*NEW* Online tutorial for Systematic Reviews

The Library has a brand new tutorial available now from the Information Skills Resource .

Getting Started with your Systematic Review: Finding the Evidence will give you all the best advice and guidance you need when embarking on a systematic review, in particular focusing on the literature searching process and helping you to develop your search skills. 

The tutorial covers the key stages involved in a systematic review and offers guidance on the following;

• Defining your research question and using the PICO analysis.
• Constructing a search strategy, including the use of boolean operators and advanced search techniques. 
• Searching for grey literature. 
• Managing your references.
• Critical appraisal and the hierarchy of medicine. 

Check out the tutorial here .  

Researching for your dissertation over the Summer?

Searching for Researching workshop - 301: Student Skills and Development Centre, Glossop Road Thursday 12 June, 12-1

Come and find out about the information sources available to you, search tips to help you get the most relevant results for your project, evaluating information, plagiarism and referencing.

Follow the link above to book a place. 

What do you think of our ebooks?

The Library has an ever growing collection of ebooks and we'd like to know what you think of them. Do you prefer reading books online or in print? Are there any specific functions you want from an ebook? Do you find ours easy to access?

Tell us what you think in our very quick survey and help us to improve our collections further. 

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libnews/ebooks 

Thank you

New items and editions - April

New items for the Health Sciences Library in April.

Rosenfield, M., Logan, N., & Edwards, K.  (2009)  Optometry: science techniques and clinical management.  2nd ed.



van de Poel, K., Vanaqt, E., Schrimpf, U., & Gasiorek, J.  (2013) Communication skills for foreign and mobile medical professionals.
Also available as an ebook




Brown, S.J., (2014) Evidence-based nursing: the research-practice connection.  3rd ed.

Kennedy-Sheldon, L (2013) Communication for nursing: talking with patients.  3rd ed.

Houser, J. (2015) Nursing research: reading, using, and creating evidence.  3rd ed.

Casement, P.  (2014) On learning from the patient.  2nd ed. [electronic resource]

Lewenson, S., & Truglio-Londrigan, M.  (2015). Decision-making in nursing: thoughtful approaches for leadership.  2nd ed.

New editions for the Health Sciences Library in April



Karch, S.P., & Drummer, O.H. (2013) Karch's pathology of drug abuse.  5th ed.





Davies, S.G (ed.) (2014)  Chapman & Nakielny's aid to radiological differential diagnosis. 6th ed.




O'Connell, T.X.  (2014) USMLE step 2 secrets.  4th ed.





Magee, D.J. (2014) Orthopedic physical assessment.  6th ed





Greenstein, B (2009). Trounce's clinical pharmacology for nurses.  18th ed.




Upton, D., & Thirlaway, K.  (2014) Promoting healthy behaviour: a practical guide.  2nd ed.

Rees, J.A.  (2014) Pharmaceutical Practice. 5th ed.

BrowZine

The Library has recently purchased BrowZine, an app which enables users to browse and read academic journal articles on tablet devices.  

BrowZine brings together articles from our subscription and open access journals into a single ‘newsstand’ style app.   Users can save their favourite journals, view the tables of contents, and read articles as new issues are released.

Watch a short video introduction to the BrowZine app

BrowZine is designed for current awareness and browsing.  It complements the Library catalogue StarPlus, which can be used for more focused research or searching.

University of Sheffield members can download the BrowZine app, free of charge, from the iPad, Android and Amazon App Stores, or from the link below.  After downloading, users will need to select University of Sheffield from the list and enter their University of Sheffield username and password when prompted.

Download BrowZine on your tablet

Please note: the minimum OS required are iPad version 5.1.1 and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). BrowZine is currently available for tablets only. It is not compatible with smartphones at present although this development is expected in the future.

BrowZine for Android Tablet FAQs

Browzine for iPad FAQs

Borrowing and opening hours over the Easter vacation

Borrowing and requesting items over the Easter vacation
Over the Easter vacation your books will continue to be renewed by us.  From Monday 31 March, if a book is requested by someone else we will send you an email to let you know and to ask that you return the book by 28th April.  Requested books will not be renewed beyond this date.

You can still request books over the Easter vacation, however the person who has the book out on loan over the vacation will not have to return it until Monday 28 April.


Opening hours over the Easter vacation
The University Library will have revised opening hours over the Easter Vacation.

Health Sciences Library - Royal Hallamshire Hospital will be open as follows:
Thursday 17 April: 09:00-17:00 (Staffed 09:00 - 17:00)
Friday 18 April: Closed
Saturday 19 April: 14:00-18:00 (Self-service only)
Sunday 20 April: Closed
Monday 21 April: Closed

Health Sciences Library - Northern General Hospital will close at 17:00 on Thursday 17 April and reopen on Tuesday 22 April at 09:00.

The Information Commons will be open 24/7 with staffed hours as follows:
Thursday 17 April: Staffed 09:00-17:00
Friday 18 April: Staffed 09:00-17:00
Saturday 19 April: Staffed 12:00-18:00
Sunday 20 April: Self-service only
Monday 21 April: Staffed 09:00-17:00
Please note some services may not be available during the Easter vacation.

Western Bank Library opening hours over Easter vacation can be found here.
St George's Library opening hours over the Easter vacation can be found here.

For more information, visit the Library News

Spotlight on.... the Trip Database

Trip is a free search engine used to find clinical evidence and  research in the fields of medicine, dentistry and health.

Used by health professionals and members of the public alike the interface is easy to use and incorporates some useful tools, such as a PICO search option where you can easily apply your PICO analysis to generate your search results, and the still developing 'Trip Rapid Review' search option which allows you to analyse multiple research articles at once.

From the simple and advanced search options it's also easy to find a whole range of different types of material. Using the tabs along the top of your search results you can limit your search to resources such as clinical evidence, images, videos, educational tools or patient information sites. The options on the right-hand side of your search results also allows you to further limit the clinical evidence results to resource types such as systematic reviews, case reports or guidelines etc. 

With results including evidence from pubmed, the cochrane database and NICE the quality of the search results seems to be high but remember to always use your own judgement and appraise the evidence for yourself. 

http://www.tripdatabase.com/