NHS databases - they've changed!

Changes to NHS Databases
(AMED, BNI, CINAHL, DH-Data, EMBASE, Kings Fund, MEDLINE, PsycINFO)

From April 1, 2008 you will be able to search these databases using the new NLH (National Library for Health) “Search 2.0” interface

You will still need to sign in with your NHS - ATHENS password

Go to: http://www.library.nhs.uk/

These same databases will continue to be available via Dialog/Datastar until May 31

Please note: if you have any Dialog saved searches or alerts, you will need to print them out and then type them into Search 2 again as unfortunately we cannot transfer them from one system to the other.

For more information and support, please contact the library.

Journal Consultation

These journal consultation surveys are now closed. Thank you very much indeed for your contribution.

We are considering all the comments submitted, and will be announcing our decision in early April 2008.

Journals Consultation - one week to go

Library Redevelopment & Journals Consultation

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to our Journals Consultation so far - your comments have been logged and are much appreciated.

But it's not too late if you haven't taken part already - the lists of journals and the web-survey will be available till 25th March 2008.

If you wish to contribute to this consultation, please go to: http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/redev/journals&survey.htm

• review the lists of journals we propose to remove
• note any titles that you would like to suggest we retain
• visit the web-based survey form where you will be able to record your view on each title that interests you, and/or make general comments on what is proposed.

More details are available from www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/redevelopment.htm

We look forward to hearing from anyone who has yet to comment.

Changes to NHS databases

From April 2008 the online databases that you used to access via Dialog Datastar (Medline, Embase, CINAHL, BNI, AMED, PsycINFO, Kings Fund and DH-Data) will change.

You'll still need to use an NHS ATHENS password to access these databases, but the search page will look completely different and be accessed via the National Library for Health.

• Check our training timetable for information about drop-in sessions to see and try out the new interface.


• Take a copy of any regular alerts or saved searches you use - these will not transfer to the new system, and will need to be set up afresh.


• Speak to Isla Kuhn for more information and support.

The new system comes into operation on 1st April. More information will be sent out in the next couple of weeks but be prepared, contact the library.

Easter in the Medical Library

The library will be shut over the Easter Weekend: Friday 21st – Monday 24th March, inclusive.

We re-open at 8am, Tuesday 25th March 2008.

Trial access to the SCOPUS

The University Library has established trial access to Elsevier’s SCOPUS database on a university-wide basis until 5th April 2008.

Developed in conjunction with researchers to provide an easily navigated single entry-point to the world’s scientific information, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database for the sciences and social sciences. It covers:

15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 international publishers, including coverage of:

• Over 1,000 Open Access journals
• 500 Conference Proceedings
• Over 600 Trade Publications
• Over 125 Book Series

33 million records, of which:

• 16 million records include references going back to 1996
• 17 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1869

Scopus also covers 386 million quality web sources, including 21 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources. It is updated daily. For more information on Scopus see http://www.scopusinfo.com/

Linking to full-text articles has been set up for electronic journals for which there are subscriptions within the university.

The URL for SCOPUS is http://www.scopus.com/ No passwords are required on campus / while using computers in the Medical Library.

Library Redevelopment & Journals Consultation

Users of the Medical Library will see some big changes in the summer of 2008 when the Library embarks on an extensive £1 million refurbishment project.

It marks a major step towards achieving a core objective in the Library's strategic plan, namely its migration from a print-based collection to a service built principally around e-resources.

Over the next five to ten years the Medical Library is therefore planning the phased removal of all the printed journals housed on its upper floor, concentrating its services and collections (possibly still including a small number of printed journals) on its lower floor. Meanwhile the upper floor will be released for use by the Clinical School to support its educational activities.

The first phase of this conversion programme is now under way.
But we need your input!

Part of the project will be the construction of a new IT area on the upper library floor. To release space for this we need to remove at least 1,000 metres of shelving - about 1/3 of the upper floor's capacity - and journal backsets.

We have identified two categories of selected journals to be removed from the library, but we want to hear your views.

More details are available from www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/redevelopment.htm

Nature archives - access now available from 1869 onwards

The University Library is pleased to announce that it has purchased the complete Nature Archives (1869-1996), which can now be accessed online by anyone in the University.

Together with the Library's subscription to the current issues of Nature online, this means that Nature is now completely available online from the first issue published on 4 November 1869 to the most recent.
The archive, which cost over £100,000, has been purchased with the help of a benefactor to the University Library.

Nature is available via the e-journals@cambridge portal ( http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az ) or directly from the Nature website at http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/index.html.

Access to the resource is available to all staff and students of the University within the cam domain and off campus via a Raven login.

Some web pages highlighting the history of the Nature Journal can be found at http://www.nature.com/nature/history/

More New NHS e-journals - a belated Christmas present!

16 more titles have been bought by the East of England for all NHS ATHENS holders -

• Annals of Neurology
• Arthritis & Rheumatism
• British Journal of Surgery
• Cancer
• Cancer Cytopathology
• Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
• Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
• Diagnostic Cytopathology
• Head & Neck
• Hepatology
• International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
• Liver Transplantation
• Musculoskeletal Care
• Occupational Therapy International
• Physiotherapy Research International
• Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Remember, you can check MyJournals to see all the e-journals available to you, and if you're still without that all important NHS ATHENS password - register now!

New look for OVID

Do you use OVID as a way of searching databases, or finding electronic journals?

Well, it 's getting a makeover on 1st February 2008.

If you'd like any support in using the new interface, please just get in touch with the library, or make use of the "teach yourself" guide.

Ebooks for the New Year!

The University has now purchased access to the ebook:-
Concise Oxford textbook of medicine [electronic resource] / edited by John G.G. Ledingham, David A. Warrell

You can access the ebooks either through the Newton catalogue or at the supplier's website, - in this case – MyiLibrary. There is instant access from the university domain.

Outside the @cam domain - You will be asked for your Raven password after you have clicked on Linked resources (see via Newton above) or as you try to enter the MyiLibrary website, http://www.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp?ID=21513
There are another 50 medical ebooks accessible. A few good examples:-

• Adler, Michael W. ABC of AIDS BMJ Books 2001 Medicine NetLibrary Jan 2006
• De Vita. T et al Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology 7th ed Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Medicine Books@Ovid/JISC Nov 2007
• Bucholz R. W Rockwood and Green’s Fracture in Adults 6th ed Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Medicine Books@Ovid/JISC Nov 2007
• Gleadle, Jonathan History and examination at a glance Blackwell Publishing 2003 Medicine MyiLibrary Feb 2007
  

A complete list is available here (PDF file).

Raven passwords are issued by the University Computing Service - further information available. If you do not have one of the above accounts but you are a University Officer, College Fellows, member of University academic or assistant staff, Graduate Student, Research Student or undergraduate, use the form . Passwords will be sent through the UMS.

New Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in January and February 2008 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including:

• Cochrane Library
• PubMed
• Library Introduction
• Searching Newton (library catalogue) and Finding e-Journals
• Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
• Literature searching for Junior Doctors
• Searching Web of Science

However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information Clinic - contact the Library for more details.

New NHS e-journals - a great Christmas present!

The East of England NHS libraries’ Christmas present is a new, wide selection of electronic journals.
63 new e-journals will be available online to all NHS staff in the East of England from 1st January 2008 - you can still log into http://journals.library.nhs.uk/ to see if the journal you need is available.

Something for all the NHS family
Carefully selected by East of England librarians to cover as many specialities and professions as possible, the journals range from Spine to Circulation and from American Journal of Occupational Therapy to Accident and Emergency Nursing. The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet are in there, and so is Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Also under the Christmas tree
The National Library for Health is revamping its collections, so from January the whole country will be able to use the Journal of the American Medical Association and its Archives journals.

They’re also buying the BMJ collection from April - that’s 21 journals including the BMJ itself - but here in the East we’re topping that up so that you can start using them wherever you are on New Year’s Day!

Non-medical staff aren’t forgotten nationally, either - hundreds of journals indexed in CINAHL will be available full text online from April 2008. And the Proquest database of 1700 journals, which the national library has to cut to afford the bigger journals, will still be available in the East for the year to come.

Unwrapping the presents
All you need to get in to these journals, from any internet-connected computer, is an NHS Athens password. You can view all the journals involved from http://www.eel.nhs.uk/eel/whatsinthebox.htm.

Staff at the Medical Library are always available to give you any help you need.
Happy Christmas!

Specialist Libraries

The National Library for Health has provided 3 new specialist libraries: Neurological Conditions, Public Health, Stroke

Neurological Conditions
The Neurological Conditions Specialist Library (NCSL) aims to provide access to the best available evidence within neurological conditions to NHS healthcare professionals. Although targeted at health professionals; patients, carers and the general public will find useful information on the site.
The NCSL is supported by a Clinical Lead, editorial board, an information support team and by the wider stakeholder community.

Public Health
This library is a constantly developing resource and information will be updated frequently. The resources for the three priority areas: tobacco, alcohol, obesity.
Resources for the other Choosing Health topic areas will be added soon. Resources for other public health categories will be added over the next 4 months.

Stroke
The Stroke Specialist Library is being developed to provide high quality, evidence-based information on all of aspects of Stroke. This site is aimed at health professionals with an interest in Stroke.

There are 28 specialist libraries in total, with 4 more due to be added soon. Go to http://www.library.nhs.uk/SpecialistLibraries/ for more details, or ask in the Medical Library.

Addenbrooke's in the news!

We all need to keep up to date.
This new RSS feed has all you need to keep yourself up to date with the minimum effort with news stories about Addenbrooke's with just one click.

Add the feed to your reader to be alerted when new stories appear.
Contact the Library if you would like more details about RSS feeds and RSS readers.

New Journals available in the Library

Seminars in ophthalmology, available from v.20 no.1 (2005 Jan-Mar.)

Diabetes and vascular disease research, available from v.3 no.1 (2006 May) -

Journal of clinical hypertension, available from v.9 no.1 (2007 Jan.) -

Christmas Closing

The Medical Library will close for the Christmas period at 12.30pm, Monday 24th December 2007.

Normal library service will resume at 8.00am on Wednesday 2nd January 2008.

ejournals@cambridge links in Google Scholar

As part of the upgraded ejournals@cambridge service, we have recently introduced a new feature for users of Google Scholar. When viewing search results in Google Scholar, ejournals@cambridge links can now be displayed that link to Cambridge appropriate full text ejournal holdings.

Users accessing Google scholar from a machine on the Cambridge domain should see these links automatically. Those working from outside of the domain will have to set their link preferences in Google Scholar. To do this:

• Go to the initial Google Scholar search screen
• Click on the preferences link by the search box.
• Follow the instructions under 'library links' and search for ejournals@cambridge.
• A list of linking options should now appear
• Select ejournals@cambridge and save your selection

Similar links have been activated in other abstract and index database platforms subscribed to by Cambridge University Library, including Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Ovid and ISI Web of Science / Knowledge.

More information on ejournals@cambridge linking can be found on the help pages.

Our new http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/azA-Z list is also available for preview.

Central Science Library review questionnaire

The University Library Syndicate has appointed a review group to undertake a feasibility study on the the future of the Central Science Library (CSL) services and building.
In order to help the review group be better informed about the type of library service required by academic colleagues, post-graduates and under-graduates, and to plan for future services, you are invited to complete a questionnaire, which should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete.
Please note that you will require a Raven password to complete this questionnaire which will be available until Friday 30 November 2007.

Professor John Bell
Chair, CSL Review Group

New Journals in the Medical Library

British Journal of Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing v.5 no.1 (2004)-

Chronic respiratory disease v.4 no.1 (2007)-

Cardiovascular drug reviews v.24 no.1 (2006)-

International journal of stroke v.1 no.1 (2006 Feb)

International journal of evidence-based healthcare v.5 no.1 (2007)-

MIDIRS Midwifery Digest v.16 no.1 (2006 March)-