New editions available in the RHH & NGH for March

New editions available in the RHH & NGH for March

We have added some new items to the library’s collection available in the Health Sciences Libraries this month.

Petrie, A - Medical statistics at a glance workbook - Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. [0470658487]

Moreno, J. D. - Is there an ethicist in the house?: on the cutting edge of bioethics - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press; Chesham: Combined Academic, 2005. - [0253346355]

Collier, J. A. B. -  Oxford handbook of clinical specialties. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - (Oxford medical handbooks). [0199591180]

Beatty, H, 1979 -Nervous disease in late eighteenth-century Britain: the reality of a fashionable disorder  - London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012. - (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine). [1848933088]

Jenkins, P. F. - Making sense of the chest X-ray: a hands-on guide - 2nd ed - London: Taylor & Francis, 2013. [1444135155]




For a full list of new books, ordered by site, visit the Library Catalogue

10 of the best: 9# Health Statistics

‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ – ok so statistics can be a tricky thing, some people love them whereas some people believe they’re just used to bolster any old weak argument. They’re also not always the easiest thing to find. While a quick google search will throw up all the random facts and figures you could wish for, checking the reliability of such figures can be difficult. Yet this is absolutely crucial for anyone carrying out academic work. Statistics can in fact be a great way to add to an argument or observe general trends, particularly in the field of public health, but you need to make sure what you’re quoting is correct. 

The Library has put together a list of some of the best places to look for health statistics. 

These range from local statistics, such as the Sheffield Health and Well-being Atlas which includes interactive tools to access data at different geographic levels across Sheffield, to a whole range of national statistics. These come from official government sources such as the Department of Health and trusted charities such as Cancer Research UK . 

There’s also a list of sites for International Statistics. The World Health Organisation: European Health For All Database is a great starting point for finding out broad trends in the European Union and the WHO Global Health Atlas provides an overview of infectious diseases around the world. 

Check out a full list here.

Easter Vacation Loans & Opening Hours at RHH

Easter Vacation Loans are now available at the RHH and other University Library Sites meaning that you can have the item you need over the Easter Vacation!

For more details on this please see the following web page .

There will also be some changes to the opening hours of the RHH Library over the vacation period.  The vacation opening hours are as follow:

Thursday 28 March: 9-5 (All services close at 5pm)
Friday 29 March - Monday 1 April: Closed

Normal opening hours will resume on Tuesday 2 April at 9am.

If you require study space during this time, the Information Commons will be open 24 hours on a self-service only basis.  Access to the Information Commons is restricted to members of the University only, please note that NHS members and external members of the University Library do not have access to the Information Commons (details available here).

Changes in StarPlus

We are working in the background to improve our library systems.

You can now place a reservation within StarPlus, from the 'Request' tab.

However, to see the total number of copies available of a particular book, you need to click on the 'Details' tab and then the 'This item in classic Star' link on the right hand side. This is a temporary measure until we upgrade further in the next few months.

StarPlus Upgrade - Thursday 7th March

Work to integrate account information and renewals and reservations into StarPlus will take place on Thursday 7th March starting at 10.30am. This may last for several hours and there will be some disruption to the service.

It is recommended that you save your eShelf contents to Endnote or another reference service as a precaution. Alternatively you may choose to e-mail your eShelf contents to yourself. 

Every effort will be made to ensure that disruption to services is kept to a minimum.