Apps & electronic resources drop-in session Wednesday 23rd January

Did you know the library has a number of different free apps available to give you easy access to lots of our electronic content?

Do you want to know more about accessing electronic journals, books or databases? Have you had problems with registering for an OpenAthens password? We can help.

The library is holding an all day drop-in session on Wednesday the 23rd of January, at the Richmond Library, Northampton General Hospital.

Come along and find out about:

• BrowZine
• Clinical Key app (android / Apple)
• UptoDate
• The Library's Bookmyne app (android / Apple)
• Royal Marsden Manual of Clincial Nursing Procedures 
• OpenAthens passwords
• Accessing electronic journals and books
• Databases

One of our professional librarians will be available all day and you can also bring along any problems or questions you may have about anything to do with making the best use of our electronic resources (or indeed anything else library-related).

There will also be refreshments available and a few freebies for you to take away too.

If you have any questions please contact the Library. We'd be 'appy to see you on the 23rd (sorry)...

Stay up-to-date with some of your favourite journals with the Ovid Today app

Did you know you can get access to all the electronic journals the library gets from Ovid through a single free iPad app?

Ovid Today lets you browse, read and save your favourite journals directly from your iPad. With Ovid Today you can:

• Stay up to date with the very latest journal content (including publications ahead of print
• Access 6 months worth of rolling content
• Search for and select your favourite Ovid journals to follow
• Browse specialisms and journal tables of contents
• Read a PDF of any article
• Create a personal reading list and add articles to review later

To get started with Ovid Today simply download the app from iTunes (it is not currently available for Android devices). If you are a registered member of library you will then need to contact us to obtain the OvidSP ID and password to gain access to our journals. If you are not registered with us you will need to come into the library.

Once your account is set up you will be ready to start adding the journal titles you are interested in to your carousel, and away you go...

The titles you can currently access via the app include:

• A&A Case Reports 
• AJN, American Journal of Nursing 
• Anesthesia & Analgesia 
• Anesthesiology 
• Annals of Surgery 
• Bone & Joint Journal 
• BJS, British Journal of Surgery 
• Cancer Nursing 
• Case Connector 
• Circulation 
• Critical Care Medicine 
• Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 
• Essential Surgical Techniques 
• European Eating Disorders Review 
• Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (Am) 
• Journal of ECT 
• Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery 
• Neurology 
• Neurology Clinical Practice 
• Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation 
• Obstetrics & Gynecology 
• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 
• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open 
• Spine 
• Stroke