** PROFESSOR ASSEN JABLENSKY - SPECIAL BOOK COLLECTION 2024-2025 - NOW ON DISPLAY AT THE PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES LIBRARY **
Please visit the Psychiatric Services Library back Journal Room to view the Professor Assen Jablensky Special Book Collection.
Professor Jablensky (2040-2024) established the Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry (CCRN) and through his research he and his team contributed to many large, international consortia investigating the biological underpinnings of schizophrenia and related mental health conditions. This personal collection has been kindly provided by Professor Jablensky's colleagues Carolyn and Nigel Armstrong on behalf of Professor Jablensky's wife Luba Kalaydjieva who is an outstanding research scientist in the field of Genetics. Please take the time to view the collection and to sign the Visitor's Book.
WA Health's medication information resource will transition from MIMs to AusDI
Please note that WA Health Libraries medication information resource MIMs will transition to the electronic primary medication information resource AusDI effective from 1-1-24. This change will continue to provide health professionals working across WA Health with an enhanced and comprehensive database of high-quality medicines and pharmaceutical information. Training resources will be provided with AusDI make the final training manual available shortly and further resources (including accessing via Mobile iPhone/Android will also become available.
When you access AusDi from the Library AusDI link below with your Health Credentials, please create your own account (log-in to personalise). This will enable you to access resources remotely also.
Please visit the Department of Health Library to obtain further information about the new Standards Platform i2i Standards Australia:
Standards - Department of Health Library - Dept of Health Library at Department of Health Library
AusDI has replaced MIMSOnline in 2024. For training in readiness for AusDI replacing eMIMS please book training with miranda.ebenezer@medicaldirector.com.
For access to Formulary One - please use this link: Formulary One mobile icon Instructions v2.0.pdf (health.wa.gov.au).
Looking for acts and regulations or Australian standards?
The PS Library is open on Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm and closed Fridays until Feb 2025.
Please email for urgent queries and place returns in the after hours return slot, in the door near the Postgraduate Unit outside of Gascoyne House.
The Psychiatric Services Library is a state-wide service and provides resources and services for staff employed in WA public mental health services. Registered staff access resources outside of the major mental health sites using their usual network credentials.
Click here to join the Library and register for online access.
Staff may also have access to the library website associated with their current WA Health Service via the WA Health Libraries Network (WAHLiN).
Please tell any of your DOH colleagues (with a HE number) who may be working state-wide in the area of Mental Health/Psychiatric Services about this Service and they can email ghlibrary@health.wa.gov.au to register.
Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA) - New App and Website Link - (IT is currently updating the new link - please visit this link for trouble-shooting information). The User Guide is here too. With the new mobile app there's no password that's required to authorise a user. You can see the User Guide for more info on how to auth via Access Key: https://www.tg.org.au/faq/user-guide/. The user will need to download the new mobile app from the Apple or Google Play (Therapeutic Guidelines - 1 mobile app).
Guideline on the Management of co-occurring alcohol and other drug and mental health conditions in alcohol and other drug treatment settings - link
Molecular Psychiatry 30 (1)-January 2025
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 59(1) - January 2025
BMJ This Week
JAMA 82(1 - January 2025
HealthPathways - Online resource which offers information on assessment, management and (if needed referral) for various health conditions.
ClinicalKey Immunisation Toolkit 2024 - here and ClinicalKey Nurse Immunisation Toolkit 2024 - here
Clinical Nursing Skills Videos FAQs now Available - here
New York Academy of Medicine relaxation colouring sheets now available
'ETG Therapeutic Guidelines', now called 'Therapeutic Guidelines'. - User Guide
Please visit the new International Database - INAHTA - formerly part of the suite of Cochrane databases
Links to information on COVID-19 - Coronavirus
National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce Supporting Australia’s healthcare professionals with continually updated, evidence-based clinical guidelines.
EndNote 21 is the current version to be installed on WA Health Computers.
The WA Health libraries have a whole of WA Health Licence for EndNote for work or home installation.
To have EndNote installed or updated on a work computer you should log a job with HIN or with the Help Desk on 13 44 77.
EndNote 21 is now available to download to your personal devices.
Please contact Technical Support for help with conversion or backwards compatibility issues.
Please contact the Library if you have any questions.