Christmas cover at the libraries.

Sadly, will are still unable to open the physical library spaces. 

However, library staff will be available at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries throughout the Christmas period (except for the bank holidays) to deal with any enquires, provide literature searches, supply articles, loan books and to help with all things library related.

Isebrook Library will be unstaffed from Friday the 24th of December until Friday the 1st of January. Please contact one of the other sites during this time if you need any help.

We would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year. We look forward to seeing you in 2021.

BMJ Case Reports now available to staff at Northampton General Hospital

Northampton General Hospital has taken out an annual institutional subscription to BMJ Case Reports that allows staff to submit case reports to the journal for publication at no cost to themselves.

BMJ Case Reports is an educational resource bringing together more than 15000 peer reviewed case reports covering all disciplines, allowing health professionals to learn from real cases. 

To view the journal you will need an NGH OpenAthens account (register here or contact the library for help) or see the 10th anniversary booklet for examples of the types of cases that they publish.

If you would like to submit a case report please contact the Richmond Library for the NGH Fellowship code and we will send you information from the BMJ on writing a case report and the submission process.

Library sites reopening postponed (but we are still doing everything else)

The libraries at Berrywood Hospital, Isebrook Hospital and Northampton General Hospital were due to open again to visitors on Monday 9th November. 

However due to the national lockdown and the increase in the NHS alert level, the Trust Incident Control Centre has decided that re-opening at the present moment could potentially increase the risk of covid transmission and has instructed us to postpone.

We do have everything in place to open again and are ready to go as soon as we are given the all clear. 

We know that many of you have been wanting to use the study space the libraries provide and we thank you for your patience while we have done risk assessments and put in place the measures needed to keep you and the library staff safe.

We’re sorry for the extra delay as we were looking forward to welcoming you back.

In the meantime we continue to provide all our other services virtually: book loans; the supply of  journal articles; training; literature searching etc.

If you have any questions at all about our services or the re-opening please contact one of the libraries.

A reading list in support of Black History Month

In support of Black History Month, we have put together a reading list of titles the library has in stock. The list covers race and racism, fiction from black authors, nonfiction titles from our leisure reading collection as well as health care related books.

On the list you'll find titles like "Overcoming everyday racism" and David Olusoga's "Black and British: a forgotten history" as well as fiction from black authors like Marlon James and Akwaeke Emezi (writer of the excellent "Freshwater"), along side biographies, like those of  Walter Tull and Michelle Obama. We also have classics like "The Colour Purple", "Beloved" and "If Beale Street Could Talk", books on cookery, as well as more clinically focused titles. We hope there is something for everyone on the list.

You can find the reading list on our catalogue here.

Mind the gap: a handbook of clinical signs in black and brown skin

Mind the gap is a free, downloadable UK ebook. It offers images of conditions on black and brown skin (that are frequently omitted from medical text books) and is a useful support for diagnosing conditions in people from a BME background.

The book was produced by Black and Brown Skin as a tool to support medical education when treating patients with darker skin "to aid earlier and more accurate diagnosis, increased patient satisfaction and greater confidence for healthcare professionals when treating people of colour" (from the web site).

iHealth Facts - health claims fact checked

iHealth Facts is a web site aimed at the public where you can quickly check on how reliable health related claims are and what the evidence is to support them.

The site also aims to help the public to use evidence to make their own health related decisions.

You can use the site to search for any health related question, as well as seeing the reply to previous enquiries.

Questions are answered with a simple summary, as well as having links to the research and an overview of the evidence used.

The site is run by Health Research Board-Trials Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN), Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland.

What's new on Clinical Key - new clinical overviews, journal 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:

• Sarcoidosis
• Plague

These Clinical Overviews have been updated with latest evidence:

• Appendicitis
• Down syndrome
• Obesity in children
• Pancreatic cancer
• Urinary tract infection in children

Journal

• The European Journal of Psychiatry

Books

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

• Clinical Chemistry (Marshall, William J.) 9th ed
•  Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery (Flint, Paul W.) 7th ed
• Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects (Fraunfelder, Frederick “Fritz” T.) 8th ed
• Endodontics: Principles and Practice (Torabinejad, Mahmoud) 6th ed
• Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2021 (Ferri, Fred F.) 1st ed
• Handbook of Local Anesthesia (Malamed, Stanley F.) 7th ed; New to CK 
• Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine (Feather, Adam) 10th ed
• Moore’s Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Moore, Wesley S.) 9th ed
• Muscle Biopsy (Dubowitz, Victor) 5th ed
• Nunn and Lumb’s Applied Respiratory Physiology (Lumb, Andrew) 9th ed
• Pain Care Essentials and Innovations (Pangarkar, Sanjong) 1st ed; New to CK
• Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (Kumar, Vinay) 10th ed
• Spine Secrets (Devlin, Vincent J.) 3rd ed
• Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Otto, Catherine M.) 5th ed
• Weir & Abrahams’ Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy (Spratt, Jonathan D.) 6th ed

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.

We are working on reopening

The Library Service is working towards reopening the physical library sites. 

The Trust is currently undertaking risk assessments of the library spaces for reopening and once this has been completed, action plans will be produced to put in place all the measures necessary to allow us to safely welcome our users back.

We are still providing all of our services remotely, so if you need a book or journal article, a literature search, training or anything else please contact us and we will endeavour to help.

We hope to see you soon.

Free access to Oxford Medicine Online

https://oxfordmedicine.com/

Oxford University Press have offered free access to the entirety of Oxford Medicine Online until the end of June to support the NHS during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Oxford Medicine Online contains a large amount of titles from OUP, all accessible via your OpenAthens log in.

We have also added the books with links to the full text to our library catalogue to make them easy to find (and of course, you can find all of our other stock on the catalogue too).

Just click the link in the catalogue record, scroll and click on ‘Sign in via your institution’ on the left hand side then select ‘NHS in England’ to log in with your NHS OpenAthens account. If you don't have an NHS OpenAthens account, you can register online for one here.

OUP have also put together a free selection of resources, journal articles and book chapters specifically on COVID-19, coronaviruses and related subjects which you can find here. 

Libraries closed to visitors but still providing services

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak all the libraries are now closed to visitors. This includes out of hours access.

However, library staff are still working to provide you with a service and we are available if you need:

• A literature search 
• A journal article 
• A book or other document
• Help with using databases or accessing electronic journals
• Anything else library related...

Please contact one of the libraries and we will do our best to give you what you need.

You can also access our (new) catalogue online at https://nhft.koha-ptfs.co.uk/ which will show you everything we have in stock and provide links to all of  the ebooks we have which you can access online with your OpenAthens password (and if you don't have one of those you can register for one here).

You can find information about all the services we offer on our web site, including links to journals, databases, the Royal Marsden Manual and other ebooks and everything else we provide.

All library training cancelled

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (of which Library Services is a part) has decided that all training should be cancelled until at least the end of June as part of their response to the COVID-19 situation.

We are sorry that we can no longer provide this training but there are some online alternatives that you could use.

Health Education England have provided an online course in planning a search and using the Healthcare Databases (HDAS) to carry it out. You can do the training without logging in but if you do it will not record your progress. If you wish to log in you can use an NHS OpenAthens account.

You will also need an OpenAthens account to use the NHS databases for searching for journal articles (module 7). If you do not have one you can register from here. If you already have an account but have problems with it please contact the library.

Once on the HDAS site there is more help available from these 2 pages: https://hdas.nice.org.uk/help/ and https://www.nice.org.uk/about/nice-communities/library-and-knowledge-services-staff/training-materials (which includes links to help videos on YouTube).

If you need a work-related literature search done then you can also contact the library and ask us to do that for you.

There is an online tutorial on critical appraisal. This covers RCTs, systematic reviews and economic evaluations and in each case there is a tutorial and a paper that you can download to appraise and then check your answers against the ones on the site.

The Understanding Health Research site also has a tool which guides you through a series of questions to help you to review and interpret a published health research paper.

We hope these will help, but if you have any questions regarding training, literature searching or critical appraisal, please contact one of the libraries.

New edition of the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures now available

The new 10th edition of the Royal Marsden Manual is now available online (we will order print copies when they are published in May).

The Manual is nationally recognised as the essential guide to clinical nursing skills. The online edition is very easy to use, allowing you to search or browse through topic headings.

www.rmmonline.co.uk/

The fully updated 10th edition provides up-to-date, evidence-based clinical skills procedures related to essential aspects of patient care.

The procedures in the Manual are based on the latest research findings and advice from clinical experts, to enable students and qualified nurses to provide the best possible care. All procedures include the rationale for each action and the evidence used is graded to help nurses assess its validity.

You can access the manual without logging in by using the links on your trust's intranet:

• NHFT staff - go to the Library's page on the Staff Room and look under "External links"
• NGH staff - find it in the Quick links section under "Clinical" on the front page of The Street

Alternatively, you can access the Manual from anywhere with an Internet connection via the RMM site. Go to www.rmmonline.co.uk and log in using your OpenAthens account.  If you don't have one you can apply online here (NHS staff and attached students only). 

Please contact one of the libraries if you have any questions or need any help.

Advance warning of disruption to library services on the 16th and 17th March

Last year we took the decision to review our library management system (the software that runs our catalogue and allows us to issue and return books etc.). Following on from that process we decided to switch to a new system - Koha.

What does this mean for all our users?

There will be some disruption on the 16th and 17th of March to normal service while we transfer to Koha which means our catalogue will not be available.

What do you need to know now?

• If you need a list of books you have borrowed from us please print this (or ask staff for help) before March 13th. It will not be possible to provide you with a list after this date.
• The Bookmyne app will no longer work from March 16th.

Please contact one of the libraries if you have any questions.

Berrywood Library book sale starts Monday

"I got this absolute bargain at the Berrywood library sale"

We are holding a sale of books recently withdrawn from our stock, starting at 9 am on Monday the 2nd of March at the Berrywood Library.

On offer will be a variety of titles, including previous editions of textbooks as well as other items covering lots of different subjects and disciplines.

Costing just £1 or £2 each, you could find yourself a real bargain, but they do tend to sell quickly so we advise you to get here early in the week for maximum choice.

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 February:

• Babesiosis
• Chlamydia trachomatis infection
• Ganglion cyst

These Clinical Overviews have been updated with latest evidence:

• Bipolar disorder
• E-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury
• Hypertension
• Obesity in adults
• Postpartum depression

Books

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

• Comprehensive Dermatologic Drug Therapy (Wolverton, Stephen) 4th ed
• Cytology (Cibas, Edmund) 5th ed
• Dermoscopy: The Essentials (Soyer, H. Peter) 3rd ed
• Diagnostic Histopathology of Tumors (Fletcher, Christopher) 5th ed
• Gray’s Surgical Anatomy (Brennan, Peter) 1st ed;  New to CK
• Gynecologic Pathology: A Volume in Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (Nucci, Marisa) 2nd ed
• Habif’s Clinical Dermatology (Dinulos, James) 7th ed
• JACC’s Imaging Cases in Cardiovascular Intervention (King, Spencer) 1st ed; New to CK
• Sobotta Atlas of Anatomy, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Paulsen, Friedrich) 16th ed
• Sobotta Tables of Muscles, Joints and Nerves (Paulsen, Friedrich) 2nd ed; New to CK
• Surgery of the Salivary Glands (Witt, Robert) 1st ed; New to CK
• Weedon’s Skin Pathology (Patterson, James) 5th ed

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.

Richmond Library book sale starts Monday

We are holding a sale of books recently withdrawn from our stock, starting at 9 am on Monday the 17th of February at the Richmond Library.

On offer will be a variety of titles, including previous editions of textbooks as well as other items covering lots of different subjects and disciplines.

Costing just £1 or £2 each, you could find yourself a real bargain, but they do tend to sell quickly so we advise you to get here early in the week for maximum choice

Coronavirus (COVID-19) information

In light of the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 virus we have put together a short list of useful resources.

Department of Health and Social Care / Public Health England:

• Coronavirus latest news and announcements
• Coronavirus: latest information and advice for the public
• Coronavirus action plan
• NHS informaton on coronavirus
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): list of all guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): UK government response

In the light of the current outbreak, a number of publishers have made information on the virus freely available.

Journal articles and research:

• BMJ: Coronavirus: latest news and resources
• BMJ Best Practice: Covid-19 
• Elsevier: Novel Coronavirus Information Centre has clinical guidance, patient education material and nursing care plans in English and Mandarin
• The Lancet: Coronavirus Hub
• New England Journal of Medicine: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
• Springer Nature: Novel Coronavirus (2019CoV)  
• Wiley: Coronavirus Research

Other useful information:

• Public Health England Library and Knowledge Service Finding the evidence: Coronavirus (Links to resources, research and updates)
• CDC: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• China CDC: Tracking the Epidemic Number of cases and deaths (in English) 
• World Health Organization: Coronavirus

News sources:

• BBC News: Coronavirus Outbreak
• CNN: Coronavirus News
• FullFact: Facts on Wuhan coronavirus (Debunking fake news stories about the outbreak)
• The Guardian: Coronavirus Outbreak

Library closures Monday 27th January

"This new system is super hi-tech" 

All the libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 27th of January because of staff training.

We are moving to a new library management system and the whole team will be spending the day getting to grips with the new catalogue, finding out how to issue, return and reserve books etc., before we go live towards the end of March (more on that later).

24 hour access will be available to registered users as normal at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries, but Isebrook Library will be closed for the day.

Apologies for any inconvenience. 

What's new on Clinical Key - new clinical overviews, journals 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 January:

• E-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury
• Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome
• Myocarditis
• Strongyloidiasis

These Clinical Overviews have been updated with latest evidence:

• Fibromyalgia
• Anaphylaxis
• Community-acquired pneumonia in adults
• HIV infection and AIDS in adults
• Sepsis
• Urinary tract infection in children

Journals

These titles have been added this month

• International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2014 to present
• Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 2014 to present
• One Health 2015 to present 
• Radiology of Infectious Diseases 2014 to present

Books

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

• Felson’s Principles of Chest Roentgenology (Goodman, Lawrence) 5th ed 
• Fracture Management for Primary Care and Emergency Medicine (Eiff, M. Patrice) 4th ed

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.

New electronic journals collection available

Mark Allen Healthcare Complete

The Library Service has purchased a new collection of electronic journals for 2020.

Featuring over 65,000 articles across 26 titles, the Mark Allen Healthcare Complete collection is aimed at nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.

The titles available in the collection include:

• British Journal of Community Nursing
• British Journal of Healthcare Assistants
• British Journal of Healthcare Management
• British Journal of Mental Health Nursing
• British Journal of Midwifery
• British Journal of Nursing
• Dental Nursing
• International Journal of Palliative Nursing
• International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation
• Journal of Health Visiting
• Journal of Prescribing Practice (formerly Nurse Prescribing)
• + 15 others

For a full list of titles available see the MAH Collection poster online.

To access any of the individual titles from the MAH Complete collection you can:

• Go the the NICE Evidence Services Journals A-Z and search for the title you want
• Go the the Mark Allen Online Library and browse or search for titles 

You can also find links to all the MAH Complete content if you undertake a search on a topic using HDAS (the healthcare databases).

For any of these options you will need an OpenAthens password to access these (and thousands more) electronic journals. If you don't already have one you can register online for an account.

Please contact one of the libraries if you have any questions about accessing the collection. 

Need information on patient experience? Try the Healthwatch national reports library

Healthwatch National Reports Library Tool

Healthwatch have created a library of reports produced by every local Heathwatch in every part of the country.

Although it is still in development, the library features a wealth of patient experience information in over 2000 reports, covering Primary Care, Secondary Care, Urgent and Emergency Care, Social Care, Mental Health and Community Services.

The reports are searchable by title or keyword, you can specify what NHS sector you are interested in, and limit by date. You can also look for specific types of report, evidence of impact and and you can even browse by locality (you can find all the reports for Northamptonshire here).

Healthwatch have created a really useful tool and if you need information on patient experience it is a great way to see what is happening up and down the country.