News

18 November 2009

Trial access to PEMSoft available until 31 December 2009. PEMSoft is an interactive clinical library and multimedia decision support software system that addresses acute and chronic illness and injury conditions from birth to adulthood, with an emphasis on children and adolescents.

9 November 2009

Trial access to Clinical Knowledge Summaries available until 4 December 2009. The NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries are a reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary and first-contact care.

21 October 2009

28 "Made Incredibly Easy!" books are now available online. See Books A-Z, Books listed by clinical specialty or Books@Ovid:

8 October 2009

Trial access to 30 June 2010 now available for the SMART: Scientific and Medical Art Imagebase, a collection of over 18,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.

7 October 2009

Trial access to 31 December 2009 now available for the Oxford Medical Handbooks:

Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia
Oxford Handbook of Cardiology
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Dialysis
Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Nephrology and Hypertension
Oxford Handbook of Neurology
Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Oxford Handbook of Oncology
Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry
Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice
Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology

11 September 2009

OECD Health Data 2009 and Clinical Evidence now available.

1 May 2009

Influenza A(H1N1) / Swine Flu - information sources (includes links to topics from DynaMed and UpToDate)

4 July 2008

View the list of print resources purchased for the collection July 2007 to June 2008.

26 June 2007

SMAHS Library site amended to syncronise with other WA Health Library sites.

3 April 2007

New subject gateways launched today.

View the latest lists of print resources purchased for the collection. January to March 2007 & September to December 2006

8 December 2006

New online resources available: King Guide to Parenteral Admixtures, Anatomy.tv, UpToDate (only available onsite at Armadale, Bentley and Rockingham Hospitals)

7 September 2006

Click to view the latest list (March to August 2006) of print resources purchased for the collection.

29 March 2006

An out of hours reference service is available called Chasing the Sun. The aim of this service is to put you in contact with a librarian when you need some urgent help in finding database information after hours. The service makes use of time zone differences between countries, so that a librarian who is at work in the United Kingdom will be able to answer your query.

7 March 2006

Click to view the February 2006 list of print resources purchased for the collection.

3 March 2006

Hitting the Headlines is produced for the NHS by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemenation at the University of York and offers an analysis of the evidence behind selected health stories reported in national newspapers. Summaries of news stories are posted within 48 hours of newspaper publication to ensure that health professionals and the public are better informed about the accuracy of reporting of research in the press.

2 March 2006

It is now possible to connect to online resources from external locations for Fremantle Hospital staff. Contact the Library for more information. SMAHS.Library@health.wa.gov.au

6 February 2006

Click to view the January 2006 list of print resources purchased for the collection.

10 January 2006

The Library has purchased online access to many more books and journals for 2006. The MD Consult collection has been bought and many of the StatRef book titles. MD Consult includes many journal titles, including all of the Clinics series, and many online books. The latest list (December 2005) of print resources purchased for the collection may be viewed on the intranet.

The Library has purchased a SMAHS wide license to EndNote 9 bibliographic management software. This can be used in conjunction with the databases to create personalised libraries of references from citations download and imported into EndNote. The Library staff is preparing some educational / orientation sessions on EndNote for the first quarter of 2006.