Tag: nursing

This blog is in response to our Nursing Journal Survey as people said they were uncertain how to access journals.

First Move

You will need an OpenAthens username and password to enter when you want to access paid for journals.

Self-register here  using your Christie email address
If you have a problem contact the library@christie.nhs.uk  or phone 3452

Forgotten your password? Try this

Finding a known reference

Inside the Trust:

1. HIVE > Department > Library
2. Scroll down on our Home page
3. Click on the ejournal button
4. Type in the title of the journal you are looking for e.g. Cancer nursing
5. Select the relevant journal from the results
6. Once in the journal you will need to find the year of publication, then the volume, issue and finally find your page number
Try this example: Lee, MK., et al. (2018). Family Functioning Predicts End-of-Life Care Quality in Patients With Cancer. Cancer Nursing, 41(3), E1–E10

Outside the Trust:

1. www.christie.nhs.uk/library
2. Scroll down the page
3. Click on the ejournal button and follow the same procedure as above
4. This video shows another way that you can link externally to the journals

On your own mobile devise:

1. You will need a smartphone or tablet
2. Go to the app store and find Browzine. Download (There is some information here )
3. Select The Christie and login with your OpenAthens username and password
4. Type in the journal title in the search box e.g. Cancer Nursing and select your journal
5. Click on the available issues to find 41(3) and scroll to find article
6. When you click on the article title it will download the full text
7. You can now read, save, email etc.
8. This blog will explain how to set up your bookshelf but the quiz has finished

Finding articles on a topic

You will need to do a literature search to do this using some databases like HDAS, PubMed or the Trip Database.
1. We offer training for this
2. HIVE > Department > Library > Training Dates [Left hand side]
3. You can also do some e-learning on literature searching
4. Here are some guides and some video clips as reminders
5. Remember your library staff are here to support you, so do contact us if you are unsure of how to do a literature search.

Keeping up to date with your favourite journals

1. We can send you electric tables of content for journals so either email library@christie.nhs.uk or phone us 3452
2. You can use My Bookshelf in Browzine. See link on point 8 above

What do these journals and these journals have in common?

They are all:

1. Nursing journals
2. Available to all Christie nurses with an NHS OpenAthens
3. Are currently being poorly used.

At the moment the Library & Knowledge Service can not justify taking these journals.  We are trying to find out why this is happening and asking you to think about if a different selection might meet your needs better.  Unfortunately we have to work with a limited budget so we can’t buy all the journals that you might request but we want to produce a better used collection than at the moment.

On the other hand it might be that you just don’t know how to find and access journals.  If this is the case, contact the library for an update or attend one of our training courses

So should we cancel them?

What should we buy in their place?

Have your say on the future provision of journals for you.  We are attempting to email all nurses to tell you about a survey which we want you to complete.  The link is available on the library page on the intranet (Hive > Department > Library).  Make sure you have your say.  The survey closes on 19th October 2018