Fancy a randomised coffee chat?

Bringing you a SWB and Dudley special

SWB and Dudley Group Library Services are hosting coffee chats for colleagues to enjoy. This is something new and a great opportunity to connect with colleagues, share best practice, and get involved in collaborative projects across both organisations.

You will need to sign up using the QR code below to participate. The library team will then randomly pair participants with colleagues from Dudley Group. Once matched, staff can arrange a meeting at a time and place that suits them, either face to face or online, and begin the conversation.

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Beat the heat & find the coolest connections…

Register this summer for our Randomised Coffee Chat.

Running throughout June & July a chance to meet and chat for 20 minutes with another member of staff about projects, new developments or sharing best practice.

We will pair you up at random with someone else in the organisation to have a relaxed conversation. The chat can be virtual or in person, whichever you prefer. RCC’s help us
connect with colleagues, learn from and about each other.

It’s free, easy and informal.

Register your interest by emailing: swbh.welearnrandomisedcoffeechat@nhs.net
by the 30th June with your name, job title, department & location.

You will have the month of July to have your
conversation – we’ll tell you who you are paired with and
then it is over to you.

Find journal articles easily with Libkey Nomad, Browzine and Google Scholar

Finding it difficult to access the full article or want to find out what journals we have access to? We have the answers!

Libkey Nomad is a browser extension that can be added to most web browsers (not Internet Explorer) on your home computer and on Google Chrome on any trust computer. It will let you know when you are searching for journal articles if you can download the fulltext, use a link to the full article or it will autofill an email message to the library to ask us to find you the article. You will need an OpenAthens account to access the full articles and there is a guide on how to register for an account here.

If you want to see a list of journals that you can access, Browzine can be used as an app or website and you can search for a particular journal or browse different subjects. You can save individual articles or create bookshelves of your favourite journals. Access Browzine here or click on the ejournals link on our homepage.

If you have a reading list, bibliography or reference list that shows the DOI or Pubmed ID of the articles, you can quickly check and access the articles using our online checker, available on our Journal Article Request Form.

If you use Google Scholar to search for journal articles you can add our library subscriptions to your search so it will show you when we have the full text of an article straight from the search page.

Instructions on how to add Libkey Nomad, use Browzine or the DOI checker or add the library subscriptions to Google Scholar are available through our library guide.

Black Lives Matter Collection from Springer Nature (offering free access).

When a scholarly publisher endorses the statement that Black Lives Matter, especially in the context of current societal tensions in the US and other countries, it needs to do more than just echo it. As a result, Springer Nature have selected a freely available collection of content relevant to some of the issues that have led to the use of this singularly powerful statement.

They hope that the collection will help readers gain from research insights, not least in the history and social science of racism and police violence. We have sought to amplify Black voices within our collection by sharing their research, personal stories and journey. The Collection includes Journal articles and eBooks surrounding the issues of Social Inequality & Systemic Racism, Policing Race & Civil Unrest, Gender, Racism & Oppression and Health Disparities.

The books in the freely available collection has been added to our library holdings found here BLM

The journal articles and other resources can be found at https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/black-lives-matter

At the moment, there is no time limit to this content and access will be available for the foreseeable future.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your library team.

Health Business Elite now available

A collection of over 600 business and management journals are now available from the library. Topics covered in the collection cover all management topics and titles include Harvard Business Review, British Journal of Healthcare Computing, European Journal of Health Law and Policy & Practice. Access to all of these journals and more is with an SWB OpenAthens account. To register for an OpenAthens account go to https://openathens.nice.org.uk/Auth/Login and follow the instructions given. If you have any question, please contact us.

To access the collection, go to http://bit.ly/3cO5nNz and login with your OpenAthens account.

BMJ Open Quality now available

Have you got a Quality Improvement project that you want to publish so that others can learn from your developments? SWB & BCPFT staff can now submit publications to BMJ Open Quality journal without paying a publication fee. Contact the library for the fellowship code or if you have any questions.

BMJ Open Quality is dedicated to publishing high quality, peer reviewed healthcare improvement work. Articles covering original research, local, national and international QI projects, value-based healthcare improvement initiatives and educational improvement work are all considered.

To read about other projects both international and from the UK, go to https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/ . Guidelines and information about writing for publication are also available on the website.