Monday 20 October 2008

Latest New Books


Here is the link to our list of
We try to keep up-to-date with new editions of key texts, and have purchased several this month, for example, the latest editions of Hampton's popular ECG books and several anatomy books, including Grant's Atlas and those by Tortora.

Critical Care practitioners will appreciate the 3rd edition of Hinds Intensive Care and for surgeons we have Burkitt & Quick's 4th ed of Essential Surgery: problems, diagnosis & management and the 3rd ed of the Oxford handbook of Clinical Surgery by McLatchie.

For those working in obstetrics and midwifery we have the 2nd ed of Downe's Normal Childbirth and Impey's latest edition of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

Outside the clinical field, we also have the newest edition of Scambler's Sociology as Applied to Medicine.

If you spot any new editions we have missed do let us know, but check NewhamCat first (available on Newham UHT & Newham PCT networks) as we may already have bought it; the above is only a small selection from our available stock.

And if you would like to review any of our items just send us an email with one brief paragraph on why you found a book useful (or not!). You might even win a prize!

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Thursday 16 October 2008

Having Problems Finding the Information You Need?

The Library's 1 houBoldr training sessions on searching the healthcare databases for journal articles are now running regularly.

You will need an NHS Athens username and password to access the databases. To obtain these self-register at http://www.library.nhs.uk/
If you have already registered but cannot remember your details please contact the Library.

Course Title
Finding the Evidence:
Searching the Healthcare Databases

Monday 20 Oct 5.15pm
Thursday 30 Oct 2.30pm
Wednesday 5 Nov 11.00am
Monday 10 Nov 5.15pm
Friday 21 Nov 2.00pm
Thursday 27 Nov 1.00pm
Tuesday 2 Dec 5.15pm
Tuesday 9 Dec 10.00am
Thursday 18 Dec 8.30am

The session covers the following: keyword and subject searching, applying search limits, saving and printing your search results and accessing the full text of available articles.

Book on ESR (search for 258 KLS or by course title) or contact the Library on 8016 for advice.









Tuesday 7 October 2008

Bang Up To Date

We currently have a trial in place for Up To Date (please note - link only functional at work).


For those not in the know (drawn from their site):

"UpToDate is an evidence based, peer reviewed information resource..." "Our faculty writes topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care."

Please give it a whirl and provide feedback to us on how useful you find this resource.