Christmas Closure: The Medical Library will close at 12:30, Thursday 24th December 2015, and reopen at 08:00, Monday 4th January 2016. We wish all library users a very merry Christmas, and all best wishes for the new year.

Used an e-book before?  Want more information, hints and tips?  You have access to numerous medical e-books.  Do you know how to find and download e-books to your devices? We are holding e-book drop-in sessions on Tuesday 15th December 1:00 -2:00 in the Sherwood Room Thursday 17th December 1:00 – 2:00 in the Sherwood Room […]

Free access to interactive PDFs for professionals & students   Changes have been made to the structure and appearance of the British National Formulary (BNF), the medicines and prescribing reference book used by NHS healthcare professionals. In response to this CPPE and BNF publications have produced an interactive programme, How to use the BNF, to […]

There will be some significant changes to the Medical Library over the course of 2016 and 2017.  These are driven by changes to the undergraduate course of the Clinical School. From 2017 there will be an increase in student numbers each year for 3 years. The resulting c260 (instead of c160) students per year require […]

  Christmas Closure: The Medical Library will close at 12:30, Thursday 24th December 2015, and reopen at 08:00, Monday 4th January 2016. We wish all library users a very merry Christmas, and all best wishes for the new year.

Latest evidence updates from NICE High-sensitivity cardiac troponin tests for diagnosis of heart attack A meta-analysis and UK cohort study found that thresholds lower than those generally applied could be used with high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T or I tests to rule out myocardial infarction in people with chest pain. First-line treatments for Helicobacter pylori A […]

Getting published in Nature’s ‘Scientific Data’ journal Date: Monday 11 January, 13.30am – 18.00pm Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar room, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Downing Street, CB2 3EG. Did you know that Nature Publishing Group has a dedicated journal ‘Scientific Data’ for publishing scientific data? An excellent way to get citations for the research […]

Have you ever wondered what Open Access publishing actually is? Many people associate ‘ Open Access’ with Article Processing Charges for journal articles, but can this business model work for books, and if so, how? Are Open Access books always free? Can Open Access book publishing ever hope to be a profitable business? This wide ranging session will cover […]