Library services and Information Skills

for HYMS PGCMENov 2013

Catriona, Kirsty and Stuart

library@hyms.ac.uk

HYMS Library:Brings eResources together...

at:

Resources include....

77%+of books on HYMS PGCME reading lists available as eBooks, including...

SwanwickMoore Learning Journals

Race Lecturer’s toolkitCowan

LightHabeshaw

ExleyCarroll Teaching international students

Hartley Enhancing teachingButcher Designing learning

Schon Reflective practitionerBoud

Find, via cross-search at http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine/FindBooks

Plus

databasesfor finding articles, literature searching..

Find on http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine/FindArticles

EmbaseBiomedicalPharmaceuticalEuropeanElsevier22+million records7,500 journals

MedlineBiomedical and healthU.S National Library of Medicine18+ million records5,500 journalsOther formats: PubMed, WoK..

Plus...

EmbaseBiomedicalPharmaceuticalEuropeanElsevier22+million records7,500 journals

MedlineBiomedical and healthU.S National Library of Medicine18+ million records5,500 journalsOther formats: PubMed, WoK..

WoK (inc. Web of Science)

Social ScienceScienceArts & HumanitiesConference Proceedings..Citation index

ScopusSocial SciencesScienceArts & HumanitiesCitation index

+ Education databasesBritish Education IndexERIC

Why these and not Google?

…won’t find everything!

Only the tip of the iceberg

Results influenced by previous searches. Hint: sign out when you search..

Google scholar: easy and citation function BUT:

not so good for complex searches;

plus nobody checking has rounded coverage of a subject area…

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Journalsinclude...

Find, via cross-search at http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine/FindJournals

Medical EducationMedical TeacherClinical Teacher

But

(there’s always a but..)

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Make sure you can access them!

Hull Athens – (hul...)

York Account

NHS Athens – if you are a member of the NHS

You can also

make it easier on yourself...

The Humpty tactic

Think about your passwords in terms of security and remembering:

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall

H D 5 0 t w

HD50tw – root password

HD50twha – Hull Athens

HD50twya – York Account

HD50twfb – Facebooketc

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And there’s always

Inter Library Loans

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... for items not available via either university library or via NHS Athens

Whatever you do read

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Always check for

COCOA:

Coverage

Ownership

Currency

Objectivity

Accuracy

Tutorials from:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval_start.html

http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/detective/

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NOWSelf paced

Take the opportunity to explore some of the resources/features as you go along

Pick ‘n’ mixHave a go exercises

Model answers

Further information

Help is here - and available via library@hyms.ac.uk