Information Skills for Health

 Are you a Keele student but also an NHS member of staff? Are you an NHS member of staff completing a university course? Do you have a membership for a royal college or society? A word about working with multiple resources, from multiple organisations… Generally, we advise you to use all the resources available to you. This includes resources from the university but also resources you can access as NHS staff and possibly resources you can access as part of your membership to colleges or societies. However, searching lots of different resources can throw up some problems. The main problem is that resources can get confused if you are using different logins to access different resources. Many resources try to pick up your previous login credentials which may not be relevant for that resource. This can result in errors and difficulty logging in. So, what can you do... We advise you to use "incognito" or "private" browser windows. These types of browse windows w...

eJournals provide you with the latest research as well as articles to support best practice and your professional development. The Health Library and NHS England subscribe to a wide range of healthcare-based journals. How to access Journals Most of our journals are available online. You will need a username and password to access them. This is your NHS OpenAthens username . To register for your username complete the online form . Browse for a journal title Use Browzine to browse for journal titles. This tool contains hundreds of journal titles, including the titles we subscribe to. Search for a title, view the issues and link directly to our subscription. It’s the easiest way to get to our content. For any titles or issues not included in our subscription you will be prompted to make a request – this is sent to our team and they will try to get a copy for you. Browse your list of journals by using the links to Browzine on our journals page . Find full-text for an article To find the fu...

 Staff working at UHNM in radiology or imaging can access a great collection of key radiology ebooks. The Clinical Key collection includes over 80 titles which are accessible using your NHS OpenAthens account . Here is a list of titles in the radiology collection: 1. 3D Printing for the Radiologist 2. Abdominal Imaging 3. Abdominal Imaging: The Core Requisites 4. Accident and Emergency Radiology: A Survival Guide 5. Advanced Cardiac Imaging 6. Atlas of Normal Roentgen Variants That May Simulate Disease 7. Atlas of Spinal Imaging 8. Breast Imaging 9. Breast Imaging: The Requisites 10. Breast Tomosynthesis 11. Caffey's Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging 12. Callen's Ultrasonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology 13. Cardiac Imaging: The Requisites 14. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 15. Chapman & Nakielny's Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis 16. Chapman & Nakielny's Guide to Radiological Procedures 17. Chest Radiology...

  Staff working at UHNM in radiology or imaging can access a great collection of key radiology ejournals. The Clinical Key collection includes over 40 titles which are accessible using your NHS OpenAthens account . Here is a list of titles in the radiology collection: 1. Academic Radiology 2. Advances in Clinical Radiology 3. Brachytherapy 4. Clinical Imaging 5. Clinical Oncology 6. Clinical Radiology 7. Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology 8. Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging 9. European Journal of Radiology 10. European Journal of Radiology Open 11. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 12. Journal of the American College of Radiology 13. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 14. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences 15. Journal of Neuroradiology 16. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 17. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 18. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America 19. Medical Dosimetry 20. Medical Engineering ...

 Got an article reference and need to find the full-text? Need to check NHS resources for full-text? Learn more about the tools to help you to get straight to full-text articles. Complete our online tutorial Find Full-text Articles and Journals for the NHS . You will learn: How get your OpenAthens username to log in to full-text Which Health Library web page contains the help you need How to search for full-text using an article DOI How to search for full-text with just the article title How to find a journal title on Browzine How great LibKey nomad is How to use Google Scholar library links to get to full-text articles For more help just get in touch with the Health Library .

  ePub ahead of print means that the article is being listed online before it is released in the published journal issue, whether published online or in print. Whether you can access the full-text of the epub-ahead-of-print will depend on the publisher’s rules for our subscription. Some publishers will include ahead-of-print in our subscription and you’ll have no problem accessing them. However, some publishers will not include this access in our subscription. Unfortunately, there is no way of indicating whether the epub-ahead-of-print is available or not on our journal lists. You won’t really be able to tell unless you try to access it and fail. What can you do if you want an unavailable epub-ahead-of-print? Wait – you can wait for the issue to be published that will include the article Apply for an article request – we will see if another library is able to provide a copy. Complete our online form to make a request. If you need any help accessing full-text articles, ...

 Got an article title you want to find but don’t have the full reference? Maybe a colleague has told you about a good article to read but they don’t have all the details. How can you find it? Here is an example: Health-related quality of life in youth with type 1 diabetes by Shapira Search for the full-text by article title 1. Go to the Health Library web page Articles for the NHS . 2. Page down to the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub section. 3. Enter your article title in double quotes. 4. Click the “Search” button. You will be taken to the Hub search results article page.  What if the search returns lots of results? What can you do? Use the filter options Select from the various filter options to focus the number of entries in the search results. You might try: publication date range if you know the journal is recent journal article source type subject filter option Use the Hub advanced search options Use the advanced search to focus your result...

 Have you got an article reference and want to find the full-text? Does your reference include the DOI or PMID? DOI is the digital object identifier. This is a code which uniquely identifies an article. So, no matter which platform the article is hosted on or even if the publisher changes, the article will have the same DOI. PMID is the pubmed identifier. This is a reference number for the article held on the Pubmed database. You will always see a PMID for an article if you are searching on Pubmed. Here is an example of a reference: Ultrasound-guided genicular nerves block vs. local infiltration analgesia for total knee arthroplasty: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial, Cuñat et al Anaesthesia, 2023 Feb;78(2):188-196. doi: 10.1111/anae.15909 PMID: 36351436 . I’ve highlighted in bold the DOI and the Pubmed ID: see them below: DOI = 10.1111/anae.15909 PMID = 36351436 You can now use these bits of the reference to find whether the library has the full-text...

  Got a reference? Need to find the full-text? You can check for NHS full-text articles and journals by using tools to search NHS resources.  Learn how to quickly find full-text articles from NHS-subscribed journals by completing the tutorial  Find Full-Text Articles and Journals for the NHS . For more help with literature searching: Take a look at  more etutorials Book a training session Contact the Health Library

Are you a Keele student but also an NHS member of staff? Are you an NHS member of staff completing a university course? Do you have a membership for a royal college or society?  A word about working with multiple resources, from multiple organisations. Generally we'd say that you should use all the resources available to you. This includes resources from the University, but also resources you can access as NHS staff and possibly resources you can access as part of your membership to colleges or societies. This will increase the chances of you finding the information you need, increase the likelihood of accessing healthcare specialist resources and increasing the chances of you getting full-text access. However, searching lots of different resources can throw up some problems. The main problem is that resources can get confused if you are using different logins to access different resources. Many resources try to pick up your previous login credentials which may not be relevant for ...

  M idwifery students need to find the best, most relevant information and evidence to complete their assignment s .   Keele University buys a wide range of different types of resources to give you access to good quality information.   Books and eBooks   You can borrow bo oks and access ebooks by searching for your topic on Library Search. Library Search holds information about all the books / ebooks available to Keele students. You can borrow books from either the Campus Library or Health Library .   Read our blog post f or instructions on how to read a n ebook on Library Search .   Running a s imple s earch on Library Search   You can also run quick, simple searches on Library Search for articles and journals , as well as books / ebooks . The results may include a wide range of content as Library Search includes resources across the many disciplines covered by Keele courses.   See our blog post for instructions on running simple search...