Easy Athens

A number of changes have been made to the Athens system to make life a bit more convenient.




We use Athens to provide access to all of our electronic resources via the National Library for Health.



The biggest change on a day to day basis is that the main login point has been shifted to the top right hand side of the http://www.library.nhs.uk/ page. Helpfully most people will find that they can now login in using their email address and Athens password rather than the harder to remember username.



If you have forgotten your details there is much better support with a simple guided process to reset your password.


A new registration system will allow people to register on any NHS based computer as before but will also allow rapid registration from home if you have access to your NHS email away from work (this mostly applies to people with NHS.net email accounts).



A big step forward is the ability to keep your Athens login as you move from Trust to Trust. This ensures you will not lose any alerts or searches you may have saved on the system. To access this facility you should login and then access the MyAccount page. From this page you can alter your email address / password or indicate that you have moved to another NHS organisation in England.



Please contact us if you have any problems with your Athens login.

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Christmas and New Year Opening

The library opening hours for the festive period are as follows:

Mon 22nd -Tues 23rd December: OPEN 8:30am-5pm

Wed 24th-Fri 26th December: CLOSED

Mon 29th-Wed 31st December: OPEN 8:30am-5pm

Thursday 1st January 2009: CLOSED

Friday 2nd January 2009: OPEN 8:30am-5pm

The Cyber Room is open as usual.

During this time, books may be returned in the white Book Return Bin on the main corridor outside the upstairs doors to the Education Centre.

Visit Newhamcat to renew books online.

The Knowledge & Library Service team wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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Changes to ejournal access / tables of contents

1st January 2009 will see some changes to the website we use to list all of our electronic and paper journals - MyJournals.

Most of the changes will be cosmetic (though there are big changes in the background). The most significant difference will be that you will no longer receive the Tables of Contents of journals through the MyJournals system.

A new solution for this is currently being examined but in the mean time we recommend that you either use the Zetoc system (you will need your Athens login) or subscribe direct from publisher websites. Regretably it will not be possible to automatically carry across any of your current Table of Content subscriptions. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this.

The vast majority of our journal titles are in electronic form so MyJournals is the place to check if we have access to an article. We can get hold of anything not immediately available in just a few days.

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New Books in October & November 2008

Because we were busy with the Library Survey last month we missed publishing the link to October's New Books List, so here it is along with the list of New Books in November.

As usual we have kept up to date with many new editions of standard works including, amongst others, Te Linde's Operative Gynecology, Muir's textbook of pathology, Clinical Pharmacology by Bennett, & the 2nd edition of Holland's Applying the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model in Practice.

We also now have several copies of the new 7th ed. of the Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clincial Nursing Procedures, worth noting as these are the procedures we follow within NUHT.

In response to a strong request from the Orthopaedics Dept we have bought the AO Principles of Fracture Management, which is available as both book & DVD.

Of course this is only a tiny selection of our new stock. Check the booklist links above for full details. And our online catalogue NewhamCat has details of everything in the library, including an electronic link to the latest NUHT Annual Report, as well as copies on the shelves.

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Thanks for helping

Many thanks to all those who responded to the library survey. We got a wide range of responses with some very helpful feedback. We will analyse the results and publish a report with actions.

Feedback is always welcome.

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