NEW BOOKS!!!

How exciting is that!

Electronic Books

The library now has fulltext access to all the Oxford Handbooks (medical and nursing) and the Emergencies in... series. You can access them by going to http://oxfordmedicine.com/ and logging in to the website with your NHS Athens username and password. Please contact the library if you do not have an Athens account.

Physical Books

Recently we have been awarded some funding for books for medical students and many of these books will also be of interest to staff. For instance we have now bought any 2010 / 2011 editions of the ABC and Lecture Notes collections.

Keeping our book stock up to date is very difficult within the current library budget. We buy those books that people recommend or replace older copies if a new edition of a well used book is published. Do make suggestions so that we buy the books that are best for you! Contact us on library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk

6 Book Challenge

J No time for yourself?
J No longer read for pleasure?

J Never really much liked reading?

Why don't you join the 6 book challenge and start to read for pleasure again? Sign up in the library in Pinewood House. Contact Mary Hill 0161 419 5809 for more detail or see our December newsletter.

Don't just leave your pleasure reading to once a year, make it part of your everyday life!!

Hot of the press - online forms

We have made our first tentative steps towards online forms. Currently they are only available to people who have logged onto the Intranet.

Document Delivery Form (Requesting a journal article)

Advantages

** Your details are filled in for you automatically

** You can paste and copy the journal information

** No need to visit the library and it will be sent straight away

** You will sign when you pick up the article

Literature Search Form

Advantages

** Your details are filled in for you automatically

** No need to visit the library

** It will be sent straight away

However, we may need to still have an interview with you to discuss the search in detail

i Where will I find them?

Currently they are embedded within some of our pages and 2 news items indicate how to find them. We hope to have them as direct links on our front page soon. The Key Documents are still the downloadable version.

Useful Web Addresses

Just a reminder about some useful sites with evidence based resources:

NHS Evidence Specialist Collections which cover a number of health problems e.g. Stroke; patient groups e.g. Women's Health; and aspects of health services e.g. commissioning. Each month there are a number of Annual Updates on a topic. To see what is due check out the Google Calendar

New NICE guidance. You can sign up for email alerts or look on the front page for the latest guidance list at http://www.nice.org.uk/

New Cochrane systematic reviews are listed on their front page at http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/ or you can sign up for alerts (you will need to select the Cochrane Library)