UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library blog

We are testing a web-based version of our holdings of papers published by staff of the Institute and Great Ormond Street Hospital. This covers the period c1900-1990, after which the Research & Development Office maintains the record of staff publications. Currently there are 3,000 references listed. The database may be accessed through the Library's intranet page at http://intranet.ich.ucl.ac.uk/library/StaffPublications After entering a search term, select an appropriate field to search from the drop-dwon menu on the right hand side of the screen, then click on the "Search" button. We hope to update the database at least every quarter. This will allow us to add further references and also update links to the full-text articles, where these are available. Feedback on the database is welcome at any time. The content is based on our bound paper copies of these articles, which are located in the Librariian's office. Please ask library staff if you wish to consult th...

UCL now has electronic access to all journals published by Mary Ann Liebert. Subjects covered include biotechnology, biomedical research and life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, environmental science and sustainability. List of journals. (log in with your UCL Athens passoword) All the journals in these packages have been added to UCL Library Services' ejournals list and the UCL Library catalogue .

Problematic, inefficient web searches for credible medical information are a thing of the past for medical professionals in the NHS, as Microsoft’s new NHS Medical Search tool is now being rolled-out to users. The Medical Search tool, developed through support from the National Library for Health and Connecting for Health, utilises a vast knowledge bank of credible sources such as the National Library of Health evidence based medicine, guidance, medical dictionary and specialist libraries, British National Formulary and Medicines.org.uk. The search tool sits in existing popular software and can provide NHS users with easy access to reliable medical information that is completely up-to-date. The NHS Medical Search project has developed three tools to do this: The Office Research pane The first uses a feature of Microsoft Office called the research task pane. An augmented version has been developed for the NHS that allows people to use it to search the library and formularies while using...

Hannah Shotton is covering for Sui Jing Ly maternity leave. Hannah will be with us for 6 months or more. Hannah is about to submit her PHD in Anatomy from UCL. We hope Hannah enjoys her time with us.

The National Library for Health is announces that an extension to the contract with Dialog Datastar has been agreed until 30th June 2008 and covers all the current databases including CINAHL.

3 day short course, 11-13 June 2008 Centre for Evidence-based Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London This evidence based course is for health care professionals and others who want to improve their clinical or research skills and learn more about using best available evidence in their every day practice. The theme of the course this year is paediatric infectious diseases and we will examine evidence underpinning recent guidelines relevant to this topic. Participants will examine some of the evidence underpinning guidelines and debate their interpretation. They will also consider how to incorporate the best available evidence on interventions and diagnosis into their clinical decisions and the information they give to patients. The course involves a mix of interactive plenary and facilitated small group sessions, combined with training in searching and support for self-directed searching. Tutors for the course include:Ruth Gilbert, Professor of Clinical Epid...