All branches of the Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland will be closed on Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th* July 2023 and will reopen as normal on Friday 14th July.
Access to E-resources continues to be available during this period at https://healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk
*The Library at Altnagelvin Area Hospital will open on Thursday 13th July
Antrim Healthcare Library, based in Fern House on the Antrim Hospital site will be closing at 2pm on Tuesday 11th July.
Help is still available via HSC Library Chat or email info@healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk
In mid-August 2023, we will be migrating to Ex Libris Alma® Library Services Platform and Primo® Library Discovery Service. The implementation is progressing well and remains on track.
The Alma platform will streamline and optimise our various library workflows, allowing us to provide a more efficient and seamless service to our customers.
With the Primo Discovery Service integrated into our system, users will have access to a unified search experience across our resources. The enhanced discovery features will make it easier for users to find relevant materials, and access digital resources seamlessly.
Our dedicated project team has been working hard to ensure a smooth and successful migration. We are taking great care to migrate data, configure the system, and conduct rigorous testing. Throughout this process, we remain committed to minimising any disruption to our Healthcare Library services.
We are excited about the positive changes this migration will bring to our services and look forward to providing you with an even better experience. Please stay tuned for more information shortly.
To keep up-to-date with COVID-19 and Long COVID research, subscribe to the Healthcare Library’s new monthly current awareness bulletin entitled ‘COVID-19: Long-Term Effects’.
Each issue contains links to the latest, open access research papers, with options to download most papers as PDFs for free.
View the current issue of the bulletin at: https://tinyurl.com/24vnfjkp To receive new issues every month by email, please contact Richard Fallis, Specialist Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences: Richard.Fallis@healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk
The Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland at Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Antrim Area Hospital and Craigavon Area Hospital will be closed on Monday 29th May for the bank holiday.
These branches will reopen on Tuesday 30th May at 9am. Access to e-resources remain available during the closure at: https://healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk/
The Medical Library at the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Biomedical Library at QUB Medical Biology Centre will remain open as usual on Monday 29th May.
Our normal opening hours are available on our website:
https://healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk/UsingtheLibrary/YourLibraries/
The Library has subscribed to ClinicalKey for many years. The resource gives you access to key information through tools such as clinical overviews, drug monographs and calculators, as well as many journals and e-books. If you want to find out more about the resource, why not watch the video below which gives you an overview of the range information available on ClinicalKey.
ClinicalKey is available as an app and this has recently been updated giving you quick and easy access to the information you need, when you need it. To help you get started there is a quick help sheet linked to below. Please follow the instructions for Accessing via your institution and when prompted enter the Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland as your institution. NB you will be required to log in with your Healthcare Library username and password.
ClinicalKey-App-Quick-Sheet.pdf (widen.net)
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact your subject librarian.
The Healthcare Library of Northern Ireland has upgraded its access to Cinahl, from Cinahl Complete to Cinahl Ultimate, which is the new definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professions. This means members of the Library now have access to 100’s more journals including the RCN titles, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy Reviews, Podiatry Today and many more.
The ClinicalKey team will be onsite to demonstrate the resource and answer your questions.
Wednesday 19th April in person from 1pm – 2pm in Bretten Hall as part of the Medicine Teaching session.
There will also be a Zoom session at 2.30pm
Any queries please contact mary.maguire@northerntrust.hscni.net
The Healthcare library of NI is delighted to announce that it has some new journal subscriptions for 2023. The following titles are now available online to the current issue by searching for the title on the Library search.
All Healthcare Libraries will be closed from Friday 6th April and will reopen on Wednesday 12th April 2023. Please see our Opening Hours page for details.
🥚 Healthcare Library E-resources remain available during the holiday period. 🐣
