BMJ Best Practice app

BMJ Best Practice (available via your University of Hull login) is a decision-support tool designed for use at the point of care. There's fully referenced information on thousands of diagnoses and diagnostic tests, links to drug formularies, over 4,000 treatment guidelines, and hundreds of plain-language patient information leaflets. See our previous post on BMJ Best Practice for more information on getting set up with it.

There's also a BMJ Best Practice app which you can download and use. It's a bit tricky to set up, so here are a few instructions we've pulled together:

1. Download the app, but don't log in yet
2. Open the web-browser on your device and go to bestpractice.bmj.com
3. From the Sign In menu, go to the Shibboleth users go here option
4. Choose UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research (UK)
5. Select University of Hull (Shibboleth) and enter your Hull login details if prompted
6. Once signed in, "Subscription provided by University of Hull" should appear at the top of the homepage (web view) or the bottom of the homepage (mobile view)
7. Click the My BMJ Best Practice button and create an account or log in
8. Once logged in, via this method, open the app and enter your BMJ login details (leave the institutional number field blank)
9. Once at the subscriptions page, a message should appear saying that you have institutional access via Hull (this message may take a few moments to come up)

You should then have access via the app to all the content you can get online through our subscription.

Developing Researcher Skills at York

The University of York Library's Research Support Team deliver workshops on Managing Your Research Data, Searching the Literature and Know your (Copy)Rights this term.

Managing Your Research Data

This workshop is an introduction to research data management, covering best practice for the successful organisation, storage, documentation and archiving/sharing of research data. The workshops include opportunities for participants to start to plan and record their data management and to start a data management action checklist.

This term's workshops will be held on:

• Monday 19 Oct, 09:30 - 12:00
• Monday 16 Nov, 10:00 - 12:30

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff

Searching the Literature

This workshop is designed to help PhD students and research staff to search for scholarly literature. It is particularly relevant to PhD students working on their literature review but the skills covered can be applied in a range of contexts. The workshops include opportunities for practical work using attendees own topics.

Forthcoming sessions will be held on:

• Tuesday 3 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Tuesday 10 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Wednesday 25 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Tuesday 8 Dec, 10:00 - 12:00

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff.


Know your (Copy)Rights: protecting your own work and re-using other people’s
This workshop is aimed at PhD students and research staff from any discipline who are preparing material for a thesis or scholarly publication. Participants in this session will explore the legal terms and licences which permit the re-use of third party materials, consider strategies for requesting additional permissions and review the licences available for releasing their own material.

This term's workshop will be held on:

• Monday 30 Nov, 13:30 - 15:30

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff.

Postgraduates: are you ready to learn some new skills?

Postgraduate study is a step up from undergraduate study and requires more in depth skills. The Universities of York and Hull provide a suite of workshops and courses designed to help taught and research postgraduates develop skills that will help them meet the challenges of research at this level.

University of York:
Bookable training courses at http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/hr/researcher-development/students/
We particularly recommend Searching the Literature which is RDT201421 on skillsforge for research students, and RD0173 on the LMS for research staff.

University of Hull:
Bookable skills workshops at http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/skillsworkshops/postgraduateworkshops
Enhanced Information and Research Skills Module at http://www2.hull.ac.uk/lli/skills-team/supportingresearch/workshopseirs.aspx
A Research Data Management module will also be running from early November.

Reference management workshops at the University of York

 

The University of York will be running EndNote Online workshops towards the end of the Autumn term. Steph Jesper from HYMS Library will be one of the tutors involved, so this is an ideal opportunity for HYMS students to learn a bit about how to get the most out of reference management software.

The workshops will be taking place on:

• Monday 16 November 15:00-17:00 LFA/015
• Tuesday 24 November 14:00-16:00 LFA/015
• Wednesday 2 December 14:00-16:00 LFA/015

You can book onto any of these sessions via the calendar at the bottom of our Research page:

http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine/research

 

There's more information about the workshops at the York IT Services website.

If you're at Hull, don't worry: there are EndNote sessions happening there too. Take a look at their Bibliographic software pages for more details.

For online information about using EndNote, you can also check out York's Reference Management site.

York Help Desk changes



 

The University of York Library and IT Services have been reviewing the way they provide support and information.

 

The Library Help Desk at the University of York is now staffed from 9am - 7pm on weekdays, and 10am-6pm at weekends. The only exception will be during Summer vacations when the Help Desk will be closed on Sundays. The Library itself is open 24 hours a day, 362 days a year.

 

In addition to this, from the New Year, York's Library Help Desk will be answering first-line IT queries as well as Library enquiries, extending the IT support hours available.

 

You can read full details of the changes at:

http://www.york.ac.uk/library/news/2015/help-desk-changes/ 

Official opening of the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull 16 September 2015

Today marked the official opening of the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull, with an opening ceremony in the exhibition space on the ground floor of the library. The ceremony was led by the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy who holds an honorary doctorate at the University. The poet unveiled a plaque commemorating the occasion.

The Brynmor Jones Library underwent a redevelopment beginning in September 2012 which has transformed the building in terms of what students spaces are available and refreshing the technological infrastructure for the 21st Century.

The exhibition space features a display of images from the building's history with explanatory notes which will be available to view until the end of October.

New Oxford Handbook ebooks

Based on your suggestions, we've been shopping again, and we've come back with the following Oxford Handbooks which are now all available as ebooks via York:
 

Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme

Oxford Handbook of Cardiology

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Examination and Practical Skills

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Pathology

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Pharmacy

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery

Oxford Handbook of Critical Care

Oxford Handbook of Dialysis

Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes

Oxford Handbook of Epidemiology for Clinicians

Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine

Oxford Handbook of Medical Imaging

Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences

Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics

Oxford Handbook of Neurology

Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics

Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health

Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology

Oxford Handbook of Pain Management

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine

Oxford Handbook of Sport and Exercise Medicine