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 text articles. There are a number of tools and websites that can maximise access to University of Cambridge full text. We tweeted about iDiscover, PubMed, Google Scholar and the Lean browser extension.

 

The first #ResourceOfTheMonth that we are revisiting is accessing full text articles. We tweeted and blogged about this in October 2019 https://t.co/V0k4r7hs9o
Resources were: using idiscover, pubmed, Google Scholar and Lean browser extension to maximise access to full text.

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) April 7, 2020

 

 

The second theme that we revisited was NHS Athens resources. The blog post includes instructions about how to register for an NHS Athens account and a number of NHS resources which can be accessed using it.

NHS Athens resources include BMJ Best Practice, Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures and healthcare databases.

Continuing with our theme for #ResourceOfTheMonth of revisiting previous blog posts, here is one from August 2019 in which we highlight some NHS Athens resources. The blog post includes instructions about how to register for an NHS Open Athens account.https://t.co/ORvT1MdyPx

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) April 21, 2020

 

In the final tweet in April we revisited resources that can be used to help keep you up to date.

We tweeted about using Twitter, saving alerts on healthcare databases and the Journal TOC website.

In our final #ResourceOfTheMonth for April we revisit July 2019 when we highlighted resources that can help keep you up to date.https://t.co/T2Y1Fg3rys
including Twitter, saving database alerts and Journal TOCs.
These resources can help keep you up to date and save you time.

— Cambridge Medical Library (@cam_med_lib) April 28, 2020

If you would like some more tips on using these healthcare databases to search or to save alerts we have written some top tips guides which are available on our website https://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk/research-support/teach-guides-videos/

If you have any questions about how to access any of these resources please contact the library training team: librarytraining@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Do be sure to follow the Medical Library on Twitter for more great resources and tools every month.