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Library training dates Jan 2022 – April 2022

The library offers training sessions in literature searching, critical appraisal and managing references software. These are great opportunities to improve your skills in finding and evaluating health information. All training sessions are currently being held via MS Teams.

If you wish to book on to one of the dates below you will need to visit the library training page on Hive here. Find the training session you would like to attend and click on the ‘Book Here’ link which will take you to the events page. Just click ‘yes’ to attend and details will be sent out to you closer to the time regarding how to join the session. Please note that there are limited places for each session.

 

Literature searching the online databases

Learn how to find journal articles and current research using databases like NICE Evidence Search and Healthcare Databases Advanced Search (HDAS).

14th January 2022 9:30-12:30

24th January 2022 9:30-12:30

9th February 2022 9:30-12:30

28th February 2022 12:30-3:30

15th March 2022 9:30-12:30

29th March 2022 9:30-12:30

19th April 2022 12:30-3:30

 

Introduction to critical appraisal

Learn to critically appraise an article using the CASP checklist. Suitable for anyone who has to read journal articles either professionally or educationally. It is particularly suitable for those who have not done it before or who lack confidence in this area.

14th January 2022 1:30-3:30

9th February 2022 1:30-3:30

15th March 2022 1:30-3:30

 

Managing references with Mendeley

Reference managers help you manage your citations, include them in your work and use the reference styles you like.

11th January 2022 10:30-11:30

8th February 2022 2:30-3:30

16th March 2022 2:30-3:30

11th April 2022 2:30-3:30

 

We can also offer training on the following referencing management systems:

  • Endnote
  • Zotero

Please email the Library to arrange a time to learn how to use these other reference managers. Please include times that are convenient for you and which reference manager you would like training on.

If you would like training on a system not listed above please let us know and we will see if training can be offered.

 

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Health Literacy Month – October 2021: Empowering patients with information

Health Literacy Month runs each October and aims to empower patients and the public with knowledge, information, understanding, skills, and confidence in relation to their health.

As Christie colleagues we can help to support patients and carers with the patient-friendly resources available to us through our electronic subscriptions. Providing this information ensures patients are absorbing accurate and appropriate information on their health conditions and feel empowered and confident when discussing their conditions with healthcare professionals.

ClinicalKey offers a variety of resources with the aim of educating patients. They have guides on various tests which patients may be required to undergo, areas of anatomy, and plain-language descriptions of common health conditions. These resources can be filtered by the specialty of ‘Oncology’ to help you find the best resources for your patients.

A few resources which may be useful for Christie patients:

BMJ Best Practice also has a list of resources written with patients in mind. There is a search box at the top of this list which can be used to discover specific resources that will be useful for your patients.

A few resources which may be useful for Christie patients:

UpToDate also has a section called ‘Patient Education’ containing lists of resources to educate patients. You can select ‘Cancer’ as a category and browse the list of resources available for your patients.

A few resources which may be useful for Christie patients:

The Library is here to support you to support your patients, so let us know if you need any assistance from us in retrieving information or finding trustworthy resources. We offer a literature searching service which can be beneficial in retrieving evidence-based information for you to pass on to your patients.

All of these resources are available to you with an active OpenAthens account. If you would like to find out more about setting an account up, please get in touch with us on 0161 446 3452 or email The-Christie.Library@.nhs.net. Alternately, you can register for an account yourself via the online OpenAthens registration form.

You can find out more about Health Literacy Month by following the hashtag #HealthLiteracyMonth, following us on Twitter throughout October @ChristieLibrary, or visiting Health Literacy Month.

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Christie Library Christmas Newsletter

Happy Christmas
and a wonderful new decade

Click here for holiday opening times

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

  1. Oncology Nursing Forum
  2. 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

  1. JCO Oncology Practice – keeps oncology practices current on changes and challenges inherent in delivering high-quality oncology care.
  2. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics – disseminates clinically relevant research based on biomedical informatics methods and processes applied to cancer-related information.
  3. JCO Precision Oncology – provides information to advance the science and practice of precision oncology and define genomics-driven clinical care of patients with cancer.
  4. JCO Global Oncology – open access journal focused on cancer care, research and care, delivery issues unique to countries and settings with limited healthcare resources
  5. 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.