More e-journal access for Local NHS Staff

More e-journal access for Local NHS Staff

E-journal access for Cambridge University Health Partners*

Pilot scheme launched!

The scheme allows the University of Cambridge to extend to its partner NHS organisations in CUHP access to the content it already obtains on subscription from the participating publishers. A pilot scheme has been launched, ending December 2011, and will be reviewed to decide what happens after 2011.

The resources available for Cambridge University Health Partners include all the Nature Publishing Group journals, a package of 2,000 titles from Springer, and (soon) Elsevier's "Science Direct" package of 2,500 journals and a set of databases from Thomson Reuters including Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Some of this content is already available to NHS staff via other subscriptions.

The increased access is part of a national agreement* between the libraries of the five Academic Health Science Centre* universities, JISC Collections, the UK academic community e-procurement and negotiation service, and some of the leading publishers of e-content. The Centres found that uneven access to content was a barrier to high-quality collaborative research, clinical care and education for NHS and academic staff at AHSCs.

*CUHP - http://www.cuhp.org.uk/

*National agreement - http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/New-pilot-project-looks-to-develop-licensing-models-for-Academic-Health-Science-Centres/

*Academic Health Science Centre - http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/0/12F26C3313D994838025757400470B87?OpenDocument

Health and Social Care Bill has now been published

Read the new Health and Social Care Bill 2010-2011:

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/healthandsocialcare.html





Responses from  

• BMA,  
• Royal College of Psychiatrists,  
• Royal College of Physicians, 
• Royal College of General Practitioners 

You can also watch a debate from the BBC between Prof Julian Le Grand from the London Schools of Economics and Prof Martin Roland from Cambridge University

Event: Digital Researcher #DR11

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315321/Digital-Researcher.html

On 14 February 2011, Vitae and The British Library are running the Digital Researcher 2011 to help researchers make the most of new technologies in their research.


The interactive event, which will be held at the British Library, is for postgraduate researchers and research staff. It will include presentations and interactive sessions on subjects such as microblogging, RSS feeds, social networking and social citation sharing. Participants will explore and develop the skills needed for research in an increasingly digital world and gain ideas for managing information.

If you can't make it on the day, follow via twitter #DR11, or contribute to the blog ahead of the event.

Event: Personal Data, Public Knowledge and Research Ethics

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1529 

Wednesday, 19 January 2011: 12:00 - 14:00
Location: CRASSH Seminar Room

Speakers

Dr Louise Corti (Associate Director, UK Data Archive and Head of ESDS Qualidata)
Dr Libby Bishop (Timescapes Project, University of Leeds

About the seminar

The drive to make research data accessible to the widest possible scholarly community through archiving and data-sharing mandates proposed by funding bodies and academic journals raises new ethical, technical and methodological challenges.

Does the ease with which digital data can be re-used, shared, searched and combined make it impossible for research participants to give their fully informed consent, as they cannot know how information about them will be used in future? Can the need to ensure efficient use of public funds by sharing and archiving publicly-funded research data be balanced with the demands of data protection and individual privacy? Can researchers build ethics into their relationship with data so that their work respects the privacy of research participants while creating knowledge for the public good?

This seminar brings together researchers, research co-ordinators, and data managers to discuss their experiences in finding practical ways of dealing with issues of consent, confidentiality, research design and relations with stakeholders. The seminar will consist of a mixture of short presentations followed by a panel discussion.

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This seminar is part of a series. Please click here for a full list of related events.
Digital Humanities / Incremental Seminar Series
The Incremental project is a collaboration between the Cambridge University Library and Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow. The project is a first step in improving and facilitating the day-to-day and long-term management of research data in higher education institutions (HEI’s).
The Cambridge Digital Humanities Network connects researchers at the University of Cambridge and beyond who are interested in how the use of digital tools is transforming scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. 
To reserve a place at the seminar and for more information about the Incremental project, please contact Catharine Ward (cw330 [at] cam.ac.uk).
For more information about the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network, please contact Anne Alexander (raa43 [at] cam.ac.uk). 

Systematic Reviews and the quest for raw data

Can systematic reviews ever be the same again?

The definition of a systematic review is, according the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is that they:


"seek to collate all evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility criteria in order to address a specific research question"

But what happens when all the evidence is not available because results of trials are not published in full? Publication bias is not a new phenomena (eg papers from 1991 to 2010 and a nice review: http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/11/1/37 )

The BMJ this week use their editorial to highlight the difference that getting access to the unpublished trial results would have made to a systematic review of the evidence on the effectiveness of flu vaccines:


"From now on, they say, reviewers must have access to all unpublished data, not only from unpublished trials—the usual focus of concern about publication bias—but also from those that have been published in peer reviewed journals. Reviewers must assess entire trial programmes, and so new tools and methods are needed. If the trial reports are incomplete, reviewers should turn to reports from the drug regulators. As Tom Jefferson, the lead author for the Cochrane review, told me, “it’s goodbye PubMed, goodbye Embase.”"

Watch the Channel 4 documentary "New doubts over Tamiflu"  
Read the BMJ editorial Goodbye pubmed, hello raw data  and article  Ensuring safe and effective drugs: who can do what it takes   Tom Jefferson and colleagues discuss how to improve the reliability of systematic reviews.
Read the Cochrane's revised protocol on how to carry out a systematic review : this is a pre-publication draft of a protocol for a Cochrane Review, prepared by the Acute Respiratory Infections Cochrane Review Group

You may find this entry on the Trust the Evidence blog from the Centre from Evidence Based Medicine interesting.

NHS e-journal links - downtime alert

On Thursday 6th January and Tuesday 11th January 2011, there will be a period of downtime on the NHS e-journal links to carry out essential maintenance.


Access to NHS e-journals will be problematic durinng this period.

We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause.

ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS

20th - 24 December









Due to adverse weather conditions the library will be shutting at 8pm on 22nd and 23rd December. Further snowfall may require earlier closure. Please phone to check that the library is open before coming in.


Phone:- 01223 336750

It will close at 12:30 on 24th December

Merry Christmas

The Medical Library will 

close at 12.30pm on Friday 24th December 2010, 

and reopen at 8.00am Tuesday 4th January 2011.

We wish all members of the Medical Library a very merry Christmas, 

and best wishes for the new year.

Cochrane Updates - new reviews & protocols for 2010 + audio updates

The Cochrane Library has been updated with a wealth of new and updated protocols and systematic reviews.
Included are:

• Music interventions for mechanically ventilated patients
• Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from 6 months to 5 years of age
• Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis
• Altered dietary salt intake for preventing and treating diabetic kidney disease
• Opioid antagonists for alcohol dependence
• Sound therapy (masking) in the management of tinnitus in adults
• Ginseng for cognition

For the full list of new content is available. You can search the whole Cochrane Library too.

 

You may also be interested the Audio Updates from The Cochrane Library - audio summaries of some of the new reviews.

3 x NHS Annual Evidence Updates: Stroke Rehabilitation; Malignancies post Kidney Transplant; Alcoholic Liver Disease

Stroke Rehabiliation
From the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Stroke

The 2010 Evidence Update on Stroke Rehabilitation covers systematic reviews published between 1st July 2009 and 30th September 2010, with expert reviewers summarising evidence and commenting on key developments in the field.

Malignancies Post Kidney Transplant

from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders

An update of the evidence on this topic NHS Evidence - kidney diseases and male urogenital disorders.
The 2010 update of the Annual Evidence Update on post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) will be live on the 6 December 2010. We have reviewed the literature for relevant systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and cohort studies, and assessed the impact of this new evidence published since the introduction of the BSH/BTS guidelines for the diagnosis and management of PTLD which were published in June 2010.

Alcoholic Liver Disease
from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: gastroenterology and liver diseases

An update of the evidence on this topic NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases.
NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases will be publishing its second Evidence Update on alcoholic liver diseases on 6 December 2010. Alcohol misuse produces a spectrum of liver injury ranging from simple fatty change through alcoholic hepatitis to cirrhosis and, in some 20% of individuals, to hepatocellular carcinoma. We will be presenting an overview of the best systematic reviews from the past year, along with commentaries from experts in the field. We will also provide links to useful policy documents and other items of interest.

Migration to e-journals

As part of the Medical Library’s continued migration to e-journals more print journals, which are duplicated within Cambridge University Libraries, have been identified for possible disposal to the UK Research Reserve, (see http://www.ukrr.ac.uk/.) This will allow the Medical Library to use the space for more pressing needs.

Please see the attached list, following this link

If you have any comments regarding our disposal of any particular title on the list, please email Anne Collins, ac224@cam.ac.uk before Friday 3rd December.

NHS Evidence Update: End of Life Care

End of Life Care

From the NHS Evidence specialist collection: Innovation and Improvement

This year's Annual Evidence Update (AEU) from the commissioning and innovation and improvement specialist collections is on end of life care. 

It aims to bring together up-to-date knowledge and evidence about aspects of end of life care, including patient experience, measurement, pathways and access to services.

Listen again .... BBC Radio 4 "Care in the UK 2010"

"The way care is funded and provided remains one of the biggest unresolved matters of the age, but we are at a turning point.
Three quarters of us are likely to need some form of social care during our retirement, and thousands of younger disabled people are already requiring social care, according to a recent White Paper. Many thousands of others are affected in their role as a carer.
Radio 4's Care in the UK season looks at the costs of care and asks who should pay."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/you-and-yours/care-in-the-uk-2010/ 

Listen again to the podcasts,  try the care calculator, and more.

NHS Evidence Update: Diabetes

Annual Evidence Update: Diabetes

From NHS Evidence: Diabetes http://www.library.nhs.uk/Diabetes/

"... identifies new relevant systematic reviews on all aspects of diabetes care published between September 2009 and September 2010. As in previous years, the clinical lead of NHS Evidence – diabetes, Dr Roger Gadsby provides an overall commentary. This year we also have expert commentaries from Dr Ed Sharples on recently published evidence on Diabetic Nephropathy, and from Consultant Dietitian Lindsay Oliver on Vitamin D and Diabetes. "


The 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Diabetes has been published to coincide with World Diabetes Day on the 14th November 2010.

Medical Education England report

Foundation for Excellence
- An Evaluation of the Foundation Programme

"Medical Education England (MEE) has launched its evaluation of the medical Foundation Programme, which was chaired by Professor John Collins, Visiting Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford.


Professor Collins’ report, ‘Foundation for Excellence’, is a detailed evaluation of the Foundation Programme based on extensive written and oral evidence that included a review of nearly 300 relevant publications. Professor Collins was supported by an Expert Panel that helped to conduct the evaluation and develop the final report and recommendations."
 
Full text (pdf) is available here from the Medical Education England website.

NHS Annual Evidence Update - Head & Neck Cancer; Psoriasis

Annual Evidence Update on Head and Neck Cancer 

collaboratively from NHS Evidence - cancer www.library.nhs.uk/cancer; NHS Evidence - ENT and audiology www.library.nhs.uk/ENT/ and NHS Evidence - oral health www.library.nhs.uk/oralhealth/

NHS Evidence specialist collections for cancer, ENT and audiology, and oral health will launch the first collaborative Head and Neck Cancer Annual Evidence Update on 1 November 2010.

The update will include key guidance and quality appraised systematic reviews published since the SIGN guidance, combined with expert commentaries on the following topics:

* Causes, risks and prevention

* Screening

* Assessment and diagnosis

* Treatment and disease management

* Service delivery and standards.

Additional therapeutic uncertainties will highlight research gaps and there will be links to relevant high quality patient information.

Annual Evidence Update on Psoriasis 

from NHS Evidence - skin disorders: www.library.nhs.uk/skin

NHS Evidence - skin disorders is publishing its fourth Annual Evidence Update on Psoriasis on 1 November 2010, with the results of a search for new national guidance and systematic reviews published since the 2009 Annual Evidence Update.  There will be our usual “what’s new” analysis, discussing the new evidence and its implications for clinical practice — this year written by Dr Amy Foulkes, Professor Chris Griffiths and Dr Richard Warren.

Changes to Wolfson Room Computing Facilities

It is always unsafe practice to save files to public computers.

 

Owing to changes to the server facilities from Tuesday 26th October 2010 it will no longer be possible to save files to the hard drive of the Wolfson Room computers.

• Please bring a memory stick/USB with you, or purchase one from the Library Desk if you wish to save documents.
• Please ensure you remove all documents from your profile by Tuesday 26th October

 

The Wolfson Computer Room will be closed  all day Wednesday 27th October 2010.

 

  

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

"Buying Healthcare" - BBC Radio4

"It will turn the NHS upside down" is one description of the proposed changes in the Health White Paper published in July.GPs are to be put in charge of buying services for their patients, a role currently held by the Primary Care Trusts. Penny Marshall investigates how this will change the NHS and asks what it will mean for patients."

Listen again to this BBC Radio4 programme (available for 7 days from 11th October 2010)

Kings Fund responds to the NHS White Paper

 "The White Paper Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS represents one of the biggest shake ups of the health system since the NHS was established. We'll be looking at the issues that it raises, analysing the reforms it suggests and commenting on the topics it discusses in both a health care and wider context."

see what the King's Fund has to say

includes video, blogs, and audio.



NHS Evidence - Annual Evidence Updates

Recent annual evidence updates from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collections are:

• Breast Cancer: 11-15 October 2010
  This is the sixth Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on Breast Cancer prepared by NHS Evidence - cancer. It includes the systematic reviews and guidance that have been published since October 2009.
• Heart Failure: 4-8 October 2010
  Following on from the partial update of NICE's Heart Failure guidelines in August 2010 and our last evidence update in October 2009 this update for health professionals and patients will present significant advances in knowledge about heart failure. Topics will include diagnosis, pharmacology, organisation of care, devices, rehabilitation,  palliative care and  psychology. There will also be a section on uncertainties identified and, as usual, expert summaries will be included to help make sense of the new evidence presented
• CAM for Depression: 4-8 October 2010
  This is the third Annual Evidence Update on CAM for Depression. This update aims to identify, organise and present the latest information on this topic. We have searched a large number of databases for studies published or updated since the 2009 update.
  This AEU presents the evidence on specific therapies and approaches such as acupuncture, diet and nutrition, herbal medicine, massage, meditation and mindfulness, and yoga.
• Depression: 4-8 October 2010
  The Annual Evidence Update (AEU) contains the best available evidence published on Depression during 2009-2010.
  The AEU is divided up into sections on:

  Epidemiology and Prevalence /  UK and International Guidelines / Neuropsychology / Diagnosis and Risk Factors / Pharmacological Treatments including: SSRIs, SNRIs and TCAs / Psychosocial Treatments including: CBT and CCBT / Other Treatments including: Electroconvulsive therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation / Populations and Settings including: Children and Adolescents, Older People, Women, Ethnicity and the Workplace / Genetics / Co morbidity / Dual Diagnosis

  The NHS Evidence – mental health team have searched and sifted evidence from a number of databases, including Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Cinahl and TRIP.
• Antenatal and Pregnancy Care: 27 September - 1 October 2010
  NHS Evidence - women's health is holding its next Annual Evidence Update from Monday 27 September. The Antenatal Care Evidence Update builds on the accumulated knowledge-base and provides an up-to-date summary of the latest evidence in this area including the provision of antenatal care, patient information needs, common pregnancy problems, antenatal ultrasound and fetal monitoring. All the information contained in our AEU has been subject to rigorous selection criteria.  We know it is very difficult for busy health professionals to keep up-to-date with the huge volume of literature that is published each year and so the specialist collections are here to do this for you.