New Books for the Medical Library

Click here for details of the books which have arrived in the library in the past couple of weeks.
Click on the link for more information about the books.....

Humanities Literature - 1
Social Sciences - 2
Anatomy - 2
Pharmacology - 2
Government Publications; Medical Profession & Ethics - 2
Public Health - 2
Medicine, General - 2
Orthopaedics - 1
Chest Medicine - 1
Cardiology - 2
Gastroenterology - 1
Urology & nephrology - 1
Neurology - 3
Psychiatry - 2
Surgery- 1
Anaesthesia -1
Dermatology -1
Nursing - 2

Inter-Library Loan (ILL) charges to NHS users of the Medical Library

The Medical Library regrets that it is no longer able to sustain its current pricing structure for Inter-Library Loans supplied to NHS staff and external members of the library. This decision follows a cut in the funding we receive from the NHS.

The Medical Library will charge the full unsubsidised rate for all ILL requests received from 1 February 2007 onwards that are requested by NHS staff. The basic rate for a photocopy will rise from £3.00 to £6.00. Charges for requests made by University and MRC library users will remain unchanged. Full details of charges are available at http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/documentsupply.htm

We obviously regret the need for this and other cost-cutting measures we are introducing at the present time. At the same time, we are continuing to seek ways of improving our service in a cost-effective manner, and in this respect are about to trial a new electronic document delivery process which, if successful, will significantly reduce the time required to supply a standard article request. We hope that this will help to offset the negative effects of our new ILL charges.

If you are on an NHS departmental account and have any questions, please contact Ann Mallows (Univ. ext. 63905).

If you have any comments or questions in general, please direct them to Peter Morgan, Medical Librarian at library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

PubMed and NHS ATHENS

Do you use PubMed?

Do you have an NHS ATHENS registration?

Then searching just got a lot easier!

By using the version of PubMed available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?myncbishare=nhsjournals you will be able to see instantly which of your search results are available in full test by using your NHS ATHENS registration.
While the first PubMed screen looks no different from normal, the screen which displays your results includes an extra tab: "NHS England Full Text".
When you click in to read the abstract of an article, look for the NHS logo - this tells you the article is available in full text using your NHS ATHENS username and password.

If you would like any help or support in using PubMed and/or your NHS ATHENS registration, please contact Isla at the Medical Library: email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone (01223) 336750.

New Books for the Medical Library

Details of Medical Library latest book acquisitions are available at http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/newbooks/2006December.pdf .
This month, we have a wide range of new titles in the following subject areas:

• Anaesthesia - 1
• Anatomy - 2
• Biochemistry - 2
• Biology - 2
• Cardiology - 4
• Chest Medicine - 7
• Clinical Pathology - 1
• Dentistry - 3
• Dermatology - 2
• Ear, Nose, Throat - 1
• Endocrinology - 3
• Gastroenterology - 2
• Geriatrics - 1
• Government Publications - 20
• Gynaecology - 1
• History of Medicine - 1
• Infectious Diseases - 2
• Medicine, General - 18
• Metabolic Diseases - 2
• Microbiology - 4
• Neurology - 6
• Nursing Profession - 8
• Obstetrics - 5
• Opthalmology - 1
• Orthopaedics - 8
• Pathology, Oncology - 9
• Paediatrics - 6
• Pharmacology - 12
• Physiology - 2
• Psychiatry - 14
• Psychology - 2
• Public Health - 13
• Radiology - 4
• Social Sciences - 2
• Surgery - 18
• Urology - 6