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)

New research book

For those engaged with research and evidence based practice you may like to take a look at a new book in the Learning Centre.

Cutcliffe, J. and Ward, M.  (2007)  Critiquing nursing research. 2nd ed, London: Quay Books.
Shelf mark 610.73072/CUT

Although this book is biased to mental health, it takes each of the methodologies of how to critique the nursing literature and evaluates them (Burns and Groves,  Morrisons,  Ryan-Wenger, Polit and Hungler, and Polit, Beck and Hungler).  Each chapter identifies the method of critique and includes a worked example, plus the strengths and weaknesses of each model.

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 database tipsheets

Click on above logo and enter username and password for access to EBSCO

The tipsheets for EBSCO Research Host Databases (which includes AMED, CINAHL, and MEDLINE) has recently been updated, you can download a pdf version to print or save.

Click on above logo and enter username and password for access to Maternity and Infant Care

The Maternity and Infant Care (formerly MIDIRS) tipsheet has also been updated, again you can download a pdf version of the tipsheet.

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.