Activities in the library this week include: Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th Re-carpeting of the area between the Reception area and the Books. This will be noisy and disruptive work, and we apologise for the inevitable inconvenience. Thursday and Friday No work scheduled. Calm!

Monday 29th September, 2011 is a Bank Holiday. The library is open from 9.00am till 6.00pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013fj22 “On average it takes 17 years between the time a medical discovery is made and the time that it’s put into wide use. Why does it take so long? Some of the reasons include regulatory requirements, established practices, professional jealousy and a fear of failure. A combination of these factors prevented the introduction of […]

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We are always striving to improve the services and environment in the Medical Library.In 2009 we underwent a significant refurbishment in the library reception area, upper floor and staff offices.  From August till the end of 2011, with financial support from the Clinical School, we shall be extending this modernisation to some other parts of […]

We continue to deduplicate print journals and move towards electronic journal access. One copy of the print will continue to be held in one of the University libraries, but not in the Medical Library.A list of these titles which we propose to remove from the Medical Library can be seen here. Please contact us if you have […]

Who is the local population? How deprived are they? How much more healthy are they this year in comparison with last year? Health Profiles is the Department of Health’s programme to improve availability and accessibility to heath and health-related information in England. They give a snapshot overview of health for each local authority in England. […]

http://www.casp-uk.net/ Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Delighted to see that the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme has got it’s own website again – nice tidy URL to remember! CASP deliver great workshops on critical appraisal, and have created the invaluable checklists to help you when reading journal articles:  Randomised Controlled Trials Systematic Reviews Cohort studies Case-control studies […]