Library Services' Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin which includes feature articles across a wide range of topics, new physical and e-books in the Library, and websites of interest.
Access to full text articles is available both on and offsite using a St Vincent's login.
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Determinants and motivations of vaccination hesitancy and uptake in nurses: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2025: June 25 Full text
Platform trials: key features, when to use them and methodological challenges. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 22 Full text
Academic institutions must play a greater role in combating the predatory publishing and conference industry.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2025: June 25 Full text
Stem cell–derived, fully differentiated islets for type 1 diabetes.
New England Journal of Medicine:2025: Full text
Melanoma update: is a cure now in sight? AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 19 Full text
Donepezil for cancer-related cognitive impairment: systematic review and meta-analysis. OA
Clinical and Experimental Medicine:2025: June 10 Full text
Promoting resilience to weather-related and seasonal provocations to health in people with multimorbid heart disease: a prospective pragmatic, randomised trial. AUS OA
Medical Journal of Australia:2025: June 24 Full text
Cognitive and psychological functioning in individuals with long COVID: a comparative cross-sectional study.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2025: June 23 Full text
Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography detects persistent arterial inflammation after symptomatic COVID-19. AUS OA
Heart, Lung and Circulation:2025: June 25 Full text
Estimated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in adults.
JAMA Network Open:2025: June 25 Full text
Herpesvirus and neurological manifestations in patients with severe coronavirus disease. OA
Virology Journal:2025: June 8 Full text
Aspirin reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes associated with COVID-19. OA
npj Metabolic Health and Disease:2025: June 18 Full text
A selection of systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library from May and June:
Exercise for patellar tendinopathy
Vaccines for preventing infections in adults with haematological malignancies
Electromechanical‐assisted training for walking after stroke
Virtual reality for stroke rehabilitation
Sustained‐release naltrexone for opioid dependence
Gonadotropin‐releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues for premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
The Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare presents detailed statistics about Australia’s publicly funded alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment services. Information is presented about services provided to people who are seeking assistance for their own drug use and those seeking assistance for someone else’s drug use, including the treatment provided, and the drug of concern.
The report has been updated with data from the 2023-2024 financial year