Journals

Online Journals

Access eJournals and eBooks via NHS OpenAthens. All NHS Staff have free access to a core collection of online journals and online books, to access these journals/books you need NHS OpenAthens. If you don’t have it already you can register now .

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Go from DOI or PMID to article in one-click with LibKey.io

If you have an article’s DOI address or PubMed PMID then use LibKey.io to find a full text pdf of the article using the search box below. LibKey.io takes you from the search box to the article PDF in one click eliminating all the confusion around navigating publisher websites searching for links to read the full text or PDF’s.

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Following are the current print Journals. Ask library staff for full list of print journals held in the library.

  • BONE & JOINT JOURNAL (previously JOURNAL OF BONE JOINT SURGERY BR)
  • BRITISH JOURNAL OF NURSING BJN
  • BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL BMJ
  • JOURNAL OF SHOULDER & ELBOW SURGERY
  • JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JAMA
  • LANCET
  • MIDIRS MIDWIFERY DIGEST
  • MIDWIFERY
  • NEW SCIENTIST
  • *Journals should not be removed from the library. There is a photocopier available in the 24 section of the library, you can make copies within the NHS copyright agreement. See the Copyright Licensing Agency poster near the printer.
Library News & What’s new

Library Relocation and Book Sale Announcement

Later this year, the West Middlesex Hospital Library will be relocating to a smaller space within the Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC). As a result of this move, the library will be selling a large portion of its book stock.

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Library Relocation: Print journal holdings available for free

 The Westmid Library will move to the new Diagnostic, Treatment and Education Centre (DTEC) building later this year. Because the new space is much smaller, we will be disposing of our print journal collection. Before that happens, we invite staff, teams, and departments to take any individual journals or entire sets from our holdings free of charge. For a complete list of available journals, please contact us. You are also welcome to visit the library in the Education Centre to browse our print collection. We are open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.

Health & Wellbeing Collection

Our wellbeing collection has a range of self-help and mood-boosting-books for library members to borrow. Books includes:

  • Mindfulness
  • Stress and Anxiety Management
  • Emotional Resilience
  • Meditation
  • Yoga, Pilates & Tai Chi
  • Healthy Eating

Access full list of  Health & Wellbeing Book Collection

We also have a range of resources to help staff to relax and stay healthy, including on-going jigsaw puzzles, colouring books and colouring pencils to help staff to relax and de-stress, so feel free to pop in and do a bit of jigsaw and colouring.

Board Games

We have a collection of educational board games which can be used in training sessions and to gain CPD credits. Below board games recently added to our existing collection.

Menopause Game

Team resilience game

Dysphagia game

Hydration game

Mental health at work  Map game

Mental health awareness

LGBT+ in the workplace game

Safeguarding game

If you’re interested in borrowing these board games for your CPD or training or if you have any questions please email chelwest.library.infoservice@nhs.net

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Staff Publications lists:

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CWMH (can download only on the Trust computers)

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The library offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library. Not all published research is reliable! If you want to be confident reading and utilising published research
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The library offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library.  This session will equip learners with the skills to formulate an effective database search strategy and to search
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Appraising Research Papers for B... @ Virtual
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The library offers a number of virtual one-to-one or small group training sessions. To book your place on a course contact the Library.  This session will equip learners with the skills to formulate an effective database search strategy and to search
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