Library Resources and Services

Rowena StewartLiaison Librarian

To cover:• Where your books and journals are• Finding out if the Library has what you need• Getting what the Library doesn’t have• Finding academic literature on your subject

Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library – print booksKB Library Store - all KB print journals

Informatics, Medicine & HSS in Main Library, George Square

Murray Library building: 08:30 - 23:00

09/noon - 19:00

Print journals in Library Annexe, South Gyle.

Which Library? Library Catalogue

print journals and (online or print) books renew books on loan

On the Library homepage at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/library

Library tab on MyEd

Which Library?

Ebook example: string theory date descending- http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/searchBasic

Borrowing Books

40 books (including up to 3 Reserve books)

Standard loan = 12 weeks. Short loan = 1 weekReserve books = up to 3 hours or overnight

Self-issue and self-return

But please ask the Helpdesk staff if you have questions etc.

Renewing Books

http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/login

Most books (excluding Reserve books) may be renewed up to 5 times

Can’t renew if: recalled, fines too high or on/after due date

Borrowing BooksFines for overdue books:

20p per day for standard books / 50p per day for short loan books£1 per day for overdue recalled books2p per minute for overdue reserve books)

5 days grace for overdue standard loan books [on day 6, fine is added at cost of 6 days overdue]no grace period for overdue recalled books

Borrowed books you want (borrower has week at most):

• Many thousands of journals online

Not always bought from every available host site Not always bought for access from volume 1 to now

• Check electronic journals pages – not the default tab

Online Maths Collection

http://sfxhostedeu.exlibrisgroup.com/Edinburgh/az

E-journalsIn the e-journal pages you can search, browse or look at subject groupings.

The library catalogue link goes to the same information but the ejournal pages are more

up to date with purchases.

Off-campus access to online collectionThrough EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)

VPN – access to University network + wireless access - www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpn

Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service : secure internet access from eduroam-enabled institution around the world - www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless/jrs

Use eduroam not central to connect to “normal” campus network www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless

University of Edinburgh EASE

If you’ve not logged in and can’t get full-text you can try this, but better information via Library tools.

SCONUL Access: borrowing from other UK HEI Libraries - www.sconul.ac.uk

Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for what we don’t have

For (non-UoEd) UK theses start at EThOS. If asked to pay use I.L.L..North American and worldwide – “Dissertations and Theses” (then I.L.L.)

“Intra-library loan” - Get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB • same form • FREE• Annexe scans/items - same

(week)day if in before noon

ILLiad form: http://illiad.lib.ed.ac.uk/illiad/

30 free per year [5 for undergraduates]

• then £5 per request received • take e-payment requests to Maths Admin• 2 renewals which are done via Helpdesk or I.L.L. staff.

More information: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library

Suggest the Library buys Something

Books:http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB

Journals etc – Rowena Stewart (Academic Support Librarian) or Tibor Antal (library rep)

Databases for Reviewing the LiteratureYou will need at some stage to find out what has already been published

in your research field:

MathSciNet Information on millions of applied and pure Maths articles. Reviews of the articles from 1940s onwards.

ZentralblattMATH Information on articles from thousands of journals. As for MathsSciNet can use MSC to focus on your research interest.

WoK (Science Citation Index , Proceedings…) Tracking a particularly useful article through the literature since it was published.

Searcher: library catalogue, databases etc with default limit set to what you can read now.

Where to find (out about) databases

A-Z list and lists by subjecthttp://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects

Subject guides to go to pages which include this presentation.

• Index to Theses – UK and Irish Theses• EThOS (UK) & Dissertations and Theses (North America+) – full text theses • ERA – full text of recent UoEd theses - http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/

Managing your referencesEg EndNote • Desktop and an online version• Direct import of records (look under Save or Export function on website etc)• Attach files to records.• Cite while you write• Export chosen references in BibTeX format.

Use what you like but use something [N.B. link goes to UoLoughborough information

Publishing your research

Data - www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-management

Open Access (OA) - www.ed.ac.uk/openaccess Money to make it OAAdvice (on copyright implications etc.)

Open repository, Edinburgh DataShare. Training - http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/Advice

Contacting Information Services

• IS Skills Development open courses and manuals – MyEd Events or Uni web search box

• ISiSkills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk• IAD – www.ed.ac.uk/iad • Learning Technology Team (Turnitin, VLEs)

www.ed.ac.uk/is/learning-technology • uCreate – www.ed.ac.uk/is/ucreate

If you have a learning technology, IT or Library enquiry, contact the IS Helpline:

Self-service portal: www.ed.ac.uk/is/selfservice Email: IS.Helpline@ed.ac.ukPhone: +44 (0)131 651 5151

• Schools providing IT support for their staff - www.ed.ac.uk/is/contact-helpline

There is an IS Helpdesk in each of the IS managed libraries - www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locationsLevel 1 for the Murray Library

Help

Help

Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMBTel: 0131 650 5207

e-mail: rowena.stewart@ed.ac.ukThis presentation at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-maths

IAD Programme: Finding Academic Literature - Science and Engineering

Main Library: Wed 8th Oct 10am-noon rm1.10KB: Tues 21st Oct, 10am – noon, [rm3212 JCMB]KB: Thurs 9th Apr15, 2pm-4pm [rm3212 JCMB]

Happy to see people/take questions

Murray Library:

• Specific topics, semester Tuesdays – group study room 1, 1.15-1.45pm. MyEd booking.

• Drop-in literature review clinic, semester Thursdays – level1 seating area noon-2pm.

[Mobile Device clinics – Book via MyEd EventsTuesdays 2-4pm, grp study rm3]