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07/05/2009 - Resources for Swine Flu

The following are links to information and web resources on Swine Influenza (A/H1N1). To suggest further links to be added to this page, please contact Angela Young.

Collections of information / summaries of evidence

• Influenza A (H1N1) Dynamed Clinical Summary: summary of information from various information sources, providing clinicians with the best available evidence to support clinical decision making.
• BMJ Learning (NHS Athens or UCL userid required): Learning modules on Swine Influenza and Influenza Pandemics.
• Topic summaries from UpToDate.com: The following summaries have been made freely available:
  Treatment and prevention of swine H1N1 influenza / Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis of swine H1N1 influenza A
• Swine Flu resources from the NHS Evidence - infections specialist collection (formerly NLH Infections Specialist Library)
  
• Swine Flu resources from NHS evidence: portal to clinical information from a broad range of sources.
• H1N1 Flu Resource Centre available on TheLancet.com.
• BMJ.com: The BMJ homepage has links to all BMJ articles, blogs and podcasts on Swine Flu. All are freely available.
• Intute Health and Life Sciences: links to web-based resources on Swine Flu

Guidance and clinical guidelines

• Preparing for pandemic influenza: Guideline from the BMA/ Royal College of General Practitioners
• Clinical guidelines for patients with an influenza like illness during an influenza pandemic: Guideline from Department of Health, British Thoracic Society, British Infection Society, Health Protection Agency
• Preparations for pandemic influenza: Guideline from the Royal College of Physicians. Pre-press version - still at proof stage.
• Pandemic flu: managing demand and capacity in health care organisations: Department of Health

Original articles

• Bibliography of journal articles on Swine Flu, produced by OvidSP. Topics include infection control, preparing for a pandemic influenza outbreak, antivirals and symptoms/diagnosis.
• Recent articles on Swine Flu in PubMed

General and patient information

• Swine Influenza: Information from the HPA (Health Protection Agency)
• Important information about swine flu from NHS Choices
• Patient information: Influenza symptoms and treatment: Patient information topic from UpToDate
• H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) from MedlinePlus: Patient information produced by the US National Library of Medicine

News and blogs

• EU must not overreact to swine flu outbreak: News from TheParliament.com
• BMJ Group blogs on Swine Flu

20/09/2008 - Get WISE with Moodle - new for September 2008!

WISE for Biomedical and Life Sciences, the comprehensive guide to finding and using information from UCL Library Services, is now available in Moodle.

Whether you're a new student or an experienced researcher, WISE can help you to discover the most valuable information for your topic, and help you make the best use of it.

Previous users will notice that with the move to Moodle existing WISE modules have been given a new look, with simplified navigation and the introduction of interactive tutorials. More interactive elements will be added soon, including opportunities to test your skills and log your progress.

Get WISE for Biomedical and Life Sciences to:

• Understand which online resources are best for your subject
• Learn how to search for biomedical and life sciences information effectively
• Understand how to assess the quality of information
• Learn how to cite references correctly
• Learn how to manage your references using Reference Manager
• Understand how to avoid plagiarism

To access WISE for Biomedical and Life Sciences you will need your UCL userid.

For more information, please contact Angela Young,

10/08/2008 - NHS electronic databases - new interface available now!

The way that you search NHS electronic databases, including Medline, has changed. NLH Search 2.0 has replaced Dialog, so you can now search healthcare databases seamlessly through the National Library for Health.

NLH Search 2.0 is available via the National Library for Health It allows you to search the following healthcare databases:

PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, Embase, AMED, British Nursing Index, PsycINFO, HMIC.

To access the databases you will need to log in with your NHS Athens username and password. Please contact us if you have forgotten your username and password. Alternatively you may self-register for an NHS Athens username and password.

NLH Search 2.0 training
Training sessions are available at the Royal Free Library. See the timetable for scheduled sessions, or contact us to arrange an individual session.

22/07/2008 - NHS electronic databases are changing at the end of July - save your searches now! NLH Search 2.0 is replacing Dialog

After 31st July 2008, it will not be possible to search NHS electronic databases via Dialog. Any literature searches you have saved on the Dialog version of the databases, including alerts, WILL NOT transfer to NLH Search 2.0 when access via Dialog ceases. Please save your searches to your own computer before 31st July. Please contact us if you require instructions on saving your searches or would like any other help or to attend training.

NLH Search 2.0 training
Training sessions are available at the Royal Free Library. See the timetable for scheduled sessions, or contact us to arrange an individual session.

NLH Search 2.0 is available via the National Library for Health It allows you to search the following healthcare databases:

PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, Embase, AMED, British Nursing Index, PsycINFO, HMIC.

To access the databases you will need to log in with your NHS Athens username and password. Please contact us if you have forgotten your username and password. Alternatively you may self-register for an NHS Athens username and password.

02/04/2008 - NHS electronic databases are changing - save your searches now!

The way that you search NHS electronic databases is changing:

NLH Search 2.0 is replacing Dialog

After 31st May 2008, it will not be possible to search NHS electronic databases via Dialog. Any literature searches you have saved on the Dialog version of the databases, including alerts, WILL NOT transfer to NLH Search 2.0 when access via Dialog ceases. Please save your searches to your own computer before 31st May. Please contact us if you require instructions on saving your searches or would like any other help or to attend training.

The new search tool, NLH Search 2.0, is now available. It allows you to search the following healthcare databases:

PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, Embase, Alternative and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED), British Nursing Index (BNI), PsycINFO, Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC: includes Kings Fund and DH-DATA databases).

Accessing NLH Search 2.0

NLH Search 2.0 is accessible via the National Library for Health and through the Resources list within MyAthens.

03/01/2007 - You can now find your H-index from the Web of Science?

The Web of Science has introduced a number of new features allowing you to assess the citation impact of your work. To find the information:

1. Login to the Web of Knowledge at http://wok.mimas.ac.uk and choose the Web of Science option.
2. Choose the Author Finder option to find all articles by a particular person. Follow the on-screen instructions.
3. Once all the articles are displayed, click the Citation Report button on the right of the screen.
4. This displays two graphs, one showing the number of items published per year, and one showing the number of citations received per year. It also gives a sum of the citations received, an average citation per item and the h-index.

03/09/2006 - You can add details of UCL's electronic journal holdings to your results in PubMed?

You can now link directly from your results in PubMed to the UCL Library Services journal holdings via the SFX button. To activate this, follow the instructions below.

1. Go to PubMed: http://www.pubmed.gov
2. Register for a MyNCBI account if you have not already done so. To do this, click the Register link on the top right of the screen and follow the instructions. If you already have a MyNCBI account, sign in.
3. Once you are logged in (your username will appear on the top right of the screen), click the MyNCBI link on the blue bar on the left.
4. Click on Filters (under My NCBI Resources) on the blue toolbar.
5. We are going to set up a filter on PubMed, so choose PubMed from the list of databases.
6. Choose the Browse tab. Then choose Libraries from the LinkOut list.
7. At the top of the list of libraries, click the Add a link icon to any item that matches this category box.
8. From the alphabetical list of libraries, choose UCL Library Services.

The SFX button will now appear next to any result which is available electronically via UCL.

For this to work on subsequent occasions, you must sign in to MyNCBI before starting your searching.

16/08/2006 - SUNCAT http://www.suncat.ac.uk

SUNCAT, the Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK research community, becomes a full, freely available, EDINA service as of today, 1st August 2006.

SUNCAT is the the most comprehensive source of information about the location of journals held in libraries throughout the UK. SUNCAT currently contains records from nearly 50 UK libraries, the CONSER database and the ISSN Register. Contributing libraries include the British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, some of the largest Higher Education institutions across the UK and an increasing number of specialist and public libraries. SUNCAT is continuing to expand and should contain the serials data from around 70 libraries by the end of 2006. For a full list of the contributing libraries please see http://www.suncat.ac.uk/description/contributing_libraries.html

09/07/2006 - BIOME has changed its name to INTUTE

BIOME, the home of OMNI, NMap, VetGate and others has changed its name to INTUTE. It is possible to search the entire Biomedicine & Health database or restrict your search to a specific database such as Medicine.

INTUTE is a database of appraised webpages, helping you to find quality information online.

INTUTE is available at http://www.intute.ac.uk
INTUTE: Health & Life Sciences is at http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/
INTUTE: Medicine is at: http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medicine/
INTUTE: BioResearch is at: http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/bioresearch/

18/05/2006 - The complete back issues of a number of historically significant biomedical journals are currently being digitised

The Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project will deliver free, online access to almost 200 years of peer-reviewed research and enquiry.

The digitisation project is a result of a partnership between the Wellcome Library, the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and a number of publishers. Digitisation of the backfiles commenced in Spring 2004 and some journals, such as the Biomedical Journal, are already freely available online.

The digitisation process will create a PDF of every item in the journal (such as articles, editorials etc) and subject the text to optical character recognition (OCR) facilitating free-text searching. In addition, a citation will be created for the articles that are not currently in PubMed (i.e. all pre-1953 material), allowing users to find relevant articles by author/title/keyword access points.

The digitised back issues will be available via PubMed Central (PMC) at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov . In addition to the digitisation of backfiles, publishers who agree to participate in the project are obliged to deposit current issues (produced electronically) of the journals in PMC, with a maximum embargo on access to current issues of one year.

A full list of the journals which have agreed to participate in this project is given at http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtx017070.html.

This page last modified 12 October, 2009 by Medical Library