Keep informed of the latest research with 'Read by QxMD'

If you're looking for an easy way to see the latest articles in your favourite journals or on keywords of interest, Read by QxMD can help.

It's an app and website that tracks articles in healthcare journals and alerts you to new ones matching your interests. More than that, it can make finding the full-text easy as it links to our journal holdings, or locates open access copies. The app version can store your NHS OpenAthens account details - no more logging into OpenAthens each time you want to access an article!

It's free to create a Read by QxMD account, and you can link your account to the journal holdings of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Staffordshire University or Keele University.

You can also add papers to your own virtual collections, recommend papers, and discuss articles.

An alternative to Read by QxMD is our KnowledgeShare service that can now offer tables of contents by email.

Stay ahead of the latest journal articles with Read by QxMD

If you're looking for an easy way to see the latest articles in your favourite journals or on keywords of interest, Read by QxMD can help.

It's an app and website that tracks articles in healthcare journals and alerts you to new ones matching your interests. More than that, it can make finding the full-text easy as it links to our journal holdings, or locates open access copies. The app version can store your NHS OpenAthens account details - no more logging into OpenAthens each time you want to access an article!

It's free to create a Read by QxMD account, and you can link your account to the journal holdings of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Staffordshire University or Keele University.

You can also add papers to your own virtual collections, recommend papers, and discuss articles.

An easy way to stay ahead of the latest journal articles

Want to keep up to date with your favourite healthcare journals? Want to know when articles on your favourite topics are published? The free Read by QxMD app allow you to do just this, and to access many full-text articles with a single tap.

Full-text is available for articles that are available from our subscriptions or where the article is open-access, and you can link to the journal holdings of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Staffordshire University or Keele University.

Read by QxMD is available as a desktop version, or for Android and iOS devices. On the mobile version, you can store your OpenAthens account to make downloading available articles even quicker.

Curate your own personalised healthcare journal, and share it with colleagues via email, Facebook and Twitter. Add papers to your own virtual collections, recommend papers, and discuss articles.

Stay ahead of the latest healthcare research and download the Read by QxMD app now.

Have you signed up for KnowledgeShare yet?

Why not make part of your committment to your continuing professional development to keep up to date with new healthcare knowledge?

One way of doing this is to sign up for our new KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates service and receive personalised updates of new information on topics you're interested in. Because the service is tailored to your interests, you're more likely to receive updates on only the things you really want to know about, and all the sources used are high-level evidence such as Cochrane Reviews or NICE Guidance.

Many of the resources used are freely available, so you'll be able to access them with one-click, and most of the remainder are available with an NHS OpenAthens account.

Updates are sent out fortnightly, so you won't be inundated with emails!

Sign up for KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates