Do you use ebooks? Could you spare 1 hour in November? (26th/ 27th) We are setting up a focus group to consider the use of medical ebooks by university staff and students. Comments will be fed back to JISC, (Joint Informations Systems Committee) for their national observatory project. JISC has negotiated and provided free a […]

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New ebooks available on trial for November! If demand is sufficient we are hoping to subscribe to the latest edition of theseebooks:- ADAMS AND VICTOR’S PRINCIPLES OF NEUROLOGY – 8th Ed. (2005) GOODMAN & GILMAN’S THE PHARMACOLOGICAL BASIS OF THERAPEUTICS – 11th Ed. (2006) HARRISON’S PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE – 17th Ed. (2008) HURST’S THE […]

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Brush up your literature searching skills before Christmas: new training dates and topics for November and December. Check the calendar available at http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/trainingdates.html for full details, but the sessions covered include: How to find healthcare literature use National Library for Health (NLH) and ATHENS– search databases like Medline, CINAHL & Embase How to find healthcare […]

Pharmaceutical Substances has now been updated to Version 3.1. Pharmaceutical Substances acts as a reference point for screening information about drugs. It provides a compendium of more than 2400 active pharmaceutical ingredients (API’s) of interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The database is structure searchable and includes synthetic routes. The new release is the […]

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A new ebook is now available:- “Sexual health and genital medicine in clinical practice” – C. Sonnex. It can be accessed in MyiLibrary using a university computer, or remotely, using your RAVEN password http://www.myilibrary.com/Search/sd.asp?ID=108737&Searchtext=sonnex This will soon be linked to the record in our Newton catalogue.

The new web portal for science students and scientists, http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/scienceportal/ was launched today.Science @ Cambridge aims to draw users into a virtual library space giving them immediate access to electronic information from their desktop, tools to help them navigate through the vast number of sources available, as well as on-line real-time help from library subject-experts. […]

As of Monday 29th September, the charges for photocopy cards will be as follows: £1 – 18 unit card 9 pages of A4 @ 11.1p per sheet 6 pages of A3 @ 16.7p per sheet £2 – 42 unit card 21 pages of A4 @ 9.5p per sheet 14 pages of A3 @ 14.3p per […]

Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” article (Guardian, 20th September 2008) makes interesting reading: Missing in action: the trials that did not make the news Somewhere you can keep track of interesting trials is the Current Controlled Trials, and the World Health Organisation’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP); DEC-net – Drug Evaulation in Children; ClinicalTrials.gov (trials […]

Infections Specialist Library What is it? The Infections Specialist Library (ISL) provides convenient and comprehensive access to the highest quality evidence on the investigation, prevention, treatment and control of infectious diseases from a clinical perspective. This is intended to keep health professionals up to date with the burgeoning amount of infectious disease evidence that is […]

More e-books are available using your NHS ATHENS password: Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine Oxford Handbook of Nurse Prescribing Go to http://www.library.nhs.uk/ and log in with your NHS ATHENS password, and click on the e-books link under “Books, Journals and Healthcare Databases”, and search for the book you want. Contact us if you’d like any […]