Vacation closure

Please note that the Library will close at 11.00am on Wednesday 23rd December and reopen at 8.45am on Monday 4th January 2010.

Don't get bored though, you can renew your books, use e-books and databases via the AECC portal.

We wish you all the compliments of the season!

RSS in Plain English: video

This is another very good video from those excellent people at CommonCraft.com.

It gives an introduction to RSS and lasts only 3.5 minutes! This and our previous blog post should get you up and running.

As a well known supermarket says, go on - 'try something new today!'

10 websites to help you keep up-to-date with scholarly journal contents

This is an excellent blog post from the 'Spineless' blog at Heriot-Watt University. It lists ten resources to keep you up to date with scholarly journal contents. If you have your feed reader set up you will find plenty of journal RSS feeds to subscribe to here.

If you would like to know more about setting up a RSS feed reader see our previous blog post.

Information Skills Tutorials for Year 1 & Extended Year

As promised at Induction we are running Information Skills Tutorials to help you find high quality chiropractic / medical information.

We will hold sessions on the following dates:

Wednesday 21st October 2pm & 3pm

Tuesday 27th October 2pm & 3pm

Wednesday 28th October 2pm & 3pm

These will be 1 hour sessions and we will meet in the Cal Lab (Old Clinic). There is a limit of 10 places per session. If you would like to attend one of these, please sign up at the library desk.

If you can't make these dates and would like a tutorial please let us know and we will arrange a separate one for you.


We look forward to seeing you there!

Interested in Social Bookmarking?

Would you like to:

* save your bookmarks and access them on the Web wherever you go?

* share your bookmarks with your friends, colleagues and peers?

* find your bookmarks easily with a keyword search using a simple tagging system?

* see which bookmarks your friends, peers and colleagues find useful?

Then watch this excellent tutorial - it will help you get started http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU. The tutorial is created by http://www.commoncraft.com/.

Although there are several Social Bookmarking sites on the Internet that will allow you to do this the tutorial focuses on http://delicious.com/

Updates to the Virtual Training Suite from Intute

We would like to advise you of updates to the Virtual Training Suite from Intute, which offers free tutorials on use of the Web for education and research. The tutorials focus on academic resources online and provide guidance on critically evaluating material found on the Web. Aimed at students, there are 62 tutorials, covering most degree subjects, and produced by subject specialists from universities across the UK. This year the content and design of about half of the tutorials have been completely overhauled.

Tutorials of relevance to medicine include:

* Internet for Medicine
* Internet for Nursing
* Internet for Midwifery
* Internet for Health and Social Care
* Internet for Microbiology

The changes to the tutorials reflect Internet developments (in particular the impact of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education), academic Web trends, and extensive user feedback.

The new design makes the tutorials shorter and easier to read online. Interactive features include quizzes, practical exercises, and a 'links basket' functionality which allows the user to keep a record of all websites mentioned in the tutorial. Each tutorial takes around one hour to complete, but students can work through the material at their own pace.

New Library Guide - How to find a Student Project

We have a new Guide for you.

It will take you through the process of finding the full text of a Student Project using the library catalogue. It is available on the 'Library Guides' page of our Intranet at:
http://aeccweb.aecc.ac.uk/library/live/guides.htm (you will need to log in first if you are off campus).


If you have any feedback for us, please let us know.

Journal RSS feeds from ICL (Index to Chiropractic Literature)

The team at ICL have put together some links to journal RSS feeds.

The feeds are mainly for journals indexed in ICL, but also include some other key medical journals such as the BMJ.

You can find the feeds here: http://www.chiroindex.org/journals/rss-feeds. Simply follow the links and subscribe to the feeds as you would normally do (usually by copying the shortcut via the RSS icon and pasting it into your feed reader).

For more information on RSS see: our previous blog post or http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/resources/rss.html

The new Index to Chiropractic Literature (ICL)

The Index to Chiropractic Literature (ICL) has had an impressive upgrade

Features of the new site include:

• Automatic generation of a search history
• A 'Hold Citations' feature that enables you to collect records during a search session
• A new blog
• An 'Open Access Library' with links to free online articles, books, patient handouts, journals, and search tools that are chiropractic or health related
• More web resources with sections on 'Getting Published, Practice Guidelines' etc....

...and more, take a look at: http://www.chiroindex.org/

Opening hours 13-17 July 2009 and vacation time

The Library will close at 7pm each evening from Monday 13th - Friday 17th July 2009.

From Saturday 18th July vacation opening times will operate and the library will be open from 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday only. The last weekend the library will be open this term is 11/12 July.

Have a great summer break, but don't forget we are here if you need us!

E-journals usage survey

We will be sending out surveys on our E-journals in the next few days.

It will be really helpful for us if you could take a few minutes of your time to complete these for us.

The information you provide will help us to evaluate the use of our journals and make them more accessible for you.

...and there are prizes!!!

Thanks so much.

New database that includes JMPT full text - Alt Health Watch

We have a new database for you - Alt Health Watch. It focuses on the ‘many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care. It includes full text articles for more than 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports’.

Most importantly, it includes full text articles from Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) 1995 to present.

You can find the link to it on this page: http://aeccweb/library/live/databases.htm (under ‘Chiropractic and Complementary Health Databases’ - you will need to log in if off campus).

This is on trial for 1 year and we would appreciate your feedback. Do let us know what you think of it.

The Cochrane Collaboration and Influenza

The Cochrane Collaboration has formed a task force to facilitate the availability of systematically assembled evidence. The Collaboration has created a page on its website at: http://www.cochrane.org/ where there is free access to influenza related-Cochrane reviews (full text), podcasts and a simple slide pack.

Excellent Study Skills website: LearnHigher – Excellence in Learning Development

The LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is a partnership of 16 Universities, led by Liverpool Hope University, committed to improving student learning through providing excellent resources to support students' learning development, and through practice-led research to inform the effective use of those resources. Their resources, in 20 Learning Areas, are freely available to all.


The Learning Areas include:

• Academic Writing


• Critical Thinking & Reflection


• Doing Research


• Group Work


• Independent Learning


• Information Literacy


• Listening & Interpersonal Skills


• Maths and Statistics


• Oral Communication


• Planning


• Time Management

Resources include Web-based activities, PowerPoint presentations, downloadable PDFs etc.

There should be something there for everyone!

Easter opening hours

The Library will be closed for Easter from Friday 10th to Monday 13th April inclusive.

Vacation opening hours apply from 14th - 26th April.

Term time opening hours resume from Monday 27th April.

Have a great holiday.

Middlespot.com - a new VISUAL search engine

Middlespot.com is a great new visual search engine. It’s a fluid search engine which may not get the best results just yet (it’s run by just two guys at present) but it presents the results in a nice scrollable way.

Middlespot.com allows you to:

• Store pages on one screen and zoom in and out of each saved page

• Collect search results together that are from multiple searches, over any amount of time

• Create and save your own 'workpads' of selected sites (workpads are feature rich. You can rename them to better reflect what they contain, leave a comment describing the contents of the workpad, open the entire workpad in the middlespot.com interface, and add any URL you want)

• If you do want to share your workpads publicly on a blog or website, it is possible to do that as well

• There are also search options for images, news, Amazon and Twitter

To learn more about using the interface, try the tutorial.

Give it a go and let us know what you think!

Try Intute and you could win a £50.00 Amazon Voucher for letting them know what you think

What is Intute?

Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database.

This makes it possible to discover the best and most relevant resources in one easily accessible place. You can explore and discover trusted information, assured that it has been evaluated by specialists for its quality and relevance.

Intute covers all subjects, try out the Health and Life Sciences section, you won't be disappointed and you may win an voucher as an added bonus!

New resources on the Library Intranet

The following resources are now available on the Intranet:


Databases:

• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) from Bournemouth University

• MEDLINE

• National Council for Osteopathic Research
  
  Follow this link to the databases (you will need to log in if you are off campus).

Medical Images

• Medical Imaging Resource Centre
  'The MIRC project was initiated by the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee to construct a library of medical information, globally accessible to the imaging community through the Internet'
  
  Follow this link to find MIRC (you will need to log in if you are off campus).

Don't forget to give us your feedback, post your comments on the blog, or email us!

PubMed Bookshelf - free electronic books

Have you tried PubMed bookshelf?

This is a growing collection of free, full-text, biomedical textbooks. Just search for the subject you are interested in and you will be presented with a selection of e-books, ranked by relevance.

And don't forget the e-books we buy for you from Dawsons, visit our Intranet to access these!

Information Skills Tutorials for Year 1 & Extended Year

We are organising Information Skills Tutorials to help you find high quality chiropractic / medical information.

They will be 1 hour sessions in the CAL lab, and will start on Wednesday 11th February at 2.00pm.

If there is sufficient demand, we will offer these every day during reading week.

There is a limit of 10 places on each session.

If you would like to attend one of these, please sign up at the library desk. We look forward to seeing you there!

SPORTDiscus

Many of you have asked about the SPORTDiscus database recently. We have some good news for you - this is available for you to search via Bournemouth University (you will need your Athens username/password to search it) and it includes full text articles.

Follow this link to find it. Have fun, and don't forget to give us your feedback!

Year 2 workshops

Year 2 worskhops

David O'Neill and Caroline Cooke are running the Year 2 workshops over the next few weeks. The aim of the workshops is to help prepare you for writing your projects, we will cover the following subjects:

• Medical Gateways
• Using images and copyright
• Evidence Based Medicine
• How to search medical databases, particularly PubMed
• Study skills
• EndNote Web and Referencing
• How to find full text articles ... and more

It will be very helpful if you can give us feedback on these tutorials, feel free to use this blog to do so if you wish. Just click on 'comments' at the end of this post and leave your feedback, we will use this to inform our planning for future tutorials. Thank you for your time.

Happy New Year and 'TRIP answers'

Happy New Year to all students and staff!

As we are all back into the swing of things we thought we'd let you know about a high quality, new, free database:

TRIP answers is a "repository of clinical questions and answers drawn from a wide number of sources around the world and builds on TRIP’s ten years experience of answering clinical questions. Ultimately, we want to create a resource where clinicians can easily find answers to their question and, who knows, create a clinical Q&A ‘space’ where users can share their own Q&As."

TRIP answers has a very useful tag cloud to help you search for the subject you are interested in. Why not try it out and let us know what you think of it?