further information on the proposed changes.

Wiserwiki ( http://www.wiserwiki.com ) is a new medical wiki provided by the publishing giants Elsevier . The original content is based on “ Textbook of Primary Care Medicine ” (3rd Edition) by John Noble. To promote credibility and maintain standards, the wiki content can only be edited by a board of certified professionals. Site users can engage in topic discussion, provide comment and suggestions. Full details of the wiki operation is detailed in Frequently Asked Question, located under the ‘ Section ’ link.

To help support the University Faculty of Health open days, the Health Library and IT suite will be open from 12.30pm to 3.30pm Sundays 24th February & 9th March.

Aspiring to excellence, the final report of the independent inquiry into modernising medical careers is now available from the modernising medical careers website. Sir John Tooke calls for the creation of a new over-seeing body to standardise training and act as an interface between policy development and implementation. The report highlights eight areas of concern where action is required.

Harvard- MITOpenCourseware offers free course materials for a wide selection of their subjects incuding health science and technology . Over 1800 courses have been made available should you want to dip into to other topics. Visitng the website can provide you with free downloads of the lecture notes, presentations, reading lists and assignments.

2008 will see a great number of changes to the NHS electronic resources. The first of the changes to be introduced is the national purchase of the American Medical Association journals . This will provide Athens authenticated access to journals such as JAMA, Archives of Neurology and Archives of Ophthlmology. Unlike Proquest titles, there will be no embargo to accessing the articles and provides stable full text access to past issues. Please contact the Library for further details regarding NHS Athens or electronic journal access.

Get Body Smart is a new flash based teaching resource for human anatomy and physiology students. Get an interactive tour of major physiological landmarks with helpful quizzes to enhance your learning.

New training timetable through until March 2008 is now available. Bookings can be made online or by contacting the Health Library. If the time is unsuitable, why not contact the training team on 01782 556583 to enquire about departmental or one to one training.

MyJournals (TDNet) provides an A-Z list of journals available electronically to NHS staff. The list can be used to set table of content alerts as they become available. Adding alerts through MyJournals will also add the journal title to My Favourite Journals (accessible via NHS Athens login via the National Library for Health ). This list will allow you to quickly browse all the issues of your favourite journals from one page. The service will shortly be available where by you can select the RSS icon or 'add to MyLibrary' to add the table of content feed direct to My Update section of My Library . Please contact the library for further information of accessing electronic journals or keeping up to date using RSS feeds.