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.

16 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 Mosby's Nursing Index and Mosby's Nursing Consult.

Mosby's Index is a new abstracting and indexing database for nursing and allied health literature. Updated daily, Mosby's Index offers access evidence-based content such as:

Cover-to-cover indexing of more than 2,500 international journal titles, including peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, and electronic-only titles
Includes 1,300 journal titles that are not available in CINAHL
Coverage is comprehensive and includes evidence-based healthcare; all nursing specialties and professions; nursing education and training; nursing development and management; and much more!
Ability to search, browse, save searches in folders, set up e-mail alerts, view and edit search history, e-mail search results
Uses the EMTREE Life Science thesaurus, enhanced for nursing

Mosby's Nursing Consult brings nursing resources together in an online service that aims to help clinical nurses and nurse administrators efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. It includes access to 35 full text electronic books, hundreds of full text patient education handouts, and 11 advanced drug calculators:

Latest Drug Information
Patient Education
Professional Journals
Reference Books
Current News
Clinical Practice
Evidence-based Content
Care Planning Tools

Please send any comments, suggestions or enquiries to .

6 October 2009

EndNote X3 (aka 13) is now available.

1 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.

4 July 2008

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

16 June 2008

LibX tool bar released. The LibX Library Toolbar Widget gives you quick access to the Library's electronic resources from your web browser (either at work or from home) without having to go to the Library site. Once installed, the Library's A-Z Journal Finder, Catalogue, Google Scholar, and other electronic resources are just a click or two away.

14 November 2007

Google Custom Search engines created for Consumer Health Information and for Australian and International Clinical Guidelines.

5 September 2007

The LibToCs service relaunched (Library Tables of Contents). Sign up to receive email alerts as new journal issues subscribed to by the Library are published in subject areas of interest.

View the latest list (April to June 2007) of print resources purchased for the collection.

22 June 2007

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

3 April 2007

New subject gateways launched today.

View the latest list (January to March 2007) of print resources purchased for the collection.

27 March 2007

View the latest list (September to December 2006) of print resources purchased for the collection.

1 December 2006

New online resources now available include: Duane's Ophthalmology, King Guide to Parenteral Admixtures, Anatomy TV, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database

7 September 2006

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 streamed live on the Library's site. "Hitting the Headlines" is produced for the NHS by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemenation at the University of York. Hitting the Headlines 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. FH.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 Stat!Ref 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.

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