July 2024

Updating your details will ensure a seamless service from The Healthcare Library especially when using the online request form or borrowing items. This will ensure that if the Library is posting books out to you, they are sent to the correct work address. The same applies to any books or articles requested from other libraries on your behalf.

Once you have completed the form, click on Submit. When the Library has processed your change of details form, you will receive an email from us by way of confirmation.

As always, if you have any questions about your membership, please contact us by emailing: info@healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk or make contact with your nearest library branch.

This resource complements the Medline database and by searching both researchers can retrieve a good range of the biomedical research.  Embase will also be particularly useful for pharmacists as it indexes drug literature in more detail than Medline. 

To access Embase:- 

• Search for it via the Library search  

• Go to the Database A-Z list  

• access via your profession specific guide  

If you have any queries or would like training please contact your subject librarian.

The Healthcare Library at Antrim Area Hospital is based in Fern House on the Antrim Hospital site. The library provides a service to HSC staff in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust, to HSC placement students within the Trust and to QUB staff and students.

The contact details for the library are:

Email: healthcare.library@northerntrust.hscni.net

Tel: 028 9442 4232.

Opening hours are Monday – Friday 9am – 4.30pm.

The book collection in the library includes titles covering all professions; there are 6 pcs connected to the Trust network & lots of study space which is very well used.

Library staff are happy to help with any queries you may have including general training on the Healthcare Library site, and specific training in finding the books/articles you want and training in using the databases (Medline and Cinahl) for systematic literature searching.

Join the Healthcare Library online here.

Do get in touch – we can help you by providing expert advice and training to support patient care, evidence-based practice and Continuous Professional Development

Links to article full text are included so there is no need to go scouring the library catalogue. The latest articles are at your fingertips.  

You can subscribe today by emailing mary.maguire@healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk.

You will then receive the bulletin directly to your inbox as it is produced.

Want to check out a bulletin? Click here.

The Healthcare Library produces a number of Current Awareness Bulletins including Medicine, Dentistry & Healthcare Science, Nursing & Midwifery, Psychology and Social Work. Check out the selection of CABs here.

This evidence based database is particularly relevant for social services staff as it collates information from six of the UK’s leading collections of social policy and practice resources: Centre for Policy on Ageing; Idox Information Service; National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Social Care Institute for Excellence; Greater London Authority and the National Children’s Bureau. It covers a wide range of topics including children’s services, older people, homelessness, disability and special needs and Social Work.

You can access Social Policy & Practice from the library home page – select the A-Z of databases, and scroll to Social Policy & Practice.  The Link is also available from the Social Work Libguide. 

Training sessions on using this new database will be advertised on the Training Calendar, but if you want to arrange a bespoke session please contact hazel.neale@healthcarelibrary.qub.ac.uk