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Welcome to the Library Where your books and journals are Electronic books and journals Bibliographic databases Rowena Stewart Academic Support Librarian [email protected] Tel: 0131 650 5207 Print Collection The Main Library holds the print collection for Health in Social Science (also Medicine and most of the Arts and Humanitites Collections). (There are collections in RIE and Western General) There is the department library: Psychology & Philosophy Library in the Psychology Building (7 George Square) There is a postgraduate study area on the 5th floor. 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 Online Collection If something is available online to read in full you will see [electronic resource] in the title Which Library? Which Link? Borrowing Books 40 books (including up to 3 Reserve books) Standard loan = 12 weeks. Short loan = 1 week Reserve 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 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 http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/login Fines for overdue books: Borrowing 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 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): Request Charged or Annexe Item Online Collection • Ebooks in the library catalogue [electronic resource] in the title means you can read online • 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 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. E-journals Use volume/issue and page number information to go right place on publisher page Off-campus access to online collection Through 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 Get Connected – semester 1 Mobile device clinics – all year Visiting/Borrowing from other Libraries: www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library >Access to other libraries • Incl. SCONUL Access borrowing from other UK HEI Libraries www.sconul.ac.uk Plus: • NHS Knowledge Network - http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/ • professional bodies and their resources Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for what we don’t have 30 free per year [5 for undergraduates] • then £5 per request received • 2 renewals which are done via Helpdesk or I.L.L. staff More information: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library ILLiad form: https://ed-ac.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html “Intra-library loan” - get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to your “home” UoEd library • same form • FREE • Annexe scans/items same (week)day if in before noon Suggest the Library buys Something Books: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB Journals etc – [email protected] (Academic Support Librarian) or library rep: Jill Cossar Academic Literature databases Library catalogue and e-journal pages tell you what journals we have, eg Journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling But, not who has published what in those journals, eg Myklebust & Bjorklund’s 2009 article in issue 6(2), The child verbal competence effect in court: A comparative study of field investigative interviews of children in child sexual abuse cases Academic literature databases: • • • Contain information about the contents of a range of publications Often subject specific. Perform sophisticated searches with strong search functions 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 Searcher – the default tab Library catalogue plus databases etc. Good for finding academic literature for essays and reports. Default limit set to what you can read now. Subject Databases for Reviewing the Literature You will need at some stage to find out what has already been published in your research field: PsycINFO – references to articles from thousands of psychology and related journals, conference proceedings, etc. Cochrane Library - full-text of Cochrane systematic reviews and citations to other review articles. MEDLINE – National Library of Medicine’s database of articles from thousands of medicine and related journals and other academic literature. EMBASE - Clinical medicine but more European journal coverage. Sociological databases: ASSIA, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts Reading the Full-text • 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 Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for material we don’t have at all Where to find (out about) databases A-Z list and lists by subject http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects What information do you need? Think what you need to read about and identify the major subjects areas. • Think of words and phrases associated with these major subjects. Including: • acronyms, synonyms and alternative spellings. • broader and also more specific terms Citing References There is reference management software which may help, eg EndNote, RefWorks 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. Printing via a web interface: www.ed.ac.uk/is/everyoneprint Connecting your laptop: follow the links from Connecting to network printers Printing – http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/printing uCreate provides multimedia and specialist IT facilities on a selfservice basis including printing posters. Study spaces in the Libraries There is a variety of study areas. Some can be booked via the MyEd “Student Study Space” channel but there are no bookable group study rooms in the Main Library. Group Study Spaces Other places to study in the “Central Area” Main Library locker rental & daytime use lockers – information about locker use or ask Helpdesk staff Contacting Information Services If you have a learning technology, IT or library enquiry, contact the IS Helpline: Self-service portal: www.ed.ac.uk/is/selfservice Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)131 651 5151 There is an IS Helpdesk in each of the IS managed libraries www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations Help • IS Skills Development open courses and manuals http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/skills • ISiSkills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk • IAD – www.ed.ac.uk/iad • uCreate – www.ed.ac.uk/is/ucreate • Mobile device clinics – www.ed.ac.uk/is/mdc Help When you start thinking about the (systematic) 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. Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMB, The King’s Buildings Tel: 0131 650 5207 e-mail: [email protected]