Happy World Blood Donor Day! 14th June each year is when the world celebrates the altruistic actions of millions who donate blood to maintain badly needed reserves of blood and blood products, such as plasma. Anyone who is injured, falls…
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Reading for Pleasure – Happy days are here again!
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and at this time of year students and staff are particularly under strain busily preparing for exams, completing dissertations and finishing off final submissions. Our brains are crammed with ‘useful’ information, our bodies…
Queen Alexandra Open Day (14 October 2017)
Thinking of a healthcare career? The doors of Queen Alexandra Hospital open for its annual open day on Saturday 14 October 2017 from 10.30am – 3.00pm. Take a behind the scenes tour and meet staff from different departments. Find out…
CareKnowledge running at risk on Wednesday 14 June 2017
It is expected that the CareKnowledge website will be available only intermittently on Wednesday 14 June 2017 and will be running at risk all that day while essential maintenance work is carried out on the site. The supplier intends to…
New ejournal: Policy and practice in health and safety
Studying health and safety? We have just added the ejournal “Policy and practice in health and safety” to our collection, and it is ready for you to search through the Discovery Service.
New trial: JBI evidence-based practice database
We are delighted to offer free trial access to a new tool for finding evidence to inform clinical decision-making and help you demonstrate evidence-based practice until Sunday 4th June 2017. The Joanna Briggs Institute’s Evidence Based Practice database offers reliable information…
Introducing… BIOSIS Previews
Finally in this week’s tour of popular online resources for finding academic journal articles that go beyond the Discovery Service, we take a look at the world’s most comprehensive reference database for life science research: BIOSIS Previews. Part of the Web…
Introducing… Biomed Central
First up in our showcase of Biological Science databases this week is Biomed Central. The largest open access publisher in the world, BioMed Central publishes over 290 peer-reviewed open access journals across the fields of biology, chemistry, clinical medicine and…
Introducing… the Barbour health and safety information service
Barbour is an exciting health and safety information service. Exciting at least for anyone studying construction, health and safety at work, engineering or other subjects where putting the right procedures and working practices into place can be the difference between…
Love your gut week
It is a thing well said that you are what you eat. Your gut has a mind of its own (literally – to a limited extent your gut’s nervous system manages itself independently from the rest of you) and has increasingly been shown to be an…
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