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“Mental Health Law: A Practical Guide” (2nd ed) by Basant Puri, Robert Brown, Heather McKee, and Ian Treasaden
Completely updated to reflect current changes in the law and in practice, “Mental Health Law: a practical guide” is a concise and approachable handbook to mental health law for students and professionals working in psychiatric settings.
This title is available as an e-book via honni – to view it, simply click on the link below and log in with your honni details:
Your subject librarians have developed new online, profession-specific help pages where you will find:
You can access these new online guides by clicking on the relevant Resources button to the right-hand side of the honni homepage.
Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services by Ann Bowling (2009)
This book has been identified by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals’ Health Libraries Group as a key text on the subject of medical writing and research.
We are pleased to announce that Research Methods in Health is now available as an e-book via HONNI. To access it, simply click on the link below, click ‘HONNI Online Resource’, and log in with your HONNI details when prompted:
https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_hs/record/C__Rb1747718
Several print copies of the book are also available to borrow. For details, go to:
Stem cells: new frontiers in science & ethics / editors, Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan, John Harris
This book deals with different aspects of the stem cell debate, ranging from the ethical challenges of conducting stem cell research to those of the clinical application of stem cell technology.
To access the e-book, click the link below, click ‘HONNI Online Resource’, then log in with your HONNI details when prompted:
https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_hs/record/C__Rb1747550
If you have any queries about accessing this e-book, please contact Richard Fallis, Subject Librarian for Medicine: r.fallis@qub.ac.uk
The following e-books are now available via HONNI. They should be of particular interest to staff in working in primary care/family medicine.
To view the e-books, simply click on the links below, and log in with your HONNI details when prompted.
Any queries about the books should be directed to Richard Fallis, subject librarian for medicine, email: r.fallis@qub.ac.uk, tel: 028 9063 2645
Peter Worrall, Adrian French and Les Ashton (2009). Advanced Consulting in Family Medicine: the consultation expertise model
What distinguishes the consulting of experienced family doctors from their newly qualified colleagues? The question is often frustratingly hard answer clearly or objectively: unlike many professions, family doctors face a dearth of clear expectations of what constitutes advanced practice, a lack of defined standards against which to evaluate it, and an absence of expertise-related professional training in which to develop it post-certification. The model of consultation excellence outlined in this book illustrates in practical terms how advanced consulting can be nurtured. It avoids tantalising value judgement such as ‘excellence’. Instead, it describes behaviours in terms that can be observed day to day, providing a detailed picture of what constitutes advanced consulting behaviour, how family doctors can be helped to acquire these higher levels of expertise, and how changes in behaviour can be identified and evaluated. “Advanced Consulting in Family Medicine” is written in handbook form for easy access and use, and provides a vital vision of higher order family doctor consulting.
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Christopher J. Price, Rodney Sinclair (2008). Fast facts: Minor Surgery
Dermatological surgery is practised routinely in primary care, and most minor procedures are straightforward and require minimal time. Success is dependent on the practitioner’s ability to recognize lesions, choose and plan appropriate treatment and surgical interventions, and perform surgical procedures. Fast Facts: Minor Surgery provides an overview of the good practice and operative set-up required for dermatological surgery, the skin lesions commonly encountered in primary care and the various techniques and procedures involved in their treatment.
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Roger Neighbour (2005). The inner apprentice: an awareness-centred approach to vocational training for general practice
The first edition of The Inner Apprentice proved to be a landmark publication. Now in its second edition, it includes an additional chapter in which questions the assumptions about the relevance of awareness-based teaching in the overcrowded curriculum of contemporary vocational training – and suggests that the curiosity they engender is more important than ever.This book offers many new ideas, techniques and educational tools, and will be of interest to general practice trainers and trainees, and anyone involved in an individual teaching relationship.
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In recent surveys carried out by the Medical & HSC Library some comments have been made about increasing full text availability of journals through honni. The Library would like to take this opportunity to help you understand some of the issues relating to journal availability by responding to specific examples of the type of comments made.
The Library is contracted by the DHSSPSNI to provide a range of services and resources and receives an annual budget to do so. Unfortunately for several years the Library has not received an increase in its budget and in most years it has actually been reduced. This has an impact on the available funds for journal subscriptions and as a result we have not been able to develop our full text collection. The Library does listen to suggestions from HSC professionals and has developed a journal wish list. It is hoped that when the funding situation improves we will be able to purchase new online subscriptions.
A cost effective way of having access to a large number of journals is to purchase journal bundles or large collections of journals. The advantage is that you gain access to a large number of journals that could not be afforded as individual subscriptions. The disadvantage is that journals are from a wide range of publishers and in some cases the publisher will not allow access to the most recent issues of particular journals as they wish to protect their direct and more expensive subscriptions. This is why you will find that some journals in the Ebsco and ProQuest collections have embargoes of 6 months or 1 year.
Many library users go directly to the publisher’s site, see an option for Athens log in and believe that an Athens username and password would allow access to these journals. Athens is not a full text journal collection, nor does it allow access to all journals. Athens is only a means of authenticating to journals for which the Library has paid a subscription. (The Library uses a different method of authentication – Shibboleth). In other words, an Athens log in will not enable access to all journals, neither does the fact that a journal appears on the internet mean that it is freely available. The Library still needs to subscribe to each journal to enable access for its members.
The Medical & HSC Library’s electronic resources are separate from those held by Queen’s University although HSC users have access to the QUB print collections. All publishers require separate subscriptions for each set of users which is why there is a difference in what is available. Furthermore in all cases the cost of the subscriptions are significantly more for the HSC than for an academic subscription which is why you will find the University has some additional subscriptions to resources. There are cases, however, where the HSC has access to a journal not available to Queen’s staff and students. Below are some examples as to how the costs for each compare.
| Resource | QUB price | HSC quote |
|---|---|---|
| PsycInfo | £11,732 | £20,700 |
| BMJ | £1,814 | £16,000 |
Thanks to all who responded to the Document Supply survey. We had a very pleasing response of approximately 10% of our members. The full report will be available in January.
Most people are satisfied with the existing service but were not aware of the significant costs of acquiring material from the British Library. Although respondents are concerned about the mechanism for paying, approximately 34% said they would be willing to pay if there was no charge for material supplied from within the Queen’s or HSC Library network. From our records it would appear that the majority of requests can be fulfilled internally. Some articles available online are free and in those cases you can print them out or download them without any charge. Other online articles are available to you because the library has paid a subscription and you are recognised as a member of our library. Again you can print or download these for no charge. We are only talking about charging users for material that we have to obtain from other libraries at the cost mentioned in the survey.
The next stage is to look at implementing a new system of charging and discussing this with the Trusts and other organisations. We will keep you informed of developments.
In June the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) launched its first medicines and prescribing app for use on Smartphones. The app provides easy access to the latest up-to-date prescribing information from the BNF. Currently the app is only available to health and care professionals in England. However the Medical & HSC library is in correspondence with NICE at present with a view to making the app available to HSC personnel in Northern Ireland and we will update our members on progress through honni.
The Medical and HSC Library is currently carrying out a brief survey on document supply to find out what our library users need and how the service might develop in the face of increasing funding pressures.
We would be grateful if you would take a few minutes to complete the survey which is available at http://go.qub.ac.uk/lvbbc.
