Health Library News

Some new books have been added to the NHS Core content collection, which is accessible by the NHS Athens account. Clinician's Guide to Think Good-Feel Good, A: Using CBT with children and young people. Wiley, 2005. Multidisciplinary Handbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health for Front-line Professionals, A . Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009 Clinical Interviewing. Wiley,2009. Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management . Humana Press, 2009. Medical Statistics from Scratch: An Introduction for Health Professionals. Wiley, 2008. Full list of e-books can be searched here for the NHS . Keele titles are linked to the Library catalogue (please use Material Type in the Advanced Search to limit your search to online books).

The National Core Content has now extended the subscription to Zetoc: Table of Contents alert service until July 2010. This service is operated by the British Library. It will email a list of article titles available in the latest issue of a journal and is particularly useful for titles with poor or no websites and foreign titles. There is also a handy tool for check citations. Zetoc can also be accessed using Keele Athens login. To find out more about current awareness techniques, please book on to one of the library run courses .

The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that aims to facilitate high standards of reporting in health research publications. The website pulls together all available guidelines for reporting various types of health research studies, guidance on scientific writing and examples of good reporting practice. There is information on the website suitable for medical authors, journal editors and peer reviewers.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.207 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as depression, post-traumatic stress and social work amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

The SNOMED browser for clinical coding terms will shortly be removed from the NHS Athens listings. Connection for Health has taken the step to develop their own registration system. Please visit Connecting for Health website for further information or click here to register .

This list of local articles was compiled from a monthly update searching HMIC, AMED, BNI, CINAHL, Embase, Medline and PsychInfo. Please note that contents of list are selected on the basis of date catalogued on the database, not the publication date. The list is also subject to the publication timeline of the journal, this may not always correspond with the month it states. April Clark AJ; Hughes N; Chisti F. Traumatic extrathoracic lung herniation . British Journal of Radiology, April 2009, vol./is. 82/976(e82-4), 1748-880X. Local affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent. Local access: NHS Athens , Print copy held in Library Ho M; Garau G; Walley G; Oliva F; Panni AS; Longo UG; Maffulli N. Minimally invasive dynamic hip screw for fixation of hip fractures . International Orthopaedics, April 2009, vol./is. 33/2(555-60), 1432-5195. Local affiliation: Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Keele University School of Medicin...

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.206 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as addictions, alzheimer’s and schizophrenia amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

The library has now started issuing items to Medical Students over the summer holidays. Please note that all books are still subject to recall if there is a waiting list. It is best not to take items with you if planning to travel any great distance, in order to prevent complications and accruing fines if items are recalled. All recall notices are sent to your Keele email address. Please remember to check you email on a regular basis. To benefit from the extended loan, please renew items either by calling the library on (01782) 556577 or by visiting the library in person. Medical students can not currently use the online renewal services for extending loan periods.

If you request an item from the library, notification that it is available for collection is now automatically sent out by email. Items will only be placed aside for collection for a maximum of 7 days. It is therefore essentially that you remember to check your email on a regular basis and don't place stock reservations requests on order prior to going on holiday. All Keele staff and student notifications will be sent automatically to their Keele email address. NHS staff need to confirm contact details with a member of library staff. Please remember to notify us if there is a change of email address.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.205 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as Down's Syndrome, Dementia and new publications amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Please note that from today there has been a change of web address for NHS access to the SNOMED browser. New address: https://www.uktcregistration.nss.cfh.nhs.uk/trud/ The new link has now been updated on the Athens portal. Re-registration and acceptance of licences may be required. SNOMED is the search interface for Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms . It relates to common computerised language which is used by all computers in the NHS to facilitate communications between healthcare professionals in clear and unambiguous terms.

Keele access to the Netskills training resources will end 17th May. Netskills is a package of downloadable learning materials for complete courses from basic use of the Internet, basic programming skills to e-learning techniques and working with social networking. All courses can be fully downloaded as ZIP files until this date.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.203 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as learning disabilities, schizophrenia and social work amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

As a result of the Hill Report , the National Library for Health (NLH) has recently under gone a merger with NICE to form NHS Evidence. The new simple NHS Evidence search is designed with a Google-like interface with numerous options for refinement of results. Further developments to the site are expected throughout the year. In the meantime it will be running in tandem with the new rebranded NLH website . Currently this site is open to all, but some material will later be hidden behind the NHS Athens login. Please contact the Health Library to enquire about update training, or book onto our Health Information on the Internet course to find out more. Please remember that there is a dedicated Outreach team to support community based training in the workplace. Further information: Press launch article

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis. Additional DynaMed clinical evidence summaries can be accessed through the DynaMed link under the Clinical Knowledge Summaries . DynaMed is normally a subscribed resource (American bias), which has been made freely available in the UK only when linking through the Clinical Knowledge Summaries. Additional evaluated information is being added to the Intute website, please click here to view the latest articles and podc...

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.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.202 is now available and can be viewed by clicking here . The bulletin is designed to provide current awareness updates for mental health and social care services covering areas such as anxiety, depression and psychology amongst others. Newsletter produced by Eastern Counties Library and Knowledge Services Alliance. Content covers updates from the Department of Health, national and international news and condition specific updates. Useful conferences and websites are also listed.

Currently there appears to be a problem accessing NHS nationally purchased online books through the National Library for Health . Alternate access is available through MyiLibrary . Please remember to login using your NHS Athens account. The problem has been reported and is currently under investigation. Edit: This problem has now been resolved

Please note that the Library will be closed Monday 4th May. Normal opening hours will operate on the Saturday and Sunday.

Please note that from today the self issues machines on the main campus library site, can be used for the return of items. Please ask local library staff for any assistance if required.