Our last blog for the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife focused on Florence Nightingale and her innovative use of statistics and visual data representations in […]
Did Chaucer visit Canterbury?
To mark Heritage Open Days in a virtual way, we are celebrating Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. In this blog post researched and written by Charlotte Worthington, 3rd year BA […]
Suggest an e-book! New e-books now available for Postgraduate Psychology
We’ve been encouraging students across the University to suggest e-books for the library to add to our e-book collection. Thanks to all who have made suggestions so far. We thought […]
A (very) brief history of nursing and midwifery in the NHS
2020 is the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife and as part of our celebrations, CCCU Libraries are writing a series of blogs. We have so […]
PubMed v MEDLINE
PubMed is probably the world’s most famous freely available medical database. In this blog post, we’re going to look at PubMed and MEDLINE (PubMed’s older more established cousin) and find out more […]
Nine films available to watch on BoB for free during this Mental Health Awareness Week
The Mental Health Foundation works to prevent mental health problems and is the home of the #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. This year, they have chosen Kindness as their main focus because:
Florence Nightingale: The Lady With the…Pie Chart?
Next month, 12th May to be precise, sees the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale. With the construction of the NHS’s COVID-19 critical care field hospitals, known as Nightingale hospitals in […]
How do the new e-books stack up? – a researcher’s perspective
Free is a word that is very welcome to researchers, and the generosity of publishers worldwide to open up their resources has been greeted with much enthusiasm at this difficult […]
The Power of Open Athens
Have you tried to access a journal article online but couldn’t get access to the full text of the article? Did you try to access the article using OpenAthens?