First female University of Cambridge Librarian

Congratulations to Anne Jarvis (nee Murray) who takes over the role of University Librarian from Peter Fox in April.

Details available from:

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009012601

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7851821.stm

NHS Constitution for England

The NHS Constitution for England subject to Parliamentary approval, will require all NHS bodies, and private and third-sector providers supplying NHS services in England by law to take account of the Constitution in their decisions and actions. The Government will have a legal duty to renew the Constitution every 10 years. No Government will be able to change the Constitution, without the full involvement of staff, patients and the public.

The handbook to the NHS Constitution for England gives NHS staff and patients all the information you need about the NHS Constitution in one place. It acts as a guide to:

• patients’ rights and pledges


• responsibilities of patients and the public and staff
  
• staff rights and NHS pledges to its staff

Supoorting documents:
Impact assessment
The handbook to the NHS Constitution for England
The statement of NHS accountability for England
Government response to consultation
Implementation of the right to choice and information set out in the NHS Constitution
The Primary Care Trusts (Choice of Secondary Care Provider) Directions 2009

Wireless networks

We're delighted to announce that there is now access to the Addenbrooke's wireless network in the Library. This is in addition to the existing Library wireless network, LibAir.

The network is called CUH_WNet and provides access to the Trust network via laptops that have had a certificate installed. As this is currently just giving access to the Trust network its use is aimed at Trust personnel using Trust laptops and it is these laptops that they would need to bring down to the Trust’s IT department (on level 1) to get their certificates installed before they could use the network.

If anyone encounters problems with the network they should contact the Trust IT Help Desk on Trust extension 2757.

Training Sessions for January & February

If you made a new year's resolution to catch up with your literature searches, then hopefully the new training dates from the Medical Library will help!

Full details are available from http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/trainingdates.html

The main highlights are:

• extended sessions: each session now lasts 1.5 hours to give plenty time for practice and experimentation
• "how to find e-journals" - back by popular demand!
• regular sessions on Pubmed, Cochrane Library, searching NHS databases, Scopus & Web of Knowledge
• keeping up to date - keep control of the torrent of information!
  

Contact Isla if you'd like to book a session.

As always, individual sessions are available if you've got specific questions, and group sessions can be tailored to the needs of your team - call (01223 336750) or email to discuss how best we can help.

Cambridge RAE results announced

Congratulations to the researchers who contributed to the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise). The results were published today by Hefce, the higher education funding council.

The RAE is a peer review exercise which evaluates the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. This assessment will inform the UK higher education funding bodies' distribution of grants (with effect from 2009-2010). However, the allocation of the approximate £1.2 billion to universities will not take place until March of next year.

All the results for Cambridge are available at: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/factsheets/rae-2008.pdf and full details about the RAE http://www.rae.ac.uk/

• 4* indicates quality that is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour',


• 3* indicates quality that is 'internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour but which nonetheless falls short of the highest standards of excellence',


• 2* indicates quality that is 'recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour',


• 1* which indicates quality 'that is recognised nationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour',


• 'unclassified', which indicates quality 'that falls below the standard of nationally recognised work' or 'work which does not meet the published definition of research for the purposes of this assessment'.

Full University news statement is available

E Books - Permanent subscriptions

The University is now subscribing to the following ebooks:-

• ADAMS AND VICTOR'S PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGY - 8th Ed. (2005)
• GOODMAN & GILMAN'S THE PHARMACOLOGICAL BASIS OF THERAPEUTICS - 11th Ed. (2006)
• HARRISON'S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE - 17th Ed. (2008)
• HURST'S THE HEART - 12th Ed. (2008)
• MAINGOT'S ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS - 11th Ed. (2007)
• OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANAESTHESIA - 2nd Ed. (2006)
• OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE - 3rd Ed. (2004)
• SMITH'S GENERAL UROLOGY - 17th Ed. (2008)
  

You can access them via Newton, the library catalogue, if you are off campus you will need to use your Raven password. If you want a preview click here :- home page. Click on Titles tab and select.

"TRIP Answers: because clinicians ask questions"

A great new resource from TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)

TRIP Answers:
"a repository of clinical questions and answers drawn from a wide number of sources around the world and builds on TRIP’s ten years experience of answering clinical questions. Ultimately, we want to create a resource where clinicians can easily find answers to their question and, who knows, create a clinical Q&A ‘space’ where users can share their own Q&As (it’s always struck us as wasteful that clinicians around the globe answer questions and this effort is never shared!)"

Find out more at http://www.tripanswers.org/

Christmas is coming

The Library closes at 12.30pm on Wednesday 24th December 2008,
and re-opens at 8.00am Friday 2nd January 2009.

Merry Christmas to all our readers, and very best wishes for the New Year.

Oh, happy day!

Monday 24th November - 8.00am - the Medical Library re-opens its doors.

The majority of the redevelopment work is over, and we're proud to welcome you into the library via the "normal" route: into the Clinical School and up the spiral staircase.

There will be a settling in period as we get used to our beautiful new surroundings - please bear with us.

We hope that you'll enjoy our new look!

See you Monday!

The end is nigh: an early Christmas present

Congratulations to you all - you've survived the disruption of our move to the temporary issue desk and the noise of the building works.

Thank you for your tolerance.

The only thing left is to re-open our newly renovated reception area, and open up the new computer room, but this shouldn't take very long - watch this space!

But in view of your patience, we thought you deserved an early Christmas present, so......

Extra long book loans

All books loaned (or that have their loans renewed)

from 17th November till 9th December
will not be due for return till 5th January 2009.

This will allow loans of up to 7 weeks, in comparison with our normal 4 week loan period.

Do you use ebooks?

Could you spare 1 hour in November? (26th/ 27th)

We are setting up a focus group to consider the use of medical ebooks by university staff and students. Comments will be fed back to JISC, (Joint Informations Systems Committee) for their national observatory project. JISC has negotiated and provided free a number of e-books to the academic community, eg. Rockwood and Green’s fractures in adults.

Prepared to help? – please contact Anne Collins in the Medical Library, mail ac224@cam.ac.uk

New ebooks available on trial for November!

If demand is sufficient we are hoping to subscribe to the latest edition of these
ebooks:-

• ADAMS AND VICTOR'S PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGY - 8th Ed. (2005)
• GOODMAN & GILMAN'S THE PHARMACOLOGICAL BASIS OF THERAPEUTICS - 11th Ed. (2006)
• HARRISON'S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE - 17th Ed. (2008)
• HURST'S THE HEART - 12th Ed. (2008)
• MAINGOT'S ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS - 11th Ed. (2007)
• OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANAESTHESIA - 2nd Ed. (2006)
• OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE - 3rd Ed. (2004)
• SMITH'S GENERAL UROLOGY - 17th Ed. (2008)

To access via Cambridge domain computers :- home page. Click on Titles tab and select.
Feedback requested please.

New training sessions for November and December

Brush up your literature searching skills before Christmas: new training dates and topics for November and December.

Check the calendar available at http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/trainingdates.html for full details, but the sessions covered include:

• How to find healthcare literature use National Library for Health (NLH) and ATHENS
  - search databases like Medline, CINAHL & Embase


• How to find healthcare information on the Internet (covers NLH, TRIP)
  - better than just using Google!


• How to find the best evidence in the Cochrane Library
  - top quality evidence in full text!


• Keeping up to date: using RSS, blogs and more
  - don't be overwhelmed by all the things you need to read - keep in control.


• How to search PubMed
  - the classic way to find articles and evidence, but not always the easiest.


• Searching Scopus and Web of Knowledge (and why!)
  - learn to search a little further, and to search smarter as well as harder!

These sessions will all last 1 hour, and should be booked by contacting Isla at the Medical Library - email library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone (01223) 336750

Pharmaceutical Substances has now been updated to Version 3.1.

Pharmaceutical Substances acts as a reference point for screening information about drugs. It provides a compendium of more than 2400 active pharmaceutical ingredients (API’s) of interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The database is structure searchable and includes synthetic routes.

The new release is the largest update since the inception of the electronic version in 2003 and features:

• 50 new active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)


• 16 new synthetic processes for existing drug monographs


• complete revisions of more than 1300 entries in terms of patents, literature, medical use, trade and vendor names

Access is available from: http://www.thieme-chemistry.com/ps/prod/. Off-campus access is also available via Raven passwords.

More e-books via the University

A new ebook is now available:-

“Sexual health and genital medicine in clinical practice”

– C. Sonnex.

It can be accessed in MyiLibrary using a university computer, or remotely, using your RAVEN password

http://www.myilibrary.com/Search/sd.asp?ID=108737&Searchtext=sonnex

This will soon be linked to the record in our Newton catalogue.

science@cambridge

The new web portal for science students and scientists, http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/scienceportal/ was launched today.

Science @ Cambridge aims to draw users into a virtual library space giving them immediate access to electronic information from their desktop, tools to help them navigate through the vast number of sources available, as well as on-line real-time help from library subject-experts.

This development acknowledges that for many of those working in contemporary science the library is now largely a 'virtual resource'.

Science @ Cambridge will increase access to and knowledge of scientific electronic resources. It will help users discover, search across and improve the use of science e-resources, generally and within discipline specific areas.

Science @ Cambridge has been developed with the generous support of the Arcadia Trust.

Changes to photocopy prices

As of Monday 29th September, the charges for photocopy cards will be as follows:

£1 - 18 unit card

• 9 pages of A4 @ 11.1p per sheet
• 6 pages of A3 @ 16.7p per sheet

£2 - 42 unit card

• 21 pages of A4 @ 9.5p per sheet
• 14 pages of A3 @ 14.3p per sheet

£5 - 116 unit card

• 58 pages of A4 @ 8.9p per sheet
• 39 pages of A3 @ 12.8p per sheet

1xA4 copy = 2 units; 1xA3 copy = 3 units

Coin operated photocopier

• A4 copy -10p
• A3 copy -15p

Black Tuesday

Due to circumstances beyond our control, and a desire to keep noise disruption in the library to a minimum, the Medical Library will be closed to readers

8.00am - 1.00pm on Tuesday 23rd September 2008.

Other particularly noisy periods will be 7.00am - 9am on Friday 19th and Monday 22nd September.

We're very sorry for the inconvenience caused, but hope that concentrating noisy building work into specific time slots will reduce disruption at other times.

And relax....

After the "Big Push", we've got the new Issue Desk installed at the new entrance - well done to everyone who's found us!

This route into the library will be in operation till November 2008.

2 new specialists libraries - Infections & Commissioning

Infections Specialist Library

What is it?

The Infections Specialist Library (ISL) provides convenient and comprehensive access to the highest quality evidence on the investigation, prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases from a clinical perspective. This is intended to keep health professionals up to date with the burgeoning amount of infectious disease evidence that is emerging daily.

What does the library provide?

Resources in the library include:

• Reviews and Systematic reviews (e.g. Cochrane Library, CKS, DARE)
• National guidelines (e.g. NICE, DH, SIGN)
• International guidelines (if no suitable UK guidelines exist, e.g. WHO, CDC)
• Examples of best practice (e.g. HPA)
• Standard Operating Protocols (e.g. HPA)
• Government health policies and standards (e.g. HPA, DH)
• News and events

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/infections

Commissioning Specialist Library

The NLH Commissioning Specialist Library was soft launched on 15th September. It is free, and aims to be a one-stop shop providing timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for all those involved in commissioning for health and wellbeing.

It endeavours to include the best available evidence, examples of good practice, policy and data to support world class commissioning.
The Commissioning Specialist Library is one of over 30 Specialist Libraries from the National Library for Health (NLH) and is managed by the King's Fund Information and Library Service. It will be officially launched at the King's Fund Annual Conference in November 2008.

Feedback or comments are welcomed, and contact details can be found on the Commissioning Specialist Library homepage.
Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/commissioning/