Monday, April 29, 2013

Change in staffed opening hours for both Trust libraries


The staffed opening hours at the Trust Library & Knowledge Services are 
changing. From May 6th they will be as follows:

Maidstone Hospital (Academic Centre Level 1):
Monday-Friday: 09:00-17:00

Tunbridge Wells Hospital (Education and Training Centre Level -2):
Monday-Friday 8.30-17:00

Usual 24/7 access arrangements to the services still apply. Ask staff for 
details. If you have any questions or comments about the services, please 
direct them to Emma Aldrich (emma.aldrich@nhs.net) 01622 224874/ 01892 635871.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Resource of the Week: Clinical Key


Each week the Trust Library service will be promoting a different product available to all members of staff.
This week it is Clinical Key which is a resource that contains over 500 e-journals and 1050 e-books. It also contains guidelines, instructional videos, over 30,000 images and a Powerpoint presentation builder.
Simply visit www.clinicalkey.com and log in with your NHS Athens account to try it out for yourself!
Please let the library know what you think of this new resource
Thank you

Clinical Key includes all the MD Consult e-journals and e-books, so you will need to go to Clinical Key from 1st May to access your MD Consult titles (or through the library catalogue www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk)

Monday, April 15, 2013

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Resource of the week: E-journals


Each week the Trust Library service will be promoting a different product available to all members of staff.
This week it is our vast collection of electronic journals. To search and access e-journal titles, go to our catalogue www.southeastlibrarysearch.nhs.uk .  Most e-journals require an NHS Athens account to access and all members of NHS staff are entitled to an Athens account.  Simply visit www.library.nhs.uk and select register for NHS Athens to get your Athens account.
New e-journal titles for 2013 include Arthritis and Rheumatism, Journal of Neonatal Nursing and the much requested Red and Green Journals (Radiation, Oncology, Biology & Physics and Radiotherapy and Oncology).

Monday, April 08, 2013

Clinical Governance Library Resources

For this month's bulletin (April) the Trust Library Service has created a bulletin on Clinical Governance library resources and a display is on show in both libraries.

If you have any questions about the resources, or would like to suggest a topic for next month's bulletin, please contact Ann Foreman or Becky England, ann.foreman@nhs.net or rebecca.england@nhs.net 

Click here to read the Clinical Governance bulletin and other bulletins are available by clicking
here

Thank you


Thursday, April 04, 2013

NEW RESOURCE: CLINICAL KEY


The Trust Library Service now has access to
CLINICAL KEY
Go to www.clinicalkey.com and log in with your NHS Athens account to access
Clinical Key is not just a conventional clinical search   engine, but a clinical insight engine designed specifically to address physicians' 3 key search requirements
·        Comprehensive: Supplies answers from the largest collection of published medical resources in every medical and surgical specialty, and includes all MEDLINE abstracts and links to full-text where available
·        Trusted: Authoritative medical and surgical content from Elsevier
·        Speed to answer: Smart Content enables fast discovery of the most relevant answers, plus more intuitive searching AND
·        Intuitive: Information is structured to align with doctors' workflows, whether they are treating and diagnosing patients, staying current in their field, or preparing care plans
Clinical Key includes access to 500+ journal titles, 1000+ medical reference books (including "Gray's Anatomy" and Kumar and Clark's "Clinical Medicine" titles), 2000+ EBM First Consult Summaries, 2000+ medical procedure instructional videos, 30,000+ images) and the interface tools, including the PowerPoint presentation builder
Please let us have any feedback on Clinical Key in person or by email gm.e.mtw-tr.library@nhs.net
If you need any help using this resource, please ask library staff. Help guides are available on the Clinical Key website and in the libraries


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