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Welcome to the Library
Rowena StewartLiaison [email protected]: 0131 650 5207
• Where your books and journals are• Electronic books and journals• Bibliographic databases
Print Collection
The Main Library holds the print collection for Health in Social Science (also Medicine and most of the Arts and Humanities Collections).
There is a postgraduate study area on the 5th floor.
There are collections in RIE and Western General
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?
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
Renewing Books
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
Online Collection If something is available online to read in full you will see [electronic resource] in the title
Online Collection
• 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 Collection
http://sfxhostedeu.exlibrisgroup.com/Edinburgh/az
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.
Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for what we don’t have
“Intra-library loan” - get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB
• same form • FREE
http://illiad.lib.ed.ac.uk/illiad/
20 free per year
[30 for research postgraduates, 5 for undergraduates]
• then £5 per request received
• Library catalogue and e-journal pages tell you what journals we have, eg Dementia (publisher SAGE)
Not who has published what in those journals, eg Caddell & Clare’s 2013 article Studying the self in people with dementia: How might we proceed? in issue 12(2).
You will need at some stage to find out what has already been published in your research field.
Databases for Reviewing the Literature
Because they:• Contain details of millions of articles from 1000s of publications
(abstracts, journal articles, book chapters, reports and standards) • Are usually subject specific • Perform sophisticated searches limited to topics, date, authors or type of
publication
Common features include: Subject headings/controlled vocabulary, combining searches using Boolean terms, Saving/Emailing/Exporting records, Alerts
N.B. Bibliographic databases
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
Bibliographic databases help you find what has already been published in your field of research.
Databases for Reviewing the LiteratureYou will need at some stage to find out what has already been published
in your research field:
MEDLINE – National Library of Medicine’s database of articles from thousands of
medicine and related journals and other academic literature.
CINAHL Plus – records covering contents of nursing and related journals, theses, etc.
PsycINFO – references to articles from thousands of psychology and related
journals, conference proceedings, etc.
• Sociological and social services databases• ABI/Inform, Business Source Complete – other Business and
Management databases
The Knowledge Network – NHS Scotland portal to ejournals and databaseshttp://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk
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
Citing References
Provide enough information for someone else to find what you have read and present the information consistently. To:
• Allow those reading the record of what you’ve done, to read the sources you have read.
• Credit and show you have read the key relevant work and are able to use it to support your arguments/move on.
• Avoid plagiarism.
There are conventions and styles to help you do this. Follow the examples your supervisor/lecturers request.
There is reference management software which may help, eg EndNote.
Suggest the Library buys Something
Books:http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB
Journals – me (Liaison Librarian) or library rep: Nick Jenkins
Help
Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMBTel: 0131 650 5207
e-mail: [email protected]
Subject guides www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-a-z
ISiskills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/help
When you start thinking about the literature review for your dissertation, 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.
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