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Want to find information quickly? Need to brush up on your literature searching skills? Why not  book yourself onto one of our training courses ? Health Library training courses are presented by qualified librarians, usually to small groups and offer you plenty of time for hands-on practice. Our courses include opportunities to: ·                   Get help finding the right information via the Internet ·                   Learn how to conduct a literature search and use our databases to get information quickly ·                   Find high-level good quality systematic reviews and evidence summaries using the Cochrane Library and similar resources ·          ...

The Health Library will be closed for the Bank Holiday, on Monday 28th August 2017.

Ovid will be carrying out maintenance of their services over the next few days: Thursday 24th August Saturday 26th August Monday 28th August This may impact on access to our Ovid resources for short periods, in particular: Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) database eJournals hosted by Ovid Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Here at the Health Library we support NHS staff working for our partner organisations: University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership (SSoTP) Stoke on Trent Clinical Commissioning Group North Staffs Clinical Commissioning Group Stoke on Trent Public Health We have more than just books to help support your work. With your library card you will be able to: Borrow items from the library (we have DVDs as well as books) Request Inter-Library Loans Request a Literature Search Book on a training course Access the Keele network via walk-in access Learn about what we do from our video Why don’t you come along and join. Complete our application form and bring it with your NHS ID to the library counter. For access to our online resources make sure that you register for an NHS Athens username .

The painters have finished and the IT suite is now available for use.

Develop your information skills and learn how to complete a literature search – our Information Skills etutorials can help Our Information Skills etutorials are short, interactive tutorials that help you to develop the skills you need to find information effectively. Start with an Introduction to Literature Searching – complete the starter search plan for your project or assignment. Then go on and complete more etutorials to improve your search skills . You can learn: How to identify your question clearly Use the PICO tool Find information effectively Evaluate Information How to find critical appraisal tools You can complete and save our etutorial reflection document to keep a record for your eportfolio. Here is a quick taster of the skills you can develop:

The IT suite next to the library will be closed for maintenance from Monday 14th August. Hopefully it will be available again before Friday 18th August. This is so that painting can be completed. The IT training room will be made available where possible to allow staff and students to access computers on the Keele network. Note, however: there will be NO access to the NHS network there will be NO self-service printing, please add your documents to a memory stick and then bring this to the counter where staff can print out for you Note that Keele students can use the IT facilities available at Campus. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

If you are not sure how to find or use our online resources, then try our Getting Started etutorials . You’ll learn how to get access, how to search and how to access full-text. eTutorials are available for our most popular online resources, both Keele and NHS. Most are very short; you can jump to the section you need and most include either step-by-step instructions or video demonstrations. You can learn how to: Use Dynamed to find evidence-based information Search Clinical Key and learn about all its different features Find systematic reviews on the Cochrane Library Find articles and journals Search our popular bibliographic databases Access ebooks All our etutorials allow you to download and save our etutorial reflection document which you can add to your portfolio.

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Breastfeeding and breastfeeding awareness was first celebrated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action in 1992; and in recent years has continued to be celebrated in more than 120 countries by the UNICEF, WHO and their participants such as individuals, associations and governments. The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action also worked hard to promote the comprehensive breastfeeding culture worldwide by providing the support deemed missing in order to raise the health benefits associated with breastfeeding for both the mother and infant. 2016 saw the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action begin their 15 year journey to achieve the sustainable development goals; which call for multi-sectorial collaboration between all services who come into contact with breastfeeding mothers and infants, in the hopes of one day demonstrating just how important breastfeeding is in tackling global problems such as hunger, inequality and poverty as it is argued by some that this natural act coul...

Pharmaceutical Press have developed a new and improved app for the BNF (British National Formulary) and BNFc (British National Formulary for Children) . It is a single app that allows you to switch between the BNF and BNFc. Features are listed as: Offline browsing and searching of content of the BNF and BNFC The ability to switch between adult and child content Autocomplete search with navigation panes for treatment summaries, drug monographs and medicinal products Powerful interactions checker Clinical content updated every month Update notifications when a new update is available Optimised for smart phones and tablets You do not need an NHS Athens username in order to access the new app. You can learn more from the BNF & BNFc App FAQs provided by the publisher . The existing NICE BNF & BNFc app will no longer be updated and is likely to be withdrawn by the end of the year.

The photocopiers we have provided by our NHS partners will be replaced due to changes in supplier. Coin Operated Photocopier This is expected to be out of action from today (Friday 14 th July). Please come to the counter if you need to pay for your photocopying with cash. NHS-Supplied Photocopiers These are located on the left-hand-side in the photocopying room. These will be removed at a future date and eventually replaced from new suppliers. Keele-Supplied Photocopier This is the photocopier on the right-hand-side in the photocopying room. There is no change to this machine. It will accept payment from both Keele cards and NHS library membership cards.

We have a range of core textbooks to help support junior doctors starting out in clinical practice. All these titles are available to UHNM staff via Clinical Key ebooks: Goldman-Cecil Medicine   Gray's Anatomy   Macleod Clinical Examination   Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Procedures Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine Churchill's Pocketbook of Differential Diagnosis Ferri's Color Atlas and Text of Clinical Medicine Ferri’s Practical Guide: Fast Facts for Patient Care Pediatric Clinical Skills Pediatric Decision-Making Strategies 2017 Intravenous Medications Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology To access Clinical Key log in using your NHS Athens username / password . You can then search for an ebook title . Many ebooks can be read offline. To be able to download ebook chapters to read, you need to activate your account . You can learn...

We have been made aware of the following Keele IT maintenance that may affect computer access: "This note concerns the second set of tests to be conducted on Saturday July 15th. Some disruption will be experienced between 07:00 and the early evening. On July 15th these systems should continue to function: Google mail and associated GSuite features KLE SCIMS and eVision Staff and student printing Keele People Eduroam and visitor wifi University web site Library systems including self-issue devices Campus telephones Any externally hosted systems Some local S: drive and network filestore Services which will be out of action on July 15th: Some local S: drive and network filestore Some commercial and business systems Some disruption to PC logins There may be some temporary disruption during these days as services switch over. IT:Connect will be open in the [Campus] Library on the day if there are any enquiries. In addition we will use Twitter on the day using @keelesystems. If you wi...

Due to a change in the association between SSoTP and SSSFT Library and Knowledge Service, the EBL ebooks collection is no longer available to SSoTP Athens users. eBooks are still available via the Health Library catalogue Library Search .

You can access the library’s extensive collection of ebooks online. We include many of our popular titles as ebooks. eBooks: are accessible 24/7 do not need to be requested do not incur fines are a good option if working away from the CEC Most of our ebooks are accessible via the Library Search catalogue. Here’s how to find an ebook… Find an ebook on Library Search Go to Library Search and select the “Search Books and More” tab, enter your search terms and click the search button. Your search results will be presented below the search box. To limit the results to ebooks only, select the filter option “Full Text Online”. Screen-shot of Library Search results The results are now limited to ebooks only. To read a book online select the option “View Online”. Note that if we have more than 1 version of a book (ie more than 1 edition) you will need to click the option “View 2 versions” first. Screen-shot of ebooks on Library Search Access an e...

We have changed our subscription to the Ebsco Medline database from the "Complete" version to the "Full-Text" version. Note: You may now not be able to access the full-text of some ejournals you used before The Full-text version does not mean that all journals it contains are available as current full-text journals You can access all NHS subscribed resources from our healthcare Resources web page .

Keele Library Latest: Maintenance work on Proquest databases and RefWork... : Our suppliers have notified us that they will be doing some maintenance work on the Proquest databases and RefWorks reference-management s...

Health Information Week is an annual campaign to improve access to health information. Staff from local authorities, public libraries, NHS, voluntary sector, independent information and advice centres have all been working together to make their health resources more available to the public. In most areas your local libraries and information centres will have extra health information available, leaflets for you to take away or sessions to show you how to use the computer to find good quality health information. For more information about Health Information week, please visit the Knowledge for Healthcare Website: http://kfh.libraryservices.nhs.uk/patient-and-public-information/health-information-week/ RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES   For anyone studying the importance of improving access to health information, the Health Library offers numerous resources related to this subject. In the lists below you’ll find our most popular items, information on materials recently...