SEPTEMBER 2011

The library newsletter is sent out four times a year to current members of the library and anyone else who would like to keep up to date with the latest developments in healthcare.

Trial of journal collection

Until the end of December, we are a part of a North West wide trial of a large collection of journals which are directly linked to searches using the NHS Healthcare Databases Advanced search. These will also be added to our journals A-Z.

Uncertain how to use the databases or think your technique needs improving, then come along to one of the free training sessions listed at the end of the newsletter

Dynamed

DynaMed is updated daily through a 7-step evidence-based method for systematic literature surveillance so clinicians can find the best available evidence at the point of care. DynaMed topics provide synthesized summaries integrating new evidence with existing evidence to directly answer most clinical questions in a single source. Dynamed has a partnership with medical staff at McMaster University.

Some features you might not have known about

Practice Changing Dynamed Updates

On the Dynamed home page, click on Recent Updates . Tick the box beside Practice Changing Updates Only on the right hand side. Limit your search further by selecting your area of interest from the drop down menu to the left of this. You can set up alerts easily for your selected topic.

Continuing Medical Education points
Once in a topic, you click on Get CME for this topic and an online form designed to record your activity will appear. Complete this and email it to yourself to record your activity for your portfolio

Mobile Dynamed
Dynamed can be uploaded to mobile devices. Devices that are supported includes Blackberry, iPhones and Smartphones. Contact the library if you would like to try this

PANacea - the physical activity and nutrition network

PANacea is a new online network developed by the National Heart Forum to link the global physical activity and nutrition community. The resource can be used as a communication tool between public health practitioners to improve quality of service, support professional development through peer support and enable health initiatives to progress more quickly. Membership is free, but is restricted to those who work in public health, in particular physical activity and nutrition. Some general content is available to the public.

The website is available here: http://www.panacealink.org/

Free access to SAGE journals for 90 days!

The library has arranged a free trial to SAGE health science journals for the next three months. If you're employed by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust or you're a student on placement at Stepping Hill, you can access the journals with your Stockport NHS Athens account. If you work for NHS Stockport, you can come into the library and we'll log on for you. There are about 150 health science journals in the SAGE collection - click on http://online.sagepub.com/ and then browse the list. The free trial will run until the end of November.

Prodigy: a free evidence-based resource

For those of you who used CKS (or Clinical Knowledge Summaries), you'll be pleased to know that it's back as PRODIGY. If you're new to this resource, it's an online source of evidence-based information about the diagnosis and management of over 300 clinical conditions encountered in primary care and first contact care. The topics will be updated monthly so clinicians will have access to the most up-to-date information available. Best of all, it is freely available within the UK. Try it here: http://www.prodigy.clarity.co.uk/

Electronic tables of contents from your favourite journals

You may know that the library provides a service called 'ETOCS' (Electronic Tables Of Contents) so that whenever a new issue of a journal is published, we can e-mail the contents page to your inbox. This is a good way of staying up to date with the latest research, with minimum effort.

However, the Trust has recently introduced a new e-mail system and we are having some technical problems with our mailing lists. So you may notice your alerts arriving later than usual this month. We hope that this doesn't cause you too much inconvenience.

If you haven't signed up to receive Etocs and would like to be added to our mailing lists, either pick up a form when you are in the library or e-mail us on library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk letting us know which journal alerts you would like to receive. As soon as our IT issue has been resolved, your e-mail address will be added to our mailing lists and you should start receiving alerts.

Journals for 2012

You will be aware that budgets are not increasing and we are being asked to make savings. We are going to be reviewing our purchasing of journals and UpToDate. We will be seeking the views of users via an online survey. This will be sent out to our newsletter list, other email lists, and posted on our Intranet site in the very near future.

Please take the time to fill this out and accept our apologise if you get it more than once. We only want you to complete it once.

These decisions are always very difficult and there will be people who feel their essential journal has not been repurchased. For online journals, we will take into account the number of downloads for the last 2 years, the quality of the journal and the access to other journals in your area. A further balance has to be made between buying a bundle (the cheapest overall method) such as the Wiley collection and buying single titles which can cost upwards of £1000.

free training sessions

The library has new training sessions, all free as usual. Here are the dates from now until March:

Internet for Beginners:
Tues 6th September 2011 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Fri 25th November 2011 9.00am - 10.00am
Wed 4th January 2012 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Mon 26th March 2012 4.00pm - 5.00pm

Bite-sized literature searching:
Fri 16th September 2011 9.00am – 10.00am
Wed 26th October 2011 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Tues 29th November 2011 4.00pm – 5.00pm
Fri 16th December 2011 9.30am – 10.30am
Thurs 12th January 2012 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Mon 20th February 2012 2.00pm -3.00pm
Thurs 8th March 2012 3.00pm -4.00 pm

Bite Sized Option: Accessing Full Text Articles
Tues11th October 2011 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Wed 9th November 2011 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Tues 17th January 2012 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Fri 16th March 2012 9.00am -10.00am

The best evidence based resources
Mon 14th November 2011 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Wed 25th January 2012 9.30am – 12.30pm
Thurs 1st March 2012 1.30pm – 4.30pm

Using PubMed Effectively
Mon 3rd October 2011 9.30am – 12.00pm
Fri 9th December 2011 9.30am – 12.00pm
Wed 1st February 2012 1.30pm – 4.00pm

In Depth: Literature Searching
Fri 23rd September 2011 9.00am – 12.00
Mon 17th Oct 2011 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Fri 4th November 2011 9.00am – 12.00pm
Tues 14th February 2012 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Tues 20th March 2012 9.30am – 12.30pm

Critical Appraisal
If you are interested in attending a course on this, we maybe able to organise a session via a different Trust. Please contact us on 0161 419 5809 for further information