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Introduction

Welcome to the December 2024 Monash Health Library newsletter: news and insights from our collection once a month. To subscribe or un-subscribe, email library@monashhealth.org.

Library News

We wish you a safe and relaxing holiday season! We are here to support your information needs during the festive period.

  • Library support is available on business days – contact us via phone, email, in-person, or through our live website chat. If you get in touch after hours, we will action it the next day.
  • Request services are running as per usual – you can still request articles and literature searches.
  • Requests for evidence reports will be actioned from 2nd January due to reduced staffing over Christmas and New Years.   
  • Our library spaces remain open 24/7 if you need a quiet break, a meeting room, or somewhere to hot desk.
  • Access journals and eBooks via our website – anytime, anywhere. When prompted, log in with your regular Monash Health username and password.
  • Borrow hard copy books 24/7 using the kiosk if you are at Monash Medical Centre or by scanning the QR code at the library front desk at Dandenong, Casey and Moorabbin. 

Library Training in 2025: Have your say
Let us know what training activities and resources you want to see from in 2025. We need your input to provide resources and training to meet your needs. Fill out this 1 minute poll to let us know about your learning priorities.  

Visit the  Education & Training page for more training and education resources. 

Uniform Recycling
Give your old scrubs a new lease of life. Drop off old uniforms to the Upparel uniform recycling bins in the libraries at MMC, Casey, Dandenong and Moorabbin. Uniform Recycling bins are also available in the mailroom at Kingston and in the level 1 tearoom at VHH.  

Clear out your cupboards for a fresh start in 2025! 

Expressions of Interest: Mind & Matter book club
Our Mind & Matter book collection offers interesting reads on leadership, health biographies, personal growth, change, wellbeing and much more. There are some amazing gems in the collection that can change the way you approach work. 

If you have read one or more of these books, let us know if you would be interested in joining a quarterly book club to discuss some of the most popular titles. Email the library Library@monashhealth.org to register your interest in connecting with fellow readers at Monash Health. 

Summer Reading

books

Staying on our Mind & Matter collection, the most borrowed titles in 2024 were: 

  1. Atomic Habits 
  2. Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals 
  3. Mindset 
  4. Magic Pill 
  5. Hidden Potential 

Visit us to borrow or reserve any of these books. Or contact library@monashhealth.org if you work at a campus without a library.  

Other titles you might like to consider picking up for Summer reading: 

Library Favourites

Education & Training 2025

Get ready for new education sessions next year as well as the return of your regular favourites.  

  • Introductory Canva and Advanced Canva workshops will be running next year; if you are new to Canva or want to learn about more advanced features attend the session for you! 

  • Save the date! If you are looking to publish your research save the date for our special webinar in March on How to Publish Open Access at Monash Health. Learn how to publish open access through the Monash Health Library without processing fees and join a live Q & A for all your open access and publishing questions.  

For those of you who cannot wait until January, the library’s Latte page includes a range of recorded webinars for you to watch at a time that suits you. 

Library Favourites

Top 3 for 2024!
The online Research Toolkit on the library website is your first stop when planning research project. In 2024 the toolkit expanded to cover all stages of the research process. 
This year the most accessed guidance was: 

  1. Literature searching 
  2. Writing referencing & publishing 
  3. Communicating research findings 

We also noticed that guides for setting up drug resources were popular – such as the Australian Medicines Handbook user guide.
The Clinical decision support tools page provides quick access to all decision support tools with related user guides.

Popular Journals 2024*
Three of the most read journals in  2024 were: 

  1. Anesthesiology 
  2. Ear and Hearing 
  3. Circulation 

*According to Wolters Kluwer
Connect with these high impact journals and others from our collection in one easy click. Our Browzine e-bookshelf allows you to save your own favorites so you can easily access the latest issues each time you visit BrowZine through a web browser or in the mobile app. You can save articles and set up alerts to keep up to date.

For more information about Browzine and accessing journals read our Browzine User Guide. 

Covidence
We ❤️ Covidence. It is an essential screening tool for all research projects where teams can work together. Keep track of your work in this central workspace, quickly screen title and abstract with a few clicks and create customizable forms for extraction and quality assessment. Request a workspace through the library and troubleshoot with our Covidence User Guide.

End of Year Laughs

New Mind and Matter Print Books