Library Opening Hours

 Please note that the Health Libraries will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 31st August.

County Health Library will be open again from 1st September at 10.00 am.

 

Clinical decision support tools

 Staff at UHNM have access to clinical decision support tools  Dynamed and BMJ Best Practice. You can set up accounts to either or both of these resources using your OpenAthens username and password.

Dynamed

DynaMed, a clinical evidence-based summary service has been purchased by UHNM Health Libraries to support your clinical practice. 

Watch these two short videos: DynaMed NHS intro & Drug Interaction Checker on how to utilise DynaMed and sign up for a free personal account here + download our free app via the App Store/Google Play store.

BMJ Best Practice

Watch the video about BMJ Best Practice here 

How to Access

1. Go to https://bestpractice.bmj.com/
2. Enter your OpenAthens username and password and click ‘Sign in’
3. If you are a new user, you will need to now register for a BMJ Best Practice personal account. If prompted for an institution enter "NHS in England". Use your personal account to download the app for access anywhere, anytime, even offline.

If you would like to know more or would like more help accessing and using these resources, please contact the library: library@uhnm.nhs.uk .

Medical Masterclass Exam Revision Package

 

The Health Library has a limited number of subscriptions available to the Royal College of Physicians online exam revision package Medical Masterclass available to library members .

The available question banks challenge you with written exam questions in the style of the MRCP(UK) Part 1 and Part 2 exams.You can build your own practice exams, choosing from a comprehensive list of specialties, and customizing the number of questions.Your confidential results also remain available for you to review.

If you wish to have access to Medical Masterclass first you need to sign up to be a library member and then contact us for a log-in and password. These are allocated on a first-come first served basis for an initial 3 month period and can be extended on request after this time provided there is not a waiting list.

The resource is also available to download as an app from Apple or Google Play Store.

Latest news on COVID-19 guidelines for the health libraries

 

Please note that as from Monday 10th August 2020 all visitors to the health libraries at UHNM must wear a face covering in line with latest government guidelines.

We thank you for your cooperation.

Journal TOC alerts

Creating Table of Contents Alerts If you have a favourite journal in your area of expertise it may be useful to set up a Table of Contents or TOC alert for yourself. This means that every time there is a new edition of the journal you will receive an email listing the contents. You can then make a decision as to whether there are any articles which you wish to read in full text. You can obtain ToCs freely by registering with the site Journal TOCs and then selecting the journal titles for which you wish to receive TOCs. The site claims to provide the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) with 36,030 journals including 17,884 selected Open Access journals and 12,196 Hybrid journals, from 3750 publishers.  Journal coverage includes medical sciences, pharmacy and pharmacology, nutrition and dietetics, social sciences and welfare. You can receive the alerts as RSS feeds or by email if you prefer. JournalTOCs is a free service provided by Herriot-Watt University. Useful step by step instructions for registering and using JournalTOCs can be found on the Cornell University website at http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/current/toc Often you can also sign up for TOCs directly online from a journal’s homepage. If a journal title you want to sign up to isn’t included in the JournalTOC service above this is an alternative option. If you find something in the TOC alert that you want to read in full text you may be able to click the link and get straight through to the full text but if not you may need to make a note of the citation and use the journals A-Z in order to get access via UHNM subscriptions using your OpenAthens log-in. Please do not hesitate to contact the library for more help and advice on this.