I can't stress enough THE MOST important piece of news in this newsletter : we have to wait 2 MORE YEARS for your next book ? ðą This is a world away ð ðĪŠ (and who knows what the world will be at this rate)
I'm surprised you can't think of something more to say about the cuts to research in the US. Which is that we cannot rely on the US any longer. So the UK and the EU need to work to replace the US. How about urging that we build for example more Crick centers like the one we built at St Pancras which opened in 2015. Ideally we could do with at least one more of those, ideally more such.
And urge others in the EU to do likewise. We have to do this in the military field, and we should likewise give up relying on Uncle Sam. One tax dollar in five - 22 percent of the US federal budget goes to just paying the interest on their Federal debt - 881 billion dollars in this financial year.
We need to become more self-reliant, take more adult responsibility for things like research, not moan because Uncle Sam isn't going to do nearly as much in future.
As a librarian married to a researcher, I would LOVE it if they created more research centres and funded more medical research here in the UK. However, with how the current government cutting a third of NHS England's budget for library resources (like access to PsycInfo and Oxford Handbooks) I'd be surprised if they would be willing to put the money in.
Hi, thanks for your comment. Am I right in understanding that they're cutting access to online sources of information? Are these digital versions of journals, or something other please?
Some journal databases and some e-book series. While I wasn't directly involved, I know some people that were, and they really struggled and agonised over what to cut. Actually, I may be wrong and it wasn't a chunk of the budget just for resources, it may have been a third of their over all budget and they needed to prioritise staff and LMS and other necessary systems. It was (and still is) a stressful kick in the teeth for all involved.
Sounds very worrying - so a doctor wanting to check some detail about a drug say on a patient with a particular problem could battle to be connected? Maybe different hospitals could prioritize some different things - but still discouraging even if this is possible? Ian
Fortunately we still have open access - actually anyone can access it - for the British National Formulary - https://bnf.nice.org.uk/ for info on drugs.
The big loss (at least in my option) is PsycInfo as it's a database of mainly articles about psychology or mental health. It's more of a search tool to find info rather then always being able to access the full-text article.
The NHS libraries across England have a pretty robust inter-library loan system for articles that users can't access. We often links to local University libraries, the British Library and some other sources. But of course, that takes time to be able to find the article and then send it to the HCP that needs it.
Different Trusts have different levels of funding. I'm lucky in that my Trust is associated with a medical school, so we receive some extra funding from that. We'll try to replace some of the resources, but again it depends on finances.
I can't stress enough THE MOST important piece of news in this newsletter : we have to wait 2 MORE YEARS for your next book ? ðą This is a world away ð ðĪŠ (and who knows what the world will be at this rate)
Hi Caroline,
I'm surprised you can't think of something more to say about the cuts to research in the US. Which is that we cannot rely on the US any longer. So the UK and the EU need to work to replace the US. How about urging that we build for example more Crick centers like the one we built at St Pancras which opened in 2015. Ideally we could do with at least one more of those, ideally more such.
And urge others in the EU to do likewise. We have to do this in the military field, and we should likewise give up relying on Uncle Sam. One tax dollar in five - 22 percent of the US federal budget goes to just paying the interest on their Federal debt - 881 billion dollars in this financial year.
We need to become more self-reliant, take more adult responsibility for things like research, not moan because Uncle Sam isn't going to do nearly as much in future.
Ian Mordant
As a librarian married to a researcher, I would LOVE it if they created more research centres and funded more medical research here in the UK. However, with how the current government cutting a third of NHS England's budget for library resources (like access to PsycInfo and Oxford Handbooks) I'd be surprised if they would be willing to put the money in.
Hi, thanks for your comment. Am I right in understanding that they're cutting access to online sources of information? Are these digital versions of journals, or something other please?
Be interested to know. Ian
Some journal databases and some e-book series. While I wasn't directly involved, I know some people that were, and they really struggled and agonised over what to cut. Actually, I may be wrong and it wasn't a chunk of the budget just for resources, it may have been a third of their over all budget and they needed to prioritise staff and LMS and other necessary systems. It was (and still is) a stressful kick in the teeth for all involved.
Sounds very worrying - so a doctor wanting to check some detail about a drug say on a patient with a particular problem could battle to be connected? Maybe different hospitals could prioritize some different things - but still discouraging even if this is possible? Ian
Fortunately we still have open access - actually anyone can access it - for the British National Formulary - https://bnf.nice.org.uk/ for info on drugs.
The big loss (at least in my option) is PsycInfo as it's a database of mainly articles about psychology or mental health. It's more of a search tool to find info rather then always being able to access the full-text article.
The NHS libraries across England have a pretty robust inter-library loan system for articles that users can't access. We often links to local University libraries, the British Library and some other sources. But of course, that takes time to be able to find the article and then send it to the HCP that needs it.
Different Trusts have different levels of funding. I'm lucky in that my Trust is associated with a medical school, so we receive some extra funding from that. We'll try to replace some of the resources, but again it depends on finances.
Cutting (or not!!) âĶ I thought the topic was going to be FGM!
Surprised to see the words âgender ideologyâ here