From April 2008 the online databases that you used to access via Dialog Datastar (Medline, Embase, CINAHL, BNI, AMED, PsycINFO, Kings Fund and DH-Data) will change. You’ll still need to use an NHS ATHENS password to access these databases, but the search page will look completely different and be accessed via the National Library for […]

The library will be shut over the Easter Weekend: Friday 21st – Monday 24th March, inclusive. We re-open at 8am, Tuesday 25th March 2008.

The University Library has established trial access to Elsevier’s SCOPUS database on a university-wide basis until 5th April 2008. Developed in conjunction with researchers to provide an easily navigated single entry-point to the world’s scientific information, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database for the sciences and social sciences. It covers: 15,000 peer-reviewed journals […]

The University Library is pleased to announce that it has purchased the complete Nature Archives (1869-1996), which can now be accessed online by anyone in the University. Together with the Library’s subscription to the current issues of Nature online, this means that Nature is now completely available online from the first issue published on 4 […]

16 more titles have been bought by the East of England for all NHS ATHENS holders – Annals of Neurology Arthritis & Rheumatism British Journal of Surgery Cancer Cancer Cytopathology Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Diagnostic Cytopathology Head & Neck Hepatology International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Liver Transplantation Musculoskeletal Care Occupational […]

Do you use OVID as a way of searching databases, or finding electronic journals? Well, it ‘s getting a makeover on 1st February 2008. If you’d like any support in using the new interface, please just get in touch with the library, or make use of the “teach yourself” guide.

The University has now purchased access to the ebook:-Concise Oxford textbook of medicine [electronic resource] / edited by John G.G. Ledingham, David A. Warrell You can access the ebooks either through the Newton catalogue or at the supplier’s website, – in this case – MyiLibrary. There is instant access from the university domain. Outside the […]

New times and dates in January and February 2008 are available for Quality Quest training sessions providing hands-on training in specific resources including: Cochrane Library PubMed Library Introduction Searching Newton (library catalogue) and Finding e-Journals Literature Searching for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals Literature searching for Junior Doctors Searching Web of Science However it may […]

The East of England NHS libraries’ Christmas present is a new, wide selection of electronic journals.63 new e-journals will be available online to all NHS staff in the East of England from 1st January 2008 – you can still log into http://journals.library.nhs.uk/ to see if the journal you need is available. Something for all the […]