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BrowZine App – allows you to keep abreast with current articles in your favourite journals – EASILY!

To encourage Christie staff to get the most out of this app we are running a £10 Amazon voucher prize draw

• Last entry date: 5pm Wednesday 28th March
• Any current Christie staff or student may enter
• To be entered into the draw, you need to send us a screen shot of your bookshelf page (instructions below)
• Entries to be sent to library@christie.nhs.uk clearly marked BrowZine Draw
• Make sure you add your name if you are not using an email address which gives us your name
• The prize winner will be notified by email and provide a comment so we can announce it via this blog

And this is what you need to do ……

People who already have the app but not the bookshelf start at Instruction 3!

1. Download BrowZine

2. Choose Library: Christie NHS Foundation Trust and enter your OpenAthens Username and Password.  Don’t have one? Self register here

3. You arrive at the search page (in will look slightly different on an Android but you still search for a title) where you can look for your favourite journal e.g. BMJ

4. Click on your journal title to upload the current issue and press the relevant tab of your phone or tablet as shown in the diagram below to add to My Bookshelf

5. At this point it will ask you to register with an email.  You will need to click on Continue and then Sign up

6. Follow the instructions which will include activating an email link.  Your selected journal should be added to the My Bookshelf once this process is complete.

7. Take an image of this page and post it to library@christie.nhs.uk with your name if not obvious from your email

Apart from the chance to win a prize, why do this?

After a while you will note numbers occur on the edge of your app and on journals on your bookshelf.  This tells you that there are new articles to read.  These can be download to My Articles and read when and where it suits you.For further tips, visit the Third Iron site

“Since downloading BrowZine, I have read more useful articles than I ever did before” Gary Thirkell, Infection Control Team

Just a reminder to all staff that we have a fiction collection in the library, which continues to grow thanks both to our own purchases and donations by staff.

Membership to the library is open to anyone employed by the Christie and volunteers, and gives you access to the library space and resources 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We get a variety of journals and a daily newspaper.

If your patients would like something to read whilst here, we recommend checking out the Patient Book Collection at the Cancer Information Centre (department 2), where both fiction and non-fiction titles are available to borrow for patients in particular, though staff are also welcome to access these resources too.

Please get in touch with us if you have any specific queries about the Library and Knowledge service at the Christie.

library@christie.nhs.uk     x3452

Our institutional collection of research authored or co-authored by Christie Staff.

The Christie repository contains the research outputs from staff and students at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute.

Current Repository Content:

Over 7000 peer reviewed articles, reviews and selected publications from 1933 onwards.

Many articles are Open Access and therefore available to download directly from the repository.

Library staff upload data to the repository on a monthly basis.

To find out more about the repository, article submission or for advice on how to search it please contact the Library on 0161 446 3456/3455 or email library@christie.nhs.uk

Another picture of Fog Lane Park by Library Manager Mary, this time in Winter!

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It has been a long time since we posted an update on the happenings in the library, but there are things we are excited to share with library members.

• In 2017 we successfully bid for funding and were able to purchase books for the Trust’s Cancer Information Centre The resources span across fiction and non-fiction, covering topics including living with cancer, learning about health and wellness, mindfulness, as well as books for fun and distraction. The books are available for patients and staff to peruse and borrow. Remember, we also have health and wellbeing resources in the library for staff in addition to these books.

• Last Autumn we gained access to a new collection many ebooks as the Greater Manchester NHS libraries gained access to Dawson Era ebooks. The website contains many medical books aswell as management, mentoring and leadership books. The books are all accessible from https://dawsonera.com/ and you simply need to log in using OpenAthens. A full guide to using Dawson Era is available HERE

• The Browzine app continues to be popular, and we have a blog post about it planned soon but in the meantime here is a guide to downloading it to access and read our journal subscriptions on the go – it is ridiculously easy we promise!

• Lots of staff have been taking us up on our offer of training sessions on literature searching, Open Athens and reference managers recently, so we are here to help you achieve any New Years resolutions of research and study. You can browse and book our range of training on the intranet right here. 

   

• If you have yet to set up your OpenAthens – a must have for all library users, simply click here on a Trust Computer.
• If you follow us on Twitter, you may have seen our Open Access Advent countdown of research by staff. All of them are available to view here in one handy blogpost and there are even more in the Christie Repository, the library staff work hard to keep it up to date with published research by staff.

A recent twitter chat took place on the challenges of reviewing the literature in healthcare research. In case you missed it HERE are some of the discussions that took place.

Here are some of the resources mentioned in the chat:

Research Made Simple article outlining principles of undertaking a literature review in a structured & systemic way, Smith & Noble (2016)

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (2009) Guidance for undertaking reviews in heath care, 3rd ed. CRD; York University

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2008) Knowledge translation. Canadian Institutes of Health Research

For more updates on relevant topics, get in touch with the library for regular searches and journal articles to your inbox.

Remember we do 1-1 and group training on literature searching using healthcare databases, so please book on or get in touch to discuss if you feel you could use some assistance.

Here are some new titles available on DawsonEra,  click on the link to go directly to the resource – OpenAthens logon required

ABC of Breast Diseases (Dixon, 2012)

ABC of Dermatology (Morris-Jones, 2014)

ABC of Geriatric Medicine (Cooper et al, 2009)

Grieve’s Modern Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy (Jull et al, 2015)

There are 244 free eBook resources on DawsonEra, spanning across the specialities as well as many titles on mentoring and leadership. There are also many cancer specific titles too! A guide on using Dawson Era is available here

Not got an OpenAthens account? click here to register

If you have been following us on Twitter you might have noticed our Open Access research countdown. Each day leading up to Christmas we selected an article which is freely accessible, and which Christie authors have been involved with.

Below is a handy summary of the featured articles, just click on each one to view it’s entry in our repository and access the PDF of it. Remember the Christie Repository is updated regularly with new research that staff are involved with, and increasing numbers available freely due to open access.

Browse the Christie Repository HERE

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