Disruption to OpenAthens access Thursday 3rd of July

EduServ are undertaking some essential maintenance to the OpenAthens system on July 3rd between 7:00 am and 11:00 am.

During this time there are likely to be periods of disruption and you may find you are unable to register for an OpenAthens account, or use your account to access databases and journals online.

Web site of the month: TRIP

Here at the Library Service we have been fans of the TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice) database for many years.

TRIP is a UK clinical search engine designed to allow clinicians to find the best evidence to answer their clinical questions.

TRIP has an easy to use simple search, but also offers two other ways to search in a more sophisticated way.

The advanced search option is very similar to the same feature in Google and allows you to combine search terms in different ways to find the information you want (including phrase searching, limiting by year and excluding words).

The PICO (Patient/Population Intervention Comparison Outcome) interface allows you easily break your search down into its most important elements which is really useful when answering a clinical question.

TRIP's PICO search 

Once you have found your results TRIP offers different filters so you can further narrow down your results by type of evidence (systematic reviews, guidelines, primary research etc).

As well as searching for evidence, TRIP searches other sorts of content which is displayed in your results including images, videos, education/CPD material, information for patients and news items. Each is displayed on its own tab, again allowing easy filtering of your results.

TRIP is free to use and doesn't require any passwords, but there are some  advantages to logging in to it (which you can do via Facebook or Twitter, as well as setting up your own account manually).

If you add Northamptonshire Healthcare or Northampton General Hospital as your organisation when you set up your account, you will be able to click through any links to journal articles and see if you can access them via the Library Service's electronic holdings (you will still need to log in with your Open Athens account to access the actual article).

Once you have signed in, TRIP will create a timeline of your activity on the site so you can easily revisit any searches you have previously undertaken. You can even export your timeline as a .PDF file to use it as evidence of CPD.

TRIP is a great resource, easy to use, accurate, fast and much more flexible than the NICE Evidence Services site, offering more sophisticated searching and better personalisation.

You can find TRIP at www.tripdatabase.com

June Eyes on Evidence from NICE

Eyes on Evidence is a free monthly bulletin from NICE Evidence Services which reviews significant new
evidence as it emerges and what this might mean for current practice.

In the June issue you can find:

• Acid-suppressive drugs and oesophageal adenocarinoma in Barrett's oesophagus
• Prescriptions for anxiolytics and hypnotics and risk of death
• Assessment and treatment of dementia in older adults
• Bedtime schedules and children's cognition and behaviour
• Trained glycaemia alert dogs for people with type 1 diabetes 

You can find all the previous issues of Eyes on Evidence or subscribe to receive the bulletin by email on the NICE Evidence Services site.

There are also three new Evidence Updates highlighting new information worth considering along side current guidance:

• Autism in adults (NICE Guideline 142)
• Opioids in palliative care (NICE Guideline 140)
• Physical activity and the environment (NICE Public Health Guideline 8)

Computer upgrades Friday the 13th June, Richmond Library, Northampton General Hospital.

IT are coming to continue the upgrade of our computers at the Richmond Library on Friday the 13th of June.

The process will inevitably lead to some disruption and there may be times when PCs are unavailable. We may also need to ask you to move between PCs to enable the technicians to get on with the upgrade.

Once the upgrade has finished all of our PCs will be moved from Windows XP to Windows 7, many of them will have been replaced with newer machines and there should be a significant improvement in performance and reliability.

We apologise of any inconvenience the process may cause, but the end result should deliver an improvement to our service.

Take advantage of the free NHS trial access to a large variety of electronic books and journals

As part of a national pilot, Springer Publishing have given NHS staff access to a huge amount of electronic resources.

With over 1900 electronic journals (all post 1997) and 40,000 electronic books (all post 2005) on offer, there is a lot of health related content available.

The Springer trial will last until the 31st of October 2014 (but may be extended)


How to access this content:

• Go to http://health.springer.com/ and click "Sign up/Log in" from the menu at the top right hand corner of the page
• Click on Institutional / Athens login
• From the "log in via Athens" dropdown, select NHS and then log in with your Athens account.

Other publishers are also involved with the pilot and you can also access content from:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science: 2 titles accessible here and here
• Annual Reviews in Biomedical Sciences: 26 titles accessible here
• Elsevier (via Science Direct): 150 titles (via Athens) accessible here
• IOP Publishing: 100 titles accessible here
• Nature Publishing Group: 37 titles (via Athens) accessible here
• Oxford University Press Medical Collection: 88 titles accessible here
• Royal Society of Chemistry: 57 titles accessible here

Except where noted above, access to these titles is only via the N3 network (i.e. you have to be using a computer on the NHS network). This content will be available until March 2015.

You can find all the journal titles by using the My Journals page, or by searching the healthcare databases (HDAS) on the NICE Evidence Services site.

If you don't already have an OpenAthens account, NHS staff and attached students can register online here.

The is a great boost to the electronic resources already on offer and we would encourage all of our users to take advantage of the trial while it is available.

Congestion and temporary changes to Bedford Road / Cheyne Walk junction at Northampton General Hospital

There are on going road works affecting the traffic around Northampton General Hospital on the A428 Bedford Road / Cheyne Walk / Victoria Promenade / Derngate junction. For more information see the national roadworks.org site.

From Thursday the 5th of June you will no longer be able to turn right from the Bedford Road into Cheyne Walk. This will remain in force until the end of the project.

The road works are liable to cause some severe congestion at times and journey times around the hospital and town centre may be much longer than normal. You can find live travel news from the BBC here.

The project is scheduled to finish on the 17th of October.



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Web site of the month: King's Fund reading lists

The Library Service at the King's Fund has produced a series of topic related reading lists. The lists are a really useful starting point if you are looking for information on a variety of NHS issues.

The topics covered are more managerial than clinical and include:

• Age discrimination
• End of life care
• Financial pressure in the NHS
• Inpatient mental health services
• Integrated care (partnership working and commissioning & contracting)
• NHS leadership
• Staff engagement
• Technology in healthcare
• ...and many more

Each contains links to full text online documents, as well as books, journal articles, reports and other relevant material.

You can see our own collection via the library catalogue, and  if you can't find an item from any of the lists just let us know and we'll source it for you. 

Disruption to EBSCO databases and journals Friday 30th May

EBSCO, who supply some of our databases (namely CINAHL and Health Business Elite) and electronic journals, will be carrying out a network upgrade between 4 pm and 6 pm on Friday the 30th of May.

During this time there may be intermittent access to some or all of their products and it may not be possible to access some of our e-journals or carry out any searches on the affected databases.

Library computer upgrades May 27th - 30th

All of the computers at each of the library sites are going to be upgraded.

The schedule for upgrades is as follows:

• Tuesday 27th May Berrywood Hospital Library
  
• Thursday 29th - Friday 30th May Richmond Library, Northampton General Hospital

The schedule is approximate and may change depending on any technical issues (Isebrook Library will be done on an ad hoc basis).

The process will inevitably lead to some disruption and there may be times when PCs are unavailable. We may also need to ask you to move between PCs to enable the technicians to get on with the upgrade.

Once the upgrade has finished all of our PCs will be moved from Windows XP to Windows 7, many of them will have been replaced with newer machines and there should be a significant improvement in performance and reliability.

We apologise of any inconvenience the process may cause, but the end result should deliver an improvement to our service.

Spring bank holiday closure

All the Libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 26th of May for the bank holiday.

24 hour access is available as usual to our registered members by swiping in using your library card at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 27th at all of our sites.

We have a new selection of books to review

The Bookworm by Spitzweg

We have just taken delivery of a new set of on approval books. The scheme gives you the chance to browse a selection of newly published titles covering a variety of health and related topics and let us know if there are any you would like us to buy for the Library's collection.

Our current selections are available at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries until the 20th of June. The topics covered include:

• Anaesthetics
• Autism
• Dermatology
• Epidemiology and medical statistics
• Mental health & psychiatry
• Neurology
• Nursing
• Paediatrics
• Psychology
• Public health
• ...and more

Of course, we are always happy to have recommendations for new stock on any health related topic.

You can also find a list of titles we have recently purchased (including previous on approvals) on our web site, and all of our stock via our catalogue.

Severe traffic disruption around Northampton General Hospital, Wednesday the 7th of May

There are going to be a large number of road closures on Wednesday the 7th of May in central Northampton that are liable to have a substantial impact on traffic around the hospital. The closures are for The Women's Tour cycling event which is coming to the town.

The road closures will start at 4.30 am in the town centre and last until 7 pm. Additionally, there will be more closures around the hospital itself between midday and 2 pm including Cheyne Walk, Victoria Promenade and the Bedford Road from the junction with Cliftonville Road (which will include the Midsummer Meadow car park).

The scale of the disruption is uncertain but you are advised to allow extra time onto your normal journey (see the advice from Northamptonshire Highways on how much time to allow).

For more details on the road closures see the Northamptonshire County Council web site.