Monday 1 December 2008

NHS Wales E-Library - Resources Now Restored

The following resources on the NHS Wales E-library have been restored to the e-library :

OVID databases – Medline, Embase, Psychinfo, AMED (Allied & Complementary Medicine), British Nursing Index, and HMIC (Health Management Info Consortium)

Ebsco Host – CINAHL (Nursing & Allied Health) and Medline (you might find the OVID version of Medline more user friendly than this version)

BMJ Journals

Science Direct – please note, NHS Wales only subscribes to a dozen or so titles via Science Direct’s ejournals collection

Clinical Evidence

EMX Journals (was Emerald Journals)

NHS Wales e-journals – we don’t have details of all the available titles yet, but most of the titles we had access to earlier this year, should still be available. Check the e-journals homepage (
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgid=520&pid=12531) for links to individual titles. We’re hoping that the list of available ejournals will be updated shortly.

Accessing the e-resources

The homepage for the NHS Wales e-library (
www.wales.nhs.uk/ehl) hasn’t yet been updated with details about, and access links to, the restored resources. The easiest way to access the resources until the e-library’s homepage has been updated is via your NHS Wales Athens user account (www.athensams.net/myathens) – if you don’t have an Athens account, or your current Athens account has expired, please contact me and I will create or update your account.

Powys staff also have access to the MyiLibrary collection of electronic textbooks, and Ebsco Host EJS which provides electronic access to approximately 25 of the journals we subscribe to in Powys. Both can be accessed via your Athens account.

Please contact the Library if you have any questions about any of the e-library’s resources.