News
The Glasgow Herald (11th August 2008) draws attention to the UK’s first comprehensive website given over entirely to Multiple sclerosis. The new internet library is provided by the MS Society and can be reached and searched by all at the touch of a button at www.mssociety.org.uk/library .MS Society librarian Professor David Bates, from Newcastle, states on the MS Society website that “for years the MS society has had a library available to support the information needs of people affected by MS but there has been no way for them to search it themselves and access the documents. This new facility opens up the world class information we have from leading authors to people across the UK and around the world”.
The library includes information for both health professionals and lay persons as well as articles from the MS society’s own magazine MS Matters. The online library has been created from a large number of books, journals,guidelines and other articles. Information on MS and other Neurological conditions is also available at www.library.hns.uk . This website contains a search engine accessible to all. The library comprises evidence based review articles from the likes of Cochrane and Bandolier as well as guidelines (National library of guidelines and NICE). There are over 100 sites here that have been recommended by NHS Direct. These websites provide accurate, scientifically validated information and present a great improvement over “surfing the net” where the quality of “hits” can never be certain and occasionally misleading.