Clinical Key

Our institutions now have access to ClinicalKey, a clinical search
engine that makes it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge.
       
Fast
Recognises clinical concepts and offers shortcuts

Complete
Current content across 30+ medical specialties

Convenient
Easy to discover, share and apply knowledge anywhere

Trusted
Content from Elsevier, the name healthcare
professionals worldwide rely on
    
Create a personal account for access to special features:

  1. Go to www.clinicalkey.com  and click on “Login”, then “OpenAthens login” to open an Athens Authentication page
   
  2. Enter your Athens username and password, to be taken back to www.ClinicalKey.com or the target page.    

  3. First time users: click on “activate personalisation” in the top right corner of your screen, and create your personal profile for additional functionality (book PDF, export images etc).   
   
  4. You can access ClinicalKey anytime, anywhere using your Athens details.   
             
Contact us with any questions and start using ClinicalKey today!
   
   

Six Book Challenge Winners!

Suzanne Wilcox being presented with her prize by Nick Smith

Congratulations to the winners of our Prize Draws!

1^st – Suzanne Wilcox – WRH

2^nd – Delyth Davies - Alex

3^rd – Rachel Rees - Alex

4^th - Chris Colledge  - WRH

 
Our local winners won a voucher and a set of books.  The national prize draws took place at the start of July and unfortunately our readers were not successful in winning any of the prizes.

We would like to say a BIG thank-you to Worcestershire Public Libraries for loaning Fiction Collections to our hospital libraries and to purchasing our reading diaries and promotional material.
Those who kindly donated prizes: Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s and Morrison’s.

E-learning- now is the time!

Why not come and use the computers in the Rowlands Library. We have all the information you need to complete your mandatory E-learning as well as other courses including Medicines Management, Safeguarding Adults & Information Governance. 
Library staff are on hand to help you access E-learning packages and help with printing certificates. You do not have to book as we have plenty of computers for you to use, however if you did want to come with a group of colleagues, please let us know so that we can reserve a few computers together for you.

For enquiries, please contact rowlands.library@worcsacute.nhs.uk or ext 33760 or pop into visit us at the Rowlands Library, Charles Hastings Education Centre, Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

Staff publications database

Did you know that we have a publications database available on our website? http://www.wkp.nhs.uk/knowledge-services/publicationsdatabase/ 

You can access all the latest research, news and journal articles published my members of the Worcestershire Health Community.  

If I have missed your article then let me know and I will get it added – Nicholas.smith@worcsacute.nhs.uk

 

How are we doing?

During the last year Worcestershire Health Libraries have…
•    Performed 266 advanced literature searches
•    Supplied 2109 articles to library users
•    Trained over 180 staff in Evidence-Based Practice
•    Issued over 400 smartcards

Library and knowledge service users (you) have:
•    Borrowed over 5700 books
•    Accessed over 11990 topics on UpToDate and Dynamed
•    Accessed Athens resources over 9950 times (last 6 months only)

To find out more about any of the above services please contact Nicholas.Smith@worcsacute.nhs.uk (Knowledge and Library Services Manager).

New resources – Proquest Hospital Collection and PsycARTICLES

NHS staff now have access to an additional 2 collections of full-text journals and other research material.  The collections are part of the National Core Content information resources provided by NICE.

Access both collections from ‘My Resources’ in your NHS Athens account.  Login  at: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/Auth/Login?

Fulltext links to content are also embedded in the NHS Healthcare databases (HDAS).

Proquest Hospital Collection contains journal articles, nursing and psychology videos, conference proceedings, working papers, reports for discovery of findings not yet published in journals and dissertations.

PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association.

NHS Athens – Medline and PsycINFO database changes

NHS Athens – Medline and PsycINFO database changes

Action is required if you have saved searches or regular email alerts set up on Medline or PsycINFO databases via the NHS Healthcare Databases (HDAS).

From April 1^st 2015 these databases will be provided by a new supplier and saved searches and alerts will NOT be carried over.  You will need to save your settings now and manually enter them again when the new databases are fully available from July 2015.  Between April and July both databases will be available to search on HDAS but with reduced fields and features.  Full instructions are available here.

In addition, from April 1^st 2015 two new collections will be available:

Proquest Hospital Collection – 4,500 fulltext health and medical journals, plus videos and dissertations

PsycARTICLES – fulltext to over 100 journals in the behavioural sciences.

If you have any questions or problems regarding this change please contact us.