New edition of Myles’ midwifery textbook

The 15th edition of the Myles’ Textbook for Midwives is now available to borrow. We have copies at Walsall, Wolverhampton and Burton Learning Centres.

Primary Care bulletin

The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre at Manchester have recently published their latest Current Awareness Bulletin. It contains details about many new publications in primary care, and includes abstracts.

New database – Care Knowledge

We have access now to CareKnowledge which offers a wide range of materials across social care.

The site gives access to key journals and ebooks and produces its own special reports. It gives separate views for England and Scotland, has overviews of adult and child services, and provides details of national organisations.

AgeInfo and ChildDate cancelled

Subscriptions to two School of Health databases, AgeInfo and ChildData, are being cancelled.

The databases supported courses which no longer run, and their usage figures are at low levels.

AgeInfo will be available until the end of June; ChildData finishes at the end of May.

Much of the data can be found from our other online resources, or on reputable websites. We will be looking at other alternatives and will keep you up to date on the blog.

Microsoft deals for NHS staff/students

Microsoft have a number of deals for anyone with an NHS e-mail address.

See the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre website for details, offers include:

• Download Microsoft Office 2007 for only £8.95 (or buy CD for £13.00)
• Free access to e-learning materials for Microsoft Office products
• Discounts on selected software and Microsoft books
• Free personalised newsletters

SwetsWise Down for Maintenance

SwetsWise will be down from 8.30am – 10am on Sauturday 28th February for maintenance.

Keeping up-to-date with journal articles using ticTOCs

ticTOCs logo

ticTOCs is a useful resource to help you keep up-to-date with the most recent scholarly literature by subscribing to the Tabels of Contents. Taken from the ticTOCs About Us page:

The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers. With ticTOCs, it only takes a or two to keep up to date.

Over 11,000 journals from more than 400 publishers are listed on ticTOCs, all of which you can search for by title or discover by subject. By registering with the service you can save your TOCs to your account to see new articles when they have been published. Where applicable (i.e. if we have a subscription), you can also use the service to link through to full text articles, and there is also the feature to export your TOCs to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Bloglines so that you will be alerted as soon as new issues are published.

EThOS – theses to your desktop

British Library have recently released EThOS, Electronic Theses Online Service. You can use the site to search for theses from the UK, and gain access to full text on your PC for those that are available electronically.

Taken from the About section of the EThOS website:

The aim of EThOS is…to offer a ’single point of access’ where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education

If a theses you would like to read is not currently available on the service, you can request for it to be digitised via the EThOS service. In order to use the service fully, you will need to register (it is free to register but there may be a charge for requesting theses that are currently unavailable or to request print copies).

EThOS is a relatively new service so if you have any feedback, there is a link for your comments on the EThOS homepage.

New clinical practice resources

We’ve just received details of two new evidence-based resources which can be used in clinical practice to diagnose and provide information on conditions.

CKS

http://cks.library.nhs.uk

The Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) are an online source of practical, evidence-based and up-to-date knowledge about the common conditions managed in primary and first contact care. CKS covers around 200 ‘top-level’ clinical topics on common acute and chronic illnesses and disease prevention, and provides information on how to manage more than 500 clinical situations or scenarios. Each topic is structured around real-life clinical questions about management, diagnosis, complications, prognosis, incidence/prevalence, risk factors and causes.

DynaMed™

http://cks.library.nhs.uk/dynamed

This clinical reference tool was created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point of care. With clinically-organized summaries for thousands of topics, DynaMed is the only evidence-based reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice. Based on the results of a study published in Annals of Family Medicine (November/December 2005), not only did primary care clinicians answer more clinical questions with access to DynaMed than without DynaMed, but these clinicians also found more answers in DynaMed that changed clinical decisions.

Nursing books for sale at Walsall Learning Centre

Sale in a sale shop selling sale signs by the justified sinner at Flickr.com

Marie has been busy reviewing the nursing books at Walsall Learning Centre and a number of old books are being withdrawn from stock due to newer editions now available.

The old stock is for sale within the Learning Centre (on the ground floor), all books are 20p.