We regularly review our library service provision to
staff, students and external visitors. One aspect of the service which was
reviewed via a benchmarking exercise during the latter part of last year was
the loan allowance for all library users.
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Change in loan limit for UCL staff
Monday, 22 August 2016
UCL Discovery Plus – Open Access repository for Great Ormond Street Hospital researchers
Great Ormond Street staff have now the opportunity to make their published research more accessible and increase the
potential impact of their work. UCL
Discovery Plus is a new service, hosted by UCL for NHS staff. GOSH staff can use it to make their articles and
other research outputs freely available for anyone to access, via a Google
search, wherever possible. Your work
will also form part of a record of research activity at Great Ormond Street Hospital
NB. UCL authors should maintain their
publication record and deposit copies of research publications using the RPS
system, as detailed via UCL's Open Access pages.
How to deposit your work
Simply go to the UCL Discovery Plus
deposit form, enter the relevant details and upload your document. UCLH library
staff will check copyright permissions* before making it openly available.
*Note
that many journal publishers do not permit the re-use of the final published
version of journal articles. Publishers typically allow instead the author's
"accepted version" or "post-print" of the article; this is
the author's final draft, as accepted for publication, and this is the version
we recommend you deposit.
Once Library staff have checked
permissions, your document will be available to view online via UCL Discovery’s GOSH section .
For further information please see the UCL Discovery Plus page or contact Grazia Manzotti
Medicines learning portal
http://www.medicineslearningportal.org/
‘All pharmacists involved with patient care need clinical problem solving skills to deliver medicines optimisation, and this website we will assist the development of these skills by:
§ Providing knowledge about medicines, and addressing basic principles of medicines safety for key subject areas.
§ Showing the right questions to ask when problem-solving.
§ Recommending sources of information about medicines.
§ Guiding pharmacists on how to apply their professional judgement.
§ Advising on communication techniques for delivering expert advice.
This site is designed for hospital pharmacists in their first 1,000 days of practice, but some content may also be of interest to hospital pharmacy technicians, community pharmacists, CCG pharmacists, and pharmacists returning to hospital practice after a career break’
Opening times reminder
A reminder that at 18:30 each weekday afternoon the building goes into restricted access – anyone arriving or remaining in the building is required to sign in at the front desk.
Additionally to this the internal perimeter of the building is locked down, this means there is no access via the Gallery in/out of GOSH nor any access into the building via Goods Inward (access into the building by these means is limited to 08:00 to 18:30).
Outside of core hours (08:00 to 18:30 Mon-Fri) there is reduced access to the building and all access is via the main entrance and requires sign in.
To summarise:
Weekdays – Building opens for full access at 08:00, with reduced access after the end of core hours at 18:30 and shuts at 23:00
Weekends – Always reduced access from 09:00 to 21:00
Bank Holidays – Always reduced access from 09:00 to 14:00
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Heather Chesters - Associate Fellow
We would like to
congratulate Heather Chesters, the Deputy Librarian for achieving the
status of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
HEA Fellowship is
an international recognition of a commitment to professionalism in teaching and
learning in higher education
For more
information please see the following webpage: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/recognition-accreditation/hea-fellowships
This
qualification is well deserved and very fitting for Heather as she is the main
trainer at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library.
Heather runs our scheduled sessions on Literature searching, PubMed and
Endnote as well as helping our users on a one to one basis.
We have made our display cabinet available for our user’s displays
There is a glass display cabinet in the entrance to our library. This cabinet was a gift in the memory of George Henderson Macnab, Consultant Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children 1946-1967 & Chairman of the Academic Board of the Institute of Child Health 1950-1967.
For many years it has been home to a display on the subject of J. M. Barrie’s bequest of the royalties for Peter Pan to the Hospital.
We have now decided to make the cabinet available to our users for appropriate non-commercial displays. The cabinet is suitable for smaller research posters, for instance.
We hope for a vibrant and relevant turn-over of displays and we trust that George Henderson Macnab would have approved.
Please enquire at ich.library@ucl.ac.uk
Monday, 8 August 2016
Digitised course reading - CLA licence change + BoB
Two pieces of good news for teaching staff! Summarised below, with links to further information…
1. The CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency) has announced an increase to the amount we can digitise under the CLA licence. A new licence has been negotiated and includes a few favourable changes including the limit of 10% or 1 chapter (previously 5% or 1 chapter). This is quite the headline after years of the 5% limit! Already teaching staff are benefitting from being able to digitise more as the TLS start to process Term 1 readings.
2. Box of Broadcasts (BoB) gets an upgrade this summer. BoB makes available broadcast TV and radio for educational purposes; it makes the best use of UCL’s ERA licence and is much easier than recording and labelling recordings. From September it will be back with a better search, several channels archived permanently, and more:
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