New Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in November and December 2007 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.

UpToDate - trial access till Sept 2008

UpToDate is specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care.
The topics are written exclusively for UpToDate by clinicians for clinicians - more than 3,300 clinicians serve as authors. The content is comprehensive yet concise and it's fully referenced. It goes through an extensive peer review process to ensure that the information and recommendations you access from our service are accurate and reliable.

The Medical Library is pleased to be able to offer a year’s trial to this resource – available via University computers (CamDomain)

http://www.uptodateonline.com/

Please send any comments to us at library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Renew your book loans online

As well as being able to renew the loan of your library books by phone and by email, we're delighted to offer online self-renewal of loans.

For any book or CD that is borrowed from the Medical Library after 24th September 2007, you can renew the loan yourself via "Your Account" in Newton, the Library Catalogue.

The current restrictions still apply: you can only renew loans once, and you cannot renew the loan of a book that has been reserved by another reader.

Click here for further details.

Volunteers required for our new Medical Library User Advisory Panel!

This is an invitation to all past, present, and potential library users, asking if you would like to volunteer to become a member of a new User Advisory Panel for the Medical Library.

If you think you might be interested, please read on…

Building Works & Noise Disruption

From Monday 3rd September 2007, building work will be carried out on the fire escape located between the Clinical School and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Saturdays are likely to be particularly disrupted, as work is carried out at the weekends.

Work is expected to continue till after the New Year.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

New Journals in the Medical Library

Developmental neurorehabilitation v. 10 no. 1 Jan 2007-

Clinical trials v. 4 no. 1 Jan 2007-

COPD. Journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease v. 3 no. 2 June 2006-

Journal of immunoassay & immunochemistry v. 26 no. 1 2005-

Immunological investigations v. 34 No. 2 2005-

New e-journals available via NHS ATHENS

Go to http://journals.library.nhs.uk/ and log in with your NHS ATHENS password to access:

Academy of Health Care Management Journal 1/1/2006+
AIDS Reader, The 1/1/2006+
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, The 1/11/2006+
Biomechanics 1/3/2007+
Critical Psychology 1/1/2007+
Genetic Counseling 1/1/2007+
Health Care Registration 1/1/2007+
Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 1/1/2007+
Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues 1/1/2006+
Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine, The 1/3/2007+
Journal of Organizational Culture, Communication and Conflict 1/1/2006+
Journal of Respiratory Diseases, The 1/3/2007+
Managed Care Outlook 1/1/2007+
Oncology; San Francisco 1/3/2007+
OT Practice 13/11/2006+

Card Entry System for Clinical School

Clinical School announcement: From 10th September 2007, the card entry system will be switched on.

Anybody wishing to enter the the Clinical School building, which houses the Medical Library, between 7.00pm and 9.45pm Monday to Friday, and between 9.00am and 4.45pm Saturdays will need to swipe their Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge.

Please remember to bring your Medical Library card with you on all visits.

If you visit the Medical Library regularly but do not have an Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge, please contact Isla Kuhn, Anne Collins or Peter Morgan by email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

New Quality Quest Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in September and October 2007 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.

Direct Delivery for article requests

The Medical Library is pleased to be able to offer an improved service for readers wishing to order copies of journal articles.

Introducing : EMAIL DIRECT & POST DIRECT

Email Direct is a method of secure electronic delivery (SED) of documents as an Adobe PDF file direct to your desktop.

Post Direct delivers documents by post direct to you – no need to come to the library to collect them!

From 1st September 2007 most documents requested as photocopies via Inter Library Loans (ILL) will be delivered in one of these 2 ways.

Post Direct FAQs - Email Direct FAQs - Printable Leaflet (PDF) - Prices for Document Supply

Please speak to Library staff if you have any questions: email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

University ATHENS – Major changes to access control to electronic resources

From September 2007 Cambridge University Library and the University Computing Service will be introducing a replacement for the ATHENS authentication system.

Although current unexpired ATHENS accounts will continue to work during this Academic Year the University will not create or distribute any new ATHENS accounts. All new users will use RAVEN to authenticate themselves as current staff or students of the University and obtain access to ATHENS protected services. Existing ATHENS users are encouraged to move to using RAVEN during this year.

PLEASE NOTE THIS SERVICE IS NOT YET FULLY AVAILABLE and until further notice you may continue to contact lib-athens@lists.cam.ac.uk regarding ATHENS account maintenance.RAVEN is already used for access to certain electronic resources as indicated on the Electronic Resources database. You should continue to follow the access routes indicated on the University Library Electronic Services webpages.

This change is part of a national strategy by the JISC on behalf of Higher and Further Education to take advantage of new technology and international standards and adoption of a “federated” approach to access management. For the end user one immediate benefit will be the need to remember one less password.

ATHENS protected resources will continue to be available via a “Gateway” service until at least 2011 which will enable you to login to the MyATHENS webpage and navigate to ATHENS protected services using your RAVEN account rather than your old ATHENS account. However previously set personal preferences will not be carried forward to your new “identity” as established by the Gateway and you will need to reset your customisations.

Contact: email: lib-raven@lists.cam.ac.uk

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about ATHENS & RAVEN are available here.

Further information on JISC and the UK Access Management Federation is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/federation.html

PsycARTICLES collection of e-journals & Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive

PsycARTICLES collection of e-journals

PsycARTICLES© is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

Access to the journals is available via the Ovid interface, which also hosts the PsycINFO database, providing integration between the two services.

There are a number of access points to the journals:

• Go directly to the Ovid web site at http://gateway.ovid.com/autologin.cgi (on campus) or http://gateway.ovid.com/athens (off-campus - University ATHENS required).
• From the list of databases select 'Your Journals@Ovid', then either 'Browse Journals by Subject' and scroll down to the PsycARTICLES list or run a search and tick the box to limit to PsycARTICLES.

OR

• Go directly to the Ovid web site as instructed above.
• Select the PsycINFO database and run a search, ticking the box, if required, to limit it to PsycARTICLES journals only.
• From the results list click on Ovid Full Text to view the full article.

OR

• Via individual journals links in the ejournals@cambridge portal at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ejournals_list/ The titles will be added within a month to the Newton Catalogue for the University Library and dependent libraries and the Universal Catalogue.

Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive

The University Library has taken out a subscription to the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive which includes online access to the full text of

• the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
  Freud's letters to his major collaborators
• major works by Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott along with other major psychoanalytic authors
• eighteen premier English-language journals in psychoanalysis up to 2003 or the final issue of the journal, whichever is the earlier

The content is cross-searchable and browsable by title, volume/issue, and author (books only).Please note that the subscription does not include access to current issues of the journals, defined as post-2003 publications.

Access to the archive is available without passwords within the 'cam.ac.uk' domain at http://www.pep-web.org/

August Bank Holiday

On August Bank HolidayMonday - 27th August 2007 - the opening hours of the Medical Library will be 9.00am - 6.00pm.

Card Entry System for Clinical School

From August 2007, entry to the Clinical School (which houses the Medical Library) will have a card access system.

Anybody wishing to enter the building between 7.00pm and 9.45pm Monday to Friday, and between 9.00am and 4.45pm Saturdays will need to swipe their Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge.

Please remember to bring your Medical Library card with you on all visits.

If you visit the Medical Library regularly but do not have an Addenbrooke's Hospital ID badge, please contact Isla Kuhn, Anne Collins or Peter Morgan by email: library@medschl.cam.ac.uk or phone: 01223 336750

Keep up to date with your favourite journals using Zetoc

Zetoc has become available to NHS ATHENS users, as well University ATHENS users, and it's a great and easy way of keeping up to date with all the articles published in your favourite journals.

Zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis.

It includes an email alerting service, to enable you to keep up-to-date with relevant new articles and papers. It also has an RSS function, so you can set up feeds to your favourite journal.

Go to http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ and log in with your ATHENS password, or else select it from the resources listed in MyATHENS http://auth.athensams.net/my/.

Contact the Medical Library for any assistance - 01223 336750 or library@medschl.cam.ac.uk

New e-Journals

The following journals are now available via University ATHENS or Cam Domain computers (including the Wolfson Room computer in the Medical Library):

British journal of cancer: from 01/01/1999 to present

International journal of obesity: from 01/01/2005 to present

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism: from 01/01/1996 to present

Leukemia: from 01/01/1997 to present

Molecular psychiatry: from 01/01/1997 to present

New Quality Quest Training Sessions and Information Clinics

New times and dates in July and August 2007 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.

BMJ Clinical Evidence now to cover supportive and palliative care

BMJ Clinical Evidence has extended its service to cover the systematic reviewing of the evidence base behind supportive and palliative care.

The new service covers a broad range of clinical problems including constipation in people prescribed opioids, delirium in the dying patient and nausea and vomiting in people with cancer and other chronic illnesses.

BMJ Clinical Evidence is available via either Addenbrooke's NHS ATHENS or University of Cambridge ATHENS registrations, or via CamDomain. Contact the Medical Library for more details.

New Journals

The Medical Library has added the following titles to its collection:

Neonatology: v 91: no.1 (2007) -

Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine.
(formerly Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine): v 149: no.4(2007: April.)-

This title is also avilable electronically via Science Direct: 01/07/2006 to present

New England Journal of Medicine

The Medical Library is delighted to announce that the New England Journal of Medicine is now available freely via CamDomain (ie University networked computers in the Library's Wolfson Room and elsewhere) and also via University of Cambridge ATHENS.

Go to http://content.nejm.org/ for access to NEJM - links from e-journals@cambridge and Newton, the library catalogue, will be updated shortly.