The Cochrane Library is improving

The new and improved Cochrane Library will launch on Tuesday 7th August 2018. To ensure the transition to the new site runs smoothly, users are advised NOT TO USE the saved search facility from 00:01 GMT on Monday 6th August 2018 until 23:59 GMT on Tuesday 7th August. Any searches saved during this period cannot be guaranteed to be transferred …

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Fake journals: think, check, submit!

Sometimes library members approach the library for advice about unsolicited e-mail messages asking for manuscripts, inviting the recipient to join a journal’s editorial board, or to submit and abstract or poster to a conference. How can one tell which are legitimate and which are from fake, so-called ‘predatory’ journals and conferences? Fake journals have sprung up in the wake of …

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Copy that! How to do it legally

If you work for the NHS or are a student on placement, the following applies when using copyrighted material. What can I copy? Provided the original is owned or subscribed to by the NHS and is covered by the copyright licence, you can copy: two articles from a journal issue any number from a themed issue one chapter or 5% …

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Help us to help you with patient information

  Do you give your patients information? Perhaps you don’t have time? Would you welcome some support or advice in providing information for the patients you see?   Fill in our quick survey  to give us a picture of the kind of patient information you currently supply, and what you would like to offer. The Patient Information Librarian will then …

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NEW: UpToDate® Anywhere – mobile and remote access

Now you can access all the content of UpToDate from your mobile and tablet. You can also build up free continuing education credits (CME/CE/CPD) when researching clinical questions. To gain remote and mobile access you just need to complete a quick one-time registration process. GETTING REGISTERED Access UpToDate via the BSUH Intranet link *You must register from within the BSUH …

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Top tip for Open Access Week – SHERPA Services

The Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham has developed a suite of free tools to support open access publishing decisions.   Will the journal I want to publish in let me make my article freely available? Use SHERPA ROMEO to search for journal policies on copyright and self-archiving in repositories. There is a handy colour coding system …

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