New books and journals added to Clinical Key

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

Journals

• Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 
• Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions
• JBJS Reviews;
• Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management

Books

• Atlas of Head and Neck Pathology (Wenig) 3rd ed
• Braddom’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Cifu) 5th ed
• Cardiac Catheterization Handbook (Kern) 6th ed
• ENT Secrets (Scholes) 4th ed
• Genitourinary Imaging: Case Review Series (Kawamoto) 3rd ed  
• Learning Radiology (Herring) 3rd ed
• Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease (Wyllie) 5th ed
• Pocket Companion to Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (Hall) 13th ed
• Psychology and Geriatrics (Bensadon) 1st 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

To access Clinical Key all you need is your OpenAthens password (register online here if you don't have one) to get started.

Our subscription to Clinical Key this year was generously funded by the Northamptonshire Health Charitable Fund.

September 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 September issue you can find:

• Mortality in people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or venlafaxine in early pregnancy
• Long-term outcomes for endovascular coiling after ruptured cerebral aneurysm
• Silent cerebral infarctions after atrial fibrillation 
• Neighbourhood fast foot outlets and type 2 diabetes
•  

Evidence summaries from NICE's Medicines and Prescribing programme:

• Type 2 diabetes: implementing NICE guidance on self-monitoring of plasma glucose 
• Digoxin in atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure 
• Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea: effects of PPIs and H2 receptor antagonists on clinical response and recurrence

You can find subscribe to receive the bulletin by email on the NICE Evidence Services site.

The end of the journey

So…  7 library staff; 100 days; 3,532 miles; 8,880,969 steps; Tokyo to Andorra.

It’s the end of a 100 day journey for the Library Stampers who, with people from all round the world, have counted their steps, swimming and cycling and attempted to improve their activity. As an office based team we feel we have done well to keep our step average just above that of NHFT as a whole. For some of us it has been a reassuring confirmation that we already lead a healthy lifestyle, that can be built on just by doing extra steps on quiet days or choosing to walk rather than drive sometimes. Others have embraced the challenge of pushing themselves to improve their health and fitness, by taking up running or building walks into their daily routine.

We’ve been made more aware of our nutrition too and several people have made changes that, like those with our exercise,  are ones that hopefully will continue well beyond the GCC 100 days.

Although sometimes fitting the steps in has been a chore the discipline of entering your steps each day and not wanting to let the team down has helped us persevere. It has also been fun, watching the leaderboard, seeing new locations opening up and winning trophies along the way and most of us would like to repeat the experience next year.

Bring on GCC 2016!

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

Help us to buy the books you want

Guillaume Bude,  Librarian to Francis I
 Courtesy of  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

We want to be sure that the books we buy are the books you actually need to support your work and learning.

We review publisher's catalogues, scan reading lists and peruse different web sites, but what we like best is when you tell us what you need.

That is where our books on approval scheme comes in.

Every two months our supplier sends us a selection of new publications on relevant health topics which are available for you to review and suggest titles for us to purchase (or sometimes, not to purchase!).

Our current selections will be available at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries until Friday the 16th of October. Topics covered include:

• Anaesthesiology 
• Midwifery
• Neurology
• Nursing
• Psychology
• Psychiatry & mental health
• Obstetrics & gynaecology
• Rheumatology
• ...and many 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 the library catalogue.

Web site of the month: Search Medica

Search Medica is a UK developed search engine aimed at health professionals. Powered by a customised Google search, it allows you to search the web and bring back results that are actually relevant to your work (unlike a more general search).

The site was originally intended for use by doctors, but since its launch in 2006, it has been further developed to include results relevant to nurses, pharmacists medical and other health professionals.

Search Medica is a great alternative to starting with Google if you are looking for clinical information.

Grab yourself a bargain! The great library book sale bonanza starts on the 1st of September

"And this book only cost me a quid..."
Image courtesy of  the MetMuseum

It's back!

For the last few years we have been offering recently withdrawn library stock at knock-
down prices to our users, and it has proved so popular we are doing it again.

Starting on Tuesday the 1st of September will will be offering  a variety of titles covering lots of different topics and disciplines, including previous editions of current text books, at the Berrywood and Richmond libraries

Costing just £1 or £2 each, you could find yourself a real bargain.

You'll need to be quick though as they tend to sell fast.

August bank holiday closure

All the Libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 31st of August for the bank holiday.

Crowd at the Seashore 1910. www.metmuseum.org

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 1st of September at all of our sites.

August 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 August issue you can find:

• Quality of life in young people with cerebral palsy
• Fractional flow reserve to guide percutaneous coronary intervention in people with stable coronary artery disease
• Latanoprost for newly diagnosed open-angle glaucoma
• Childhood factors and inactivity in adulthood
• Positive and negative emotive content in tobacco control TV adverts

Evidence summaries from NICE's Medicines and Prescribing programme

• Type 2 diabetes: insulin degludec/liraglutide (Xultophy) 
• Type 2 diabetes: dulaglutide (Trulicity) 
• Ulcerative colitis: budesonide multimatrix (Cortiment) 
• Acute coronary syndrome: ezetimibe added to simvastatin (IMPROVE-IT study) 
• Gastrointestinal bleeding: differences among anticoagulants 
• Cardiovascular disease: risk of diabetes and statin treatment Risk of suicide, attempted suicide or self-harm with antidepressants

You can find subscribe to receive the bulletin by email on the NICE Evidence Services site.

Cite This For Me - the easy way to create bibliographies

Cite This For Me is an incredibly useful free resource for anyone who has to complete a list of references or a full bibliography (we have produced our own short guide to references and citations too).

The website lets you add an internet address (for a web site or electronic journal article, for example) or search for a book. It will then give you the correct reference in the style you have selected (for other types of item you may have to manually add more details).

There are a huge amount of bibliographic styles available, from common ones like Harvard or Vancouver, through to different societies (e.g. the APA) through to "house styles" for particular journals (e.g. the British Journal of Psychiatry). All are easily selectable from a drop down menu.

As well as books, journals and web sites, Cite This For Me also has options to reference:

• newpaper articles
• podcasts
• blogs
• press releases
• DVDs / films
• ...and many more

You can create a whole bibliography which you can then export as a MS Word compatible .rtf file. Your bibliography will be stored for up to 7 days (which is unlimited if you opt to upgrade to the paid version of the site). There is even a Google Chrome extension to make it easier to update your bibliography on the fly.

Cite For Me is a really useful tool for students, academics, writers and anyone who has to produce a document that involved reference. It is easy to use and does most of the hard work for you. We highly recommend it.

Web site of the month: NHS Horizon Scanning Centre

The Horizon Scanning Centre is part of the NHS National Institute for Health Research and is based  at the School of Health, University of Birmingham.

The HSC's role is around providing information on emerging technologies that could have a significant impact on patients or on the way NHS services in the near future.

The HSC covers

• Drugs & pharmaceuticals
• Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP)
• Therapeutic (not childhood) vaccines, 
• Medical devices and equipment
• Diagnostic and predictive tests and procedures
• Rehabilitation aids and therapy

The Centre produces a number of briefings and reports which you can view by specialty. Each specialty includes drug, diagnostic and device briefings, as well as other reports. All are available to download.

The specialties available include:

• Anaesthetics
• Cancer & palliative care
• Cardiovascular disease & surgery
• Mental health
• Paediatrics and neonatology
• ...and many more

You can also find open access journal articles on the site which HSC staff have published, and again they are freely available to download.

Finally you can also sign up to  receive an email bulletin that contains the latest news, briefings and reports, which is an ideal way to keep an eye on the technology around the corner (you can also follow them on Twitter).

The Horizon Scanning Centre is a really useful way to keep up to date with the evaluation of emerging technologies and their likely impact on the NHS.

New ebooks on sexuality and gender added to stock

We have just added two new electronic books to our collection, on sexuality and gender.

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: a resource for the transgender community is a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender authors. Each chapter takes the reader through an important transgender issue, such as race, religion, employment, medical and surgical transition, mental health topics, relationships, sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more.

Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals takes on the inherent complexities of sexuality and gender to create a practical guide to familiarise the reader with all of the common and many of the less common sexualities, genders and relationship forms, and explains experiences and issues relating to each. 

Like our other ebooks (find them all on our catalogue), you will need an Open Athens password to access the book. If you don't have one you can register online here.