A guide to free images on the web

In a previous posting I have introduced you to the Wellcome Library collection.  

Wellcome images: c1890 steel arm

A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images is a useful blog which not only includes a link to the Wellcome Library collection but some more contains links to a number of other collections

It also shows you how to search on Google to only return images which are copiable.

Google’s Advanced Search form allows you to specify usage rights in your search so you can be sure to return results that match your preferred license.

Changes to the Cochrane Library

From the 28th June the Cochrane Library will have enhanced features which include

• better readability
• enhanced navigation
• improved functionality with new browser tools
• but best of all it will adapt to any device - desktop, tablet, or mobile, to give the optimal reading experience

So take a look at www.thecochranelibrary.com 

Draft Library and Knowledge Services Annual Report

We have changed the format of our annual report to make it more succinct but still reflect the service provided.  In particular, we are reporting on our performance indicators against our library standards for the first time.  If you wish to comment on the report or suggest developmental needs for the service,  you will find the report on the Library Microsite under documents.  If you are in the community and are unable to access this, then please contact Mary Hill (details in the Trust email directory).  This draft will be available until the end of June 2014.

Eight million articles and book chapters freely available online!

Leading medical publisher Springer is making its Hospital and Health collection available to NHS staff until the end of October 2014. The collection comprises 1800 journals and 40,000 book titles, including the just-published Classic Papers in Orthopaedics.


To see what’s available go to  http://health.springer.com/ and

• click on Sign up/Log in from the menu bar at the top right of the page

• choose Institutional/Athens login

• choose NHS from the Select your institution drop-down menu

• click on Proceed to Athens

• sign in with your OpenAthens username and password.

If you don’t have an Athens password, then contact the library at Pinewood House – telephone 0161 419 5809, e-mail library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk – for details of how to register.

April 2014



Credit Anthea Sieveking , Wellcome Images Creative Commons Licence




Welcome to our Easter edition of the Library newsletter. We're publishing a little later than usual as a lot of things have been happening in the library over the last month or so, such as our new self-service machine in the library, and a refurbishment of our office. You can read more about it in the posts below.

We've also got a post about using the Wellcome Library as a source of images, and this month's picture is taken from that website.

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. We publish posts whenever we have news, so it's worth checking our blog from time to time

Our BIG news ~ we are now self-service

You can now issue, return and renew your own books along with paying any fines!  We have already had some comments on the ease of use.

TO BORROW ITEMS

You must have your blue library card.  

Forgotten or lost it?  Ask a member of staff for help

Step 1 ~ Select what you want to borrow  
Step 2 ~ Take them to the self-service machine on the counter.  Press the screen to select you are borrowing
Step 3 ~ Put your blue library card under the scanner (as shown here), barcode side up. 
Step 4 ~ Place your books on the black pad.  It can read multiple records at once.  Each book title will appear on the screen.
Step 5 ~ Once all items have been scanned, press finish and collect your receipt containing the return 

Don't forget to ask a member of staff to stamp your loyalty book mark!

TO RETURN ITEMS
Step 1 ~ Press the screen to select you are returning
Step 2 ~ Place all items on the black pad. Check all are returned
Step 3 ~ Select to have a receipt and place your items in the box provided

If you have any fines you can pay them now!

Voila!

Medical Masterclass has a new-look website

The Royal College of Physicians has designed an all-new website for Medical Masterclass with new features and a brand-new bank of mock MRCP (UK) Part 1 and Part 2 written exam questions.

Please note that your previous exam history will be lost as a result of the changeover. However, you will be able to build up a new exam history and see how your score compares with other users.

You can try out the new features here: www.medical-masterclass.com

If you haven't used the Medical Masterclass website before, please contact the library on 0161 419 4690 for a username and password.

Case-based simulations are also available from any Trust computer - go to the Start menu, click on Trust Applications and then select Medical Masterclass. This will start 'Patient Simulator', which allows you to choose elements of a patient's history and examination. Based upon that information, you can determine a diagnosis, tests or procedures and management of the patient. No username or password required for Patient Simulator.

New charges for interlibrary loans

Unfortunately the British Library has raised its charges for articles and books. We have managed to keep our prices the same for 18 months but we have had to raise our prices for the new financial year.

The cost of requesting an article will now be £9. The cost of borrowing a book for a six-week loan will now be £12.50. If a renewal is required after this time, the charge will be £4.45.

However, the good news is that we are keeping our prices the same for articles and books from NHS libraries around the region. So if the article or book you need is available from a library in the north west, the charge will still be £1.

Clinical audit support available from NICE

Did you know that NICE guidance now comes with audit support such as clinical audit tools?

Let's take a look at the Head Injury clinical guidelines that were issued in January 2014:

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG176

On this page on the right hand side, you'll see a menu with the headline 'Implementation tools and resources'. Below this you'll see 'Clinical audit tools'. (Some guidelines will say 'Audit support' instead, or 'Electronic audit tools').

The clinical audit tool comes with audit standards, a spreadsheet for data collection, a clinical audit report for you to complete, along with an action plan.

Not all clinical guidelines come with audit support but many do, so take a look at the NICE website and see whether the NICE guidance you're interested in has this feature.

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=find

Library loyalty bookmark

The next time you borrow a book, pick up a special loyalty bookmark. Each time you borrow books, you can get a stamp for your bookmark. When you've collected five stamps, you can dig into the library's sweetie tin for a chocolate. When you've collected 10 stamps, the library staff will make you a cup of coffee or tea! 

Renewing and returning books don't count, and neither do multiple visits on the same day. We have already had a couple of people claim their free chocolate. Let's see who's the first person to get a free drink!

Critical Appraisal Training at Wythenshawe and Stepping Hill

The library at Wythenshawe Hospital is running a session on Critical Appraisal on Monday 28th April from 1pm to 3pm.

The training will take place in the Committee Room, Education and Research Centre.

The training session is free and Stepping Hill Hospital staff are welcome to attend.

Phone the Academy Library at Wythenshawe Hospital on 291 5780 to book a place.

Critical Appraisal training at Stepping Hill is scheduled on the following dates:


Wednesday 11th June 2-4pm

Friday 28th November 9.30 - 11.30 am


These training sessions will take place in Pinewood House and are free.

Please phone the library at Pinewood House on 419 4690 to book on either of these dates.

Guidelines in Practice - app now available

Guidelines in Practice is a resource for healthcare professionals who are interested in implementing national guidelines locally, and practising evidence based medicine.

Healthcare professionals can register online to have access to the guideline summaries and other resources:
http://www.eguidelines.co.uk/user/register/professional.php

There is now also an app available free-of-charge to all healthcare professionals who are registered with the website. To download the app, go to www.eguidelines.co.uk and follow the instructions on the homepage.

'How to read a paper' by Trisha Greenhalgh - new edition

Trisha Greenhalgh has just published a new edition of her excellent book on evidence based medicine. This book covers how to find a research article and critically appraise it.

The library has ordered two copies of this 5th edition so they will be available shortly. In the meantime, we have two hard copies of the 4th edition (published in 2010) and an e-book version.

To see the electronic version of this book, please click on the following link:

www.myilibrary.com/?ID=268650 You'll need to click on

"If you are an Athens user, please click here to access the Athens Authentication Point"

You will then need to log in using your Athens username and password. If you don't have one, you can register online from an NHS computer here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

Please be aware that there is only one licence for this e-book so you need to make sure you log out when you've finished, in order to allow someone else to read it.

Top library borrower this quarter

We are pleased to announce that it is one of our 'American' students who is our top borrower from Christmas to Easter.  This is the bag Melissa Hanton received, looking rather stylish with some of our new books.

Sorry gentlemen, none of you appear in our top 10 again!  

Finding it hard to return your books?

We provide a book box which allows you to return books out of library hours
Where will I find it?
It is situated by the menu board just before the staff restaurant, Stepping Hill and is now easily accessed at any time of day or night
How often is it emptied?
We empty it every working day morning and reduce any fines by 5p per item as they may have been delivered the day before.
Has the book box moved?
Yes indeed it has.  It use to be in the Internet Cafe but that has closed
Can community staff use it?
Absolutely.  We provide this service particularly for community and night staff
Does the box like the one in the picture?
It is the same make but is dark blue in colour with light writing

New books ~ Christmas to Easter

We have received 189 books since our last newsletter.  As you can imagine, we don't want to include them all so here is a brief selection showing the depth and breadth of what has been bought.  

Come across a really useful book recently?  Do email us with your suggestion provided it has been published recently.  This book was suggested by one of our users.

Law and professional issues in nursing	Griffith, Richard	2014	344.0414 GRI
Patient-centered medicine : transforming the clinical method	Stewart, Moira	2014	610.696 STE
Essential knowledge and skills for healthcare assistants	Rawles, Zoe	2014	610.73 RAW
Coaching skills : a handbook	Rogers, Jenny	2013	610.730711 ROG
Succeeding in your medical school OSCEs : an essential guide for medical students including 150 practice scenarios	Dhamija, Bhoresh	2013	610.76 DHA
Wheater's functional histology : a text and colour atlas.	Young, Barbara	2014	611.018 YOU
Handbook of contraception and sexual health	Everett, Suzanne	2014	613.94 EVE
Fundamentals of hand therapy : clinical reasoning and treatment guidelines for common diagnoses of the upper extremity	Cooper, Cynthia	2014	615.81 COO
Emergency triage : Manchester triage group	Advanced Life Support Group	2014	616.025 MAC
150 ECG problems	Hampton, John R	2013	616.1207547 HAM
Principles of pulmonary medicine	Weinberger, Steven E	2014	616.2 WEI
Problem solving in acute oncology	Marshall, Ernie	2014	616.994 MAR
Smith and Aitkenhead's textbook of anaesthesia	Aitkenhead, Alan R	2013	617.96 AIT
Contraception : a casebook from menarche to menopause	Briggs, Paula	2013	618.18 BRI
Churchill's angels	Jackson, Ruby	2013	FIC J
And still the music plays : stories from people with dementia	Stokes, Graham	2010	SH 616.831 STO

Registering for an Athens account - new address

There is a new address for registering for an Athens account. Copy and paste the following link to go directly to the online form:

https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

You can still use the alternative route via www.library.nhs.uk - just click on `Register for NHS Athens`.

You will receive your Athens username immediately. Then you need to check your e-mail account for an e-mail from Athens. Click on the link in the e-mail to create your Athens password.

NB: It is best to register from an NHS computer. If you register from home, you MUST give your work e-mail address.

New source of images

Wellcome Library : Over 100,000 images ranging from ancient medical manuscripts to etchings by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Francisco Goya are now available for free download as hi-res images on the Welcome Library website. These older images are being released under the Creative Commons-Attribution only (CC-BY) licence.

So what is Creative commons?  It is a public copyright licence which allows you to use images freely with certain restrictions such as for non-commercial use or that you attribute the producer of the picture.  You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licencor endorses you or your use.

Credit Science Museum, London, Wellcome Imagesaption

For example an image saying it is CC-BY would be Creative Commons and credit the producer of the photograph. 
This photograph is a heart-lung machine from the early 1950s

The following contemporary picture from the Welcome Library has the following licence CC-BY-NC-ND which is Creative Commons with  credit for the photographer for non-commerical purposes and must not be changed in anyway.  It can only be downloaded in low resolution and must have a  link to the licence  This is how you could present such an image if you were to use it for a patient leaflet within the Trust or in a piece of academic work. 

Credit Anthea Sieveking , Wellcome Images Creative Commons Licence

December 2013

This year the librarians at Stepping Hill have embraced the Christmas spirit to the full!

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.

We publish posts whenever we have news, so it's worth checking our blog from time to time

Christmas and New Year opening times

Here are the library's opening times over the festive period:

Tues 24th Dec 8am – 2pm
(closed early to stocktake)

Wed 25th Dec CLOSED

Thurs 26th Dec CLOSED

Fri 27th Dec 8am – 4.30pm

Mon 30th Dec 8am – 5.30pm

Tues 31st Dec 8am – 5.30pm  

Wed 1st Jan 2014 CLOSED      


All other dates are as normal: Mon – Thurs 8 – 5.30, Fri 8 – 4.30  

You can renew your books by phoning 0161 419 4690, or by e-mailing library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk  

Have a happy holiday, and we look forward to seeing you in the coming year!      

Top library borrower for 2013 ... and beyond

We are very proud to announce that Elizabeth Gunter, Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner, is our best borrower. What a star! The top 10 was an all-female list so come on gentlemen show us your library cards!

Elizabeth received a hessian library bag for her efforts.  This will be a quarterly event to coincide with us sending you an email reminder about the blog.

We are also producing a loyalty bookmark for the library in the New Year which will be rewarded with a hot drink and a biscuit on completion of the bookmark.  A user will have to borrow a book / books and their bookmark will be stamped.  Renewals and returns do not count, neither do multiple visits on the same day!  The next time they borrow a book / books then they will get their next stamp.  When 10 stamps have been collected the library staff will give the recipient a drink and biscuit.

Online access to journals for University of Manchester graduates available!

If you graduated from the University of Manchester, you may already know that you can borrow up to 15 books, request journal articles and also access some electronic journals and databases by visiting the main library in person.

At the moment, the University of Manchester library is piloting a new scheme which gives alumni remote access to JSTOR journals. The pilot will run until the end of July 2014 and is available to use now. Alumni can access JSTOR through the Alumni Portal Service: Your Manchester Online. Enquiries should be directed to the Alumni Office on 0161 306 3066 or alumni@manchester.ac.uk.

Further information about access for alumni can be found on the University of Manchester Library website: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/ourservices/servicesweprovide/alumni/

***NB: If you aren't a University of Manchester graduate, but you are an NHS employee, or Public Health member of staff, you can still join their library.***
Access is for one year and you can borrow up to four books at a time. You would have walk-in user access to a small selection of e-resources if you go to the main library in person. The list of resources available is here: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/searchresources/walkin/ 
The membership form can be downloaded from the following webpage:
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/ourservices/howtousethelibrary/whocanusethelibrary/nhsprofessionals/

All change for journals

In the autumn, 173 people gave their views on what journals we should take.  A small group volunteered to help make a final decision.  Unfortunately, like all other departments we had to make savings.  There are some winners and some losers.  Those journals we no longer can access had lower usage than other journals.  I have contacted people in the relevant departments.

Farewells / Welcomes
We are losing online access to some titles locally.  However, with our community funds and savings elsewhere, we are re-subscribing to the Wiley collection with many titles that will help community staff along with some excellent titles for hospital based staff.  Here we have attempted to match loses with gains

- Age and Ageing                               + Journal of American Geriatrics Society
- Annals of Emergency Medicine         + Academic Emergency Medicine
- British Journal of Anaesthesia          + Anaesthesia
- Cancer Nursing
- Current Opinion in Rheumatology     + Arthritis & Rheumatology
- Journal of Rheumatology 
- Journal of Laryngology and Otology   + Clinical Otolaryngology
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Manual Therapy

Some useful titles include

+ Addiction

+ Birth

+ British Journal of Surgery

+ Child Development

+ Health and Social Care in the Community

+ Journal of Advanced Nursing

+ Journal of Clinical Nursing

+ Journal of Nursing Management

+ Obesity Reviews

Free trial to all Royal Society of Medicine journals in January

The library has organised a free trial of journals published by the Royal Society of Medicine. This is a collection of 28 journals, including the following:

Acta Radiologica

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Clinical Risk

Health Services Management Research

International Journal of Care Pathways and Quality Care

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Obstetric Medicine

Ultrasound

Vascular

A full list of titles and their web addresses is available here:

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/librarians/collections/rsm.sp

You can access the latest issues fulltext with your Athens username and password. Click on Sign in at the top of the journal's homepage, and then click on Sign in via OpenAthens.

(Please contact the library if you don`t have an Athens account).

The trial will run until the end of January 2014 so make use of the offer while you can!

Useful health management information update

Tameside Hospital Library Service produce a useful monthly health management information update.  Do take a look by clicking on this link.  If you like it, add to your favourites

The TRIP database is now on Twitter

The Trip database is experimenting with two new Twitter accounts - one for primary care and one for cancer. The latest evidence in these two areas is being tweeted when it becomes available.

If you are on Twitter, you can follow @TripPrimaryCare or @TripCancer so that you are notified when new evidence has been published. If you don't have a Twitter account, you can still see the Twitter pages by clicking on this link for primary care: https://twitter.com/TripPrimaryCare or this link for cancer: https://twitter.com/TripCancer

If you haven't tried the Trip database yet, it's a user-friendly clinical search engine containing research evidence, videos, patient information leaflets and news. You can access it here: http://www.tripdatabase.com/

     

Tips for accessing the fulltext of articles

So you've registered for an Athens account, you know your username and you've created your password, but you still can't log in... :-( Sometimes it can be tricky accessing the fulltext of journals because of the way individual websites are set up.

One thing we would recommend is to always check our journals A-Z list because that will tell you if we have Athens access and which years are included in our subscription.

We have compiled a list of journal providers and how to access them via Athens - click here . The list is also available from the Documents section of the Library Microsite on the Trust's intranet.

Here are a couple of tips: When you see the journal on the list, hover your mouse over the title (before you click on it) and you'll see the name of the journal provider at the bottom of the screen.

If the journal is provided by ProQuest, you may be taken to a new page where you are asked to choose your organisation. At this point you need to find NHS England from the drop-down menu. This will allow you to log in with your Athens account.

If you hover over an address and see tinyurl, that means the journal is provided by Wiley. All the Wiley journals should be set up so that they re-direct you to an Athens login page. However, if you aren't taken to an Athens page, then click on 'Institutional login' and type Stepping Hill Hospital (Athens).

If you're still having problems, please don't hesitate to phone us on 0161 419 4690 or e-mail us at library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk, because we can often let you know what the problem is quite quickly, saving you time in the long run!

New Titles for December

New books		Dec 2013
Education
100 cases in clinical medicine	Rees, John -		610.76 REE	2013
Neurology
The dementia guide : living well after diagnosis	Alzheimer's Society -		616.831 ALZ	2013
Paediatrics
Working together to safeguard children : a guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children March 2013	Department for Education -		362.76 DEP	2013
Self-Health
Diabetes and wellbeing : managing the psychological and emotional challenges of diabetes types 1 and 2	Nash, Jen -		SH 616.462 NAS	2013
Haynes brain manual	Banks, Ian -		SH 616.89142 BAN	2006