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Introduction to online library searching • The slides take you through some of the basic ways of searching the Library’s electronic information resources. • It does not include making use of our printed resources but that does not mean they are any less important Help? • If you have any problems finding information contact David Clark (Subject Librarian : Science & Technology) (Tel: 01332 591203, email: [email protected]) • Or the Subject Information Desk is open in term time between 8.45a.m. – 8.45p.m MonThurs, & till 4.45 p.m Friday & between 10-1.00 Saturdays 01332 591207. Logging into the University of Derby Electronic Library (Udel) Use the Electronic Journals A-Z to find a specific electronic journal. If you are using a computer outside the University, make sure you find the Athens login link(s) & click on it (them). Otherwise you will not be able to see a full journal article we have access to. Make sure you find the Athens link to see the whole journal article You are now signed in & have access Another example of Athens sign in, this time from the publisher Taylor & Francis You can usually search by keyword within a particular journal Or view a particular article from an issue of the journal Searching for articles on a topic • There are several databases which you can use to find some journal articles on a topic • The following slides show you : • EBSCO Electronic Journals Service • PsycARTICLES • Elsevier Science Direct EBSCO Electronic Journals Service allows you search across a range of journals we subscribe to from different publishers. It’s not sophisticated, you just type in a few key words & it doesn’t find all we have but it’s very useful & easy to use Again, if you are off campus, you need to click on the Athens login link PsycARTICLES is a database containing the complete articles of the journals of the American Psychological Association (APA) & others. Many are not covered in EBSCO EJS so it is another very useful place to search. No Athens login link for this one (at the time of writing) Science Direct is the database of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest journals publishers. Though many of the journals are contained in EBSCO EJS, the latter does not go as far back in time as Science Direct. The first time you use it, you need to register your details with Science Direct. For later …. Other databases widen your search by indexing which journal articles have been published. The Library will have subscriptions to some of the journal articles but not others. e.g. Web of Science PsycINFO Google Scholar PsycARTICLES & Web of Science are both available from the Information Resources page PsycARTICLES & Web of Science are sophisticated indexes to journal articles & may be searched in a variety of ways. This does mean, however, that they are sometimes not so easy to use. Remember that they are worldwide INDEXES to journals & we will only have access to a limited number of articles. For these reasons you may first wish to try the searches outlined previously. Electronic Books • We have a growing number of e-books but not all books we would like are available for Libraries to buy • The next slides take you briefly though accessing electronic books & how to see them but bear in mind that they have a lot of features & so this barely skims the surface • We have to use different e-book suppliers which work slightly differently to each other You can see a brief title listing of ebooks with links from the Resources by Subject Library page for Psychology You can look for e-books using the library catalogue & limit your search to e-books if you like. At present for Dawsonera e-books, you are taken to the Dawsonera home page & then have to look for the e-book within the database e.g. type in the author’s surname. Hopefully this should be rectified soon by Dawsonera.