Any Addenbrooke’s staff who are planning to make use of the unstaffed Medical Library space to work should be aware there will be emergency power outage in the entire Clinical School building on Friday, 19th June. This will mean an interruption to power supplies when the power is switched to the portable generator and then […]

COVID-19 Evidence Reviews is a new website which aims to ‘capture the work of evidence synthesis groups in the US and around the world to maximize our collective contributions to patients, frontline clinicians, researchers, and policymakers during the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid duplicating efforts.’ It extracts completed and ongoing COVID-19 reviews and aggregates them in […]

5 May is Global Hand Hygiene Day, a campaign which ‘mobilizes people around the world to increase adherence to hand hygiene in health care facilities, thus protecting health care workers and patients from infections.’ As the World Health Organization states, The main goal of the Global Hand Hygiene Day campaign is to recognize that handwashing […]

Attention all researchers working on COVID-19: ReadCube have made available a new programme, ‘Research Pass,’ to enable free full text access to articles for all those researching the pandemic. This will result in access to around 26 million articles. In addition, participants are able to apply for automated text and data mining access to the […]

The database Pubmed — which for many students and researchers is the first port of call when searching for literature on any medical or healthcare topic — has changed its interface. At the moment, ‘legacy’ Pubmed, the version most people are familiar with, is still available. However, Pubmed has announced that the new interface will […]

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Medical Library has made the decision to cancel all face-to-face training. This goes for both scheduled group training, and one-to-one meetings which you may have arranged with the training team. We are currently investigating options to deliver the training remotely, but this may take time to implement. In […]

Due to the current changing circumstances with COVID-19, it is likely that many of our library users, whether from the University of Cambridge or the NHS, may be working from home or unable to come into the library to access books, journals, or other resources. Here are some ways to maximise your access to electronic […]

During the month of January we have been highlighting a collection of tools and resources to support healthcare professionals in improving the health literacy of their patients. We originally posted these tools on Twitter, and we have now gathered them here for ease of access. First up, we highlighted an excellent presentation by Ruth Carlyle […]

Health literacy is the ability to interpret and apply health information. Poor health literacy can result in exacerbated inequalities, inappropriate use of medication, and poor health outcomes, and is increasingly an important focus for the NHS. As one step towards addressing this crucial issue, the Medical Library has developed a new training course, Health Literacy […]