In light of the H1N1 pandemic EBSCO publishing are currently providing free point of care flu information.  This information comes from a range of resources including Dynamed, Nursing Reference Center and patient information sources.
All HSC personnel can access this information from www.ebscohost.com/flu.

A more efficient way to receive documents by email

When articles are not available from Medical & Healthcare Libraries they can be requested via the Document Delivery service and delivered either by post or by email.

The email option involves what is known as ‘digital rights management’ aimed at securing article content from being illicitly copied or distributed to comply with copyright legislation.  Until recently a program called Adobe ‘Digital Editions’ was the sole means of obtaining copyrighted material via ‘Secure Electronic Delivery’.  But there are frequent installation, activation and authorisation problems with Digital Editions which has effectively meant that many people have been unable to avail of the service.

Now there is a new system known as ‘FileOpen’ which is much more straightforward and less prone to error.  It simply requires a small add-on for Adobe Reader to be installed on any PC on which articles are to be received.  Articles then open in Adobe Reader without the need for any additional software.

The Medical & Healthcare Library will be implementing the new system from 9th November 2009.

Regular users of PubMed will have noticed a link on the homepage to the new redesign of the database.  This redesign will co-exist with the old version for about two weeks before switching over completely.  All search capability and functionality has been retained but the site has been given a fresh new look.  For example the features of the Limits, Preview/Index, History and Details tabs have been consolidated into the Advanced Search.  Display formats have been modified and updated.

For further information on the changes to the PubMed site, please see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

Regular users of MD Consult will already be aware of the great collection of electronic texts available through the database.  These have now been added to the library catalogue so they will be easier to access and pick up when searching for a particular text.  The books available cover a range of specialities and are usually up-to-date and the most current edition.  Examples include:

• Miller’s Anesthesia (7th edition)
• Braunwald’s Heart Disease (8th edition)
• William’s textbook of endocrinology (11th edition)
• Hematology (by Hoffman – 5th edition)
• Ophthalmology (by Yanoff – 3rd edition)
• Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (8th edition)
• Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (18th edition)

You can use any of the titles by accessing MD Consult directly through Honni e-lib or by searching in the library catalogue for a specific item and clicking on the Honniconnect button once located.  You will need your library username and password to access MD Consult.

For those not familiar with MD Consult: core collection, it is a practical resource to help answer clinical queries for practitioners and brings together a range of medical resources into one integrated online service.  These resources cover e-books, e-journals, Clinics of North America, patient information leaflets and images.

The following problem was resolved in September 2009.

If you are using version 8 of Internet Explorer (IE) you may find that you get an error message when you try to connect to an MDConsult journal through honni e-Lib.  The message displayed on screen is:

‘Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage’

The problem is due to an incompatability with this newest version of IE.  Until it is resolved please note that the error message disappears if the page is simply refreshed.  Alternatively, you may use Firefox as your browser of choice.

This problem was resolved on 3/11/2009.

There is currently a problem with the full text button in honni e-Lib.  The button is supposed to appear beside articles for which full text is available through honni but, because of the ongoing problem, it has been appearing where it shouldn’t and not appearing where it should.  The software suppliers are investigating the problem.  Meanwhile we have temporarily removed the button to avoid incorrect information being provided.

Until the problem is fixed it will therefore be necessary to click the honniConnect button in order to see if an article is available in full text.  We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.  As soon as the problem is resolved we will restore the button and update this information.

The sixth edition of the referral guidelines produced by the Royal College of Radiologists is now available electronically on honni.  To access the guidelines search the honni catalogue for the title.  Select the catalogue entry with the e symbol beside the title. Then use the honniconnect button to link to the online version, using your borrower number and password to log in.

This problem appears to have been resolved. Please report any further problems encountered to med.info@qub.ac.uk.

There is currently a technical problem with our online requesting service, so you may not be able to request items online in the normal way.  Until the problem is resolved please contact the relevant library where staff will be able to assist you in getting copies of pertinent articles.

When the problem is resolved we will post a notification on this page.

Did you know that GAIN (Guidelines & Audit Implementation Network) produces a newsletter entitled “Gleanings“?  It will keep you up to date with the work of GAIN.

Social workers will benefit from a new online journal database from Taylor and Francis. This resource gives access to full-text articles from 54 public health and social care journals,  including Smith College Studies in Social Work, Journal  of Family and Social Work  and  Adoption Quarterly .  Access to current content is not restricted , which means  that the complete text from the most recent issues of important  titles (e.g. Smith College Studies in Social Work, Journal of Family and Social Work  and  Adoption Quarterly ) is  now available. The new package also provides more extensive coverage of back issues of these titles.
Use the A-Z list of e-journals on the HONNI site to access a specific title.