Library Resources for Nutrition & Hydration Week 2025

Library Services have put together a list of all our nutrition, dietetics and hydration resources to support Nutrition & Hydration week, 17th - 23rd March 2025! 

Check out the full list here. 

All resources are free to borrow, you just need to sign up as a library member, which is free for all Trust staff and placement students. To find out more please contact your local library team: 

Berrywood Library: 03000 271585 berrywoodlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk

Isebrook Library: 03000 272095 isebrooklibrary@nhft.nhs.uk 

NGH Library: 01604 545929 richmondlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk 

All I want for Christmas is…. a whole library of e-books!!

 Are you looking to catch up on some reading but don’t have time to get into the library?

Do you like the idea of having information at your fingertips but don’t want to carry heavy textbooks around?

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Then look no further! Did you know that we have access to over 1,800 e-books and the collection is being updated every month? This fantastic collection includes:

-          The Oxford Medical and Nursing Handbooks and the Oxford Specialist Handbooks – check out the full list here.

-          A huge range of textbooks from the publisher Elsevier, made available to you through the library’s subscription to ClinicalKey. You can see what is available here.

-         Certain key titles including the Royal Marsden Manual and the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines.

-          In addition to clinical titles, we have e-books on topical issues such as wellbeing and resilience, sustainability, and a range of diversity topics.

We think there really is something here for everyone! And it’s all free for you to access, you just need to set up an OpenAthens account, which you can do from this page in just a few short steps: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/

Once your account is set up, you can browse our full e-books collection here. Just click on the “Click here to access this book” link under book details and enter your OpenAthens username and password when prompted.

If you have any questions please contact one of our libraries:

berrywoodlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk 03000 271585

isebrooklibrary@nhft.nhs.uk 03000 272095

richmondlibrary@nhft.nhs.uk 01604 545929

Merry Christmas from the Library team!

A reading list for Pride Month

June is Pride Month and to celebrate we have put together a reading list of all the resources we have to support our LGBTQ+ colleagues, patients and the wider community.

These are available for all staff and students in Northamptonshire Healthcare and Northampton General Hospital to borrow from the libraries.

The list contains a mixture of clinical, management and healthcare related titles (both in print and electronic), as well as fiction and nonfiction books from our leisure reading collections with an LGBTQ+ theme.

You can find the reading list on our catalogue here.

The EBSCO mobile app - information on the move

The EBSCO mobile app is a new way for you to easily access high quality healthcare information on the go.

The app is a really useful tool for searching, providing quick and easy access to content wherever you are. From one search box you can search across library resources and online content including journal articles, guidelines, e-books, evidence summaries and more.

It features simple, mobile-friendly displays for searching, scanning results, liking, and sharing. 

You can also save content into your folder which will then be accessible on the EBSCO platform, meaning you can synchronise your searches and saved information automatically across multiple devices.

To get you started we have created a quick guide to the app, covering setting up and logging in, as well as searching and saving content. You can find on our website here.

EBSCO also have a video tutorial which you can find on YouTube.

The only other thing you will need is an OpenAthens password, and if you don't already have one, it is the work of a few minutes to register online at https://openathens.nice.org.uk/.

The app is free to download and available on Google Play for Android devices and Apple's App Store for iOS, or you can scan the QR code below.

If you have any questions or need any help with the EBSCO app, or any other library resources, we'd be happy to help...

Updated Clinical Key app now available

An updated version of the Clinical Key mobile app is now available.

Clinical Key is an easy to use resource with a wealth of content including:

• Over 800 full text electronic journals, including the complete Lancet series of titles
• Over 960 full text electronic books
• Over 1,300 clinical overviews giving comprehensive clinical topic summaries 
• Over 2,500 drug monographs by Gold Standard
• Over 300 procedures consult topics
• Clinical guidelines (including NICE)
• Videos and other multimedia content
• Patient education materials in a variety of languages

Clinical Key also allows you to:

• Capture the information you use to develop CME credits
• Create presentations from multimedia content
• Store favourite items for easy access
• Save searches

The enhanced and redesigned mobile app is available now for iOS (Apple) and Android devices. There is a quick reference sheet for guidance on how to download, authenticate and optimize the mobile experience.

You can also access Clinical Key online with a web browser.

For both App and online access, you will need a trust OpenAthens account. NHFT and NGH staff and students on placement can register for one here https://openathens.nice.org.uk/.

Access the Oxford Handbooks (and more) online

Did you know, you can access over 250 titles from Oxford University Press online? This includes the Oxford Handbooks and Oxford Specialist Handbooks. Recent additions to the collections include the latest editions of popular titles such as Drugs in palliative care, Oxford handbook of clinical surgery and Training in ophthalmology, and new titles such as Oxford clinical guidelines: newly qualified doctor, Handbook of patient safety and the Oxford handbook of sleep medicine.

You can view the full selection of titles available via our catalogue or via the NHS OUP site. To access the books you will need to login with your OpenAthens username and password. If you don’t have an account you can register for one here.

Changes to OpenAthens password requirements

OpenAthens is the key to unlocking access to all of the electronic content available to you purchased by the Library Service, and nationally by Health Education England.

An OA account provides you with access to electronic books and journals, databases and other key evidence resources. 

OA have recently changed their password requirements for all user accounts to align with UK National Cyber Security Council guidance. Having nudged users to update their passwords over the last few months, this is now mandatory: everyone with a non-compliant password must update it at login.

Here is some guidance you can use if you are struggling to choose a suitable password:

• password length must be between 10 and 100 charact
  ers and pass a strength assessment
• passwords are case sensitive, and just about any character from any language is fine, including spaces (if it's on the keyboard you're using it should be ok)
• one option is to use a passphrase – a string of three random words such as vaseclockbox (think along the lines of what3words)

Passwords cannot:

• be the same as the username
• contain words known by hackers to be commonly used such as 'password' or 'letmein'
• contain non-printable characters such as control codes

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

New eBooks collections available

The Library Service has recently added two new collections of electronic books to our catalogue:

Resilience and Wellbeing collection – books looking at emotional resilience, mental wellbeing, self-care and combatting stress, with a focus on the healthcare setting. Find them on our catalogue here.

Primary Care collection – a selection of books from a primary care perspective, covering topics including diabetes, dermatology, general practice, Covid-19 and more. Find them on our catalogue here.

To access the collections you will need an NHS OpenAthens account. If you don't already have one you can register online here https://openathens.nice.org.uk.

We also have a brief guide to the registration process if you have any problems, and of course you can also contact us if you need any help.

NHS Knowledge and Libraries Awareness Week 2022 #KLSNAW – Quick and easy access to digital knowledge resources part 2

Do you know you have access to lots of eBooks? Including:

The Maudsley: prescribing guidelines in psychiatry (2021) and Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures (RMM)?

 

Check Clinical Key – comprehensive point of care medical evidence, eJournals, eBooks, topic synopsis and more all in one place. Login with NHS OpenAthens (App available).

 

Try BMJ Best Practice – a trusted point of care resource for confirming your knowledge, supporting your decisions, reassuring you. Login with NHS OpenAthens (App available).

 

To access these and much more just register for an NHS OpenAthens account, the key to online resources!

 

Need some help? Library staff are on hand to help with:

-       Queries relating to setting up your OpenAthens account

-       Getting started with using the resources

Please contact us for more information or help with accessing Apps.

Do you use NHS eBooks? HEE are after your views.

Health Education England are conducting a survey to find out what NHS staff need from electronic books provided by NHS Library Services.

If you are a user of our eBook collections, or have a view on the provision of eBooks to the NHS, please complete this short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BDDTRRY 

It will take no more than 10 minutes of your time and help support local library services and Health Education England to ensure the content you need is available to support your work and learning.

New Fast Facts collection of eBooks available

The Library has a new collection of electronic books from Karger which they have made available for free to NHS staff and students.

The Fast Facts titles are concise, informative guides covering a wide variety of clinical areas:

• Over 100 topics covered from cardiology, diabetes and mental health to rare diseases
• Authored by international key opinion leaders 
• 20+ new titles added each year

As with most of our electronic resources, you will need to use your OpenAthens account to access this collection. If you don't have one, NHFT and NGH staff, as well as attached students, can register online in just a few minutes using this link https://openathens.nice.org.uk/.

You can find the whole Fast Facts collection on our catalogue via this link.

New collection of sustainability eBooks available

The Library Service has a new collection of electronic books themed around sustainability, climate change and green issues.

As well as general principles of sustainability, the books cover healthcare, the use of energy, transport, corporate governance, purchasing and supply chains, and more.

You can find them all on our catalogue here.

To access the collection you will need an NHS OpenAthens account. If you don't already have one you can register online here https://openathens.nice.org.uk.

We also have a brief guide to the registration process if you have any problems, and of course you can also contact us if you need any help.

A new way to find the evidence you need - the NHS Library and Knowledge Hub

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects NHS staff and learners seamlessly to a range of high quality knowledge and evidence resources all in one place.

Funded by Health Education England, the Hub is a single gateway and offers an intuitive search experience for quick searches and options for in-depth searches.

On it you can find:

• Thousands of electronic journals you can search or browse
• Basic, advanced and PICO searching options
• books and e-publications including OUP handbooks
• one-click access to full-text, request a copy or contact an NHS library
• clinical decision support tools such as BMJ Best Practice
• NICE pathways and guidelines
• databases like Medline, EMBASE and CINAHL

Full access is free to all NHS staff and learners through their NHS OpenAthens account.

If you haven’t got an OpenAthens account you can register for online in just a few minutes.

To access the Knowledge and Library Hub, go to http://library.nhs.uk/knowledgehub, click “Start your search” and log in with your OpenAthens account via the yellow link at the top of the page (to ensure you can access all of our content).

Want to know more? 

We have a short guide to getting the most from the hub on our website here.

There is also a handy short tutorial video on YouTube giving an overview of how the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub works. Of course, you can always contact us if you have questions.

New edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry available online

The recently published 14th edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is now available online via this link.

The Guidelines are an evidence-based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents.

Covering both common and complex prescribing situations encountered in day-to-day clinical practice, this comprehensive resource provides expert guidance on drug choice, minimum and maximum doses, adverse effects, switching medications, prescribing for special patient groups, and more. 

The book is available to read online and you can also download individual chapters as .PDF files.

To access the guidelines you will need an OpenAthens password. If you don't already have one, NHFT and NGH staff and students can register online here. 

Allied Health Professions Day Thursday 14th October 2021

Allied Health Professions day takes place on Thursday the 14th of October. 

To celebrate the library service has put together a resource guide aimed at Allied Health Professionals with a wide variety of different resources to support clinical practice, education and research.

The guide covers a selection of the different resources the library has to support AHPs in lots of different disciplines. In it you'll find links to electronic journals, databases, books and relevant organisations.

If you are a physiotherapist, OT, podiatrist, radiographer, speech therapist or one of the many other varieties of AHP, we hope you'll find it useful.

You can find the guide on our website here.

Oxford specialist handbooks now available online

The Library Service has purchased the complete collection of Oxford Specialist Handbooks online (84 titles in total).

https://pages.oup.com/hee

This popular series includes titles on:

• Addiction
• Anaesthesia
• Cardiology and heart disease
• Dementia
• End of life and palliative care
• Psychiatry and mental health
• Respiratory critical care
• Surgery
• ...and more

To access the collection go to https://pages.oup.com/hee and sign in with your OpenAthens account (if you don't have an OpenAthens account, NHFT and NGH staff and students can register online for one here).

Once you have logged in you will be able to see al the Specialist Handbooks, as well as other titles from OUP covering a wide range of healthcare related topics.

You can also find these, all our other eBooks, and our print books, on our catalogue.

Large new collection of eBooks now available

The Library Service now has access to a new collection of eBooks via the Kortext platform which you can access here https://read.kortext.com/.

Funded by Health Education England, the collection consists of 141 titles covering a broad spectrum of health care including:

• Anatomy and physiology
• "At a Glance" series titles 
• Leadership and management
  
• Medicine
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Nursing and midwifery
• Prescribing and pharmacology
• Research
• Surgery

As with all of our eBooks, you can also find them on our catalogue here. 

You can access Kortext with your OpenAthens password (and if you don't have one you can register online 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).

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.

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.