Changes in subscription content

Unfortunately, due to budget pressures next year, we have had to remove MD Consult from the e-Library's collection of subscriptions resources.

From March 31st we will no longer have access to MD Consult resources. This will obviously have an affect on our eBooks collection however we will soon be offering access to the following titles via OVID:

Essentials of Microbiology for Dental Students
Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk
Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Health Measurement Scales
Obesity Prevention and Public Health
Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme
Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia
Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Critical Care
Oxford Handbook of Dental Patient Care
Oxford Handbook of General Practice
Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV and AIDS
Social Determinants of Health

In terms of MD Consult journals, a number of the titles in MD Consult are available via other providers, especially Science Direct, however we will no longer be providing access to the following journals:
American Journal of Kidney Diseases
American Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
American Journal of Sports Medicine
Journal of Pediatrics
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Lancet Infectious Diseases
Lancet Neurology
Lancet Oncology
The Clinics series

Again due to the same budgetary pressures, we will also be reviewing our access to Web of Science and the pharmacuetical resources Martindale, Stockley's and Herbal Medicines and it is possible that access will be removed in the coming weeks but this can not be clarified at this point in time.

We will be adding the following resources to the e-Library in April but it must be stressed that these are not replacments for the above resources:

Dynamed

DynaMed is a medical information database with nearly 3,000 clinical topic summaries. Designed for use at the point-of-care, providing bestavailable evidence and updated daily.

UptoDate

UpToDate is specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care. Our physician editors and authors review and update our content on a continuous basis and a new, peer-reviewed version is issued every four months. The published evidence is summarized and specific recommendations made for patient care.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this but as already stated this has been due to budgetary issues.

EBSCOhost 2.0

EBSCOhost will be updating their interface in the summer of 2008. Some of the key features will be:

* A cleaner, simpler user interface
* Related Images readily available beside the Result List
* Results directly from NewsBank
* Instant article previews from mouse-over action
* Expand/Collapse side panels
* Search history displayed above Result list
* SmartText Searching to provide full results from partial Find field terms
* Multi-database access to Authority files
* URLs that can be bookmarked
* A convenient, streamlined Cite process for all citation styles

There is an EBSCOhost 2.0 Flash overview, available at
http://www.ebscohost.com/flashViewer2.php?marketID=1&topicID=981
and some information describing EBSCOhost 2.0 features at
http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969

Virtual training - Web of Science

Web of Science are providing some online training sessions in March

If you would like more information about these sessions or enquire about training on other services please contact derek.boyle@nes.scot.nhs.uk

Copyright advice on the SLAINTE website

A new intellectual property rights and copyright section has been added to the SLAINTE website. It provides copyright information for library and information professionals.

It can be accessed at

http://www.slainte.org.uk/copyright/copyrightindex.htm

Updates to journal content

The following Science Direct titles have been added to the e-Library:

American journal of human genetics
Cell metabolism
Biochimica et biophysica acta (BBA) - gene structure and expression is now called
Biochimica et biophysica acta (BBA) - gene regulatory mechanisms

The following OVID titles have been added to the e-Library:

Academic physician and scientist
World allergy organization journal

The following Proquest titles have been added to the e-Library:

Administration and management special interest section quarterly

Canadian women's health network
Clinical diabetes
Community care (also added to Ebsco-Host)
International journal of men's health
Medical marketing and media (also added to Ebsco-Host)
Work programs special interest section quarterly

RCM midwives journal (Ingenta) has also been added to the e-Library

The following Science Direct titles have been archived in the e-Library:

Seminars in anesthesia, perioperative medicine and pain (also MD Consult)
Annales d'urologie
Clinical techniques in small animal practice
Disaster management and response
Environmental hazards
International congress series
Neural regeneration research
Cardiovascular research
European journal of echocardiography

This is due to a change in publisher. Therefore no up-to-date access is now available.

The following Science Direct titles have been removed from the e-Library:

American journal of hypertension
Journal of the European academy of dermatology and venereology

The following Ebsco-Host title has been removed from the e-Library:

International journal of paediatric dentistry

SFX

Over the next few weeks we will be introducing a new service called SFX.

SFX is an OpenURL linking resolver that allows users to link directly to the electronic full-text for a reference (the SFX target) plus other linking options. It is similar to the Links@OVID service that you will be familiar with but will be available from a lot more databases and not just confined to the OVID collection.

You will therefore notice the SFX target icon against references which will open up a new window and display information on where to access the full-text of the reference.

This initial implementation of SFX will only provide the user with details on linking through to our subscription resources, however the way that SFX is set-up means that there will always be an SFX target even when we do not have full-text, so in some cases you will not be directed to full-text. However as this service develops we will be offering the user the option to request the article via a document delivery service if it is not available in full-text. The intention therefore is not to fully promote the service until other features are in place but as you will begin to see the SFX icons appearing when you are searching the databases it is important that you are aware of this new development.

If you would like more information about the SFX service, please contact derek.boyle@nes.scot.nhs.uk

If you would like to read up a bit more on SFX, you can do so at http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/SFXOverview

Updates to journal content

The following Ebsco-Host titles have been added to the e-Library:

Plant molecular biology reporter
Analytical letters
British poultry science
Assessment in education: principles, policy and practice
Compare: a journal of comparative education

The following Science Direct title has been added:

Journal of science and medicine in sport

The following titles have been removed or archived:

Urban studies (Ebsco-Host) - Archived
Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery (Science Direct) - Removed