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Welcome to the Library
Rowena StewartLiaison [email protected]: 0131 650 5207
How to find out what the library hasWhere your books and journals areElectronic books and journalsBorrowing and returning
Finding Academic Literature
The Main Library holds the print collections for Health in Social Science and Medicine (plus most of the Arts and Humanities Collections).
Which Library holds your print Collections?
Western General and RIE have libraries too.
There are department libraries, eg Psychology & Philosophy Library in the Psychology Building (7 George Square)
Intra-library loans for material in other sites
Borrowing and recalling
• Blue/grey swipecard is also your borrowing card• Recalls
Other Libraries• National Library of Scotland, • RCN Library, • Other University Libraries.
• NHS Knowledge Network, your NHS Library Service
Library Catalogue & e-journal pagesThe library catalogue tells you the books and journals in the University’s
libraries.
• The library catalogue does not need any login details• you can get to it from any web connection.
For some journals the library pays for full-text on the web.
• The library catalogue tells you if we have a book or a journal in print or in electronic format.
• The ejournal web pages are more up to date about ejournal access
MAIN LIBRARY:HUB Collection – ground FloorOther books – levels 2 and 3
Self issue and return machines
Demo – books - Classic Catalogue and Aquabrowser
MyEd, Library tab:http://www.myed.ed.ac.uk
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
Most books (excluding Reserve books) may be renewed up to 5 times
http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/login
Borrowing Books
• Fines for overdue books - 20p per day for standard books- 50p per day for short loan books- £1 per day for overdue recalled books(- 2p per minute for overdue reserve books)
• 5 days grace applies to overdue standard loan books on day 6, fine is added at cost of 6 days overdue. no grace period for overdue recalled books
For books you want to read but which are on loan: Ask library staff to recall them for you
Demo – journals - E-journal web pages and Classic Catalogue
MyEd, Library tab:http://www.myed.ed.ac.uk
E-journals In the e-journal pages you can search, browse or look at subject groupings.
The library catalogue takes you to the journal or a page from which to choose the link you need.
Off-campus access to online collection
Through EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)
VPN – access to University network + wireless access http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpn
Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service – secure internet access from eduroam-enabled institution around the world. http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless/jrs
Use eduroam not central to connect to “normal” campus network.http://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.
Finding Academic Information
Catalogue vs bibliographic databasesReading the full-textCiting references
Academic Literature databases
• Contain information about the contents of a range of publications• Often subject specific. • Perform sophisticated searches with strong search functions
Library catalogue and e-journal pages tell you what journals we have, eg Qualitative Health Research
But, not who has published what in those journals, eg Strohschein et al’s Patient decision making among older individuals with cancer, in 2011.
Academic literature databases:
N.B.
1) provide references/citations for material and often abstracts or summaries as well but only link out to full-text
2) are not limited to what the library has
• Try any links which seem as if they will give you full-text. • Treat like a normal reference and use the library catalogue
Because we may have what you want:• online from a different site• In print
Reading the Full-text
Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for material we don’t have at all
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.
Searcher (default tab) for quick searches and probable full-text
Types of Resources
Follow link “Types of resources” athttp://www.ed.ac.uk/is/finding-resources
Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for what we don’t have
For (non-UoEd) UK theses start at EThOS. If asked to pay use ILL.North American and worldwide – “Dissertations and Theses” (then ILL)
“Intra-library loan” - get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB
• same form • FREE
http://illiad.lib.ed.ac.uk/illiad/
30 free per year
[20 for taught postgraduates, 5 for undergraduates]
• then £5 per request received
Suggest the Library buys Something
Books:http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB
Journals – me (Liaison Librarian) or library rep: Jill Cossar, Nick Jenkins,
Connie Johnson, Jilly Taylor
uCreate provides multimedia and specialist IT facilities on a self-service basis including printing posters.
Printing
Printing and photocopying - paid via your Print account which you can top up via the machines, asking library staff and via MyEd’s Online Print Credit channel.
Help
Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMB, The King’s BuildingsTel: 650 5207
e-mail: [email protected]
This presentation at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides
ISiskills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk
eg EndNote
When you start thinking about the literature review for your theses, please get in touch if you would like a run through of the resources available to you and how you
can get the best out of them.
General Help – [email protected]
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