BMJ Clinical Evidence has extended its service to cover the systematic reviewing of the evidence base behind supportive and palliative care. The new service covers a broad range of clinical problems including constipation in people prescribed opioids, delirium in the dying patient and nausea and vomiting in people with cancer and other chronic illnesses. BMJ […]

The Medical Library has added the following titles to its collection: Neonatology: v 91: no.1 (2007) – Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine.(formerly Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine): v 149: no.4(2007: April.)- This title is also avilable electronically via Science Direct: 01/07/2006 to present

The Medical Library is delighted to announce that the New England Journal of Medicine is now available freely via CamDomain (ie University networked computers in the Library’s Wolfson Room and elsewhere) and also via University of Cambridge ATHENS. Go to http://content.nejm.org/ for access to NEJM – links from e-journals@cambridge and Newton, the library catalogue, will […]

Your NHS ATHENS password will give you access to Binleys Online – an online directory of over 250 000 NHS contacts working in both management and clinical roles. Binley’s is a fully searchable database of UK NHS personnel, organisations and priority documents, and an up-to-date source of contact and statistical information. Use your NHS ATHENS […]

Now you can keep up to date with the new books that are arriving in the library every week by subscribing to the New Books RSS. http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/rss/accessions/by_item/MED.rss Simply add this to your current RSS reader.

A university-wide trial of e-books on ScienceDirect providing access to over 500 titles has been set up by the publisher, Elsevier Science. The trial will run until 1 September 2007.Subject coverage includes: Agricultural and Biological Sciences Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Immunology and Microbiology Medicine and Dentistry Neuroscience Pharmacology, Toxiclology and […]

The Medical Library has added the following titles to its collection: Wounds UK v1 no1 2005- Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery 2006- The NHS E-Journals list has the following new titles added – access them using your NHS ATHENS password via MyJournals: http://journals.library.nhs.uk/ Applied H.R.M. Research – 1/7/2006+ California School Psychologist, The – 1/1/2006+ Canadian […]

The Medical Library will be open on all the Sundays leading up to the Clinical Student exam period in June: Sunday 5th May – Sunday 9th June inclusive, from 2pm till 6pm. Best of luck to all the Clinical Students with exams coming up!

New times and dates in May and June2007 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including: Cochrane Library PubMed Library Induction Finding e-Journals Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals Literature searching for Junior Doctors However it may be that you need book an appointment at the Information […]

On both May Bank Holidays – Monday 7th May and Monday 28th May – the opening hours of the Medical Library will be 9.00am – 6.00pm.