Happy Christmas
and a wonderful new decade
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New manager, old manager
After nearly 5 years at the Christie, the current manager Mary Hill is retiring. Dan Livesey will be taking over, bringing a fresh look to the library team. He has been blessed with the most wonderful library team to support him in taking the library service into the new decade. Exciting times ahead…
Virtual Reality – time to try out in 2020
Do visit the library to try out the VR equipment.
You can travel through the proton beam gantry stopping to find out what various areas/equipment do; you can become frail; take some medical training in A&E; sit and experience a relaxing world and many other things.
Journals for 2020
We have had to make some savings so we no longer subscribe to some journals but have tried to keep as many as possible going. The titles we no longer have access to are
- Oncology Nursing Forum
- Nurse Education Today
However the pathologists have access to this journal (department sponsored)
International Journal of Gynecological Pathology
Due to a change in the way the journal is provided we now have access not only to the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) but also the following
- JCO Oncology Practice – keeps oncology practices current on changes and challenges inherent in delivering high-quality oncology care.
- JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics – disseminates clinically relevant research based on biomedical informatics methods and processes applied to cancer-related information.
- JCO Precision Oncology – provides information to advance the science and practice of precision oncology and define genomics-driven clinical care of patients with cancer.
- JCO Global Oncology – open access journal focused on cancer care, research and care, delivery issues unique to countries and settings with limited healthcare resources
- ASCO Educational Book – published yearly highlighting the most compelling research and developments across the multidisciplinary fields of oncology
So what is the best way to access an article?
If you have a proper reference e.g.
Ray-Coquard I, Pautier P, Pignata S, Pérol D, González-Martín A, Berger R, et al. Olaparib plus Bevacizumab as First-Line Maintenance in Ovarian Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine. 2019 Dec 19;381(25):2416–28
Go to BrowZine > Type in NEJM (or New England Journal of Medcine) > Find Vol 381 Issue 25 and scroll down to page 2416. OpenAthens may be required but this is a really simple system.
If you want to find a set of articles on a topic
Then you need to use the Healthcare Databases but remember to login via the Login for all databases button. We offer training on this. Link is internal
Library services
Don’t forget that the library offers a literature searching service to support work improvement projects and research. We also offer training in:
- Advanced literature searching
- Introduction to critical appraisal
- Using a reference manager e.g. Mendeley
Training can be via our programme, one to one or customised to your department.
Look out for our new set of training lunch time bites on understanding journal impact factors, relative risk and study types.