Wednesday, December 19, 2007

New Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in January and February 2008 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including:

  • Cochrane Library
  • PubMed
  • Library Introduction
  • Searching Newton (library catalogue) and Finding e-Journals
  • Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
  • Literature searching for Junior Doctors
  • Searching Web of Science
However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information Clinic - contact the Library for more details.

Monday, December 17, 2007

New NHS e-journals - a great Christmas present!

The East of England NHS libraries’ Christmas present is a new, wide selection of electronic journals.
63 new e-journals will be available online to all NHS staff in the East of England from 1st January 2008 - you can still log into http://journals.library.nhs.uk/ to see if the journal you need is available.

Something for all the NHS family
Carefully selected by East of England librarians to cover as many specialities and professions as possible, the journals range from Spine to Circulation and from American Journal of Occupational Therapy to Accident and Emergency Nursing. The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet are in there, and so is Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Also under the Christmas tree
The National Library for Health is revamping its collections, so from January the whole country will be able to use the Journal of the American Medical Association and its Archives journals.

They’re also buying the BMJ collection from April - that’s 21 journals including the BMJ itself - but here in the East we’re topping that up so that you can start using them wherever you are on New Year’s Day!

Non-medical staff aren’t forgotten nationally, either - hundreds of journals indexed in CINAHL will be available full text online from April 2008. And the Proquest database of 1700 journals, which the national library has to cut to afford the bigger journals, will still be available in the East for the year to come.

Unwrapping the presents
All you need to get in to these journals, from any internet-connected computer, is an NHS Athens password. You can view all the journals involved from http://www.eel.nhs.uk/eel/whatsinthebox.htm.

Staff at the Medical Library are always available to give you any help you need.
Happy Christmas!

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Specialist Libraries

The National Library for Health has provided 3 new specialist libraries: Neurological Conditions, Public Health, Stroke

Neurological Conditions
The Neurological Conditions Specialist Library (NCSL) aims to provide access to the best available evidence within neurological conditions to NHS healthcare professionals. Although targeted at health professionals; patients, carers and the general public will find useful information on the site.
The NCSL is supported by a Clinical Lead, editorial board, an information support team and by the wider stakeholder community.

Public Health
This library is a constantly developing resource and information will be updated frequently. The resources for the three priority areas: tobacco, alcohol, obesity.
Resources for the other Choosing Health topic areas will be added soon. Resources for other public health categories will be added over the next 4 months.

Stroke
The Stroke Specialist Library is being developed to provide high quality, evidence-based information on all of aspects of Stroke. This site is aimed at health professionals with an interest in Stroke.

There are 28 specialist libraries in total, with 4 more due to be added soon. Go to http://www.library.nhs.uk/SpecialistLibraries/ for more details, or ask in the Medical Library.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Addenbrooke's in the news!

We all need to keep up to date.
This new RSS feed has all you need to keep yourself up to date with the minimum effort with news stories about Addenbrooke's with just one click.

Add the feed to your reader to be alerted when new stories appear.
Contact the Library if you would like more details about RSS feeds and RSS readers.

Monday, November 26, 2007

New Journals available in the Library

Seminars in ophthalmology, available from v.20 no.1 (2005 Jan-Mar.)

Diabetes and vascular disease research, available from v.3 no.1 (2006 May) -

Journal of clinical hypertension, available from v.9 no.1 (2007 Jan.) -

Christmas Closing

The Medical Library will close for the Christmas period at 12.30pm, Monday 24th December 2007.

Normal library service will resume at 8.00am on Wednesday 2nd January 2008.

Friday, November 23, 2007

ejournals@cambridge links in Google Scholar

As part of the upgraded ejournals@cambridge service, we have recently introduced a new feature for users of Google Scholar. When viewing search results in Google Scholar, ejournals@cambridge links can now be displayed that link to Cambridge appropriate full text ejournal holdings.

Users accessing Google scholar from a machine on the Cambridge domain should see these links automatically. Those working from outside of the domain will have to set their link preferences in Google Scholar. To do this:
  • Go to the initial Google Scholar search screen
  • Click on the preferences link by the search box.
  • Follow the instructions under 'library links' and search for ejournals@cambridge.
  • A list of linking options should now appear
  • Select ejournals@cambridge and save your selection

Similar links have been activated in other abstract and index database platforms subscribed to by Cambridge University Library, including Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Ovid and ISI Web of Science / Knowledge.

More information on ejournals@cambridge linking can be found on the help pages.

Our new http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/azA-Z list is also available for preview.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Central Science Library review questionnaire

The University Library Syndicate has appointed a review group to undertake a feasibility study on the the future of the Central Science Library (CSL) services and building.
In order to help the review group be better informed about the type of library service required by academic colleagues, post-graduates and under-graduates, and to plan for future services, you are invited to complete a questionnaire, which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete.
Please note that you will require a Raven password to complete this questionnaire which will be available until Friday 30 November 2007.

Professor John Bell
Chair, CSL Review Group

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

New Journals in the Medical Library

British Journal of Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing v.5 no.1 (2004)-

Chronic respiratory disease v.4 no.1 (2007)-

Cardiovascular drug reviews v.24 no.1 (2006)-

International journal of stroke v.1 no.1 (2006 Feb)

International journal of evidence-based healthcare v.5 no.1 (2007)-

MIDIRS Midwifery Digest v.16 no.1 (2006 March)-

Thursday, October 25, 2007

New Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in November and December 2007 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including:

  • Cochrane Library
  • PubMed
  • Library Introduction
  • Searching Newton (library catalogue) and Finding e-Journals
  • Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
  • Literature searching for Junior Doctors
  • Searching Web of Science

However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information Clinic - contact the Library for more details.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

UpToDate - trial access till Sept 2008

UpToDate is specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care.
The topics are written exclusively for UpToDate by clinicians for clinicians - more than 3,300 clinicians serve as authors. The content is comprehensive yet concise and it's fully referenced. It goes through an extensive peer review process to ensure that the information and recommendations you access from our service are accurate and reliable.

The Medical Library is pleased to be able to offer a year’s trial to this resource – available via University computers (CamDomain)

http://www.uptodateonline.com/

Please send any comments to us at library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Renew your book loans online

As well as being able to renew the loan of your library books by phone and by email, we're delighted to offer online self-renewal of loans.

For any book or CD that is borrowed from the Medical Library after 24th September 2007, you can renew the loan yourself via "Your Account" in Newton, the Library Catalogue.

The current restrictions still apply: you can only renew loans once, and you cannot renew the loan of a book that has been reserved by another reader.

Click here for further details.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Volunteers required for our new Medical Library User Advisory Panel!

This is an invitation to all past, present, and potential library users, asking if you would like to volunteer to become a member of a new User Advisory Panel for the Medical Library.

If you think you might be interested, please read on…

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Building Works & Noise Disruption

From Monday 3rd September 2007, building work will be carried out on the fire escape located between the Clinical School and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Saturdays are likely to be particularly disrupted, as work is carried out at the weekends.

Work is expected to continue till after the New Year.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

New Journals in the Medical Library

Developmental neurorehabilitation v. 10 no. 1 Jan 2007-

Clinical trials v. 4 no. 1 Jan 2007-

COPD. Journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease v. 3 no. 2 June 2006-

Journal of immunoassay & immunochemistry v. 26 no. 1 2005-

Immunological investigations v. 34 No. 2 2005-

New e-journals available via NHS ATHENS

Go to http://journals.library.nhs.uk/ and log in with your NHS ATHENS password to access:

Academy of Health Care Management Journal 1/1/2006+
AIDS Reader, The 1/1/2006+
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, The 1/11/2006+
Biomechanics 1/3/2007+
Critical Psychology 1/1/2007+
Genetic Counseling 1/1/2007+
Health Care Registration 1/1/2007+
Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 1/1/2007+
Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues 1/1/2006+
Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine, The 1/3/2007+
Journal of Organizational Culture, Communication and Conflict 1/1/2006+
Journal of Respiratory Diseases, The 1/3/2007+
Managed Care Outlook 1/1/2007+
Oncology; San Francisco 1/3/2007+
OT Practice 13/11/2006+

Friday, August 31, 2007

Card Entry System for Clinical School

Clinical School announcement: From 10th September 2007, the card entry system will be switched on.

Anybody wishing to enter the the Clinical School building, which houses the Medical Library, between 7.00pm and 9.45pm Monday to Friday, and between 9.00am and 4.45pm Saturdays will need to swipe their Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge.

Please remember to bring your Medical Library card with you on all visits.

If you visit the Medical Library regularly but do not have an Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge, please contact Isla Kuhn, Anne Collins or Peter Morgan by email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

Thursday, August 30, 2007

New Quality Quest Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in September and October 2007 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including:

  • Cochrane Library
  • PubMed
  • Library Introduction
  • Searching Newton (library catalogue) and Finding e-Journals
  • Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
  • Literature searching for Junior Doctors
  • Searching Web of Science

However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information Clinic - contact the Library for more details.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Direct Delivery for article requests

The Medical Library is pleased to be able to offer an improved service for readers wishing to order copies of journal articles.

Introducing : EMAIL DIRECT & POST DIRECT

Email Direct is a method of secure electronic delivery (SED) of documents as an Adobe PDF file direct to your desktop.

Post Direct delivers documents by post direct to you – no need to come to the library to collect them!

From 1st September 2007 most documents requested as photocopies via Inter Library Loans (ILL) will be delivered in one of these 2 ways.

Post Direct FAQs - Email Direct FAQs - Printable Leaflet (PDF) - Prices for Document Supply

Please speak to Library staff if you have any questions: email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

Thursday, August 09, 2007

University ATHENS – Major changes to access control to electronic resources

From September 2007 Cambridge University Library and the University Computing Service will be introducing a replacement for the ATHENS authentication system.

Although current unexpired ATHENS accounts will continue to work during this Academic Year the University will not create or distribute any new ATHENS accounts. All new users will use RAVEN to authenticate themselves as current staff or students of the University and obtain access to ATHENS protected services. Existing ATHENS users are encouraged to move to using RAVEN during this year.

PLEASE NOTE THIS SERVICE IS NOT YET FULLY AVAILABLE and until further notice you may continue to contact lib-athens@lists.cam.ac.uk regarding ATHENS account maintenance.RAVEN is already used for access to certain electronic resources as indicated on the Electronic Resources database. You should continue to follow the access routes indicated on the University Library Electronic Services webpages.

This change is part of a national strategy by the JISC on behalf of Higher and Further Education to take advantage of new technology and international standards and adoption of a “federated” approach to access management. For the end user one immediate benefit will be the need to remember one less password.

ATHENS protected resources will continue to be available via a “Gateway” service until at least 2011 which will enable you to login to the MyATHENS webpage and navigate to ATHENS protected services using your RAVEN account rather than your old ATHENS account. However previously set personal preferences will not be carried forward to your new “identity” as established by the Gateway and you will need to reset your customisations.

Contact: email: lib-raven@lists.cam.ac.uk

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about ATHENS & RAVEN are available here.

Further information on JISC and the UK Access Management Federation is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/federation.html

Monday, August 06, 2007

PsycARTICLES collection of e-journals & Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive

PsycARTICLES collection of e-journals

PsycARTICLES© is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

Access to the journals is available via the Ovid interface, which also hosts the PsycINFO database, providing integration between the two services.

There are a number of access points to the journals:

OR

  • Go directly to the Ovid web site as instructed above.
  • Select the PsycINFO database and run a search, ticking the box, if required, to limit it to PsycARTICLES journals only.
  • From the results list click on Ovid Full Text to view the full article.

OR

Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive

The University Library has taken out a subscription to the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive which includes online access to the full text of

  • the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
    Freud's letters to his major collaborators
  • major works by Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott along with other major psychoanalytic authors
  • eighteen premier English-language journals in psychoanalysis up to 2003 or the final issue of the journal, whichever is the earlier

The content is cross-searchable and browsable by title, volume/issue, and author (books only).Please note that the subscription does not include access to current issues of the journals, defined as post-2003 publications.

Access to the archive is available without passwords within the 'cam.ac.uk' domain at http://www.pep-web.org/

Friday, August 03, 2007

August Bank Holiday

On August Bank HolidayMonday - 27th August 2007 - the opening hours of the Medical Library will be 9.00am - 6.00pm.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Card Entry System for Clinical School

From August 2007, entry to the Clinical School (which houses the Medical Library) will have a card access system.

Anybody wishing to enter the building between 7.00pm and 9.45pm Monday to Friday, and between 9.00am and 4.45pm Saturdays will need to swipe their Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge.

Please remember to bring your Medical Library card with you on all visits.

If you visit the Medical Library regularly but do not have an Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge, please contact Isla Kuhn, Anne Collins or Peter Morgan by email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

Monday, July 23, 2007

Keep up to date with your favourite journals using Zetoc

Zetoc has become available to NHS ATHENS users, as well University ATHENS users, and it's a great and easy way of keeping up to date with all the articles published in your favourite journals.

Zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis.

It includes an email alerting service, to enable you to keep up-to-date with relevant new articles and papers. It also has an RSS function, so you can set up feeds to your favourite journal.

Go to http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ and log in with your ATHENS password, or else select it from the resources listed in MyATHENS http://auth.athensams.net/my/.

Contact the Medical Library for any assistance - 01223 336750 or library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Friday, July 13, 2007

New e-Journals

The following journals are now available via University ATHENS or Cam Domain computers (including the Wolfson Room computer in the Medical Library):

British journal of cancer: from 01/01/1999 to present

International journal of obesity: from 01/01/2005 to present

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism: from 01/01/1996 to present

Leukemia: from 01/01/1997 to present

Molecular psychiatry: from 01/01/1997 to present

Monday, June 25, 2007

New Quality Quest Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in July and August 2007 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including:

  • Cochrane Library
  • PubMed
  • Library Introduction
  • Searching Newton (library catalogue) and Finding e-Journals
  • Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
  • Literature searching for Junior Doctors
  • Searching Web of Science

However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information Clinic - contact the Library for more details.

Friday, June 22, 2007

BMJ Clinical Evidence now to cover supportive and palliative care

BMJ Clinical Evidence has extended its service to cover the systematic reviewing of the evidence base behind supportive and palliative care.

The new service covers a broad range of clinical problems including constipation in people prescribed opioids, delirium in the dying patient and nausea and vomiting in people with cancer and other chronic illnesses.

BMJ Clinical Evidence is available via either Addenbrooke's NHS ATHENS or University of Cambridge ATHENS registrations, or via CamDomain. Contact the Medical Library for more details.

New Journals

The Medical Library has added the following titles to its collection:

Neonatology: v 91: no.1 (2007) -

Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine.
(formerly Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine): v 149: no.4(2007: April.)-

This title is also avilable electronically via Science Direct: 01/07/2006 to present

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

New England Journal of Medicine

The Medical Library is delighted to announce that the New England Journal of Medicine is now available freely via CamDomain (ie University networked computers in the Library's Wolfson Room and elsewhere) and also via University of Cambridge ATHENS.

Go to http://content.nejm.org/ for access to NEJM - links from e-journals@cambridge and Newton, the library catalogue, will be updated shortly.

Friday, June 08, 2007

Trial access to Binleys - June 2007

Your NHS ATHENS password will give you access to Binleys Online - an online directory of over 250 000 NHS contacts working in both management and clinical roles.

Binley's is a fully searchable database of UK NHS personnel, organisations and priority documents, and an up-to-date source of contact and statistical information.

Use your NHS ATHENS password to log in here, alternatively select it from the list of resources at MyATHENS.

Access is on a trial basis for one month only - so try it out in June, and send comments to library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

New Books in the Library - RSS

Now you can keep up to date with the new books that are arriving in the library every week by subscribing to the New Books RSS.

http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/rss/accessions/by_item/MED.rss

Simply add this to your current RSS reader.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Trial access to over 500 e-books on ScienceDirect until 1 Sept 2007

A university-wide trial of e-books on ScienceDirect providing access to over 500 titles has been set up by the publisher, Elsevier Science. The trial will run until 1 September 2007.
Subject coverage includes:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Medicine and Dentistry
  • Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology, Toxiclology and Pharmaceutical Science
  • Psychology

Access is available through the ScienceDirect web site at http://www.sciencedirect.com/, which is already used by members of the university as an e-journal platform. It is therefore available without passwords within the 'cam.ac.uk' domain and remotely via University of Cambridge Athens password.

Please send feedback on the trial to it_services@lib.cam.ac.uk

Monday, May 07, 2007

New Journals

The Medical Library has added the following titles to its collection:
  • Wounds UK v1 no1 2005-
  • Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery 2006-
The NHS E-Journals list has the following new titles added - access them using your NHS ATHENS password via MyJournals: http://journals.library.nhs.uk/
  • Applied H.R.M. Research - 1/7/2006+
  • California School Psychologist, The - 1/1/2006+
  • Canadian Journal of Music Therapy - 1/1/2006+
  • Health Sociology Review - 1/12/2006+
  • Irish Journal of Psychology, The - 1/1/2006+
  • Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies - 1/9/2006+
  • Practice Nurse; The Journal for Nurses in General Practice - 19/12/2003+
  • QJM - 1/1/1999+
  • Science - 1/1/1988-23/12/2005

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Library opening prior to exams

The Medical Library will be open on all the Sundays leading up to the Clinical Student exam period in June:

Sunday 5th May - Sunday 9th June inclusive, from 2pm till 6pm.

Best of luck to all the Clinical Students with exams coming up!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

New Quality Quest Training Sessions and Information Clinic

New times and dates in May and June2007 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including:
  • Cochrane Library
  • PubMed
  • Library Induction
  • Finding e-Journals
  • Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
  • Literature searching for Junior Doctors

However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information Clinic.

Are you new to the NHS, and need some help navigating where to find the best evidence?

Are you experienced at searching for information, but are having trouble with a particular question?

Do you know the basics, but want to learn how to refine your search?

Information Clinic is a one-to-one session where you and a Librarian work together to find the answer to your question. These sessions are entirely tailored to your needs, and are arranged at a time and date to suit you - it may even be possible for the Librarian to come to you, rather than you coming to the library.

Contact Isla Kuhn, Reader Services Librarian, to discuss how we can help, and to arrange an Information Clinic appointment.Phone: (01223) 336750 or email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Monday, April 23, 2007

May Bank Holidays

On both May Bank Holidays - Monday 7th May and Monday 28th May - the opening hours of the Medical Library will be 9.00am - 6.00pm.

Monday, April 02, 2007

BMJ Clinical Evidence now available!

"One of the world's most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care."

The Medical Library is delighted to announce that access to BMJ Clinical Evidence is now available.

You can access this resource either via MyATHENS http://auth.athensams.net/my/ (log in with NHS ATHENS) or direct from http://www.clinicalevidence.com/ (remember to log in with NHS ATHENS).

If you are using computers in the Medical Library or any other University of Cambridge computers, no password is required!

A userguide is available - http://www.clinicalevidence.com/downloads/ce_user_guide.pdf.
Please contact the Medical Library if you need any help.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

New Books for the Medical Library

Have a browse through the latest books to arrive in the library at: http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/acquisitions.htm (updated 22-2-2007)

Monday, March 05, 2007

Easter Weekend closure

The Medical Library will be closed for the duration of the Easter Bank Holiday weeekend: from Friday 6th Arpil till Monday 9th April, inclusive.

The Library will re-open at 8am on Tuesday 10th April 2007.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

New Books for the Medical Library

Have a browse through the latest books to arrive in the library at: http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/acquisitions.htm (updated 22-2-2007)

Thursday, February 15, 2007

New Books for the Medical Library

Have a browse through the latest books to arrive in the library at: http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/acquisitions.htm

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Support for literature searching - how the library can help!

Got an ATHENS password, but don't know how to use it?

Tried searching for journal articles in the past, but would like some help?

The Medical Library can help!

Training and support is available in many forms:
- if you perfer to "teach yourself" find the guide to help you at: http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/qualityquest.html;

- if you would like a one-to-one session, then Information Clinics are for you: personal, tailored support that focuses on YOUR needs - contact Isla in the Library to discuss your needs;

- if you and some colleagues like to learn together, we're happy to have a group session - perhaps booking into one of the timetabled sessions (check http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/trainingdates.html for details) or we are happy to schedule a session at a time and date that suits you.

Contact us to discuss your needs or to book a session - phone (01223) 336750 or email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

New Books for the Medical Library

Click here for details of the books which have arrived in the library in the past couple of weeks.
Click on the link for more information about the books.....

Humanities Literature - 1
Social Sciences - 2
Anatomy - 2
Pharmacology - 2
Government Publications; Medical Profession & Ethics - 2
Public Health - 2
Medicine, General - 2
Orthopaedics - 1
Chest Medicine - 1
Cardiology - 2
Gastroenterology - 1
Urology & nephrology - 1
Neurology - 3
Psychiatry - 2
Surgery- 1
Anaesthesia -1
Dermatology -1
Nursing - 2

Monday, January 29, 2007

Inter-Library Loan (ILL) charges to NHS users of the Medical Library

The Medical Library regrets that it is no longer able to sustain its current pricing structure for Inter-Library Loans supplied to NHS staff and external members of the library. This decision follows a cut in the funding we receive from the NHS.

The Medical Library will charge the full unsubsidised rate for all ILL requests received from 1 February 2007 onwards that are requested by NHS staff. The basic rate for a photocopy will rise from £3.00 to £6.00. Charges for requests made by University and MRC library users will remain unchanged. Full details of charges are available at http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/documentsupply.htm

We obviously regret the need for this and other cost-cutting measures we are introducing at the present time. At the same time, we are continuing to seek ways of improving our service in a cost-effective manner, and in this respect are about to trial a new electronic document delivery process which, if successful, will significantly reduce the time required to supply a standard article request. We hope that this will help to offset the negative effects of our new ILL charges.

If you are on an NHS departmental account and have any questions, please contact Ann Mallows (Univ. ext. 63905).

If you have any comments or questions in general, please direct them to Peter Morgan, Medical Librarian at library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Thursday, January 25, 2007

PubMed and NHS ATHENS

Do you use PubMed?

Do you have an NHS ATHENS registration?

Then searching just got a lot easier!

By using the version of PubMed available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?myncbishare=nhsjournals you will be able to see instantly which of your search results are available in full test by using your NHS ATHENS registration.
While the first PubMed screen looks no different from normal, the screen which displays your results includes an extra tab: "NHS England Full Text".
When you click in to read the abstract of an article, look for the NHS logo - this tells you the article is available in full text using your NHS ATHENS username and password.

If you would like any help or support in using PubMed and/or your NHS ATHENS registration, please contact Isla at the Medical Library: email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone (01223) 336750.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

New Books for the Medical Library

Details of Medical Library latest book acquisitions are available at http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/newbooks/2006December.pdf .
This month, we have a wide range of new titles in the following subject areas:

  • Anaesthesia - 1
  • Anatomy - 2
  • Biochemistry - 2
  • Biology - 2
  • Cardiology - 4
  • Chest Medicine - 7
  • Clinical Pathology - 1
  • Dentistry - 3
  • Dermatology - 2
  • Ear, Nose, Throat - 1
  • Endocrinology - 3
  • Gastroenterology - 2
  • Geriatrics - 1
  • Government Publications - 20
  • Gynaecology - 1
  • History of Medicine - 1
  • Infectious Diseases - 2
  • Medicine, General - 18
  • Metabolic Diseases - 2
  • Microbiology - 4
  • Neurology - 6
  • Nursing Profession - 8
  • Obstetrics - 5
  • Opthalmology - 1
  • Orthopaedics - 8
  • Pathology, Oncology - 9
  • Paediatrics - 6
  • Pharmacology - 12
  • Physiology - 2
  • Psychiatry - 14
  • Psychology - 2
  • Public Health - 13
  • Radiology - 4
  • Social Sciences - 2
  • Surgery - 18
  • Urology - 6