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.

From Monday 12th May 2014 there will be minor changes to how items are displayed in the library catalogue.  The impact will be very slight but you may notice that fewer e-books and e-journals will have ‘[Electronic Resource]’ after the title.

The practice of including this term is being discontinued as part of new cataloguing rules which will also see the gradual phasing out of standard abbreviations in catalogue records.

Internurse is in the process of moving to a new platform, a move which will be fully completed by 8th June 2014.  The change has already been applied to the honni catalogue so you will see the new interface if you connect to Internurse via the catalogue.

For a period of time individual titles will still be accessible via the old platform if you connect from the honni E-journals A-Z list.  By 8th June, if not before, these too will direct to the new platform.

Trial access to two biomedical journals is now available up until 3 April 2015:

Science Translational Medicine publishes research articles from the international, medical, scientific and engineering communities. Despite our understanding of the molecular basis of thousands of human diseases, we only have treatments for a few hundred. Science Translational Medicine seeks to close this knowledge gap and accelerate the development of new therapies.

Science Signaling publishes key findings in the multidisciplinary field of cellular signalling and regulatory biology in physiology and disease. Research results are relevant to understanding how cells adapt to changing environments and respond to stimuli within living organisms.

This problem has now been resolved (12.30 pm, 23rd April 2014).

There is currently a problem with access to IP authenticated resources via honni. The only resources which are accessible are Clinical Key and Zetoc. We are investigating this problem as a matter of urgency and it will be resolved as quickly as possible.

We will update this news item as soon as more information is available.

This survey is now closed.  The results will be posted here as soon as they are available.

honni (Health on the Net Northern Ireland) brings together print and online resources, to help all HSC staff in Northern Ireland with their evidence-based practice.

As one of the many benefits, we offer FREE training.  Our qualified subject librarians are here to help you get the most out of honni.  We can also train you in how to make the best use of specialised databases and online resources for your professional area – like Cinahl, Medline, eBooks and others.  We want to make sure that we are providing the training that you need, and would appreciate your help in completing our survey.  It should take only around 5 minutes to complete and is open until 31 May 2014.