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The SCHARR Library and PC Suite

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Located on the first floor of the Regent Court building, SCHARR library is open to all SCHARR staff and students, offering access to a range of health-related bibliographic databases as well as internet resources.

Users have access to a variety of library and information services, including a staffed enquiry desk, inter-library loans, book loans, reference manager or literature searching training, use of the library PCs - including our online catalogue - and use of the printer and photocopier (charges are applicable).

Library collections

Books, journal and report collections

The library offers access to a collection of books, journals and reports on specific topics.

Subject areas

• Evidence based practice
• Statistics
• Clinical effectiveness
• Research methods
• Health Technology Assessment
• Health economics
• Critical appraisal
• Mental health

Key journals

Reports

• ScHARR Occasional Papers and Reports, Trent Institute Guidance Notes for Purchasers and Discussion Papers

Current journals

The following is a list of current and non-current journals held by Information Resources in the ScHARR library and library storeroom.

 2000 6(1) – 2008 14(6)

 2002 1(1) – 2008 6(4); 2012 10(1) -

 1994 1(1) - 2004 125(11)

2003 31(1) – 2007 35(4)

 (see Clinical Governance: an International Journal) 1999 4(1) – 2002 7(4)

British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management 2005 22(1) – 2007 24(4)

British Journal of Healthcare Management 2001 7(1) – 2010 16(2)

 2001 178(1) – 2007 191(6)

 (BMJ) 2000 320 (7226) -

 2003 46 – 2009 56; 2012 64 -

 2001 5(1) - 2004 9(1)

 2003 8(1) – 2015 20 (4)

Clinical Governance Bulletin 2000 1(1) – 2006 6(6)

 1995 9(1) - 2003 17(1) online from 2000 14 (1) - 2010 24

 1987 1(1) – present

 1995 17(1) -

 (earlier title Controlled Clinical Trials) 1995 16(1) -

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 2000 10(1) – 2002 12(4)

Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin 1994 32(10) – 2009 47(1)

European Journal of Health Economics 2001 2(3) -

European Journal of Public Health 1993 3(1) - 1999 9(3)

 2006 2(1) -

Evidence Based Healthcare & Public Health 1999 3(1) – 2005 9(6)

Evidence Based Medicine 1995 1(1) -

Evidence Based Mental Health 1998 1(1) -

Evidence Based Nursing 1998 1(1) – 2008 11(4)

Health and Social Care in the Community 1995 3(1) – 2007 15(6)

Health Care Management Science 2005 8(2) –

Health Economics 2000 9(1) -

Health Informatics Journal 2004 10(1) –

Health Information and Libraries Journal (formerly Health Libraries Review) 2001 18(1) –

Health Information on the Internet 1999 (12) – 2008 (66)

Health Policy 1999 47(1) – 2006 78(2/3)

Health Summary 1996 13(6) – 2005 22(12)

Health Trends 1996 28(1) - 1998 30(4)

Informatics in Primary Care 2002 10(1) – 2009 17(3)

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 2000 23(1) - 2003 26(1)

International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches  - 

International Journal of Nursing Studies 1999 36(1) - 2004 41(1)

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 1997 13(1) – 2012 28 (4)

Journal of Advanced Nursing 1980 5(1) - 2003 44(6)

Journal of Clinical Excellence 1999 1(1) – 2002 4(4)

Journal of Clinical Governance 2000 8(1) – 2002 10(4)

Journal of Counseling Psychology 2003 50(1) – 2009 56 (1)

Journal of Drug Assessment 2000 3(1) – 2006 9(3) 

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 1995 1(1) – 2010 16(5)

Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 2000 11(2) - 2002 13(3)

Journal of Health Economics 1995 14(1) –

Journal of Health Psychology 1996 1(1) – 2008 13(1)

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 1995 1(1) - 

Journal of Hospital Librarianship 2001 1(1) – 2009 8(4) - 

Journal of Mental Health 2000 9(1) – 2007 16(6)

Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2007 1(2) -

Journal of Public Health 1990 12(1) -

Journal of Research in Nursing 2005 10(1) – 2007 12(1)

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2000 283(1) –

Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care 1995 38(1) - 2003 54(6)

The Lancet 1985 (8419) -

Managing Information 2005 12(1) – 2009 16(10)

Medical Care 1992 30(10) –

Medical Decision Making 1995 15(1) -

Mental Health in Family Medicine 2008 5(1) –

Mental Health Services Research 2002 4(1) – 2005 7(4)

Milbank Quarterly 1999 77(1) – 2005 83(1)

The Nurse Practitioner 1995 20(1) – 2007 32(3)

Nurse Researcher 1994 2(2) – 2007 14(2)

Nursing Economics 1995 13(1) – 2008 26(6)

Nursing Research 1995 44(2) - 2005 54(1)

PharmacoEconomics 1995 7(1) –

Pharmacoeconomics – Italian Research Articles 1999 1(1) – 2006 8(1)

Primary Care Mental Health 2003 1(1) – 2006 4(4)

Psychiatric Bulletin 1995 19(1) – 2008 32(12)

Psychiatric Services 2000 51(2) – 2009 60(1)

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 2009 78(1) – 2011 80(4) 

Qualitative Health Research 1995 5(2) -

Quality in Primary Care 1999 1(1) 2003 11(1) – 2007 15(6)

Quality of Life Research 1994 3(6) -

Research Synthesis Methods 2010 1(1) - 2012 3(3)

Statistics in Medicine 2008 27(1) -

Statistical Methods in Medical Research 1996 5(1) –

The Times Higher Education Supplement (last three months only)

Updates: Research and Policy Briefings 2002 4(1) – 2004 5(19)

*Please note that some of these titles or certain back issues are held in our storeroom, please ask a member of staff if you wish to view any of these.

Library services

Enquiry desk

SCHARR Library provides a specialist health and social care information service to SCHARR staff, SCHARR students and SCHARR Alumni (more information about library services for Alumni members can be found here). Our team of Information Specialists can offer advice on the following:

• Literature searching
• Reference management
• Systematic Reviews
• Research funding
• Information skills
• Critical appraisal
• Web 2.0 and Social Media
• Current Awareness
• Document Supply

This subject guide is a list of useful databases and websites to help students get started with literature searching.  There is also advice on grey literature and search filters.

Electronic resources

Access for SCHARR staff and SCHARR students to  such as MEDLINE is via MUSE.

For information on accessing SCHARR Library services remotely, please download the guidance document Remote Access to Information Resources (PDF, 888KB)

Document supply and inter-library loans

The SCHARR Library provides a document supply service for ScHARR staff, Masters and PhD students. If there is a journal article or book which cannot be found on  we may be able to obtain it for you.

This service is available only to ScHARR staff and students.

How to order a journal article 

Before making a request:

• Please ensure that the article you require is not freely available online.
• Check whether you can download the article from the University’s electronic journals collection via

Making a request

1. To order an article please complete the request form. We need one form per article to comply with copyright regulations. 

Request form

2. Please provide as much of the reference as possible, including full journal title. An incomplete reference can slow down the request. 

3. Email forms to us at scharrlib@shef.ac.uk

How to order a book as an inter-library loan

Please complete the request form email to scharrlib@shef.ac.uk

Request form

Document supply service FAQs

How many requests can I make?

SCHARR MSc students are entitled to 14 requests free of charge per academic year.

SCHARR staff and PhD students - here is no limit to the number of requests 'within reason'. The service is expensive however so please ensure all requests are necessary. 

How will I receive my request?

Some items will be sent to you as a pdf. Some items will be encrypted and available in print-only format. These can be collected from SCHARR Library, sent via the internal mail or posted out to you.

How long will I have to wait for my request to arrive?

We recommend that you allow at least a week for a journal article to be received, and up to 10 days for a book loan. 

Further guidelines for SCHARR staff

The inter-library loans/document supply service is for non-commercial use only. Any copying which supports activities that are directly or indirectly income-generating may be deemed to fall into the commercial category and these requests will be subject to additional copyright fees. If you think your request may be for commercial purposes please contact the library to discuss. 

Budget code and project name - please provide where applicable, and also the lead researcher or budget holder if known. 

How many requests are allowed? There is no limit to the number of requests allowed to ScHARR staff and PhD students. The service is expensive however so 

Standard Costs per item - Â£5.80 + VAT for British Library digitally sourced item £10.15 + VAT for British Library scanned-from-print item. We don't know in advance which price will apply so please cost for the higher

Urgent requests - British Library 24 hour service may be available at no extra cost / 2-hour service £31.10 per item.

Book loans - £16.35 per item. Please ensure borrowed inter-library loans are returned before the due date. The British Library automatically renews most items for a set period before recall. This incurs a cost for your project which is currently £5.45 per monthly renewal.'

Reference management

Please see the Introductory Guide (PDF, 1.1MB) to the desktop version of EndNote for SCHARR staff and PhD students. This is intended to complement the University Library's EndNote guidance. Masters students are advised to use EndNote online or Mendeley (see IRIS-MANAGE).

The documents you will need are the ILL Request Form (DOC, 42KB), the EXCEL spreadsheet (9KB) and the ILL Merge output style.

Information Specialists at the Information Service @ ScHARR Library can provide practical advice and support to SCHARR staff and Postgraduate Research Students with regard to reference management.

• One-to-one training in the use of Endnote
• Advice on setting up an Endnote database and assigning appropriate keywords
• Advice on Endnote import filters
• Advice on using the mail merge feature within MS Word to generate inter-library loan requests from Endnote

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The Innovation Centre

SCHARR has a PGR office in the Innovation Centre (building 155 on the Campus Map). 

Access to the Innovation Centre

The Innovation Centre is open from 09:00-16:00 Monday to Friday.

All Innovation Centre rooms have a key pad for security and the number is given to all students at the start of their studies.

The PGR offices each have a bookable computer, as well as printing, scanning and photocopying facilities for all full time and part time students. These facilities are also available to distance PhD students when they visit campus. To book a hot desk, contact the ScHARR PGR administrator - scharr-pgr@sheffield.ac.uk

Should secure storage space be required, each room also contains lockable cabinets. When a student completes their programme, all items must be removed from the lockers and shelves, and keys must be left in the lockers.

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IT support

If problems arise with the computers in the SCHARR PGR offices, this should be reported to Faculty IT: mdh-it@sheffield.ac.uk. Students will need to quote the desk number when reporting any issues to IT.

The majority of students will be able to use software provided by IT Services as standard. A full list of available packages can be viewed here. Please advise IT should you have additional software needs.

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Other workspaces

The Dainton Graduate Research Centre offers flexible study and social space for the postgraduate community, including a computer facility offering 28 bookable networked computers with printing, scanning and photocopying facilities.

Work space is also available in the University libraries. All libraries include printing, photocopying and scanning facilities.