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.