Health Library News

The access route for the ejournals available from the Royal Society of Medicine has changed. The full-text is now available to our NHS users via your Athens username / password. This covers the following titles: Clinical Risk Health Services Management Research Journal of Medical Screening Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine These titles are now available to NHS users at UHNS, Combined Healthcare, North Staffs PCT and Stoke-on-Trent PCT. Please see the entry on the NHS My Journals list for details. You can access the NHS My Journals list using your Athens username and password.

The access route for the ejournal Radiology has changed. The full-text is now available to our UHNS NHS users via a username and password. Please see the entry on the NHS My Journals list for details. You can access the NHS My Journals list using your Athens username and password.

New online guides are available from NHS Evidence to help you to use the NHS Evidence search engine and the NHS Evidence Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS) . You can find links to the guides on the Databases page of our Online Tutorials section

The access route for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has changed. The full-text is now available to our NHS users via a new username and password. Please see the entry on the NHS My Journals list for details. You can access the NHS My Journals list using your NHS Athens username and password.

I am currently reviewing the access routes for NHS eJournals in order to move more access to Athens or username/password, where possible, and away from network-only (IP) access. This will require some entries on the NHS MyJournals list to be amended which may take sometime. The changes should result in more flexible access to e-content for our users. If you experience any problems accessing any of our NHS eJournals during this time please inform me – the eResources Librarian . Your patience is appreciated.

The new schedule of training courses held at the Health Library is now available. You can sign-up to learn about: Health Information on the Internet Literature Searching using Databases Cochrane Library Critical Appraisal Refworks These courses are available free to our NHS users and Keele staff and students. Book online to reserve your place.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.303, Monday 20th June 2011 please click here

If you are having problems accessing our NHS subscribed ejournals then check out our eJournals for NHS Users help page. This list some tips and hints to help you to get access successfully.

The Healthcare Resources page for NHS users has been updated to include the links to the new NHS Evidence Journals & Databases resources. Here you can get access to NHS subscribed databases, journals and ebooks Health Library subscribed resources like BMJ Case Reports and Medicines Complete A variety of freely available healthcare resources for reports and reviews

Social care workers are reminded that they can apply for a SCIE (Social Care Institute for Education) Athens username. This will help you to access Social Care Online Full-text for journal articles subscribed to by SCIE Databases such as CINAHL and PsychInfo eBooks Access is available via your SCIE Athens username from any computer whether at home or work. Please see the SCIE Athens website for more details, how to register and a  full list of resources available.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.302 please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.301 please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.300 please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.299 please click here

Please note that Summer Vacation Opening Hours are now in operation at the Campus Library.

Eduserv will be carrying out maintenance to the Athens systems during Tuesday 14th June. This may affect services including access to resources and Athens registrations for short periods. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Prices for withdrawn books have been slashed! Check out the sales trolley for textbooks and reference books. Why not pick something up for your summer-reading?

You can now access the Health Library news blog from your mobile phone. Just link to the blog web address http://hlnews.blogspot.com or scan in the QR code below.  You can then check out the latest Health Library news while you are on the move.

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 health inequalities which have been published in the previous two months. Sources covered include: NHS Evidence, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.

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, Department of Health, Cochrane Library and King's Fund.

You can now access the journal Brain online using your Athens username and password. This is applicable for NHS organisations: University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS North Staffordshire NHS Stoke-on-Trent North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust To logon, click the “log in” link on the publisher’s page and follow the Athens links until you are asked for your Athens username and password. You can also access the journal via the Journals list – see our Journals page for more details.

The Health Library has been updating its book collection recently and the older stock is now available on the Sales trolley for you to buy. Why not check it out to see if you can pick up a bargain?

The new look Sasha website is launched today. Here you can find out all about the health libraries in Shropshire and Staffordshire that are here to help you – useful to know if you are going on placement. Explore the website or ask at the helpdesk if you want to know more. Let us know what you think about the site and you could win a kindle or other goodies – go to the online survey from the homepage or pick up a survey from the Health Library .

Springer press release : Springer are offering temporary free access to journals articles releating to E. coli bacteria . Browse the articles Current information on the E. coli bacteria at the Robert Koch Institute

All library books subject to the annual recall must be returned by the 10th June. You may renew your books for the next academic year, but if you wish to do this the books must be returned on the library system first. Internet or telephone renewals are not allowed. You may access your own record via the library system

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue this month. Titles include: A clinician's brief guide to the Mental Health Act / Tony Zigmond Caregiver stress and staff support in illness, dying and bereavement / edited by Irene Renzenbrink Introductory guide to NHS finance in the UK Long-term conditions: a guide for nurses and healthcare professionals / Sue Randall and Helen Ford Instrumentation for the operating room: a photographic manual / Shirley M. Tighe New ebooks available include: Doing your research project: a guide for first-time researchers in education, health and social science / By Judith Bell . Patient and public involvement toolkit / by Julia Cartwright, Sally Crowe editors, Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera, Douglas Badenoch . Core clinical cases in obstetrics and gynaecology: a problem-solving approach / By Janesh K. Gupta, Gary Mires, Khalid S. Khan . Key debates in health care / By Gary Taylor and Helen Hawley . Writing your nursing portf