Keeping
up to
date
with
current
research
is
critical
for
evidence
based
practitioners.
Hannah
Spring
provides
an
insight
into how
you can
do this
by
explaining
how we
do it
for the
spotlight
on
research
slot …
Research
articles
are
published
in
abundance
but for
the
‘Spotlight
on
Research’
feature
there
are very
special
requirements
about
what we
include!
(Just as
you will
have
your own
requirements
for your
particular
area of
interest).
In order
to
provide
our
audience
with
summaries
of the
most
recent
research
studies
that are
also
relevant
to The
Bridge
readership,
we have
set out
some
very
clear
criteria
about
what we
are
looking
for, and
good old
technology
helps us
find it!
We
use a
combination
of
online
current
awareness
services
which
very
efficiently
alert us
to new
research
articles
as soon
as they
are
published.
We use
ZETOC (a
British
Library
alerting
service)
to give
us
details
of the
contents
pages of
a large
set of
journal
titles
we have
specified
as being
relevant
to the
RCOMH
agenda,
and NHS
Evidence
developed
search
interfaces
to carry
out
automatic
keyword
searches
for us
on a
weekly
basis.
This
helps
keep all
bases
covered!
If a
relevant
article
were to
be
published
in a
journal
other
than
those we
have
listed
in our
ZETOC
alerts
we would
miss
it. To
combat
the
possibility
of this
happening
the
keyword
searches
we have
set up
are not
restricted
to
particular
journal
titles –
they
search
everywhere.
Not only
does
this
allow us
more
flexibility
with our
searches
in
relation
to the
specification
of
relevant
RCOMH
related
keywords,
it also
helps us
to
pinpoint
articles
from
elsewhere
in the
literature
that we
might
otherwise
miss.
Our
searches
are run
automatically
and on a
weekly
basis on
all the
key
health,
medicine
and
social
care
databases,
and like
clockwork
each
week,
the
alerts
come
flooding
in!
From the
alerts
we
receive
we can
scan
contents
pages of
new
journal
issues,
and the
abstracts
of any
new
articles
that
have met
our
search
criteria.
Those
that
sound
promising
are
sought
out in
full
text.
Using
automatic
alerting
services
such as
these
ensure
we are
ahead of
the game
and that
when new
research
is
released,
we will
be the
first to
know!
As a
result
of this
we now
have a
very
interesting
pile of
articles
beginning
to build
up which
we hope
to
include
in
future
Spotlight
on
Research
features
and
keeping
our The
Bridge
readers
happy
for many
issues
to come!
If
you are
unsure
about
how to
use
ZETOC
and NHS
Evidence
get in
touch
with
your
local
librarian
and they
can show
you how.
You only
need to
so this
once and
you will
receive
regular
updates
to your
inbox.
Welcome
to the latest edition of the Research
Centre for Occupation & Mental Health’s
e-bulletin, The Bridge. We hope you have
been able to enjoy the sunny days we
have had and are not too distressed that
it has not been the barbecue summer we
were promised. This edition of The
Bridge reports on developments in
relation to a possible research
programme associated with forensic
mental health and provides two
reflections for those of you who are
still trying to become more research
orientated; the first is about how you
can keep up to date with the literature
in your field and the second is about
research careers.
