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Library Service

The Trust library provides a service to all Library
staff of the Royal Berkshire NHS
Foundation Trust, South Central Ambulance Service, affiliated organisations and all other NHS staff in South Central.

The main library is on the first floor of the Trust Education Centre at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, with a small satellite collection in the Prince Charles Eye Unit, Windsor.

Library staff

Rowena Perry: Library Services & E-Learning Manager
Jill Duncan: Clinical Librarian
Lucy Gilham: Librarian
Beverley Hixon: Librarian
Marion Shepherd: Senior Library Assistant
Helen Nicholson:  Library / E-Learning Assistant

Library services

  • Enquiries
  • Training 
  • Books and journals – The Library Catalogue lists books and other resources available in the library, as well as items held by other NHS libraries across South Central and the South West of England - see the link on the right hand side of this page.
  • Inter-library requests
  • Current awareness services including the RBH Evidence Hub
  • Photocopying (charges apply)
  • Internet access to databases, electronic journals and other resources

For more information see our information services guide on the right hand side of this page.

Finding the evidence workshops

These workshops aim to enable health care practitioners to find the evidence they need to support them in their work and to make clinical and management decisions. They are delivered by the staff of the Trust Library.

For more information please contact the library.

Electronic resources

Databases

  • Amed
  • British Nursing Index
  • Cinahl  
  • Embase
  • HMIC
  • Medline
  • PsycINFO
  • Cochrane Library

Electronic journals

For easy access and to see which titles are available see Journals on the NICE Evidence Search - Journals & Databases  (formerly NHS Evidence) - see the E-Journals guide on right hand side of this page.

Mobile Apps

BNF & BNFc Apps
BNF & BNFc apps are available for mobile devices produced by NICE. Free to NHS staff throughout England - log in using NHS Athens - can be downloaded from Apple iTunes or Google Android Marketplace. 

To access the above resources you need to register for an Athens username and password – see the guide on the right hand side of this page.

Most of the above electronic resources and access to Athens are available through NICE Evidence Search - Journals & Databases (formerly NHS Evidence).