NHS membership of the University of Manchester Library

The University of Manchester Library, in cooperation with the NW NHS Health Care Libraries Unit, provides a membership scheme open to all NHS employees within the North West. 

The NHS membership scheme is available free of charge to any member of the North West NHS workforce on production of their NHS identification card.  A membership card is given for 2 years.

You will be able to borrow up to 4 books at any one time and use the study space.  Due to licensing restrictions, most of the Library's electronic resources are only available to current staff and students. External users can access some electronic resources (including e-journals). Please ask a member of staff at the Customer Services Desk for further details.

Application form is available from here

December 2014

Christmas is always fun in the library!  

But on a more serious note, it is a good place to come for some quiet time to think, write or read.  We are open between Christmas and New Year.

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

Christmas Opening Times

http://www.themarysue.com/12-christmas-trees-made-out-of-books/

Wednesday 24th 8am - 2pm

CLOSED 25th & 26th 

Monday 29th – Wed 31st  9am – 5pm

CLOSED 1st January 2015

Friday 2nd Jan 9am – 4.30pm

Remember: 

' 0161 419 4690 

?library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk 

Top Reader for this financial year so far

We are very proud to announce that our top reader since the beginning of the financial year, is a midwifery assistant.  This is a good reminder that any employee of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust can use the library.  So what has she been using?  Here is a very small selection of the books she has borrowed.

Sorry gentlemen, the top readers are still women, although 2 men are ranked in the top

Library training sessions until the summer

Introduction to literature searching

Thurs 22nd January 2015              9.30am – 11.30am

Tues 17th March 2015                  2.30pm – 4.30pm

Wed 13th May 2015                     3pm - 5pm

Mon 20th July 2015                     9.30am – 11.30am

In Depth: Literature Searching

Tues 10th February 2015              2pm – 5pm

Thurs 12th March 2015                 9.30am – 12.30pm

 Mon 27th April 2015                   1.30pm – 4.30pm

Wed 20th May 2015                     9am – 12pm

Tues 16th June 2015                    2pm – 5pm

Thurs 30th July 2015                    9.30am – 12.30pm

The Cochrane Library - an evidence based resource

Fri 27th February 2015                 9.30am – 12.30pm

Thurs  7th May 2015                     1.30pm – 4.30pm   F04

Thurs 9th July 2015                      9.30am – 12.30pm

Using PubMed Effectively

Thurs 5th February 2015               2pm – 4.30pm

Tues 2nd June 2015                     9.30am – 12pm

Writing patient information leaflets

Wed 7th January 2015                 9.30am – 12pm ** 

**This will be the last training session on Writing patient information leaflets

Coaching books

To support people on coaching course we have a number of new coaching books which can be found at 000 which means they are the first items on the book shelves.  Here are some of the titles: 

Our library catalogue is available on the Intranet before login under My Applications.  You can borrow up to 8 ordinary books.  To join the library, just bring along your Stockport NHS Foundation Trust badge and fill out the relevant form.

Journal collection

Good News!!
We have been able to continue our current collection of journals, in the majority of cases until the end of December 2015.  There is a collection of high quality journals e.g. Spine, Stroke, Circulation which are due for renewal in March which will need to be considered carefully.

Remember that if journals are not well used, they will be cancelled.

You have access to the following collections

which includes the Journal of advanced nursing, BJOG, British journal of surgery and JAGS

which includes BMJ, Annals of the rheumatic diseases and Archives of disease in childhood


MEDLINE®Complete  which includes full text access to Diabetes, Journal of nuclear medicine and Annals in internal medicine


Health Business Elite which includes full text access to Harvard business review, Modern healthcare and Journal of healthcare management.


You have the following individual titles
* Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine (online)   
* JAMA (physical)    * NEJM  (physical)  *  Nursing times (physical)  
* Practising Midwife  (online)   * HSJ (physical)   * Chest (online)
* JLO (online)  * British journal of healthcare assistants (physical)    
* Bone and Joint Surgery (online)

Most will need an Athens authentication.  
Use our Journals A-Z to find all our titles and to logon

Evidence Based Resources for 2015

Up until now, we have been very lucky to have had 2 evidence based resources: Dynamed and UpToDate.  Both offer excellent quality information with different features of great use.

Sadly, the time has come when we can only afford one.  We have trialed alternatives such as ClinicalKey (which offers journals and e-books as part of the deal) and Clinical Evidence.  We have asked your opinion on the resources and why you would favour one above another.

Thank you for taking the time to complete several questionnaires.  You have chosen UpToDate because of its depth and breadth of information. You will no longer have access to Dynamed after 31st March 2015 but enjoy it whilst you can.  Both resources are available with Athens authentication by clicking here.

Information on Ebola

In response to the Ebola outbreak, the publishers at Oxford University Press have made more than 50 relevant articles from leading journals and online resources free to view until 4th January 2016.

The articles can be accessed here:

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/our-journals/medicine-and-health/ebola.html

iPad compatible Anatomy TV from Primal Pictures

Primal’s 3D Human Anatomy Atlas is now iPad compatible. Find it on Safari.  You will need an Athens username and password

Access 3D images, clinical slides, MRI scans, illustrations, movies and anatomical text on the move.

Quick guide to show you how it will look 

General video guides to using Anatomy TV





The Anatomy TV has changed to be more streamlined so do take a look with this link (Athens access).  Don't forget to look at the useful and fun, quizzes and activities.  Don't have an Athens password?  Self register from an NHS computer here

Our free trial to eight million articles and book chapters has been extended!

In the summer we told you about a free trial to the fulltext of all Springer journals and e-books. Access to the Springer collection has now been extended until 31st December 2014. You can access the content with your Athens username and password here: http://link.springer.com/ .

As part of this trial, the Medical Collection from Oxford University Press is offering fulltext access to 88 titles, such as Cardiovascular Research, Annals of Oncology, Occupational Medicine and International Journal for Quality in Health Care. You can access them here: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/
Twenty six Annual Reviews journals are also part of the free trial, such as the Annual Review of Biochemistry, and the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. You can access them here: http://www.annualreviews.org/

The content from Oxford University Press and the Annual Reviews will be available until 31st December 2014. Access to the content of both providers is only available from NHS computers, and not by Athens.

Other journal providers who are also involved are Nature and 36 affiliated journals (such as Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Cancer), and ElsevierScience, which is including 147 of its Finch Medical Research titles, such as Experimental Eye Research, Research in Microbiology, the European Journal of Pharmacology, Spine Deformity, and Clinical Biochemistry. Access is via your Athens account.

The Merck Index is also included in the free trial. Access is only available from NHS computers.

As it stands at the moment, access to the other publishers' content will continue to be available until 31st March 2015.

 

World Wellbeing Week

 

 

October 6th - 10th was Stockport Wellbeing Week and there were many events taking place locally to mark the occasion.

Each day of Wellbeing Week had a theme to help improve mental health and wellbeing. The themes were ‘Connect’, ‘Be Active’, ‘Take Notice’, ‘Keep Learning’ and ‘Give’.

Participants at events were encouraged to make a pledge to change something in their life in order to improve their wellbeing.

Friday 10^th October was also World Mental Health Day and you may have seen a display near the canteen at Stepping Hill Hospital. This was a joint effort by Jan Sinclair, the hospital’s lifestyle co-ordinator, Healthy Stockport, Life Leisure and the library at Pinewood House.

Staff were on hand to give advice on healthy lifestyles and keeping fit and to encourage people to make pledges. There were also lots of freebies on offer. The library borrowed a selection of books from its Self-Health collection for people to take a look at. These books, and many more, are all available at Stockport public libraries, along with Mood-Boosting books and other resources. You can read more about Self-Health here:

http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/leisureculture/libraries/booksonprescription/sealfhelp/

To find out more about helping yourself and others to better wellbeing, visit www.healthystockport.co.uk or download the Five Ways to Wellbeing app for free:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/five-ways-to-wellbeing/id697869177?mt=8 (for Apple devices) or http://play.google.com/ (for Android devices)

 

Updated Oxford Handbooks

Hopefully you are aware that we have an online subscription to the excellent Oxford Handbooks.  You will need to use Athens to access the full text and remember that your organisation is NHS England.

The latest edition of the following have just been made available: 

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (2 ed.)

Carrie Newlands and Cyrus Kerawala (eds)

Oxford Specialist Handbooks,
OSHs in Surgery

Published Online: 

Oct 2014

Oxford Handbook of Neurology (2 ed.)

Hadi Manji, Seán Connolly, Neil Kitchen, Christian Lambert, and Amrish Mehta

Oxford Medical Handbooks

Published Online: 

Oct 2014

Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology (3 ed.)

Alastair Denniston and Philip Murray (eds)

Oxford Medical Handbooks

Published Online: 

Oct 2014

Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme (4 ed.)

Tim Raine, James Dawson, Stephan Sanders, and Simon Eccles

Oxford Medical Handbooks

Published Online: 

Aug 2014

Online videos - the next best thing to attending a training session

Video guides offer a convenient way to refresh your literature searching skills. There are guides for all the stages of any literature search:

·         planning a search

·         choosing a database

·         finding thesaurus terms

·         taking out duplicate references

·         organising your results

·         avoiding plagiarism.

It doesn’t take long to watch one of the guides, typically they last around two minutes. If you can’t come in for a training session, they make a handy alternative option.

Try these video guides from Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and these from the North West Ambulance Service Library. 

If you have any queries about searching the databases, or using any other library resources, please
e-mail us on library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk or ring 0161 419 4690.

Free access to all Informa journals!

The library is running a free trial of the Informa Healthcare journals collection.

The Expert Reviews Series and the Expert Opinions Series are part of this collection.

Titles include the European Journal of Physiotherapy, the Journal of Asthma, Modern Rheumatology and Seminars in Ophthalmology.

You have full-text access to all 181 journals until 31st October 2014.

To access the resource, go to http://informahealthcare.com/ and click on 'Athens' in the top right hand corner. Contact the library on 0161 419 4690 if you don't have an Athens account.

Free trial to Clinical Evidence from the BMJ

 

Clinical Evidence is a point-of-care resource provided by BMJ. It is an international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions, similar to UpToDate and DynaMed.
 

It includes evidence-based research from more than 10,000 peer-reviewed references and covers over 640 clinical questions and 3000 interventions. 
 

We have a FREE TRIAL to this resource until the end of October 2014. You can access it here:

www.clinicalevidence.bmj.com
 

No password is needed in the Trust! However, you will need an Athens account to access it from home. Contact the library at library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk if you don’t have an Athens account.
 

We are looking at Clinical Evidence as an alternative to UpToDate and DynaMed. Please try out this new resource and let us know what you think.

 

NEW: A network for students interested in evidence-based healthcare

You might be interested to take a look at this site
http://www.students4bestevidence.net/ 
Aimed at helping students understand fully evidence-based practice.  

Students 4 Best Evidence is a Partner of Sense about Science’s Ask for Evidence campaign. The Ask for Evidence campaign’s aim is to debunk the health claims you see everyday and ask whether they are based on reliable evidence and scientific rigour

August 2014

Summer is here (supposedly...!) And so is the latest edition of the library's newsletter. We are publishing it a little later than usual, so that we can welcome the new doctors who have arrived in the Trust, as well as other new staff members. Hello to you all!

The photo this month was taken by an ex-member of library staff, and photographer extraordinaire, James Allen. Thanks to James, as always, for letting us use his beautiful images for our blog.

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 first 10 stamps person



Well done Melissa!

 Our Library Loyalty Bookmark rewards our loyal users. Borrow a book and have your bookmark stamped.  After 5 stamps you'll receive a sweet.  When you have 10 stamps you can enjoy a drink and a biscuit from the library.

Our first loyal user to get a cup of tea and a biscuit is Melissa Hanton, a visiting medical student from Canada.  As well as borrowing medical texts, Melissa was an avid fiction reader and had read much of our crime fiction in her 6 months stay at Stockport.

Top Reader

Our top reader since April is Teresa Cuthbert who is a University of Manchester midwifery student.  Congratulations to her!  She will receive a very nice hessian bag.  Teresa has been reading a lot around nursing research.

So these recent additions would be of interest to her and others studying nursing...

Open Day at Stepping Hill

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust had an open day on Saturday 19th July. The theme of the day was 'Back to the Future' and the library had its own stand called 'The Information Portal'.

We ran a 'Past to Present' quiz, matching the photos with the year - apparently it was very tricky! There was also a 'Time Machine', which was a reminiscence box full of books and photos of times past. This was kindly loaned to us by Stockport Public Libraries. Children could colour an array of body parts (due to a 'Teleporter Malfunction') and play some health-related computer games. Whack-a-Bone and Poke-a-Muscle were particularly popular, although some adults preferred the Healthy Eating Self-Assessment or Health Talk Online.

However, the star attraction was a skull which had been printed out on a 3D printer. We had an accompanying display about 3D printing, including a video of a patient whose titanium hip joint was printed on a 3D printer. If you would like to take a look at our skull, it has now taken up residence in the library in Pinewood House! 

Overall, the day proved a great success for the Trust with several hundred people dropping in to take a look at the attractions. For us it was a chance to explain to members of the public how the library can contribute to medical services. There was the additional benefit of a steady stream of colleagues passing through as they took a break from their own open day duties.

New books in the library

Some brand new books have just arrived in the library, which should prove popular!

If you are a doctor and your revalidation is approaching, you should definitely take a look at 'How to get through revalidation: Making the process easy'.

Here are some other titles just in:

Apley and Solomon's Concise System of Orthopaedics and Trauma

The doctor's communication handbook

Interprofessional working in health and social care : professional perspectives

Key concepts in mental health

Physics, pharmacology and physiology for anaesthetists : key concepts for the FRCA

Safer moving and handling in the perioperative environment

Older people : issues and innovations in care

Health promotion and public health for nursing students

Physiotherapy in respiratory and cardiac care : an evidence-based approach

Making sense of the ECG : a hands-on guide

ABC of dementia

You can take a look at the list of new books by checking the library catalogue on the intranet home page (under My Applications, before logging in). Just click on 'What's New'

Resources for staff working with dementia patients

Around the world, 44 million people are living with dementia, and this number is predicted to nearly double every 20 years, with a new case diagnosed every 4 seconds* .

If you work with patients with dementia, or if you know of someone with dementia, you'll find the dementia resources in your library helpful. We have a number of books covering various aspects of the condition - ranging from living well after diagnosis and coping with early onset dementia, to guides for carers and stories of experiences from family members of dementia sufferers. Trust staff can borrow these books and show them to patients' families if they are looking for further information and advice. All the books in the library at Pinewood House are also available in Stockport Libraries, so family members can borrow these titles - and many more - from their local public library.

The staff at Stockport Libraries also offer reminiscence sessions so if you would like them to come to your department, please contact the library at Stepping Hill on 0161 419 4690 for further details.

* Figures taken from an editorial 'Addressing global dementia' in the Lancet, volume 383, issue 9936, page 2185 (28th June 2014).

Library training sessions for the autumn

Are you starting a course soon? Is your department planning an audit?

If so, why not attend a library session to brush up on your literature searching skills...

Here are the dates of our courses for the next few months:



Wednesday 10 September 2014 - Introduction to Literature Searching 1.30 - 3.30pm

Friday 19 September 2014 - In-depth Literature Searching 9am - 12pm

Wednesday 24 September 2014 - Writing patient information leaflets 9 - 11.30am

Monday 06 October 2014 - Using PubMed Effectively 1.30 - 4pm

Monday 13 October 2014 - In-depth Literature Searching 1.30 - 4.30pm

Tuesday 04 November 2014 - Writing patient information leaflets 1 - 3.30pm

Monday 10 November 2014 - The Cochrane Library - an evidence based resource 2 - 5pm

Friday 14 November 2014 - Introduction to Literature Searching 9 - 11am

Friday 21 November 2014 - In-depth Literature Searching 9am - 12pm

Friday 28 November 2014 - Introduction to critical appraisal with statistics 9.30 - 11.30am



Training dates for the spring are available from the library microsite or the library's external site.

Just ring 0161 419 4690 or e-mail library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk to book a place on a course.

Oh, and did we mention that all our courses are completely free?!

Library and Knowledge Service - tracking our progress

Your Information. Our Priority.

This is at the heart of everything we do in order that you may help the Trust deliver the highest level of care.

We ensure that you can access the latest evidence-based knowledge through the library’s services and resources regardless of your location, job function or the time of day. Our services save you time and the Trust money thus helping everyone, no matter what their role, contribute to delivering safe, seamless patient-centred care to the highest standards.

Our approved annual report for 2013-14 and our strategy are available to all Trust staff either on request or via the Library Microsite on the Intranet.

You can track how we are progressing via our operational plan which is also on the Intranet and is regularly updated.  It is available on request for Trust staff.

Want to get involved?  Then contact the library manager on 0161 419 5952 or email library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk 

Changes to the journal Blood

The American Society of Hematology has changed its address for Athens access to the journal Blood.

You will now need to click on the following link: http://openathens.highwire.org/initiate-login?returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloodjournal.org%2F&subcode=ashjnls


You will be asked to type your Athens username and password, and then you will have complete fulltext access from 1946 to the current issue.

Free trial extended to more journals

Recently we told you about a free trial to the fulltext of all Springer journals until 31st October 2014. This trial, which is an NHS Pilot, has now been extended to more journal providers.

Nature, and 36 affiliated journals (such as Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Cancer) are included.

Elsevier Science are including 147 of its Finch Medical Research titles, such as Experimental Eye Research, Research in Microbiology, the European Journal of Pharmacology, Spine Deformity, and Clinical Biochemistry.

All these journals are available with your Athens username and password. You can search for them on a list of journals here: http://www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/journals/default.aspx


Furthermore, the links to fulltext articles will appear when you do a search of the healthcare databases (like Medline and CINAHL).
If you do not have an Athens account, please contact the library on 0161 419 4690.
Other journal providers are offering free fulltext as part of this trial, but access is only available from NHS computers, and not by Athens. The providers below are all included in the NHS Pilot.
The Medical Collection from Oxford University Press is offering fulltext access to 88 titles, such as Cardiovascular Research, Annals of Oncology, Occupational Medicine and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

Twenty six Annual Reviews journals are part of the free trial, such as the Annual Review of Biochemistry, and the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

The Merck Index is also included.

The NHS Pilot will run until 31st March 2015.

Practising Midwife - now available online

The library used to have a print subscription to the Practising Midwife, but this leading journal is now available electronically so you can access it from anywhere. All you need is to login with your Athens username and password here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mesl/tpm

If you don't have an Athens account, you can register online from an NHS computer here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

The archives of our electronic subscription go back to 2011, but the library at Pinewood House has print copies from 2006 - 2013.

You can also request an 'etoc' from the library - an electronic table of contents. So every month we will send you the contents page of the new issue so that you can keep up to date with the latest research very easily. Just e-mail the library at library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk and let us know if you would like us to set up etocs for any other journals for you.

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