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Library Update bulletin
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Published weekly, the Library Update lists:
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- books, reports and statistics added to the Library collection
- print journal issues received
- recently published journal articles by Hospital staff
- Library announcements and news
- featured business e-books
- any other items of interest
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Delivery options
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- Online - view recent issues here:
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- Email - contact the Library to be added to the distribution list.
- Hardcopy - view the full set of back-issues by visiting the Library
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Journals contents pages
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- Receive the contents pages of new journal issues automatically via email (does not require a subscription).
- Register your details via the website of the required journal.
- Contact the Library for help with journal contents pages.
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Topic alerts (AutoAlerts)
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This service is used to monitor the latest journals for specific topics of interest.
The auto alert feature is built into the OVID database platform and is available for searches on:
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- Medline (medicine)
- CINAHL (nursing and allied health)
- PsycINFO (psychological medicine)
- EMBASE (microbiology, genetics and pharmacology
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The basic steps are:
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- Set up a search strategy on one or more databases which captures articles relevant to the topic of interest.
- Save the search strategy as an AutoAlert.
- Choose the desired update frequency, for example weekly or monthly.
- Decide how much detail is to be provided in the alert (citation, subject headings, abstract, fulltext links and so on).
- Choose one or more email addresses to receive the information.
- The AutoAlert will then run automatically against new records added to the database.
- Any updated results (article citations) are automatically delivered via email.
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AutoAlerts can be set up to run via a Library account, or via an account in your own name.
Contact Library staff for assistance with AutoAlerts.
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Newspapers
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- The Age, The Australian, and the Herald-Sun are received daily (Monday to Friday issues).
- The latest 2 working days are available to view within the Library.
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UpToDate database
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- Medical topic overviews for busy clinicians (more than 70,000 pages of full text).
- Covers all sub-specialties of medicine.
- Access is via a dedicated PC in the Library (not available via the network).
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