The 2016 Spring Forum, 2020 vision: supporting open access and research excellence, took place on the 4th March 2016 at the Royal Society of Medicine. Many thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors and delegates who made our 2015 Summer Conference such a success.
Please see below for links to the speaker presentations.
It’s ten months since we started experimenting with blogshots as a way to share evidence, prompted by some conversations on Twitter when Teresa Chinn (@AgencyNurse) announced that she was experimenting with a form of microblogging. You can read more about how we developed them in this blog
Facet Publishing have announced the release of two new books, Practical Tips for Facilitating Research and Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries.
Higher education is in a period of rapid evolution and academic libraries must continually evaluate and adjust their services to meet new needs. Librarian roles are changing and new specialisms, such as data librarians are emerging. Activities are being driven by researcher requirements such as the demand for wider dissemination and the impact of research.
NHS England has paid for premium access to TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) on NHS PCs, offering more content and features (users on PCs outside the NHS network can still access TRIP, but may see fewer results).
Welcome to our new blog: Information Skills for Health.
Here you will find short bite-sized simple tips and tricks, resource features and etutorials that will help you to find and use information, to support evidence-based practice, CPD, revalidation and, ultimately, patient care.
It is aimed at NHS staff and Keele-based students working and studying in Staffordshire.
I joined a packed session at a recent ‘Shakespeare400’ conference at King’s College London which explored this question by looking at King Lear. In this play, the character of the king becomes increasingly ‘mad’. Having left his castle, he finds himself lost on a heath during a literal and metaphorical storm.
The following is a selective reflection on the course and on marketing the VLKS. Trying to fit what is essentially a commercial model to a public service environment. It’s not a review of the whole course or a summary of the contents. Go to Coursera for that.
Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out the “New Books” display in the library.
This article is aimed primarily at psychiatry trainees, MRCPsych course organisers, College tutors, educational supervisors and clinical supervisors. It describes recent changes to the MRCPsych curriculum and examinations and discusses the different approaches that educators can utilise to best help their trainees. We describe how the content of MRCPsych courses can help prepare trainees for both the written papers and the clinical assessment of skills and competencies (CASC). We discuss ways of incorporating patients and carers into course development, innovative approaches using technology to enhance learning, the role of workplace-based assessments and how international graduates may maximise their pass rate. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
We’re looking to expand our range of literature search services over the next few months, and to re-brand the service as ‘EvidenceSearch4U’.
We are looking at having different levels of service, to suit different requirements