This is a notice for any Addenbrooke’s staff who have been using the (unstaffed) Medical Library as a space for research or study. Please be aware that the windows in the Reading Room which align with the study pods and bookshelves are being replaced. Please note there will be some noise and disruption in this […]

Health Information Week is drawing to a close for this year, and we wanted to update you on what the Medical Library has been doing to support it. We’ve been very active on Twitter, posting links to useful health information resources, aimed at the general public. Today, we are talking about the Patient, Carer and […]

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 […]

From mid March 2020 many people including Medical Library staff began working from home. This was due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In order to highlight as many resources as possible which can be used from home we decided to revisit some of our previous #ResourceOfTheMonth blog posts. We began with how to access full […]

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 […]