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Edit: These problems have now been resolved and there should be full access to Medline. A number of problems have been reported this morning in relation to the NHS Search 2.0 databases. The following issues have been reported to NHS Evidence and are under investigation: * No access to Medline * Embase slow to display results or timing out * Problems re-running a search on a different database * De-duplication not returning appropriate results If you encounter any problems, please take a screen shot (press Prt Scrn button and paste into a word document) and email to s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk (tel: 01782 556581). It is useful to know if you are at work or home, what database you were in when the error occurred and what were the preceeding search steps. If the problem persist the alternate solutions are * Request a literature search from the library. * Use the Library IT Suite to search the Ebsco Databases (available through Keele walk-in access) * Use PubMed search (t...

Click here to access bulletin. This bulletin is produced by the North Staffordshire NHS Outreach Library and Information Service for Primary Care Trusts in North Staffordshire. It aims to draw attention to some of the key documents and reviews on clinical effectiveness that have been published in the previous month. Sources covered include NHS Evidence, Bandolier, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund. A list of additional Public Health and Primary Care updates produced locally is also provided. Full text links to documents refer to subscriptions accessible to NHS staff in North Staffordshire. To find out more on how to access local online journals please click here.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.225 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 national news, anxiety 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 developed a joint area with the Main Campus Library to host useful resources to improve your information skills including help with literature searching, current awareness, evaluating information and guides to finding journals and books. All new undergraduates now be able to view the Library area as a course in their MyWebCT page. Changes to enrollment procedures may have affected people who were manually enrolled over the last two years. If you have a problem, please contact Susan Smith (s.w.smith@lib.keele.ac.uk) to regain access to these useful library links and resources.

PubMed is currently trialling a new interface . Further information on the redesign can be accessed here . Please note that you can view which articles can be accessed either through your NHS Athens account or are available in the Health Libray, by using the special link available on the Health Library website .

The Trip Database is a high quality database which supports clinicians in evidence based research. New features have recently been added as part of the latest upgrade including an e-portfolio to assist reflective learning, links to BMJ's doc2doc forum , better linking to medical images and faster searching. Further information on the latest update is available here .

Edit: This issue has now been resolved At present there appears to be an issue with exporting references from the Ebsco databases to RefWorks. Both companies are aware of the issue and are currently working to resolve the matter. No further problems exist to accessing either the Databases or RefWorks. Edit: This issue is affecting all Ebsco folders and not just the Keele link to RefWorks.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.224 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 national news, anxiety 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 Department of Health issues a number of current awareness bulletins aimed at different groups within the NHS. Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin - Information includes: modernising nursing careers, swine flu update, essence of care, prescribing rights for nurses. Additional bulletins include: Allied Health Professions Bulletin Chief Dental Officer Bulletin Chief Scientific Officer Bulletin Children, Families and Maternity Bulltin Emergency Care Bulletin Equality and Human Rights Bulleitn GP Bulletin Medical Director's Bulletin Social Care Bulletin FOr further information on Department of Health updates, please visit the news section of the website.

The recent monthly updates on staff publications from the NHS in North Staffordshire and the health related branches of Keele University has now moved to a new format. Please visit the publications section of the Health Library website to find out the latest additions and view published research from the start of the year. All comments on the new format are glady appreciated. Please contact the library if you have additional publications which you would like to see added to the list.

The Health Library is now offering a laminating service. Charges as follows: 20p per A4 sheet 50p per A3 sheet Please ask at the counter for further information.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.222 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 national news, anxiety 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.

MireSoft has recently released a new free referencing tool for PubMed called Cite Smart . Cite Smart allows you to build your own reference library from PubMed, search PubMed direct from your Word document and will insert references as appropriate. To find out more, or to download Cite Smart, click here .

The library catalogue has had another series of improvement added. Now if the book isn't available, you can hit the show similar items buttons for further suggestions. Click on the picture of the book to view the table of contents or read reviews of the book. Whne you click on a book title, to view it's availability, check at the bottom of the page for a selected list of similar titles ( click here to view example record) or if the item is available in a different format e.g. newer edition or as a CD ROM. Other new features include the tag cloud. This is a new way of searching the catalogue. Tags are keywords which anyone can add, as opposed to subject terms which operate on a very strict controlled thesaurus for choosing terms. Unfortunately the ability of users to add their own tags has not yet been added. In a tag cloud the most popular keywords are displayed in a bolder, larger font style e.g. medicine is more popular than medical as a term. Clicking on the term will...

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.221 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, depression 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.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.220 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 national news, depression 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 2009 AEU on hepatitis B and C is now available in the NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases specialist collection . NHS Evidence Annual Evidence Updates (AEUs) attempt to draw together recently published, high quality evidence - focusing particularly on systematic reviews and published guidelines - which it is hoped will inform and enhance the decision making and planning of clinicians, commissioners and others involved in the process of health care. For this Hepatitis B and C AEU updating last year's work, a detailed literature search from 2008-2009 identified 408 potential pieces of evidence (see methods for retrieving and evaluating the evidence for more information). Following a process of filtering and peer review (with thanks to the reviewers listed below) 46 of these form the basis of this AEU.

Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin No.219 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 dementia, 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.

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. February Cherkin D.; Kovacs F.M.; Croft P.; Borkan J.; Foster N.E.; Oberg B.; Urrutia G.; Zamora J. The ninth international forum for primary care research on low back pain. Spine, February 2009, vol./is. 34/3(304-307), 0362-2436;1528-1159. Local affiliation: Primary Care Musculoskeletal Research Centre, Keele University, Staffordshire Local access: Keele Athens , Print copy held in Library Crome I. New impetus to aim 'higher, faster, stronger'. Addiction, February 2009, vol./is. 104/2(174-176), 0965-2140;1360-0443. Local affiliation: Department of Addiction Psychiatry, Keele University School of Medicine H...

Over the summer months we have been increasing the number of books available in an electronic format, including a new selection of books hosted on Dawsonera . All locally purchased e-books have now been added to the library catalogue . Look out for the computer icon and click on the web address to read the book online. With the exception of the NetLibrary collection (Keele only - look for netlibrary in the web address), most books should be available by logging in via a Keele or local NHS Athens account. Additional nationally purchased items accessible to NHS Athens users can be searched through the NLH e-books page and the local NHS purchased book the Handbook of Practice Management . These items have not been added to the Library catalogue. For further information on e-books, please visit our online guide .