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)

Easter Opening Hours 2008

Aintree Library and Information Resource Centre will be closed Good Friday 21st March - Monday 24th March 2008 inclusive. The Library will re-open on Tuesday 25th March at 8.30am.

IMPORTANT notice regarding access to NHS Dialog Databases from 1st April 2008

From 1st April 2008 there will be a new search interface to all electronic content purchased nationally for the NHS (i.e. all databases accessed with a NHS Athens account). This is called NLH Search 2.0. It is designed to simplify searching by ending reliance on different supplier systems to access resources such as electronic journals, e-books and databases.

IMPORTANT - SAVED SEARCHES IN DIALOG DATABASES
**Please note that if you have any saved searches on Dialog Datastar they WILL NOT be carried over to Search 2.0 once Dialog is switched off. You will need to take a copy your search to put into the new search interface.**

NLH Search 2.0 will be accessible from the National Library for Health website at: www.library.nhs.uk and also by clicking the National Library for Health link in the Resources list within MyAthens.

The new searching experience will be structured around a series of collections within the National Library for Health, including:
* Evidence
* Guidance
* Specialist Libraries
* Books, Journals and Bibliographic Databases
* Images
* For Patients

Over the next few weeks new updates on the changes in resources will be posted on this blog.