Aintree Library Open Day Thursday 19th June 2008

Aintree Library is holding an Open Day on Thursday 19th June 2008 between 11am -3pm for all Sefton PCT, University Hospital Aintree and Walton Centre NHS staff.

EVERYONE WHO ATTENDS WILL BE ENTERED INTO OUR FREE PRIZE RAFFLE SPECIAL PRIZE DRAW FOR ALL NEW LIBRARY REGISTRATIONS ON THE DAY

FREEBIES FOR ALL!!

Come along to find out how the Library can support all your information needs. Get help with the following:

• Register for the Library and a NHS Athens password
• NHS Athens what is it? what can I access?
• Accessing electronic journals from home/workplace
• National Library for Health
• Searching Medline and Cochrane
• Introduction to Critical Appraisal
• Request a literature search
• Resolve your electronic journal access issues
• Guidance on searching the new National Library for Health Search 2.0
• Suggest new resources (books/journals) for the Library to purchase
• Library refresher sessions – how to find what you want

This is your chance to meet the Library staff and find out in more detail about the services and resources available at the Library.

Library and Information Resource Centre, Clinical Sciences Centre (1st Floor), Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool L9 7AL
www.edgehill.ac.uk/lirc
0151 529 5851

Extension to Dialog Databases

The National Library for Health has announced that an extension to the contract with Dialog Datastar has been agreed until 30th June 2008 and covers all the current databases including CINAHL. This will extend the transitional 'buffer' during which end users can be introduced to the new platform and training can be managed more effectively.

This transition period will also enable NLH to deliver further search functionality, as an additional release is scheduled to take place before the end of May 2008.

NLH - Public Health Specialist Library

The National Library for Public Health (NLPH) is a new online specialist library of the National Library for Health, which is aimed at everyone involved in the delivery or support of health and social care in England. It replaces the Public Health electronic Library (PHeL). The NLPH was made available in mid-November 2007 with an initial focus on three key areas: Obesity, Alcohol, and Tobacco. The library was relaunched in April 2008.

The project is being directed by the North East Public Health Observatory on behalf of the Association of Public Health Observatories, as part of the Information and Intelligence Strategy published by the Department of Health.

The library can be accessed at: www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth

What is it?
The purpose of the NLPH is to be the central point of reference for research evidence and guidance on best practice relating to the health of the population. It covers all aspects of population health including:

* health inequalities
* health improvement
* quality and safety
* health protection

Who is it for?
The NLPH aims to provide resources relevant to:

* public health specialists
* commissioners
* academics
* professionals whose role includes certain public health goals but who are not themselves specialists
* members of the public with an interest in public health matters

We also hope that it will be of value to those working in non-health organisations whose role includes responsibility for services that have a direct or indirect impact on health including Police, Transport and Education.

What will I find in the library?
Resources identified for inclusion in the library are:

* national strategies
* policies
* guidelines
* systematic reviews and other research papers
* statistical information
* patient information
* current news and events


The National Library for Public Health is also holding its first National Knowledge Week (NKW) and Annual Evidence Update on childhood obesity from 28th April 2008.

Find out more at www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth/

Keeping up-to-date

Keeping up-to-date with new developments and research in your field can be a particularly time consuming process, and then there's knowing where to even start. A number of blogs are now available which link into various aspects of health information, including regional health news, national health news, specialty news and research articles.

For example, the FADE Library based in Liverpool produce daily health news updates (Another 15 Minutes) for the UK, International and Regional (Cheshire and Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire, Greater Manchester) scanning the local, regional and national papers for alerts to articles published that day in the press.

Halton and St Helens PCT with assistance from other Cheshire and Mersey Librarians produce the weekly New Documents Bulletin which scans websites (Department of Health, Kings Fund, BMA, etc) of relevance to NHS staff working in the PCTs highlighting new reports, documents and information that has been recently added to these websites.

Those with an interest in the commissioning process should check out The Commissioner blog again produced locally by NW healthcare librarians.

The Critical Care Bulletin produced by East Cheshire NHS Trust is a good example of keeping up to date within a particular specialty, highlighting new research articles of interest to critical care staff among other things.

Many of the current awareness blogs allow you to subscribe to the updates via email. Links to current awareness blogs are available in the list on the LEFT handside of this blog, just scroll down to 'Current Awareness' for more details. These will continually be added to so keep checking back to see if there are any in your field.

IMPORTANT changes to NHS resources via the National Library for Health

What content will be available from 1st April 2008?

Databases: National Library for Health Healthcare Databases http://www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals

There are links to the electronic full text (via NLH link resolver) where available, and notification of print copies in your local NHS library. Databases provided through NLH’s Search are:

AMED (Ovid)
BNI (Ovid)
CINAHL (EBSCO)
Embase (Ovid)
HMIC: DH-Data and Kings Fund (Ovid)
Medline (Ovid)
PsycInfo (Ovid)

Dialog Datastar http://nhs.dialog.com
There are links to the electronic full text (via Dialog Dastar elinks) where available, and notification of print copies in your local NHS library. The existing contract with Dialog has been extended for two months and ALL the existing databases will remain in Datastar until 31st May 2008:

AMED
BNI
CINAHL
Embase
DH-Data
Kings Fund
Medline
PsycInfo

**PLEASE NOTE THAT SAVED SEARCHES IN DIALOG WILL BE DELETED WHEN THE CONTRACT EXPIRES ON 31ST MAY 2008** IF YOU WISH TO RETAIN A COPY YOU MUST PRINT OUT A COPY OF YOUR SEARCH STRATEGY.

eJournals avaialble via NLH and the LIRC website
American Medical Association Journals provided via Highwire (links in LIRC ejournals, NLH resolver, Dialog elinks, My Journals)

JAMA
Archives of Dermatology
Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery
Archives of General Psychiatry
Archives of Internal Medicine
Archives of Neurology
Archives of Opthalmology
Archives of Otolaryngology
Archives of Pediatrics
Archives of Surgery

BMJ (links in NLH resolver, Dialog elinks, My Journals)

BMJ collection (links in NLH resolver, Dialog elinks, My Journals)
Includes SPECIALIST titles
Heart
Gut
Thorax
Journal of Clinical Pathology
Journal of Medical Ethics
Journal of Medical Genetics
Postgraduate Medical Journal
Quality and Safety in Health Care
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
British Journal of Ophthalmology
British Journal of Sports Medicine
Emergency Medicine Journal
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

EVIDENCE BASED titles
Evidence -Based Medicine
Evidence-Based Mental Health
Evidence-Based Nursing

PUBLIC HEALTH titles
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Injury Prevention
Tobacco Control

CINAHL with full text (EBSCO) (559 titles available. Links in LIRC ejournals, NLH resolver, Dialog elinks, My Journals)

Health Business Elite (EBSCO) (500 health management journal titles available. Links in LIRC ejournals, NLH resolver, Dialog elinks, My Journals)

eBooks
National Library for Health healthcare book collection provided by MyiLibrary

What content will NOT be available via the NLH from 1st April 2008?
* Proquest ejournal collection
* Images MD

(Dialog databases will not be available from 31st May 2008)