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Keele Library Latest: Keele Research Repository and Catalogue Plus : This morning we launched another new feature in Catalogue Plus. Anything you put into the search box now searches across Keele's Researc...

Athens services are scheduled for maintenance 1 st July 2014 and 3 rd July 2014 between 07:00 am and 09:00 am UK time. This will mainly affect admin functions but may also impact on the user self-registration services.

Keele Library Latest: Dawson e-books - access restored : Access to our Dawsonera e-books seems to have restored after the problems they've been having. Please let us know if you notice any prob...

Keele Library Latest: Dawson e-books - current lack of access : Unfortunately there is currently no access to our Dawsonera ebooks. The platform providers, Dawson, are having severe problems with their co...

Keele Library Latest: Campus Library summer opening times : Friday 13th June is the end of the spring semester, so the Campus Library is now moving over to summer vacation opening times. The building ...

By 2035 it is estimated that the number of people living with diabetes will rise to 535 million. Over the last two years it has led to the deaths of between 1.5 and 5.1 million people world-wide. Diabetes UK is the UK’s leading diabetes charity and aims to care for, connect with and campaign on behalf of all people affected by and at risk of diabetes; reaching people with diabetes in local communities across the UK.   This year Diabetes Awareness Week falls between the 8 th and 14 th June. The theme is ‘i Can’. Diabetes UK are seeking stories from individuals living with diabetes. In doing so the goal is to raise awareness of the disease among the population of the UK in order to prevent its increase.  For further information please see: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/ http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Get_involved/Diabetes-Week/ RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES For anyone interested in diabetes and the management of diabetes, the Health Library offers numer...

From 30 May 2014 Map of Medicine's direct access has closed. You can access Map of Medicine within the North, Midlands and East region of England. You will need either your NHS Smartcard or your NHS Athens username and password. Map of Medicine provides access to a wide range of evidence-based pathways, including local care pathways where available. There is public access to national pathways via NHS Choices Map of Medicine Healthguides .

The Oxford Handbooks ebook collection has been updated to include new titles - Oxford handbook of: Children’s and Young People’s Nursing Clinical Skills in Adult Nursing Epidemiology for Clinicians Gastrointestinal Nursing Medical Statistics Midwifery (updated version) Pain Management eBooks can be accessed at any time and there are no fines. You can find more help on how to access ebooks via our Using eBooks etutorial or watch our video below:

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. New books include: A manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests / edited by Frances Talaska Fischbach, Marshall Barnett Dunning III Acute medicine in the frail elderly / Henry Woodford and James George Anaesthetics for junior doctors and allied professionals : the essential guide / edited by Daniel Cottle and Shondipon Laha Atlas of human brain connections / by Marco Catani, Michael Thiebaut de Schotten Clinical anatomy : applied anatomy for students and junior doctors / Harold Ellis, Vishy Mahadevan Communication skills in mental health care : an introduction / edited by Xavier Coll, Alexia Papageorgiou, Ann Stanley, Andrew Tarbuck Ross and Wilson anatomy and physiology in health and illness / Anne Waugh and Alison Grant The modern guide to GP consulting : six S for success / Alex Watson and David Gillespie The new politics of the NHS : from creation to rein...

As a part of the NHS pilot arranged by Jisc Collections, Springer is giving all NHS employees, and entitled personnel, free access to Springer´s medical and health content at health.springer.com until the 31st of October 2014. See here for instructions to access the titles .

Thanks to a pilot project being run by representatives in the UK academic sector, over a thousand ejournals are being made available to NHS users. You can read more about the pilot project here . All the ejournals can be accessed via our NHS Journals A-Z list . You can also browse through the list of titles via a spreadsheet on our website, go to our journals information page and click the link for the file NHS Pilot – Access to academic-licensed research . Most of the titles are only available via the NHS network; Science Direct and Springer titles included in the project are available via NHS Athens username / password. The pilot is expected to end 31 st October 2014.

It is now easier to find our Quick Reference collection and DVD collection. You’ll find them on our new bright red shelving unit in the centre of the rotunda. New shleving for the quick reference collection The Quick Reference collection includes dictionaries and thesauri – useful for finding all your relevant keywords and search terms. The DVD collection includes dvds for anatomy, communication skills and Spotting the Sick Child .

Please be advised that the Wiley Online Library and subsequently The Cochrane Library is currently planned to undergo scheduled maintenance on the weekend of the 7th June 2014 from 10:00am, for approximately 5 hours. The Cochrane Home page will be available but reviews and search functionality will be unavailable.

The Health Library will be closed for the Spring Bank Holiday, Monday 26 th May. Don’t forget our online resources are available 24/7

The Card Loader, for use with debit/credit cards, located in the photocopier room at the Health Library, has now been fixed and should be working as normal.

The Bedside Clinical Guidelines provide assistance for the consistent, evidence-based management of patients in acute hospital settings. They are published by The Bedside Clinical Guidelines Partnership and are used within the University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS). There are 7 titles in total. All are available as ebooks via the UHNS Intranet: Emergency Medicine guidelines Medical guidelines Neonatal guidelines Nursing guidelines Obstetric guidelines Paediatric guidelines Surgical guidelines We also hold print copies of the following: Neonatal guidelines (2013-15) Obstetric guidelines (2013-15) Paediatric guidelines (2013-14) A number of guideline sets are also available to Keele students on specific reading lists, via Keele’s KLE. You can find out more about this set of guidelines from our website .

The Card Loader, for use with debit/credit cards, located in the photocopier room at the Health Library, is currently out of order. You can use the cash loader to add money to your Keele or NHS Library card. Keele card holders can also add money to their card online . Apologies for the inconvenience caused. The problem has been reported to our provider.

There is planned maintenance, by the publishers, for Psychiatry Online today  Wednesday, 7 th May. Please be advised that the site/services will be periodically unavailable during this time. Apologies for any inconvenience.

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Here is a selection of new titles. New books include: Clinical procedures in primary eye care / David B. Elliott Clinical skills for OSCEs / Neel Burton Constructing grounded theory / Kathy Charmaz. Introduction to leadership : concepts and practice / Peter G. Northouse Nursing law and ethics / edited by John Tingle, Alan Cribb Oral radiology : principles and interpretation / edited by Stuart C. White, Michael J. Pharoah Oxford handbook of general practice / Chantal Simon, Hazel Everitt, Francoise Van Dorp, Matthew Burke Studying for your midwifery degree / by Siobhan Scanlan, Hilary Walker Succeeding in your medical school OSCEs / by Bhoresh Dhamija The Foundation Programme at a glance / Stuart Carney, Derek Gallen New ebooks include: Advanced practice nursing : core concepts for professional role development / [edited by] Michaelene P. Jansen, Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher Cardiac nursi...

Places are going fast for the Health Literacy C onference on 20th June 2014 at Keele Hall. Further information can be found on the UK Health Literacy Group’s website or contact Sue Weir (s.weir@keele.ac.uk) for details.