We've updated some of our user guides

We know it isn't always easy to find the time to get to grips with electronic resources, which is why we have produced a number of handy guides to help you get the most out of them with the minimum of effort.

Our guide are practical with lots of screenshots to help you use our e-resources like a librarian!

We have recently updated three:

• The Cochrane Library - our guide will help you use the powerful search feature to find high quality evidence 
• Journals A-Z - a guide to finding and accessing thousands of online electronic journal titles using your OpenAthens log in
• NICE Evidence Search - our guide will show you how to search for high quality. NICE accredited information

You can find all of our user guides on the Library web site. Just go to the Useful Information tab and click on User Guides.

Want to help us buy the books you want to read?

We want to be sure that the books we buy are the books you actually need to support your work and learning.

We review publisher's catalogues, scan reading lists and peruse different web sites, but what we like best is when you tell us what you need.

That is where our books on approval scheme comes in.

Every two months our supplier sends us a selection of new publications on relevant health topics which are available for you to review and suggest titles for us to purchase (or sometimes, not to purchase!).

Our current selections will be available at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries until Friday the 10th of August. Topics covered include:

• Dermatology
• Medicine
• Mental health, psychiatry and psychology
• Nursing 
• Research
• ...and more

Of course we are always happy to have recommendations for new stock on any health related topic.

You can also find a list of titles we have recently purchased (including previous On Approvals) on our web site and all of our stock via the library catalogue.

What's new on Clinical Key - new clinical overviews and books added

Clinical Overviews

Clinical Overviews are a quick and easy way to find evidence-based answers to your clinical questions.

Whenever you do a search in Clinical Key if there is a topic overview it will appear as the first result and also in a box on the right of the page.

Clinical Overviews are not book or journal content; they are concise, easily scannable summaries which include evidence-based information, current guidelines, and the latest advances on medical conditions. Clinical Overviews are tailored for clinicians.

The following topics have been added in July:

• Food allergies
• Knee injury (other than dislocation or fracture)
• Ovarian cancer
• Systemic lupus erythematosus

Books

Elsevier have also added lots of new electronic books to Clinical Key this month, including:

• Atlas of Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia (Gray, Andrew) 3rd ed
• Breast Tomosynthesis (Philpotts, Liane) 1st ed; New to CK
• Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (Manning, Warren) 3rd ed
• Current Therapy in Colon and Rectal Surgery (Fazio, Victor) 3rd ed; New to CK
• Diagnostic Atlas of Renal Pathology (Fogo, Agnes) 3rd ed
• Diseases and Disorders of the Orbit and Ocular Adnexa (Fay, Aaron) 1st ed; New to CK
• Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Physiology (Kamel, Kamel S.) 5th ed
• Fundamentals of Body MRI (Roth, Christopher) 2nd ed
• Fundamentals of Pediatric Imaging (Donnelly, Lane) 2nd ed; New to CK
• Gahart’s 2019 Intravenous Medications (Gahart, Betty) 35th ed
• Glioblastoma (Brem, Steven) 1st ed; New to CK
• Handbook of Dialysis Therapy (Nissenson, Allen) 5th ed; New to CK
• Kaufman’s Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (Kaufman, David M.) 8th ed
• Newman and Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology (Newman, Michael) 13th ed
• Sclerotherapy (Goldman, Mitchel) 6th ed
• Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Athletes (Arciero, Robert) 1st ed; New to CK
• Surgical Management of the Transgender Patient (Schechter, Loren) 1st ed; New to CK
• Techniques in Wrist and Hand Arthroscopy (Slutsky, David) 2nd ed; New to CK
• Therapy for Severe Psoriasis (Wu, Jashin) 1st ed; New to CK
• The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual (Sanford, Christopher) 5th ed; New to CK
• Tropical Dermatology (Tyring, Stephen) 2nd ed; New to CK

Clinical Key is a fantastic, easy to use resource that contains huge amounts of full text content including:

• 1,400 topic pages
• Over 600 electronic journals 
• Over 1000 electronic books
• 850 First Consult monographs
• 17,000 + medical / surgical videos
• 300 + Procedures Consult videos
• 15,000 patient education handouts
• 2.2 million images
• You can find a full content list here

There is also a free app allowing you to access Clinical Key on the go.

To access Clinical Key all you need is your OpenAthens password (register online here if you don't have one) to get started.

Web site of the month: The NHS on Film

To Celebrate the 70th anniversary, the British Film Institute have made available a large selection of films about the NHS for free.

With films going back to the NHS's foundation in 1948, there is a wide range of material covering a selection of health related topics.

From the creation of the NHS and the wider welfare state in the 1940s, this is a fascinating (and sometimes amusing) collection of films including historical snippets, instructional and training items, documentaries, animated items and the ever-popular public information film (sometimes featuring some "interesting" period hairstyles and clothes).

These are as much a document of their times as they are of the NHS and the NHS on Film collection is well worth a look.

NHS on Film free at the BFI