Library News & What’s New

Christmas Opening Hours

The Library will be closed from 25^th Dec 2025– 1^ST Jan 2026.Please note that swipe card access to the 24 hour section of the library will continue to be available at all times.

Changes to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub (KLhub) is getting a fresh look from July 7 with a new and improved user interface. You will benefit from the improved search functionality with it remaining the single-best platform to browse, search and access eResources using your NHS OpenAthens account.

The new KLHub means that there are some changes that you should be aware of ahead of time. From July any existing search alerts, custom folders and journal alerts which have been saved in MyEBSCO will no longer be available. This will affect items saved in the KLHub as well as EBSCOhost databases. Please contact library staff if you need advice on saving your searches in order to replicate them later.

ProQuest Databases

From July 1st the following ProQuest databases will no longer be available via NHS OpenAthens:

AMED, British Nursing Index (BNI), Health Research Premium Collection, PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding these changes, please contact library staff.

Learning at work week 2025

The library is taking part in Learning at Work Week 2025 along with our Learning and Development team. We are proud to support this year’s ‘Get Connected’ theme and encourage everyone across the trust to make the most of the free workshops available.

We are organising the following events during this week.

Mon 12^th May: Library stand in the education centre foyer 10am -12pm
Tue 13^th May: Library Drop- in sessions between 10-12 and 2-4pm
Wed 14^th May: Library stand in the education centre foyer From 2- 3pm
Wed 14^th May : Finding the Evidence: Searching EBSCOhost CINAHL 2-3 pm

Our education teams – simulations, learning and development, practice education, medical education and library services – provide a comprehensive range of learning opportunities designed to support the personal and professional development of all staff.

Celebrate World Book Night on 23 April 2025

World Book Night celebrates the pleasure and benefits of reading. It is promoted each year by the Reading Agency, a national charity with a clear message, that it doesn’t matter what you read, as long as you read!

Visit WMUH library to:

See our display of health and well-being books – The library has a growing collection of print and digital books to help you look after your own personal health & wellbeing, be happy, stay healthy. You can borrow these books. Ask library staff for more details.
Look at the books available to borrow from the Public library collection
Help yourself to a free copy of Leila Aboulela’s book “ A New Year. Read more

Health Information Week 2025

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BioDigital Human- Free Trail

Library service have signed up for 14 day free trial of BioDigital Human platform. The BioDigital Human platform is a medically accurate, virtual map of the human body—composed of over 8,000 individually selectable anatomical structures, 600 simulated health conditions, and a toolkit to map and visualize data. NHS Trusts can use BioDigital to show patients new procedures, new drug treatments, as well as progression of conditions. It’s fantastic for doctors/nurses to guide their patients through their recovery, treatment, and/or surgical interventions.

You can explore it from this link and give us your feedback, login with your OpenAthes account. If you don’t have OpenAthens account you can register now.

Wellbeing Digital Audio Books -The library’s Boundless Digital Media Library can be accessed via https://cwh.boundless.baker-taylor.com

Users need to login with OpenAthens to borrow and listen these audiobooks either on desktop/laptop or on the Boundless App. Audiobooks can be downloaded from the Boundless app for tablets, phones, and any mobile device. When titles are downloaded, they will appear in the user’s offline content Library and can be played back while out of range. Contact library staff for more details

Staff Publications Repository is a database of academic papers published by Trust staff, past and present. If you’ve had a paper published recently, please let us know so we can add it to the Repository. Check here for most cited articles from October publications list

Think before you print. Printing less saves thousands of trees and pounds – read more how you can reduce paper waste

We have a collection of educational board games covering a range of subject matters, which can be used in training sessions and to gain CPD credits. You can play one-on-one or in teams.

Health Information Week 3-9 Jul- To celebrate the week we are organising displays in the library and virtual health literacy awareness sessions.

Access more than 800 Nursing E-books across Many Nursing Topics using your NHS OPenAthens.

Your Open Athens- – Check what you can access with your account

BMJ Best Practice – You can now access Comorbidities Manager

Evidence Updates and Evidence Summaries- save time and make better decisions

CINAHL Ultimate – Collection of Nursing and Allied Health Literature

Get library subscribed articles and scholarly articles with one click on the Trust computers using your Microsoft Edge browser extension

From 4th July to 10 July the library will have displays with posters, books and useful information to celebrate Health Information Week (HIW). Download resource list for long COVID . Check Long COVID information for patients

Access to individual bibliographic healthcare databases such as Medline, CINAHL, BNI and PsycInfo is now via the provider platforms Ovid, EBSCO and Proquest

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