Latest Research Funding Update - Projects and Programmes (November 2013)

The latest Research Funding Update (Projects and Programmes) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Research Funding Update - Fellowships and Studentships (November 2013)

The latest Research Funding Update (Fellowships and Studentships) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Recent publications by ScHARR staff

The following articles were published by ScHARR staff in September:

Hill-McManus D, Angus C, Meng Y, Holmes J, Brennan A, Sylvia Meier P.
Estimation of usual occasion-based individual drinking patterns using diary survey data. 

Drug Alcohol Depend. 2013 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print]

Goodacre S, Campbell M, Carter A.
What do hospital mortality rates tell us about quality of care? 
Emerg Med J. 2013 Sep 23. [Epub ahead of print]

Thokala P, Baalbaki H, Brennan A, Pandor A, Stevens JW, Gomersall T, Wang J, Bakhai A, Al-Mohammad A, Cleland J, Cowie MR, Wong R.
Telemonitoring after discharge from hospital with heart failure: cost-effectiveness modelling of alternative service designs.
BMJ Open. 2013 Sep 18;3(9):e003250.

Booth AR, Norman P, Goyder E, Harris PR, Campbell MJ.
Pilot study of a brief intervention based on the theory of planned behaviour and self-identity to increase chlamydia testing among young people living in deprived areas.
Br J Health Psychol. 2013 Sep 18. [Epub ahead of print]

Hernández Alava M, Wailoo A, Wolfe F, Michaud K.
A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Methods for the Estimation of Health Utilities from Clinical Outcomes.
Med Decis Making. 2013 Sep 11. [Epub ahead of print]

Latimer N, Dixon S, Drahota AK, Severs M.
Cost--utility analysis of a shock-absorbing floor intervention to prevent injuries from falls in hospital wards for older people. 
Age Ageing. 2013 Sep;42(5):641-5. Epub 2013 Jul 9.

Tattersall A, Beecroft C, Freeman J.
Learn something new in 20 minutes: Bite Size sessions to support research and teaching. 
Health Info Libr J. 2013 Sep;30(3):253-8.

Palmer R, Enderby P, Paterson G.
Using computers to enable self-management of aphasia therapy exercises for word finding: the patient and carer perspective.
Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2013 Sep;48(5):508-21. Epub 2013 Jun 18.

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Please note: for a complete list of new publications over the last three months (July-September) please see the notice boards on the 1st and 2nd floors. 

If you have any queries about the above publications, please contact Kath Williams: k.c.williams@sheffield.ac.uk / 0114 2220801

PubAdvanced – a new tool for searching PubMed with advanced features

PubAdvanced (http://www.biowebspin.com/pubadvanced/) is a new search interface for searching PubMed with additional features you won’t find via the usual PubMed platform. In particular, PubAdvanced utilises a citation tool called CitImpact - the score of a given publication determined via various algorithms and taking into account:

• Journal Impact Factor
• 5-Year Journal Impact Factor
• Eigenfactor score
• Article Influence score

PubAdvanced is open access but does require that you register with the site in order to perform a search. The registration form is quick and simple enough and asks for a few details about your job and geographical location.

Amongst the various additional search features are the ability to sort publications from PubMed according to their CitImpact score.

A search for ((“school of health and related research”) or (scharr)) gave the exact same number of results in PubMed and PubAdvanced. I also got the same results when limiting the search by author.

At first glance PubAdvanced seems to be a useful tool and is certainly worth using if you are interested in analysing article and journal impact scores.

For more information about the people behind the tool go to: http://www.biowebspin.com/more/

Latest Research Funding Update - Projects and Programmes (October 2013)

The latest Research Funding Update (Projects and Programmes) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Take Five Update (September 2013)

The latest Take Five Update is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Research Funding Update - Projects and Programmes (September 2013)

The latest Research Funding Update (Projects and Programmes) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Research Funding Update - Fellowships and Studentships (September 2013)

The latest Research Funding Update (Fellowships and Studentships) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Current awareness @ ScHARR Library

ScHARR Library provides a range of current awareness services for its users, from old-fashioned notice boards to the ScHARR Library Blog and Twitter account (@scharrlib). In recognition of this, and of the importance of current awareness to the health libraries sector generally, I have written an article for the latest issue of CILIP's Health Libraries Group Newsletter. Click here to read the article - entitled 'Current awareness - not just a nice added extra'.

For those of you just keen to know what services we provide, here are the various ways that you can keep up-to-date with all things ScHARR Library:

• ScHARR Library on Twitter: @scharrlib
• ScHARR Library Daily: http://paper.li/scharrlib/1338371438
• ScHARR Library Blog: http://scharrlibrary.blogspot.co.uk/
• ScHARR Library Portal: http://www.netvibes.com/scharr#Homepage
• Delicious bookmarks: https://delicious.com/scharrlib
• Notice boards - located on the 1st and 2nd floors

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Latest Take Five (August 2013)

The latest Take Five Update is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Research Funding Update - Projects and Programmes

The latest Research Funding Update (Projects and Programmes) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Research Funding Update - Fellowships and Studentships (August 2013)

The latest Research Funding Update (Fellowships and Studentships) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Take Five Update (July 2013)

The latest Take Five Update is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.

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Latest Research Funding Update - Projects and Programmes (July 2013)

The latest Research Funding Update (Projects and Programmes) is available to download from the ScHARR Library web pages.



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Latest Take Five Update - June 2013

Latest Take Five Update

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Previous editions of the update can be viewed here

Posted by Kath

Latest Research Funding Update - Projects and Programmes (June 2013)

Latest Research Funding Update: Projects and Programmes

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Previous editions of the update can be viewed here

Posted by Kath

NIHR launches its own peer-reviewed collection of open access journals

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has launched a new NIHR Journals Library, providing full publication and open access to an extensive body of health research. 

The NIHR is the world’s first health research funder to publish comprehensive accounts of its commissioned research within its own peer-reviewed collection of journals.

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The NIHR research programmes participating in the NIHR Journals Library are:

Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) 

NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) 

NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) 

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) 

NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) 

MRC-NIHR Methodology Research (MRP)

The NIHR Journals Library website is available at www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk

Latest Research Funding Update - Fellowships and Studentships (June 2013)

Latest Research Funding Update: Fellowships and Studentships

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Previous editions of the update can be viewed here

Posted by Kath

Latest Take Five Update - May 2013

Latest Take Five Update

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Previous editions of the update can be viewed here

Posted by Kath

International Year of Statistics

2013 is the International Year of Statistics

Did you know that 2013 is the International Year of Statistics? To find out more go to the official website: http://www.statistics2013.org/

To celebrate, Wiley is providing free access to some of its resources, including three months of free access to the January to June 2011 issues of all Wiley Statistics journals. To find out more visit the Wiley website. 

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