Education & Research Centre Library



The ERC Library is a multidisciplinary resource based in the Education & Research Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital serving all the staff and students working or on placement at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.

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Opening Hours

Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm. Closed weekends and bank holidays

iPads now available for loan

We now have two iPads for loan plus another for use in the Library. The service is for UHSM staff and the loan period is 7 days. All borrowers will be provided with short iPad guide plus the Library team can help you get started. We have also pre-installed a number of apps which you may find useful in your work.
Please click here for further information.

New Health & Wellbeing DVDs

We have again been successful in bidding for external funding to develop our Health & Wellbeing collection. We have purchased nearly 100 DVDs to help you keep fit, healthy and happy! Please click here to see a full list of titles available. DVDs can be borrowed by all staff free of charge for our normal loan period of three weeks. All titles are also on our catalogue and any DVDs on loan can be reserved online.

Having problems accessing e-journals from within the Trust?

You may have experienced interface problems when trying to access certain e-journals or the Cochrane Library at UHSM. We have put together a short Powerpoint presentation to help you solve the problem. Please click here to view the presentation.

Web of Knowledge and EndNote Web access

We are pleased to announce that the Web of Knowledge database is now accessible via Athens until March 2012.

The Web of Knowledge is a premier research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It provides a single point of access and cross database searching capability for the Web of Science & a range of other databases offered by Thomson ISI, including:

* Science Citation Index expanded - 1900 to date
* Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
* Social Sciences Citation Index - 1956 to date
* BIOSIS Previews 1969 to date
* Medline 1950 to date
* Conference Proceedings Citation Index - science (CPCI-S) - 1990 to date
* Arts & Humanities Citation Index - 1975 to date

* In addition to this, you can also access EndNote Web.

You can access the Web of Knowledge from any computer at: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
If you require any further information, please contact the ERC Library. Tel. 291 5780.

400 new e-books added to our collection

We have recently gained access to an additional 400 e-books including Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry, Clinical Neurology and many more. They have all been added to our online catalogue and can be accessed with an Athens account from any computer.


           

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