New journal collection - Emerald

This is a collection of full text management and health and social care journals, particularly of interest for those working in the community. To see the full list of titles go to http://first.emeraldinsight.com/index.htm , select login and then Athens login. Choose Your Subscriptions to see the list of titles. You can click through to the contect from here

Contact the library if you wish to be sent electronic tables of content for any of the titles. They will shortly be appearing in our A-Z too. For those of you who would like a quick look at some examples here are some of the titles.
** Clinical Governance ** Human Resource Management
** Leadership in health services ** Quality in ageing and older adults
** Journal of children services ** Health Education (aimed at school nurses)

Images for practice

We have access to a number of images which have copyright permission. If you want to use them externally, please consult with the library manager.

Smart Imagebase for teaching and learning purposes, internal seminars, patient education, research presentations and our own intranet (but not internet) and other non-commercial projects. It contains high quality medical illustrations, animations, and interactive multimedia. Please explore using Athens.

UpToDate graphics - available from the Intranet. These can easily be downloaded to PowerPoint and can be used as above

NHS Photo Library. You will need to register with an NHS email address and the photos can be used for NHS purposes as part of Crown copyright.

Wonderful Orthopaedic Resources

Working with the Trauma and Orthopaedic Department has resulted in a collection of new and enhanced resources. Most of these require Athens authentication. Don't have Athens - self register here.

New Journals
American Journal of Sports Medicine
Clincal Orthopaedics and Related Research
The Knee

Online Books
Click here for access to:
**Operative Techniques in Foot and Ankle Surgery
**Rockwood and Wilkins Fractures in Children
**Rockwood And Green's Fractures In Adults

Other excellent online resources
Anatomy TV with extend topics covering Sports injuries and therapy; arthroplasty; otolaryngology and a number of none orthopaedic topics such as urology and speech language pathology. You are advised to take the tutorial offered by the software in order to get the most out of this resource
Orthoteers - we will shortly be getting licences for this resource. the library will have some to loan out. Please ask about this resource

Training Sessions

Still free to all Stockport Foundation Trust and NHS Stockport NHS staff and students! A course such as our In Depth Literature searching could cost you in the region of £100 if you were to take it from a commercial organisation.

They are local in Room F05 in Pinewood House, Stepping Hill.
They are interactive and limited to 11 participants
You just need to phone 0161 419 4690 to book a place.

April 2012
Thursday 05 April 1 - 3pm - Bite Sized Option: Patient information leaflets - where do I start
Friday 13 April 12-1pm - Bite Sized Option: Accessing Full Text Articles
Wednesday 18 April 9.30-11am - Bite Sized Option Literature Searching
Monday 23 April 1.30-4.30pm - IN DEPTH Literature Searching

May 2012
Thursday 03 May 1.30-4pm - Using PubMed Effectively
Tuesday 08 May 1.30-4pm - The Best Evidence Based Resources
Wednesday 23 May 9am-12pm - IN DEPTH Literature Searching

June 2012
Friday 08 June 9.30-11.30am - Bite Sized Option: Patient information leaflets - where do I start
Wednesday 13 June 2 -4 pm - Introduction to Critical Appraisal
Tuesday 19 June 1.30-4.30pm - IN DEPTH Literature Searching
Monday 25 June 3.30-5.00pm - Bite Sized Option Literature Searching

July 2012
Tuesday 03 July 9.30am-12pm - Using PubMed Effectively
Thursday 05 July 9.30-10.30am - Bite Sized Option: Accessing Full Text Articles
Thursday 12 July 9am-12pm - The Best Evidence Based Resources
Thursday 19 July 9.30am-12.30 - IN DEPTH Literature Searching

A full list of dates till the end of December with some description of the courses is available here

DECEMBER 2011

Thanks to James for this great view of the Manchester Christmas markets! The photo was taken from the top of the Town Hall's clock tower.


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.

Library opening times over Christmas and the New Year

The library team will be taking a break shortly, but we'll be back soon! Here are the times that the library will be open over the festive period:

Fri 23rd Dec 9am - 4.30pm
Mon 26th Dec CLOSED
Tues 27th Dec CLOSED
Wed 28th Dec 9.30am - 4.30pm
Thurs 29th Dec 9.30am - 4.30pm
Fri 30th Dec 9.30am - 4.30pm
Mon 2nd Jan CLOSED
Tues 3rd Jan 9am - 5.30pm
Usual opening hours from then on...

If you would like to return your books when we are closed, there is a book return box in the main building - ask library staff for details. If you would like to renew your books, you can do so online from within the hospital or you can send us an e-mail or phone and leave us a message. We'll contact you with the new date your books are due back.

Best wishes for a happy holiday to you all from the library team!

E-books - good news

MyiLibrary access has been secured for another year. Some people might have heard that it was under threat but a regional deal gives us continue access - so that is good news!

Do take some time to explore this resource and see if there is anything that meets your needs. On our external link page it is called Electronic books

Another e-book option is the provision of all the Oxford Handbooks.

All e-books can be accessed outside the Trust, 24/7 with an Athens username and password. The links can be found at this address: http://www.stockport.nhs.uk/working-for-us/library-and-it-facilities/links.aspx

Some changes to journals

We have managed to keep most of our journal collection stable this year which is always good news. The following are the major changes:
** Journal of laryngology and otology (JLO to those of us in the know) will be online only
** Current opinion in rheumatology will be online only
** Lancet will be available online (still waiting a link and instructions on how it will be accessed). The physical journal will still be available


**JAMA will no longer be available electronically but we will resume taking it physically (this was a national purchase but it is too expensive electronically for us to continue to take in that format)

Free training sessions

Have you decided on a New Year's resolution yet? How about learning how to do a thorough literature search, to make sure you've found the latest evidence to inform your practice? Or what about learning how to use PubMed or the Cochrane Library more efficiently, to save yourself time and effort? The library can help!!! We offer regular training sessions at no charge - just phone us on 419 4690 to book your place. See below for the courses running from January to March. The sessions from April onwards will be published soon.


Wed 04 Jan 1 - 2pm Internet for Beginners

Thurs 12 Jan 1 - 2pm Bite-sized literature searching

Tues 17 Jan 12 - 1pm Accessing full text articles

Wed 25 Jan 9.30am – 12.30pm The best evidence-based resources

Wed 01 Feb 1.30 - 4pm Using PubMed effectively

Tues 14 Feb 1.30 – 4.30pm Indepth literature searching

Mon 20 Feb 2 - 3pm Bite-sized literature searching

Thurs 01 Mar 1.30 – 4.30pm The best evidence-based resources

Thurs 08 Mar 3 - 4pm Bite-sized literature searching

Fri 16 Mar 9 - 10am Accessing full text articles

Tues 20 Mar 9.30am - 12.30pm Indepth literature searching

Mon 26 Mar 4 - 5pm Internet for beginners

Dr Foster Hospital Information

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide for 2011 has been published recently, focusing on the death rates and performance of all hospitals across England. Stepping Hill's overall Hospital Standardised Mortality Rate (HSMR) is within the expected range. It comes shortly after the new Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicators (SHMI), which were published in October, and listed us third best hospital in the North of England for our mortality rates.

Dr Foster provides useful information for all users of health services in the UK. Dr Foster's online tools and consumer guides enable both health and social care users and providers to make better informed decisions.

Pubget - a search engine for science articles

Pubget is a search engine for articles in the life sciences. It was launched in 2008 with the aim of making the process of finding, managing and analysing scientific papers easier. New papers are added to Pubget on a daily basis. There is an advanced search option, or you can browse by topic, using the pubget medical subject headings. If you have links to a university, you can save your institution under 'Settings' and access full text articles where your university has a subscription to them. The website has recently been upgraded so try a search here: http://pubget.com/

New journal coming soon - Bone & Joint Research

Bone & Joint Research (BJR) is a new orthopaedic research journal from the publishers of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. The journal, launched in October this year, will offer free access to research in the musculoskeletal sciences, covering topics such as bioengineering, regenerative medicine, cancer genetics, proteomics and clinical trials. Submissions are now open for papers, and the first articles should be published soon. Videos and podcasts will also be available.
Go to the website for more details: http://bjr.boneandjoint.org.uk/

New journals available to you!

*** The following titles will shortly be added to our online journal collection: (thanks to the Orthopaedic department)

American journal of sports medicine

Clinical orthopaedics and related research
Both are accessible using Athens

The journal Health Economics Review has recently been launched and all its content is freely available online. It's a peer-reviewed, international journal covering all aspects of health economics, such as health care financing and health policy analysis. You can view the first articles of this new journal here: http://www.healtheconomicsreview.com/

We recently had a trial of a journal collection called Medline with full text, which has now been purchased regionally. Some example titles include Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, Injury and Alcohol research and health.

Journal survey

Thank you to the 97 people who took time to respond to the survey. It was a disappointingly low response but we have used the information to help inform our choice of journals for 2012 along with usage of the journals for 2011.

To recap: this survey asked for your choice of up to 4 journals you would consider essential to practice. It also asked if we had to make a decision between purchasing UpToDate or more journals what would you choose?

Journal purchase: Because of the low number we counted all 4 choices. The top ten journals requested were Lancet, NEJM, BMJ, Nursing standard, Journal advanced nursing, JAMA, Nursing times, American journal of surgical pathology, Anaesthesia, Anesthesia & Analgesia. Apart from JAMA we have access to all of these titles for 2012. We are unable to afford electronic access to JAMA so have bought the physical journal once again.

UpToDate or more journals? 94 people responded to this question with 79% (74 individuals) prefering to purchase UpToDate. Although this is not available directly to community staff, still more people in the community chose UpToDate compared to more journals. Anyone in the community can request topics which can be emailed to them. We have now purchased UpToDate for 2012.

Journals lost: We no longer subscribe to the European Journal of Palliative Care (lack of use). There may be changes to those we buy as bundles so always check out our A-Z of journals (report any links that do not work to us)

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

JUNE 2011

Many thanks to James for this photo reminding us that it's summer, despite all evidence to the contrary!

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.

Welcome to our colleagues in Tameside and Glossop

With Tameside and Glossop Community staff joining Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, we are entering an interesting phase in the Library Service. We welcome two new (to us but both very experienced) library staff who run the library based in NHS Oldham.

A reminder to those staff who are now Stockport staff,

** you still have the same access to library staff and library resources at NHS Oldham as before

** you are entitled to attend any of our training courses (free) as described in another item

** you will be moved over to become Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Athens members with access to our full collection of journals

** you may join the physical library based in Stepping Hill Hospital, use the study space and borrow books

There will be changes in how the services are run but we will keep you posted as these changes are implemented

Free access to information on E. coli bacteria

The publisher Springer is offering free access to all its journal articles and book chapters relating to E. coli bacteria. More than 400 scientific articles on E. coli are available for download. Access to the research articles will remain free of charge until the 1st September 2011.

Please click on the following link to access the free content:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/?k=Enterohaemorrhagic+AND+Escherichia+AND+coli
You can click on 'Content Type' in the menu on the left hand side to select journal articles or book chapters. You can also search by date or author.

The Robert Koch Institute, an organisation which serves the German Ministry of Health, has further information on the epidemiology, diagnostics and medical management of the outbreak. You can view it here: http://www.rki.de/EN/Home/homepage__node.html?__nnn=true

Future Forum - HOT OFF THE PRESS

Here are some potentially useful links if you need them

For overview and link to the Future Forum Report

http://healthandcare.dh.gov.uk/future-forum-report/

Reports from the NHS Future Forum

Choice and Competition Report

Education and Training Report

Clinical advice and leadership report
Patient Involvement and Public Accountability report

The Government response to the Future Forum - summary

http://healthandcare.dh.gov.uk/government-response-to-nhs-future-forum/

NHS North West puts it all together

http://nww.nwstaff.nhs.uk/news/govnhs/latest%20news.html

Renewing and returning books the easy way

** Don't forget you can bring your books back out of hours by dropping them off in the Book Box in the Internet Cafe by the Staff Restaurant. Ask in the library for further details.


** Books can also be renewed by phone (419 4690) or by email library.enquiries@stockport.nhs.uk . You can renew up to 10 times like this without bringing in your books provided no other user has requested them.


** The first 3 reminders are sent by email so if you get letters, send us your email address to enable this facility

NHS Evidence developments

The NHS Evidence site continues to develop. If you are using the www.library.nhs.uk link you will find it takes you to a page of NHS Evidence. So what are the points to note?

1. The sign in at the top left hand side IS NOT AN ATHENS LOGIN. It is the sign in to allow you save searches from the front page and to customise the site for your use. You need to register for this separate from Athens.

2. On the front page you can enter your search as you would in Google. Remember " a phrase can be put in inverted commas" to find the exact phrase. Evidence is presented by relevance but can also be presented by date. Filters are available on the left hand side.

3. On the right hand side are links to other parts of the site:

A-Z of Topics: browse the list of clinical and medical topics divided up in to areas such as Guidance; Commissioning; Information for the Public; Medicines; Ongoing Research

Journals and Databases: Athens registration and sign on; NHS online resources such as books and journals; Health Databases Advanced Search; Cochrane Library link

Nice Pathways: see separate topic

Public Health: links to Public Health Evidence

QIPP: Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention with links to QIPP tools and Case Studies

The specialist topics and CKS are no longer available through this site.

Training Sessions

All Stockport based staff and students, including those who were previously employed by Tameside and Glossop, are entitled to attend our training sessions for FREE. There are courses in June and July but non in August. They start again in September and are all delivered in Pinewood House. They are all hands on sessions. Please ring 419 4690 to book a place.
Link to the dates
Here is a list of the sessions

BITE SIZE OPTION: Internet for Beginners (1 hour)
AIM:To gain awareness of the range of Internet sites which contain quality health information and to feel confident navigating these sites

BITE SIZED OPTION: Literature Searching (1 hour)
AIM: To introduce the clinical databases and learn how to conduct a quick but effective search.

BITE SIZED OPTION: Accessing Full Text Articles (1 hour)
AIM: To be able to access the full text of a journal article from a known reference

IN DEPTH Literature Searching (3 hours)
AIM: To provide a comprehensive overview of the NHS clinical databases and to be able to search these effectively using advanced techniques

The Best Evidence Based Resources (3 hours)
AIM: To understand the purpose and explore the use of prime sources of evidence based information

Using PubMed Effectively (2 1/2 hours)
AIM: To provide an introduction to using PubMed for finding journal articles, including the full text of articles where available