Apps & electronic resources drop-in session, 15th November

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 a drop-in session between 12 and 2 on Wednesday the 15th of November, in Seminar Room 1, Cripps Postgraduate Centre, Northampton General Hospital.

Come along and find out about:

• UpToDate Anywhere app (android / Apple)
• ClinicalKey app (android / Apple)
• The Library's Bookmyne app (android / Apple)
• OvidToday app for accessing current issues of Ovid journals (android / Apple)
• The new BNF (incorporating the BNFC) app (android / Apple)
• Royal Marsden Manual of Clincial Nursing Procedures 
• Medical Masterclass
• OpenAthens passwords
• Accessing electronic journals and books
• Databases

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).

To save time (and your data!), please pre-install the app(s) you are interest in on your device and we would be happy to help you set them up during the session.

If you have any questions please contact the Library. We'd be 'appy to see you on the 15th...

Late opening at Berrywood & Isebrook libraries on the 7th November

Due to staff training Berrywood Library will not be staffed until 10:45 on Tuesday the 7th of November (out of hours access is available as normal to registered members).

Isebrook Library will open at 11.15.

The Richmond Library at Northampton General will be staffed as normal.

Apologies for any inconvenience. 

Web site of the month: Fingertips: health and wellbeing indicators

Produced by Public Health England, the Fingertips site contains a broad selection of health profiles
containing a large number of statistical indicators across a range of health and wellbeing themes.

The profiles allow you to:

• Browse indicators nationally, regionally or down to individual CCG level
• Benchmark local data against regional or national averages
• Export the data 

The themes are organised by national public health priorities such as AMR (antimicrobial resistance), diabetes, mental health or sexual and reproductive health.

How does the NHS work?

The King's Fund have created a short video, How does the NHS work? An alternative guide, to give a snapshot of how the NHS is currently structured and the changes it is currently working on to improve both patient care and sustainability.

The guide gives you a clear overview of the structure of the NHS in 2017 and the wide variety of organisations that are involved in the management and inspection of services and the care of patients, as well as current changes and developments.

If you have every wondered what an STP or ACS is, or want to know more about the Five Year Forward View, this short animation will give you the answers.

Advanced warning - Richmond Library PC replacement

Good news! All of our public workstations at the Richmond Library, Northampton General Hospital are going to be replaced with new computers.

There will inevitably be some disruption when this work happens, but it does mean our users should get greatly improved performance from all of our computers.

We will be letting everyone know as soon as we have a confirmed date for the replacement to start.

The great library book sale starts Monday 16th October

It's back! We are holding a sale of books recently withdrawn from our stock, starting at 9 am on Monday the 16th of October at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries.

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.

There are some real bargains to be had but they do tend to sell quickly so we advise you to get here early in the week for maximum choice. Everything must go!

And if you like to buy new books (or anything else), don't forget you can also support the library if you shop at Amazon.

Web site of the month: Stoptober

Following on from the recent announcement from Public Health England that quitting success rates are at their highest level for a decade, come the Stoptober campaign.

The Stoptober website is full of information and resources to aiming to give smokers the best possible chance of quitting.

The site features information on stop smoking medicines and electronic cigarettes as well as technological solutions like the Stoptober App, Facebook Messenger chat and daily support by email, as well as links to local face-to-face support.

The Stoptober site is a really useful site for anyone thinking of quitting and you even have the option of announcing your intention to give up via the social media sharing options.

Given that  if you stop smoking for 28 days you are 5 times more likely to quit for good, Stoptober is the perfect opportunity to start stopping for good...

Completed 100 day journey - reflection on the Global Challenge

Phew! The Library Stampers have completed the 100 day Global Challenge so time to soak those aching feet in a big bowl of water and contemplate our achievements over a nice cuppa.

Collectively we covered 3,356 miles by walking, swimming or cycling and we arrived at our final location of Warsaw in Poland…which has the world’s tallest four faced clock tower!

Along the way we completed several mini challenges for example taking 75,000, 100,000 or 125,000 steps in 5 days. Several of our team even completed over 1 million steps each and as a team we completed over 7 million steps; that’s a lot of walking!

Reflecting back on the Challenge, it was fun to be part of a team and to give and receive encouragement from others. It definitely raised awareness of how much (or how little) exercise/walking some of us were doing each day however sometimes it was quite a challenge to fit in walking into each day. So, the experience in three words? Motivating, challenging, fun.

Where do we go from here? Find a balance between exercise, work and personal commitments so that fitness and general wellbeing are increased and to do less sofa surfing!

All libraries unstaffed Monday the 2nd of October

Due to a trust event, all the libraries will be unstaffed for the day on Monday the 2nd of October.

Access will still be available to registered members at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries via our swipe card system. Isebrook library will be unavailable.

All sites will reopen as usual on Tuesday the 3rd.

Apologies for any inconvenience. 

To sleep perchance... New blog on sleep research.

Interested in the latest research on sleep and sleeplessness? There is a brand new blog covering just this topic.

The Sleep Bulletin is produced by the Joint Education & Training library at Mid Cheshire Hospitals and will feature research articles around this topic. There isn't huge amounts of content on the blog yet but it will grow over time and is well worth a look if you have a professional (or personal) interest in sleep and insomnia.

New books added to Clinical Key

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

Books

• Abernathy’s Surgical Secrets (Harken, Alden) 7th ed
• Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases (Bland, Kirby) 5th ed
• Diagnostic Ultrasound (Rumack, Carol) 5th ed
• Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (Jacobson, Jon) 3rd ed
• Genomic and Precision Medicine: Foundations, Translation, and Implementation (Ginsburg, Geoffrey) 3rd ed; New to CK
• Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice (Hoffman, Ronald) 7th ed
• Obstetric Imaging: Fetal Diagnosis and Care (Copel, Joshua) 2nd ed
• The Pituitary (Melmed, Shlomo) 4th ed
• Textbook of Diagnostic Sonography (Hagen-Ansert, Sandra) 8th ed
• Ultrasound Guided Musculoskeletal Injections (Allen, Gina) 1st 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

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: Jane (Journal Author Name Estimator)

Have you been conducting research or written a paper but have no idea where to get it published? Jane can help.

Jane, or to give the site its full name, Journal/Author Name Estimator, is an easy to use tool that can find journals that publish the sort of content you have written about.

http://jane.biosemantics.org/

Simply enter the title or abstract from your work (you can also search by keywords) into the search box and Jane will compare your text with the millions of articles indexed in Medline and recommend the journals which best match your area of interest.

Not only that, you can also use Jane to find relevant articles to cite in your paper by doing the same thing. You can also search for authors who's work best matches your area of interest.

Jane does not retain the information you supply for longer than it needs it to return a list of results. If you are worried about protecting your work there is also a scramble button. This arranges your content into alphabetical order, rendering it very hard to read for anyone else trying to intercept it, but making no difference to the search functionality.

Jane is a simple, versatile tool that is really helpful for those considering writing an article for publication, as well as those looking for a publisher.