NHS electronic databases are changing

The way that you search NHS electronic databases is changing:

Search 2.0 is replacing Dialog

From 30th June 2008, it will not be possible to search databases via Dialog. A new search tool, NLH Search 2.0, is now available. It allows you to search the following healthcare databases:

PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, Embase, Alternative and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED), British Nursing Index (BNI), PsycINFO, Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC: includes Kings Fund and DH-DATA databases)

Any literature searches you have saved on the Dialog version of the databases WILL NOT transfer to NLH Search 2.0 when Dialog ceases. Please save any searches to your own computer before then. If you need help doing this, please contact us.

Accessing NLH Search 2.0

NLH Search 2.0 is accessible at http://www.library.nhs.uk/ and through the Resources list within MyAthens.

Blackwells backfiles

UCL staff and students now have online access to a number of Blackwell backfiles. NHS users may access these titles from walk-in computers in the library. Most titles allow access from volume 1 onwards and include:

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• British Journal of Dermatology
• Cephalalgia
• Child: Care, Health and Development
• Clinical & Experimental Allergy
• Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
• Contact Dermatitis
• Experimental Dermatology
• Immunological Reviews
• International Journal of Dermatology
• International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
• Journal of Advanced Nursing
• Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
• Wound Repair and Regeneration
  

Elsevier backfiles and The Lancet

We are very pleased to announce that all journal content published by Elsevier before 1995 is now available to UCL users on ScienceDirect. This means that we have access back to volume 1, issue 1 in many cases, including The Lancet (Vol. 1, 1823-). Previously, Elsevier journals were only available online from 1993 or 1995. NHS users may access ScienceDirect journals from the walk-in computers in the library.

UpToDate free trial

The Royal Free Hospital Medical Library has set up a free trial to UpToDate. This resource provides summaries of evidence and specific recommendations for patient care and aims to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice quickly and easily and at the point of care.

Access to UpToDate is at http://www.utdol.com/ for all Royal Free Hospital or University College Medical School staff and students from computers in the hospital or medical school and no password is necessary. Please send your feedback on UpToDate to info.skills@medsch.ucl.ac.uk.

Neurological Conditions Specialist Library launched

The NLH Neurological Conditions Specialist Library is now freely available online at www.library.nhs.uk/neurological. The site aims to gather together the best quality evidence in neurological conditions and make it easily accessible to health professionals. Information support is provided by staff of the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library, UCL Library Services.

Specialist Libraries are freely available to access. See if there is a Specialist Library for your area of interest by checking on http://www.library.nhs.uk/specialistlibraries/

Welcome to all new and returning students!

Hello and welcome to all the students who are returning this week. We hope you find everything you need in the library, but if you have any queries please speak to someone at the Issue Desk who will be happy to help you.

We hold information skills training courses to help you with finding the information you need; for more details see our training pages or email infoskills@medsch.ucl.ac.uk

Journals received in the Library, 14th September 2007

AIDS Care, August 2007, 19(7).
American Journal of Human Genetics, September 2007, 81(3).
British Journal of Hospital Medicine, September 2007, 68(9).
BMJ, 15 September 2007, 335(7619).
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 52(8).
Cell, 24 August 2007, 130(4).
Current Biology, 4 September 2007, 17(17).
European Respiratory Journal, September 2007, 30(3).
Hepatology, 46(3).
HSJ, 13 September 2007, 117(6073).
Infection and Immunity, September 2007, 75(9).
International Journal of Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, September 2007, 11(9).
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, September 2007, 57(3).
Journal of the American Medical Association, 12 September 2007, 298(10).
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2007, 45(7).
Journal of Nutrition, September 2007, 137(9).
Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, September 2007, 322(3).
Journals of Gerontology, August 2007, 62A(8).
Lancet, 15-21 September 2007, 370(9591).
Liver Transplantation, September 2007, 13(9).
Medicine, September 2007, 35(9).
Nature, 13 September 2007, 449(7159).
New Scientist, 15 September 2007, 195(2621).
Postgraduate Medical Journal, September 2007, 83(983).
PNAS, 28 August 2007, 104(35).
Science, 7 September 2007, 317(5843).
Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, September 2007, 37(5).