Health Library News

Sunday 3rd August is our first day of Sunday opening. The Health Library and attached IT suite will be accessible between 1pm to 5pm. Only a basic service will be offered. If you have any complex queries or problems, please contact the Library Monday through to Saturday, when professional staff will be available.

Members of the Health Faculty will be pleased to know that the subscription to Anatomy.TV will be retained for at least the next year. Anatomy.TV is an online 3D interactive anatomy model with study guide, self testing and specialist sections. This package is available to holders of Keele Athens accounts only.

Any Keele students or staff using the Ebsco health care databases may notice some changes! The screen has a cleaner fresher look, quick hover over display of article abstracts, share your results via Facebook, MySpace, Del.icio.us etc, choose your favourite citation styles to display (unfortunately Harvard isn't in there), quickly add related reference to your saved folder (now more visible and easier to manage) and much, much more. We will be updating our training materials, so why not come along to one of our Wednesday afternoon training sessions or ask at the help desk for a guided tour. For further information please contact Mariet Schepers on (01782) 556583.

Dialog Datastar will no longer be available after 31 July 2008. THIS MEANS THAT ALL SAVED SEARCHES ON DIALOG WILL NEED TO BE MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION BEFORE THE END OF JULY OR THEY WILL BE LOST. If you need an update training session on the new Search 2.0 interface from the National Library for Health, please book online through the Health Library website for our library based time-tabled sessions, or contact our training team to arrange one-to-one or departmental training on (01782) 556583. Specialist assistance is available for those based primary care or combined health via the outreach service . Please contact Susan Smith (E-Resource Librarian) direct by emailing s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk or by phone (01782) 556581 if you have any further queries or problems relating to the new search interface.

This months has seen the publication of Next Stage Review - High Quality Care For All. This entry will gather together the main documents and a selection of the coverage. The coverage includes a number of good summaries. There were three main documents published at this point - 1) High quality care for all : NHS Next Stage Review final report (30th June 2008) Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE The final report of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review. It responds to the 10 SHA strategic visions and sets out a vision for an NHS with quality at its heart. This link includes the full document and a summary version. For a very brief summary Darzi review: At-a-glance BBC or Main points of the Darzi report FT. 2) The National Health Service Constitution - a consultation paper (30th June 2008) The proposed NHS Constitution published today, marking 60 years of the NHS , is about safeguarding its core principles and values for the next generation, whilst setting a clear direction for t...

This week is the 60th Anniversary of the National Health Service. To celebrate this achievement, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire is opening up a selection of departments for public access on Saturday 5th July, including the Clinical Education Centre. For further information on the history of the NHS the Health Service Journal have collated a special supplement in celebration - copy available in the Health Library. Additional informationcan be found on the NHS Scotland website or the NHS Choices with interactive timeline, photo gallery and forthcoming events.

From June 26th 2008 there will be no electronic access to the New England Journal of Medicine via the library login. The online access was originally created in the days of the old Medical Institute. The login distributed at the time was the administration login. This is now in breech of the modern NEJM electronic licence. Continuing use of the login may result in loss in provision of both print and electronic format by the publishers. The library does not have the necessary funds to provide the site licence required to maintain electronic access and no alternate access is available via either national NHS purchases or Keele subscription. The print copy will remain available at the library for viewing. NHS staff with departmental accounts may request a print copy of the article be posted internally to the department (this is charged as an interlibrary request at £1 per article). Unfortunately as an American journal, our current copyright licence does not permit articles to be scan...

Due to the increasing demands on the service and budget restraints, a new fee will be introduced for the renewal of interlibrary loans borrowed from the British Library. A couple of years ago the British Library started to charge for renewing loans £3.10 per renewal, which up until now the Library has managed to cover. A subsidised fee will be introduced of £1.00 per item per renewal. The ILL team will add this as a manual fee to the appropriate library record once confirmation of the renewal has been received by the British Library.

A new charity has been established to promote awareness of the rare genetic condition alkaptonuria. The Society has a advice centre based at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to support both patients and the medical profession. The condition is cause by the under production of the enzyme homogentisic acid oxidase which displays as ochronosis, a blue-black discoloration of connective tissue including bone, cartilage, and skin caused by deposits of ochre-colored pigment. Further information and research papers are available on the Alkapatonuria Society website .

From the 3rd August 2008, the Health Library and IT Suite will be open on Sundays from 1pm - 5pm. Please be aware that this will be a basic service with no librarians on duty. If you have any complex enquiries or problems, please contact the library by email or visit us or phone Monday to Saturday. No access will be available to the rest of the Clinical Education Centre.

The Health Library would like to welcome two new members of staff. Jayne Hickton ( jayne.hickton@northstaffs.nhs.uk ) will be replacing Marilyn Vigurs as the Outreach Librarian for the two primary care trusts, local social services and hospices. Jayne was previously a Community Librarian for Stoke-on-Trent Libraries with responsibility for Bentilee and Meir Libraries and is well versed in delivering library services within a community setting. Jayne is there to help people whom find it difficult to visit the Health Library directly. Further details of the service are available on the Health Library website . Tom Fallows ( t.j.fallows@lib.keele.ac.uk ) has joined the team as a new part-time library assistant, who will be staffing the new Sunday opening to be launched on 3rd August. Tom began working in libraries while studying for a Film degree at Plymouth College of Art & Design and has since worked at Hanley Library and several different bookshops within Stoke-on-Trent. Watch out ...

The Handbook of Practice Management is the latest key resource to be added locally to NHS Athens accounts. Full text can now be accessed online by visiting www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/hpm . Access is direct via computers in the Health Library, or by NHS Athens login elsewhere. The handbook is published by the Royal Society of Medicine, and details aspects of primary care organisations and teams, people management, issues relating to drug and information managament and finance. This resource is relevant to all staff employed in a primary care setting. The online version also contains additional links to further resources.

The Medical Search tool comprises of 3 medical information search packages that can integrate with Microsoft Office applications, windows desktop, as well as a secure document sharing tool. These tools can only be accessed through computers on the NHS network (N3). The tools have been developed through support from the National Library for Health and Connecting for Health, utilises a vast knowledge bank of credible sources such as the National Library of Health evidence based medicine, guidance, medical dictionary and specialist libraries, British National Formulary and Medicines.org.uk. The search tool sits in existing popular software and can provide NHS users with easy access to reliable medical information that is completely up-to-date. The NHS Medical Search project has developed three tools to do this: The Office Research pane The first uses a feature of Microsoft Office called the research task pane. An augmented version has been developed for the NHS that allows ...

The annual review of the Outreach Service is now available on the Outreach pages of the Health Library website. Find out about the recent activities to support staff in Public Health, Combined Healthcare and the Primary Care Trusts. The report provides key resources for people working in the community and details new developments in improving access to information, and training at the workplace.

Due to the number of uncollected article requests, the library will now require full payment for interlibrary loans at the time of ordering. The interlibrary loans system is a subsidised service. It has always been the written policy of the library to charge upfront for requests, but abuse of the system now means that the policy will now need to be enforced. Urgent requests will still be accepted by fax, phone or online submission, with payment on collection. Refunds will be provided for items that prove to be unobtainable. All uncollected or unpaid requests will be charged against the appropriate library record and may lead to a withdrawal of the service in the future.

Please help us maintain our high standard of service by considering what it is you are requesting. Here are a few helpful tips to save your own money and staff time: If the article is only 1 page, then generally it will be a letter, comment or poster abstract from a conference. The full research might not necessarily have been published. When performing a literature search, if a title is in brackets, then the full text is in a foreign language. All abstracts are published in English, but this doesn't mean the rest of the document is. Please check that the article is not published ahead of print. This is a premium rate service offered by publishers, but libraries generally don't have access until it has gone to print. If renewing a book loan from the British Library, please can you let the library know if it is required for a couple of days or a full renewal.

The Health Library will be resuming NHS literature searching training courses from the start of May, details and online booking available on the Health Library website . This course is now available to all Keele nursing and medical students, and supporting staff. Additional help sessions are also available for all Keele health faculty staff and students using the Ebsco database interface. Details on courses offered are on the Health Library website . Please contact the Library for further details on training in the workplace or one to one refresher sessions.

Access to NHS databases via Dialog Datastar has now been extended until 30th June. This will allow for the continuing development of the Search 2.0 interface and provide time for familiarisation. This is a development which is responsive to NHS needs, please contact Susan Smith (s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk) to report any problems or suggest improvements that can be made to Search 2.0.

The Health Library will be closed all day Monday 5th May.

From the end of May 2008 Dialog Datastar will no longer be the NHS access point to the health care databases. Dialog has prematurely removed the links to all full text articles from their database. The problem has been reported. This does not mean that the full text is not accessible! Please check library holdings through My Journals ( http://journals.library.nhs.uk/ ) for all current print and electronic access. Alternatively, from April 1st 2008 the new Search 2.0 interface was launched by the National Library for Health ( http://www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/ ). The new interface is designed to be more intuitive to use, maintain a stable familiar interface for accessing all NHS purchased bibliographic databases and be responsive to the needs of the NHS. Currently the database is still in the test phase, with several updates planned for the near future. Although still under review, full text links and documents can be accessed using this interface. Please contact Susan Smit...