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2026

Issue no.8

Highlights include:

• Inside the Library’s oldest paediatric books: 40 years of medical history
• NHMRC: Speaking of Science 2026
• Cochrane Library: new items
• WEHI’s Art of Science 2026: Be immersed in the beauty of medical research
• Policy updates from the AAP
• Free Library calendars
• EndNote Tip: Manuscript Matcher

Issue no.7

Highlights include:

• From direct observation to medical imaging: how medicine learned to see
• BMJ Best Practice: recently updated paediatric topics
• When a still image isn't enough: seeing cilia in motion
• EndNote Tip: Use Track Changes with Word and EndNote
• Open Access Week 2026: The Cost of Knowledge

Issue no.6

Highlights include:

• Open Access publishing – don't miss out
• Australia's health report – AIHW
• ClinicalKey: updated clinical overviews
• Science in Shorts – Nature award
• Top 50 most-cited campus publications: updated
• Cochrane Library: new items
• Ovid Embase reload
• EndNote tip: switch between EndNote desktop and EndNote online
• Key reports shaping research, healthcare, and public services

Issue no.5

Highlights include:

• Apps to help discover journals and stay current in your reading
• Important updates to Clinicians Health Channel (CHC): remote access and changed resources
• EndNote Tip: export an EndNote library to Excel
• Your book donations help establish libraries and promote literacy in Papua New Guinea
• Aluminations: latest issue
• Library Fact Sheets: helping you get the most out of your Library service

Issue no.4

Highlights include:

• Ovid Medline: global reload of 2026 Medical Subject Headings is complete
• BMJ Best Practice: latest updates
• New Clinicians Health Channel resources from 1st July
• Cochrane Library: new items
• What's new from NICE
• Quick access to full text with Libkey Nomad browser extension
• ARDC news: Research, data, and digital health developments
• EndNote Tip: Use one EndNote library per document, and use Groups to manage your projects
• Ovid Embase reload complete

Issue no.3

Highlights include:

• Most popular journal downloads for 2025
• 10 of the best research projects - NHMRC
• EndNote tip: Cannot open EndNote on a Mac
• Top 50 most-cited campus publications: updated
• New and updated Fact Sheets
• Key reports shaping research, healthcare, and public services

Issue no.2

Highlights include:

• Red flags to help you spot phishing emails from predatory journals
• AMA report: 2026 Public hospital report card
• Search Tip: Explode thesaurus term to increase results
• Cochrane Library: new items
• Document Delivery at the Library
• Library performance statistics, 2025
• Top 10 most-used eBooks in 2025
  

Issue no.1

Highlights include:

• Welcome to new staff
• The "best of" lists: a roundup of favourites from 2025
• Australian Healthcare Week 2026
• Clinical Interpretations: a new feature for Cochrane Clinical Answers
• Recent reports shaping health research, policy and care delivery
• 1000 Library Facts #590: See our FAQ for instant answers
• Search Tip: Using the Permuted Index in Ovid

2025

• Issue no.11
• Issue no.10
• Issue no.9
• Issue no.8
• Issue no.7
• Issue no.6
• Issue no.5
• Issue no.4
• Issue no.3
• Issue no.2
• Issue no.1