New guidance on copyright

The new guidance on NHS copyright is now available at http://www.library.nhs.uk/forlibrarians/copyright. This guidance was issued via NHS Comms last week.

I have temporarily taken down the FAQs, so these can be updated too.

Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin

The Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is no longer available.

I understand that the Department of Health took this decision against the background of a general drive to devolve activity away from the central Department and also because of the need to review spending priorities against a tight resource position for Department of Health central budgets for 2006/07. The DoH has been required to prioritised investment in prescribing advice and information and identified the British National Formulary, the British National Formulary for Children and the National Prescribing Centre as their highest priorities for investment in 2006/07 and beyond. Renewing the contract for the DTB would have meant dropping one of these priorities.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

A-Z list and table of content

A message from Claire Honeybourne

A contract has been signed with IHS to deliver a table of contents service and an A-Z list of your journals/e-books. The NHS has signed a contract with IHS/TDNet to deliver an A-Z list of your journals and ebooks. The new journals service will be integrated with the NLH website and the old NeLH A-Z list will be retired. The Zetoc service will come to an end 31st July and all Zetoc profiles will be transferred to TDNet.


Thanks Claire
Claire Honeybourne
National Core Content Manager
East Midlands Strategic Health Authority

Health LIbraries Week

There will be no Health Libraries Week this year.

It has been decided that we need to gather the evidence that the current activities in HLW are effective (or not) in getting to NLH users, and that we should separate out the two areas of advocacy (i.e. NLH responsibility for championing role of librarians etc, with CILIP, HLG etc) and marketing/publicity (i.e. working on campaigns to increase usage through SLs, stakeholder events, local campaigns etc). Other issues have been the capacity of the central team to organise and manage the event, as well as the current financial situation.

We realise this may be disappointing to some library staff. However, we hope that you may be able to raise awareness of the library during Knowledge Weeks and when developments are released such as My Library and the Library Directory.

I will keep you up-dated on what may replace or enhance Health Libraries Week. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any comments or thoughts.

With regards
Colin