New database – Global Health

We have access now to Global Health, an indexing and abstracting  database dealing with  human health and communicable diseases.

Here’s a snippet from the database guide to give you an idea of the coverage and the types of material available:

Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases – the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.Dating back to 1973, together they provide a unique resource which offers a substantially deeper subject coverage of information related to human health and communicable diseases than many other sources currently available.

Global Health provides an alternative, complementary point of reference with a broad analysis of foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material.

The Global Health database covers the following aspects of human health and disease:

• communicable diseases (including HIV/AIDS)
• tropical diseases, i.e, diseases in the tropics (including field and experimental studies)
• parasitic diseases and parasitology – medical entomology
• human nutrition (including food composition, food poisoning, effects of diet on health, nutritional disorders, and experimental aspects)
• community and public health (including chronic diseases, occupational health, health status indicators, the impact of agriculture on health, and cancer epidemiology)
• medicinal and poisonous plants (including pharmacology, tissue culture, animal studies, plant composition, allergens, and toxins)

Health E-News Bulletin – January 2009

Please find attached a link to the Health E-News Bulletin produced by St. Helen’s Health Improvement Library.

Reuters Health Database

The subscription for the Reuters Health Database is due for renewal at the end of  January 2009.   Looking at the usage statistics, 310 accesses for the February 2008-December 2008 period and the cost of £4,900 per year, the department will not be renewing the subscription.

Study Skills Bookmark Links

The Learning Centres have just launched a one-stop link for all things “Study Skills” on the social networking bookmark delicious.com. The link is http://delicious.com/LISStudySkills .  You will also find a link from the Study Skills pages of the Learning Centre webpges.

Here you will find useful tip sheets covering writing, grammar, IT, and numeracy skills. A majority of the links are University of Wolverhampton owned, but we have cherry-picked some sites from other HE institutions.

To access the sheets:

– link to delicious

– then click on the bookmark option

– on the right-hand side you will see a list of tags

– scroll down the page – click the tag you want to view

– all the links will then be displayed for that topic in the centre of the screen

– click the header to link to the full text guide/tip sheet

We welcome feedback and contributions to the pages.

Wendy Haynes hours

Just to let you all know that Wendy is changing her hours from Monday 19th January 2009.  She will now be available at Harrison Learning Centre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Burton Learning Centre Closure

Burton Learning Centre will be closed on Friday 23rd January 2009 for the whole day; in line with the School of Health which is closed at Burton for this day only.

Internurse

Click on above logo and enter IT username and password

We have recently started a subscription to Internurse, a collection of full text articles from the following 13 health journals:

• Journal of Wound Care
• Journal of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing
• British Journal of School Nursing
• British Journal of Healthcare Assistants
• Gastrointestinal Nursing
• British Journal of Cardiac Nursing
• British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
• Nurse Prescribing
• International Journal of Palliative Nursing
• Nursing and Residential Care
• British Journal of Community Nursing
• Practice Nursing
• British Journal of Nursing
  

Please feel free to download the Internurse tipsheet which we have produced to help you search and browse Internurse journals.

Happy Holidays!

by candrews at Flickr.com

As it’s almost the end of term, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from School of Health librarians.

We hope you enjoy your break and find time to relax before returning in January.

If you would like to use the Learning Centres over the vacation period, check our opening hours on our website.

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