Health Library News

Well, we are a joint NHS / University library and we have lots of services and resources especially for our NHS staff. Find out more about how the Health Library can support you and your work by taking our new etutorial Supporting NHS Staff. You can find a link on our Getting Started page . Have a go and let us know what you think – complete the feedback form at the end of the tutorial.

Just a reminder that we will be closed for Bank Holiday Monday 30th May 2016.  You can still   access online resources via the website .

Have you tried our new etutorial Using the Health Library yet? Explore our facilities, services and resources via the interactive map Watch our toe-tapping short video Test yourself on our drag and drop quiz Complete a reflection document at the end to save to your portfolio Have a go! There is an opportunity at the end of the tutorial to complete a feedback form, so let us know what you think.

The Health Library will be closed for Bank Holiday Monday 30th May 2016. You can still access online resources via the website .

Many of our popular Oxford Handbooks are available online You can find the list of titles online and link to them via our ebooks webpage . You will need your NHS Athens username / password or your Keele computer username / password to read the full-text. For more help on how to access ebooks check out our etutorial Using eBooks

The Health Library is here to support nurses completing their revalidation – whether it’s a quiet spot to gather your thoughts or help finding online articles, there is lots that we can do for you. You can find help on our support page . We are also promoting help that we find elsewhere on our Information Skills for Health blog . Try our new etutorial – Supporting NHS Staff – to learn about all the different ways the library can help.

Information Skills for Health: New eTutorials Coming Soon! : We have been busy updating our etutorials. They are still short, bite-sized online learning modules but have been improved: :: Resiza...

University Hospitals of North Midlands have changed their email address structure. Thus our UHNM users will find that their uhns email addresses have now become uhnm email addresses. As I understand it emails with your old address will still be received at your new address but presumable at some point in the future this will be changed. Unfortunately there is no way for us to globally update users email addresses on our eresource-related systems. How might this impact on your access to online resources? NHS Athens Your NHS Athens account will be listed with the email address that you registered with. You need to update this to your new uhnm email address. Log on to your account and click the change email address option on the left-hand-side. Why? Athens will email you to remind you to renew your username prior to it expiring. If Athens does not have your active address you may miss the reminder and your username could expire, so preventing you from accessing r...

Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out the “New Books” display in the library. New books include: Artist or Madman?: a gripping anthology from a bipolar mind ? Kerry Valkyrie Baldock Kelly Basic steps in planning nursing research : from question to proposal / Marilynn J. Wood, Janet C. Ross-Kerr Clinical tuberculosis : a practical handbook / edited by Peter D.O. Davies, Peter Barnes, Stephen B. Gordon Diagnosis of Non-accidental Injury / edited by Vincent J Palusci, Dena Nazer, Patricia O Brennan Effective leadership : a cure for the NHS? / Denise Chaffer Essential microbiology for wound care / edited by Valerie Edwards-Jones Gray's anatomy : the anatomical basis of clinical practice / editor-in-chief, Susan Standring Issues in public health / edited by Fiona Sim and Martin McKee Lupus: the essential clinician's guide / Daniel J. Wallace Management teams : why they succeed or fail / ...

The Health Library has got a new video showcasing our facilities, services and resources – two and half minutes of toe-tapping joy. Why not check it out before visiting the library or use it in your Keele or NHS inductions.

The Health Library will be closed Monday May 2nd for the May Bank Holiday. Remember that you can still access online resources via our website .

All our NHS users can access journals online via the NHS Journals A-Z list. The collection that you have access to will vary depending on your NHS organisation. All users can access the NHS Core Content collection. You may be able to access more titles if we have purchased them for you. To check which journals you can access: Go to the Health Library Journals page Click the link NHS Journals (login now) Log in with your NHS Athens username Search for the journal title you are looking for Screen-shot of NHS Journals search page For more help accessing NHS journals online see our NHS Journals help page .

Keele Library Latest: Announcing a Library Fines Amnesty – Paving the wa... : From 11th April until the end of semester , we are offering a fines amnesty*. We would really encourage you to use this as an opportunity t... This fines amnesty applies to NHS staff as well as Keele students. Remember that fines will still be applied to items that have been recalled.

Information Skills for Health: Welcome to the Information Skills for Health Blog : Welcome to our new blog: Information Skills for Health. Here you will find short bite-sized simple tips and tricks, resource feat...

Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out the “New Books” display in the library. New books include: Critical thinking and writing for nursing students / Bob Price and Anne Harrington Dementia care at a glance / Catharine Jenkins, Laura Ginesi, Bernie Keenan General surgery: Lecture notes / Harold Ellis, Sir Roy Calne, Christopher Watson How to succeed on primary care and community placements / David Pearson and Sandra Nicholson John Bowlby and attachment theory / Jeremy Holmes Medical-surgical nursing at a glance / Ian Peate Psychology : the science of mind and behaviour / Richard Gross. Public health nursing : population-centered health care in the community / [edited by] Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster Using patient reported outcomes to improve health care / John Appleby, Nancy Devlin and David Parkin New eBooks include: 53 interesting ways to communicate your research [electron...

We have a wide range of books in our popular mentorship collection. You can find T he Nurse Mentor's Handbook: supporting students in clinical practice (Walsh) at classmark RT 86 45 W2 as well as online as an ebook .

The Opening Hours for the Health Library will be reduced over the Easter holiday as follows: Good Friday March 25 th       9 am - 5 pm Saturday March 26 th             9 am - 5 pm Easter Sunday March 27 th   **CLOSED** Easter Monday March 28 th   9 am - 5 pm Online resources    will be available 24/7 and you can    renew your books online .

We are currently experiencing problems accessing our ejournal titles, delivered via the Wiley platform, from the NHS A-Z list. We are investigating the issue and hope to resolve it shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

If you are completing a research project or starting your dissertation then we have lots of books to help you; such as Understanding Nursing Research by Grove et al . You'll find this on the shelf at classmark RT 81 5 G7.

Here is an opportunity to share your thoughts about Medicines Complete with the publisher. Medicines Complete is one of our most used resources so I hope you can take the opportunity to let them know what you think about it. Complete the short survey from Medicines Complete for your chance to win £75 worth of Amazon vouchers! The deadline for completing the survey is March 31st 2016. Click here to get started