Library News: January 2025

NEWS

Research support week 2025 - save the date!

The Library is organising a Research Support Week in March from the 24th to 28th. The program will include a range of in person and via teams sessions  featuring:

• Sessions on searching, collecting and analysing literature for research
• Lightning talks on AI, JBI SUMARI and getting creative when disseminating your research
• NT Health Research and Publications Online (NTHRPO) launch
• Insights from NT Health epidemiologists on research and statistics
• Research poster competition
• Book-a-Librarian drop in sessions
• Library pop-up at RDH and ASH

Event program and registration coming soon!

Live chat service

Our live chat service is available from 8.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday to answer your questions or support you in using our resources. Take a look at some of our LibChat topics and client feedback.

 LibChat topics:

• Room bookings, finding full-text of articles, after-hours access requests

LibChat feedback:

• Saara Kahkonen was SUPER lovely and helpful
• Very helpful and provided phone call updates and specific extra information which was very helpful!
• Brilliant service as always. NT Health librarians really are the best.

New Australian standards platform coming soon!

Standards Australia, the nation’s peak non-government standards development organisation, has partnered with Accuris to collaborate on standards delivery, technologies and customer experiences. The new Australian Standards platform Accuris will include more content, a modern platform and easier access to all your favourite standards.

Beat the bite with the 2025 Salt-marsh mosquito and biting midge calendars

Developed to provide information on mosquito and biting midge peaks in the Top End, the calendars are available on the Library's Health Research and Publications Online digital repository.

• Salt Marsh Mosquito pest calendar Coastal NT 2025
• Biting Midge pest calendar Coastal NT 2025

UPCOMING TRAINING

Upcoming training: Finding research for postgraduate study

This session focuses on the EBSCO research databases - Medline and CINAHL, to find research information for assignments.

Delivered via MS Teams
Thursday 30th January 2025, 12-1pm

From traditional to cutting-edge: transforming pulmonary valve assessment with advanced echocardiography techniques

This review explores the transition from conventional echocardiographic methods to advanced approaches that are reshaping our understanding of the PV, emphasizing the importance of incorporating these cutting-edge techniques into routine clinical practice to enhance patient outcomes.

Kemaloğlu Öz T et al. Echocardiography . 2025 Jan;42(1):e70058. doi: 10.1111/echo.70058

Alcohol-related injury hospitalisations in relation to alcohol policy changes, Northern Territory, Australia, 2007-2022: A joinpoint regression analysis

Based on a retrospective time-series study, this descriptive analysis calculates alcohol involvement against all injury hospitalisations. Alcohol use was associated with 22.6% of all injury hospitalisations. The most common cause of ARI hospitalisations was assault (46%). 

Field E et al. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2024 Dec 10. doi: 10.1111/dar.13976

Operative caseload of general surgeons working in a rural hospital in Central Australia

This study aims to outline the workload of surgeons at Alice Springs Hospital to determine the necessary skill set and surgical education for future surgeons.

Kaur H et al. ANZ J Surg. 2024 Dec 6. doi: 10.1111/ans.19323

NEW BOOKS

Check out the range of new print and electronic books this month 
Read new eBooks from any device using your NTG LAN login. New books can be sent to you via internal mail or you can pick them up from your nearest library.
 

SPOTLIGHT

LATEST HEALTH PUBLICATIONS

APO's top content 2024

The Analysis, & Policy Observatory's (APO's) annual top content lists are an insight into the themes, issues and questions that have shaped 2024. 

Explore the most viewed and downloaded resources across each of the 15 subject areas for 2024.

Australian burden of disease study 2024

The Australian Burden of Disease Study 2024 includes national estimates for 220 diseases and injuries in 2024 based on projections using historical trends in data.

Coronary heart disease, dementia, back pain, anxiety disorders and COPD were the top 5 diseases causing burden in 2024. 
 

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 12 December 2024

National dementia action plan 2024-2034

This action plan is Australia’s national dementia policy framework which aims to improve the lives and care of people living with dementia, their carers and families over the next 10 years.

APO, 05 December 2024

WHAT YOU'RE SAYING