This problem has been resolved (26/1/2015)

There is currently a problem with the URL of the Pharmaceutical Journal in HONNI.  Until it is resolved please use the link below to connect directly to the resource.

Pharmaceutical Journal

The Medical & HSC Library has recently purchased a substantial collection of electronic journals to be made available to HSC members of the Library:

• Wiley Medicine & Nursing Collection containing 418 titles
• 20 individual journals as shown below

All the new journals are now available in full text right up to the current issue to help you keep abreast of current practice, research and development.  You can connect to them via the HONNI catalogue or directly from the images below.  Just log in with your library card number and password.

The titles were selected based on user feedback and an assessment of current holdings.  The Library tries to acquire as many key full text journals as possible in line with our strategic aim to make most resources available electronically to ensure equality of access for all HSC staff wherever they are based.

Given the funding challenge, complete electronic access is difficult to achieve.  In support of our bid to retain current funding levels in the face of the ever-increasing cost of resources, we would ask users to stress the value of the service when any opportunity arises.

On 1^st January 2015, Elsevier ceased publishing the following journal titles, meaning that they will no longer be accessible via ClinicalKey:

•             Pain
•             Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis
•             Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis Supplements
•             Ultrasound Clinics

Below are recommendations for alternative journals that are still available via ClinicalKey:

•             Journal of Pain
•             European Journal of Pain
•             Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
•             Gastroenterology
•             Seminars in Ultrasound, CT, and MRI
•             Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology

Also, the journals below will be made available via ClinicalKey during 2015:

•             Annals of Thoracic Surgery (February 2015)
•             JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology (brand new journal – February 2015)
•             The Journal of the American Dental Association (April 2015)

If you’re doing a Google Scholar search, you can now see at a glance if the full text of a particular result in available via HONNI.

If full text is available, a ‘Full Text from HONNI’ link will appear beside the result:


To take advantage of this new feature, follow the steps below:

1. Go to http://scholar.google.com
2. Click Settings
3. Click Library Links
4. Use the search bar to search for HONNI
5. HONNI – Full Text from HONNI will appear as an option underneath the search box (other options, e.g. Queen’s University Belfast – QConnect, might already be displayed) – tick the box beside HONNI -Full Text from HONNI
   
6. Click Save

You will be returned to the Google Scholar homepage.  Now, when you run a search, ‘Full Text from HONNI’ will appear beside results from HONNI subscribed journals.  Click on this link, log in with your HONNI details when prompted, and a HONNIConnect window will open, containing a link to the full text.

If you are logged in to Google, the above settings should be saved permanently and applied to every computer on which you use Google Scholar.

If you are not logged in to Google, you may have to repeat the above steps on every computer you use, and if, at any stage, you clear your computer of cookies.

If you have any questions, please email med.info@qub.ac.uk.

On-line access to the British National Formulary (BNF) has changed.

The BNF is now accessible via a platform called MedicinesComplete.

To view BNF content, you will need to register with MedicinesComplete. Registration is free, and you will need to register even if you have previously registered with www.bnf.org.

BNF via MedicinesComplete guide.

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:

• How do I find a Journal?
• How do I find a Book?
• How do I find Articles?
• Finding items in the Library Catalogue
• Finding resources on a particular topic

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:

• Direct requests for training sessions and making online tutorials available
  We are currently exploring the best way to deliver these
• Access to online journals
  A journals ‘wishlist’ exercise was carried out and as a result several new online titles will be made available from January 2015.  We will publicise these via the HONNI website and other communication channels
• Assistance with accessing HONNI in general  
  We are investigating the possibility of making a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) document available to address some of the common queries.

PDF of full report

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:

• Add references to a Results Folder so that you can easily print or email them, or export them (for example, to a reference manager such as RefWorks)
• Save specific references permanently using an EBSCO account

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.