There will be repair work undertaken between 27th May and 14th June on the William Harvey Lecture Theatre. While the workers will endeavour to keep all disruption to a minimum, this may involve some noise or movement through the library space. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you feel that this may necessitate finding […]

This week (13th-17th May) is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the library, along with the wider Clinical School, is holding a range of events and activities. The library will be hosting a drop-in arts/crafts, origami, and jigsaw puzzle event all day on Monday 13th and Wednesday 15th. This will be taking place in the library […]

In April our #ResourceOfTheMonth has been focusing on creating conference posters. We’ve been highlighting resources that you may find useful when designing and presenting a conference poster.   We began by highlighting a blog which has been written by Colin Purrington with some good advice for creating conference posters. A good starting place for information […]

If you found searching in CINAHL useful, for literature around nursing and allied health professions, you might be interested to know about Emcare. Emcare covers all nursing specialties and nursing healthcare professions, including international coverage of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, […]

*NEW* BMJBestPractice is now available for all NHS workers in England, through a Health Education England partnership. Go to http://bestpractice.bmj.com  and log in with your Open Athens account. If you haven’t got an Athens account, you can set one up here: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ If you need to revive your Athens account, or reset the password, please […]

Our resource of the month for March was a collection of tools, tips and training available to support you when critically appraising medical research articles. First up, we recommended the CASP checklists, which are a series of questions that can help you structure your evaluation of an article’s reliability, trustworthiness and applicability. We use CASP […]

Health Education England recently published a report looking into the mental health and wellbeing of NHS staff, as well as future NHS staff such as student nurses, doctors, and AHPs. You can access the full report here, and read its conclusions and recommendations. With so many competing demands on staff and learner’s time, being efficient […]

Do you ever find it hard to focus and write? Have you got a piece of writing (such as an article, guideline, university course assignments, dissertation or thesis) to do but struggle to find the time? We are here to help. We’re announcing two ‘shut up and write’ sessions: dedicated time to do nothing but […]