Welcome to all our new and returning students!

Find out about Library and IT services. Come to one of the brief
presentations on Level 1 in the Information Commons week beginning 20 September, at 11am, 1pm, 2pm or 3pm. These are followed by optional tours by student ambassadors and demonstrations of equipment. Just turn up - there is no need to book. Student ambassadors and staff are also on hand at our other Library sites to help you find your way around. You can find more information for new students at www.shef.ac.uk/infocommons/students/gettingstarted and www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/new.html

Wireless Network Connection

Wireless connection is now available in the RHH library’s reading room. In order to connect to the eduroam wireless network you may need to synchronise your password.
If you need assistance connecting your laptop to the network please go to: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cics/wireless

Health Statistics

Do you know that:

9% of men drink more than 51 units of alcohol per week;

the 5 year survival rate for cancer of the prostate is 77%;

28.2 million patients saw an NHS dentist in the 24 month period ending 31 December 2009;

11.278 million NHS sight tests were carried out in England last year?

The Library has updated our health statistics web page, bringing together international, national and local statistical web sites. If you are looking for information on the prevalence of a particular disease you may find this to be a useful resource.

Connect by clicking here:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/hsl/healthstats.html

or by following the link at the right hand-side of the screen.

Frances and Vic

10 of the best: 6 Information skills tutorials

9-13 November 2009 is information literacy week

How do you know that?
How do you know it is right?
How are you going to use that information?
Will you act ethically?

How highly would you rank your information literacy skills?

Did you know that students who can demonstrate the skills of information literacy not only perform better academically but also have better career prospects? In the field of health care information literacy skills are the key to becoming an effective evidence based practitioner.
Many students learn these skills from the University of Sheffield Library’s online tutorials.

Be an information literate graduate by learning how to:
Define a search question
Search for information
Evaluate information
Synthesise information
Cite and reference information

Visit the tutorials at:
www.librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk
Vic

Summer reading

Before you leave for the summer have a look at our check list for a quick reminder about what you need to do and where you can access information:

Get your library accounts up-to-date - Why not pay off your debts (remember final year students will not be allowed to graduate with outstanding debts), return all the books you won’t be needing and cancel any outstanding reservations (give your fellow students a chance of getting what they need too);

- Check all your books have been renewed and that you KNOW YOUR PIN to access your account online - Longer vacation loans begin at 9am on Monday 8 June for standard loans and Thursday 11 June for short loans;
Ring the renewals hotline on 0114 222 7201 if you’re unable to access the Internet;

Practice your information skills with our online tutorials and screencasts;

Follow our Twitter feed to be kept in the loop about what’s going on whilst you’re away;

And remember - we’re always here to help! Contact the library if you’re having any problems accessing information or alternatively get in touch with either Frances or myself for subject specific help.

Vic

v.grant@sheffield.ac.uk
f.ludlow@sheffield.ac.uk

Looking for a swine flu information finder? Intute could be your best provider. 10 of the best 5: Intute

Looking for a swine flu information finder? Intute could be your best provider .

10 of the best: 5 Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/



So that's how it started ...

Intute: Health and life sciences   is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.

It has links to major information sources on the developing swine influenza A (H1N1) situation.

These sources include the World Health Organization (monitoring the global situation), the Health Protection Agency (UK advice), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (for the situation in the United States), and the Royal College of General Practitioners, which has issued Pandemic Flu Guidance jointly with the British Medical Association.

As the situation develops Intute will add any significant new resources to its collection.

For all current links please see http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/cgi-bin/search.pl?term1=swine+influenza&limit=0&subject=healthandlifesciences


Vic

What a tweet

What a tweet

The University Library's Customer Services Department is using twitter to communicate news and views to our staff and students.

Find out what I am twittering on about by following UniSheffieldLib



Vic

Find it @ Sheffield

The University Library has a new platform for our eJournals. To help you search ejournals using Find it @ Sheffield we've compiled a list of ten search tips and included illustrations to demonstrate. If you have any feedback please comment or email me directly for further help.

1. If you know exactly what you're looking for you can use the 'starts with' button to be prompted with predictive text:

2. Alternatively, you may want to browse titles that contain a particular keyword:

Exclusive interview with Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS

'Knowledge is as important as antibiotics' claims Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS. He tells us why in an exclusive interview for the UoS Librarians' Blog.






Just before Christmas Vic had the privilege to interview Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS. Sir Muir trained initially as a surgeon before working in public health and more recently in R&D. He is a passionate advocate of patient empowerment and has written extensively on this topic. Currently Director of the National Knowledge Service and responsible for the National Library for Health, Sir Muir was knighted for his services to the NHS in 2005.

Vic: Congratulations on your knighthood. Would you like to see a return to the days when all doctors were addressed as Sir?

SM: Even the female ones?! What’s more important is how doctors address patients. The evidence suggests that patients like to be greeted by their clinician and like to be addressed by name. So not dear or love or what do you say in Sheffield?

Vic: Duck or Mi Love!

SM: Well down with 'Ducks' and 'Mi Loves', patients like to be called by name.

Vic: A new edition of Evidence Based Healthcare is to arrive in our bookshops imminently. What’s new for the new edition?

SM: There will be more about public health and also a focus on how evidence based healthcare should be taught. I’ll send you a signed copy for the University of Sheffield Library. (Vic lands a freebie again!)

Vic: Evidence based medicine is sometimes defined as doing the right thing right. How often in healthcare do you think we don’t do the right things right?

Ten of the best: 2 Endnote

The medical librarian's top 10 information resources continues with Endnote

Ten of the best: 2 Endnote

Have you ever written a paper and found that formatting the bibliography has taken almost as long as writing the text? Perhaps you could benefit from using reference management software such as Endnote which does all the fiddly formatting for you. Endnote is a piece of software which allows you to manage your references and generate and format a bibliography using different styles, eg Vancouver,  Harvard or a style compatible with a medical journal. It allows the import of references from databases such as Medline which can then be used on a cite while you write basis within Word.

Connecting on campus

• Select start


• Applications (you may need to select the load applications menu)


• Academic


• Social sciences


• Endnote

Using Endnote from home

You may purchase the Endnote software from CiCS but unfortunately we are not able to get a license to allow off-campus access via MUSE.

Learning to use Endnote

I am, apparently, the University Library's Endnote Oracle! I've no idea how I have got myself such a position but if you would like tuition in its use I'm the person to contact. Interested? Let me know. If there is sufficient demand I will run a course.

Vic