Health Library News

The kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders specialist collection has launched the latest Annual Evidence Update today for the 2011 Annual Evidence Update on Male Urinary Incontinence .

To read the Mental Health and Social Care current awareness bulletin, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care current awareness bulletin, please click here

The lists of articles published by local NHS and Keele healthcare staff have been updated to include articles published during last year. You can view the staff publications lists to find out what our local researchers are doing. If you have any comments or wish any items to be added then please get in touch with the eResources Librarian .

Students are reminded that the Campus Library and IT suite will be open as follows: Saturday 8 January  – Friday 21 January 2011 The building will open at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday 8 January 2011 and will remain open until 10.00 p.m. on Saturday 22 January 2011 Campus opening hours are available here .

Users are reminded to return all items borrowed from the Campus Short Loan Collection to the Campus Library to avoid any fines. Please see news from the Campus Library for more information.

New guides have been added to the Health Library website to help you to get to grips with some of our resources. These include step-by-step guides to help you to: Learn about your Keele Athens account Register for your NHS Athens account Find eJournals on the Keele University A-Z list Find Journals on the NHS Evidence My Journals A-Z list Search using the Ebsco databases Search using the NHS Evidence HDAS databases You can find more guides and tutorials to help you to use our resources on our Online Tutorials and Support web pages Don’t forget that if you need more help you can sign-up to one of our training sessions

CASH is the Current Awareness Service for Health run as a collaborative service by Health Librarians across the country. It provides a database of literature relating to primary care, secondary care and mental health, and aims to identify literature generally published outside the main journals. You can: Search the database Browse the topic feeds You can sign-up to the RSS Feeds in order to view updates on a regular basis.

You can view the latest new items that have been added to the library catalogue during December, including: Against the odds: black and minority ethnic clinicians and Manchester, 1948 to 2009 / Emma L. Jones and Stephanie J. Snow (2010) Dementia / David Ames, Alistair Burns, John O'Brien (2010) Handbook of nurse anesthesia / John J. Nagelhout, Karen L. Plaus (2010) Operative oral and maxillofacial surgery / John D. Langdon, Mohan F. Patel, Robert A. Ord, Peter A. Brennan (2011) Rheumatology evidence-based practice for physiotherapists and occupational therapists / Edited by Krysia Dziedzic and Alison Hammond (2010) Secrets of success: getting into GP training / Jasdeep Gill (2010) Smoking cessation / Robert West, Saul Shiffman (2007)

A number of the Oxford Handbooks relating to medical subjects are now available online: Handbook for the Foundation Programme (2nd ed) Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis (2nd ed) Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills Handbook of Clinical Specialties (8th ed) Handbook of Clinical Surgery (3rd ed) Handbook of Geriatric Medicine Handbook of Neurology Handbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (2nd ed) Handbook of Paediatrics Handbook of Psychiatry (2nd ed) You will need your Athens username in order to access them.

The new training schedule for Jan Mar 2011 has been released. You can check out all the courses and dates available from leaflets within the Library and the training pages on the website. This year we have 2 new courses: Finding the Evidence Refresh your Information Skills If you need any help check out our website    or contact one of the training and information support librarians

Click here to access the 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. 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.

If you are planning to visit the Health Library over the Christmas period please be aware of our reduced opening hours . Remember that you can still access all our online resources - see the Quick Links on the Health Library home page.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no.279, please click here

To read the Mental health and social care bulletin no.278 13th December, please click here

The Annual Evidence Update on Headache is now available from the Neurological Conditions Specialist Collection website . The project team has carried out a systematic literature search on Headache to identify all high level evidence published since the date of the last Headache AEU in 2009, including guidelines, systematic reviews, health technology assessments and economic evaluations. Leading headache experts from around the UK have read and appraised these for their validity and relevance to the busy clinician. A list of the papers deemed worthy of inclusion, along with expert commentaries by our reviewers, is freely available on the site .

The University has recently purchased a number of ebooks to help students with their revision: Akunjee, N.  (2009). The easy guide to OSCEs for final year medical students  Mann, I.  (2009).  The finalist’s guide to passing the OSCE   Patel, K. (2006).  Complete revision notes for medical finals   Sritharan, (2007).  Essential OSCE topics for medical and surgical finals   We have also purchased Bottomley & Rymer’s 100 Clinical cases in obstetrics and gynaecology (2008) 100 Clinical cases in obstetrics and gynaecology   You will need your Athens username and password in order to access any ebook.

Please note that the Keele University Campus Library will have extended opening hours during the exam period in January next year. Check their opening hours web page for more details.

The Current Awareness pages on the website have been updated to include a number of links to health-related news sources. These include general news and RSS feeds as well as major sources for bulletins. New help links have been added to the Alerts & Zetoc page to help you set up your own alerts against NHS Evidence Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) or the Zetoc database.

If you are planning to visit the Health Library over the Christmas period please be aware of our reduced opening hours . Remember that you can still access all our online resources - see the Quick Links on the Health Library home page.