Knowledge and Library Services
Knowledge and Library Services provide quick and easy access to the most up-to-date, comprehensive resources and services to Trust staff. We support our Trust to identify evidence-based practice that can be implemented across all our services ensuring:
- The best patient safety and quality of care
- Health improvements
- High quality decision-making
- Innovative research practices
- Ongoing staff development
We continuously benchmark our service in line with the NHS England Knowledge for Healthcare evaluation framework.
Using our service and how to join
Our service is free to everyone working for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
To join the library, please fill in the online form available here: Register for the Library. The library will then process your form and will confirm by email when your registration has been completed.
We also offer external membership packages. For further details please email libraryservice@nottshc.nhs.uk.
The Trust Staff Library is a member of the Health Libraries Midlands Consortium (HeLM)
Library catalogue
Our online catalogue shows all our resources including eBooks. Access the online catalogue here.
Once registered with the library you are able to request, reserve resources and suggest new books directly through the library catalogue. Click on the 'log in to your account' option on the top right of the library catalogue page, then select 'change or forgot password'. For further help please contact libraryservice@nottshc.nhs.uk.
Athens
To register for an Open Athens account, go to the link below and follow the onscreen instructions:
Once registered you can manage your account and access resources at https://www.openathens.net/.
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub provides a fast, simple search across a vast number of high-quality knowledge and evidence resources, including the staff library catalogue. It also links to the library services on offer through the Trust staff library
It enables instant access to evidence in the form of full text articles, print and online books, as well as access to clinical tools such as NICE Guidelines. You can search as a guest, but you need to login with OpenAthens to access the full text of the papers.
Evidence Search Service
Need to find evidence but pressed for time?
The Evidence Search Service undertakes work to find evidence-based information on a broad range of topic areas to support patient care, research, current guidelines, care pathways and policies. Results will be sent by email.
The Evidence Search Service is free and available to all staff currently employed by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, including those on placement.
To request a search Click here to fill out an evidence search request.
We also provide a fee based Evidence Search Service providing advanced, high quality mediated searches to support organisations undertaking research projects and evaluations in a range of areas from Medicine, Mental Health, Forensic, Criminal, Health and Social Care, Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, Employment, as well as other disciplines. For further details please email libraryservice@nottshc.nhs.uk.
Information and evidence training
Knowledge and Library services offer training sessions throughout the year to equip staff with the skills needed to efficiently locate high quality information to ensure your practice is informed by the latest evidence. Training sessions include finding and using reliable resources (including how to search the Knowledge and Library Hub), advanced evidence searching, searching for systematic reviews, critical appraisal bite sized sessions and more.
Sessions are ideal for clinical or non-clinical colleagues and can be over MS Teams, in person or team training at your place of work. For further details please email libraryservice@nottshc.nhs.uk. Anyone working for Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust can view our full training offer on Connect. Please click here to see information skills and evidence search training available
Keeping up-to-date
Keep up to date using KnowledgeShare which provides customised evidence summaries by email. To find out more about KnowledgeShare and sign up click here.
Browse journals and sign up for an account with BrowZine to receive email updates when new articles are available in your favourite journals. Find out more about Browzine here.
Contact and find us
Library services are delivered from the staff library at Duncan Macmillan House.
All services are available online and through MS Teams. We have a wide range of online resources, ebooks and ejournals. A postal loan service is available for anyone not based at these locations (restrictions may apply).
Duncan Macmillan Staff Library
Duncan Macmillan House
Porchester Road
Nottingham
NG3 6AA
Tel: 0115 952 9486
Email: libraryservice@nottshc.nhs.uk
Opening hours
Monday - Thursday
8:45am - 5pm
Friday
9am - 4pm
The library hot desks and the adjacent touchdown space are available during site opening hours with pass code required for access to Duncan Macmillan House.
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