UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library blog

Past exam papers can be found through Explore (limit your search to just ‘UCL Exam Papers’ for best results) – or the Exam papers home page: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/digital-collections/collections/examDue to the Academic Module Project in summer 2018 (when all module codes changed), exam papers from 2014-2017 have the old module code; the 2018 papers have the old AND new module code.  The best way to search therefore is by module title.The archive is a rolling 5 years as default, though some departments have chosen to limit this to only 3 years.  A list of these is in the Exams FAQThe archive is incomplete as papers are sometimes withheld by departments.  If students wish to report a missing paper, please encourage them to use the Missing Paper Form.If the department wishes, we can add or remove papers retrospectively.

We have pledged to switch off this Easter, have you? #UCLswitchoff @GreenUCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/news/2019/mar/help-bentham-switch-easter-hes-no-spring-chicken

BMJ Best Practice is a ‘point-of-care’ resource giving healthcare professionals quick and easy access to authoritative information to underpin diagnosis and treatment decisions. Updated daily, it draws on the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.  
All NHS staff can now access BMJ Best Practice online and offline via an app, please see: https://bestpractice.bmj.com/info/app/

For further information please visit bestpractice.bmj.com

Our very mini Christmas tree is now topped with a star, a boy and a fairy. The last two: Peter Pan & Tinker Bell. (Author of Peter Pan statue image: CDP-GOSH, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).

UCL has trial access to Global Health until 5th November 2018. Global Health is a specialist bibliographic abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health and completing the picture of international medical and health research.

Derived from over 7,000 journals, reports, books and conferences, Global Health contains over 3 million scientific records from 1973 to the present.Publications from over 100 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and all relevant non-English-language papers are translated.The database’s open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature means that 40% of material contained in Global Health is unique to the database. Everything from proceedings, theses, electronic-only publications and other hard-to-find sources are included.Global Health has a growing number of full text articles (over 90,000) from journals, conferences, and reports. Please send feedback on this resource to h.chesters@ucl.ac.uk.

The UCL  Great Ormond Street institute of Child health Library got gold at the UCL Sustainability award 2018.   The award is a Blue Planet 2 inspired Sustainability Awards trophy. Artist Joanna Atherton created these sculptures out of plastics found during beach cleans. This can been admired in our glass cabinet at the entrance of our library. 

Please note: eShelf/Favourites functionality in Explore (http://ucl.ac.uk/library/explore) will be changing over the summer, due to an upgrade, and current lists will be reset. 

If you wish to keep your eShelf/Favourites records, please export them from Explore by Friday 17 August by following the steps outlined here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/articles/2018/explore-eshelf-favourites-changes

If you have any questions, please contact library@ucl.ac.uk