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 […]

During the Coronavirus outbreak, all books taken out from the Medical Library will be set to automatically renew.  You will receive notification via your email address a few days before the book(s) are due for return. You will not face fines for late return of books caused by the Libraries being closed, illness, caring responsibilities, […]

Sensible sources of advice/tips and tricks on working from home Practical help  CIPD – Flexible working practices Explores the benefits of flexible working, and gives practical tips on implementing flexible working practices (need to register for free account for full access). BBC – Tricks and tools for better working from home Practical guidance about working […]

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Medical Library has made the decision to cancel all face-to-face training. This goes for both scheduled group training, and one-to-one meetings which you may have arranged with the training team. We are currently investigating options to deliver the training remotely, but this may take time to implement. In […]