A new guide is available which we hope will help you to make best use of the HONNI search facility. It explains the different search options available and describes the nature of the results and how they can be further refined, if appropriate. Sections include:
View the Guide to Searching on HONNI.
In May 2014 we ran a survey asking you what HONNI training you would like. Thank you to everyone who took the time to reply. Wherever possible, library staff have been in touch to answer individual queries. If your particular query did not receive a response, do let us know.
We tried to establish the areas where we needed to ensure you could access our training. ‘Finding Resources’ proved to be the most popular, followed by ‘accessing journal articles’, ‘using HONNI’, and ‘requesting books/articles’.
Several key issues were highlighted, including:
In 2012 we were asked by NICE to provide access via HONNI to the NICE BNF app. It was already available to NHS staff in the rest of the UK. NICE did not have the resources to manage accounts for HSC staff in Northern Ireland and so the Medical & HSC Library staff agreed to look at managing this locally.
We explored the devolved authentication method using Open Athens. After much work it turned out that the app platform was unable to process federated logins by this method as all the likely authentication use cases had not been considered in the design of the app. It is, therefore, not possible for us to enable access to the BNF app via HONNI at this time.
The good news, however, is that NICE is well aware that open access is the ideal future for the BNF apps and are working with the BNF publisher to develop open access apps that will be available UK-wide in 2015.
The new, improved HONNI search enables you to:
To do either of the above, read the instructions for Saving References in HONNI
We are always looking to improve your access to online journals, as well as ensuring we get maximum value for money from our resources. To this end, we recently upgraded our CINAHL subscription. Your HONNI username and password now allow you to access the CINAHL Complete package – which includes a further 600 full-text nursing and health titles.
Recently the Internurse interface was updated, and unfortunately some search functionality was lost. As 85% of the titles available via internurse are also available via CINAHL Complete, we have taken the decision to cancel our very expensive HSC Internurse subscription. Only 3 journals on the Internurse platform are currently unavailable via the new improved CINAHL Complete package – any articles from those titles required by HSC staff can be supplied free of charge from other parts of our collection, subject to copyright.
If you would like help with searching the new CINAHL, or any other nursing resources, then please contact the Subject Librarian Patricia Watt at p.watt@qub.ac.uk.
Access to the Classic version of the Library Catalogue is now available, without the My Account facility (renewing or requesting books).
The full version of the Classic Catalogue is due to be restored on the afternoon of Friday 18 July.
There is currently a problem accessing the full text of Cinahl articles from search results in honni Encore. This is due to a change in the database subscription which has not yet been reflected in the Encore setup. The software provider is currently working to resolve this problem.
Meanwhile, to access Cinahl articles, please go directly to the Cinahl Complete database.
The Cinahl Complete database package is now available to all HONNI members.
Members using Cinahl will find a big improvement with their access to full text journal articles as we have recently upgraded our subscription from Cinahl Plus to the Cinahl Complete package. This new enhanced version includes full text for 1,370 journals where previously there was coverage for only 768 journals. Apart from general nursing, it also provides information for more than 50 nursing specialities such as speech language pathology, nutrition, and general health and medicine. The database also contains sections on Evidence-based care sheets, Overviews of diseases and conditions, and Research instruments.
The way the database is searched remains the same, but if anyone should experience any difficulties they should contact the relevant Subject Librarian.
The Medical & HSC Library is currently taking part in a national pilot that enables journal content licensed by Jisc Collections for the academic research community to be made available to eligible staff working across the NHS/HSC in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. AAAS, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Springer and Royal Society of Chemistry have agreed to provide a free trial access period for up to one year in most cases.
A steering group comprising representatives from the UK academic sector, the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and HSC in Northern Ireland, NICE and Jisc Collections, has led the pilot from its inception and the results will inform Jisc Collections, the participating publishers and NHS/HSC libraries about relevant business models for NHS/HSC users.
Full-text articles from many major journals across several disciplines will be available via the trial – including highly regarded titles like Nature Medicine, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Clinical and Translational Medicine, European Journal of Nutrition, and Health Care Management Science.
Full list of titles in the NHS Journal Trial
The Royal Society of Chemistry has also made the Merck Index Online available until 31 March 2015 as part of the NHS pilot.
As part of its ongoing efforts to enrich yet simplify the process of finding and connecting to relevant electronic resources, Queen’s University Library has recently acquired a new resource discovery system.
Once the new system is introduced to honni it will no longer be necessary to click separate tabs for catalogue and article results. Also, results will no longer be grouped by their relevance to particular professions or by publisher, resulting in a much clearer display.
Instead the new system will offer a single set of search results ordered by relevance. Results will clearly indicate whether items are print books, ebooks, journals, articles etc. and it will be easy to limit results to one or more type of item. A range of other limiters will also be clearly accessible, including the ability to limit to full text results only.
Prior to selecting the new discovery tool the library conducted trials of competing systems and carried out a user survey. The library then selected the system which trial users expressed most satisfaction with in terms of quality and relevance of results, ease of use and ability to locate useful articles.
We expect the new system to be fast and reliable, and to enhance your research experience.
Implementation is anticipated during Summer 2014. Keep watching this Library Notice for updates on the implementation.
