Public health database spotlight: Global Health

Are you a public health student looking for a specialist international public health database which includes significant unique content particularly in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, vector control, food safety and epidemiology?

If you are, then take a look at the Library database, Global Health. Add your MWS username and password when prompted and you will be taken to the native interface of the database where you can search the database and access your results.

Please note that although the database will provide you with access to articles in full text when the Library subscribes to that journal, it does also include reference to articles from journals that the Library do not subscribe to - for these, you will not be able to view the full text.

Historical medical films to be made freely available on the web

Over 400 historical medical films are to be digitised and made freely available online for the first time, via a new collaboration between the Wellcome Library and JISC Collections. The material consists of over 100 hours of moving image content from the Wellcome Library's unique and historically significant collection of film.

Featuring in the archive are films exploring global health issues and how they have been tackled, including: footage on malaria (a 1946 film shows huts in Kenya being sprayed with DDT to check an epidemic); films that illustrate advances in public health care (looking in particular at immunization, and the introduction of free-to-all health services): some of the medical greats of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (such as Ivan Pavlov's famous research first describing the phenomenon now known as 'classical conditioning' in his experiments with dogs).

All items are to be digitised over the next two years and made freely available via the Wellcome Library's website and JISC's Film & Sound Online service. It's anticipated that films will start to become available online from Autumn 2008.

TRIAL: Royal Society of Medicine Press e-journals

This Library trial may be of interest to MPH instructors and students. We have a trial of six e-journals from the Royal Society of Medicine Press until 31st July 2007:

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry
He@lth Information on the Internet
Health Services Management Research
Journal of Medical Screening
Menopause International (was Journal of the British Menopause Society)
Phlebology

We already subscribe to the other 6 RSM Press journals.

Catalogue records have been created, and our SFX knowledgebase (i.e. 'find it @ liverpool') has been updated.

Please leave a comment telling us which titles you find useful, or if you would like us to continue to have access to all RSM Press titles.

TRIAL: Karger e-journals, 2004 onwards

We have a trial of all Karger e-journals, with access to issues published from 2004 onwards, until 22nd November 2007. This may have some material of interest to MPH students and staff.

Catalogue records for these have been created, and our SFX knowledgebase (i.e. 'find it @ liverpool') has been updated.

We currently subscribe to the following Karger titles:

Annals of Nutrition
Biology of the Neonate
Caries Research
Folia Primatologica
Gerontology
Oncology
Phonetica

Please leave a comment telling us which titles you find useful, or if you would like us to continue to have access to all Karger titles.

TRIAL: Global Health database

We have trials of CABI's Global Health database on both the Ovid platform and on CABI's own platform. Global Health covers all aspects of public health at both the international and community level. Its coverage of international and grey literature and an open serials policy mean that 40% of material contained in Global Health is unique to the database

To access this trial off-campus login to Athens and follow the link to Ovid. Our Ovid trial expires on 2nd May 2007.

To access this trial on the CABI platform, go to http://217.154.120.06/GlobalHealthtrial and logon with the trial username and password. Our CABI trial expires on 30th April 2007.

Please try both platforms and leave a comment.

New Public Health Guide to Searching the Online Library

For all MPH students and staff there is now an Introductory Guide to Searching the Online Library (Public Health) available from the Library web pages. This guide explains how to login to the Library, how to find a journal article, and how to find information on a subject using the following databases:

• Medline (OVID)
• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Databases
• Web of Knowledge
• ebrary (for e-books)

There is also advice on what to do if you have a problem accessing a resource. If you have any questions about this or any other Library matters please contact Stephanie Allen, Online Librarian at Online_Librarian@embanet.com.