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This course is for anyone who would like learn how to find and access electronic books and journals. The course will show you where to find e-books and e-journals, how to search within them and how to find and download full text articles.

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The course will take the form of a presentation that you can work through at your own pace.

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The course will take about 20 minutes to complete.

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There will be optional tasks and it is up to you whether you feel you want to or need to complete them.

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If you have any questions about this course or any issues accessing the course please contact the library on 01253 303831 or by email to [email protected]

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You will need an NHS Athens username and password to access the electronic books and journals.

If you do not already have an Athens account click here to register now. If you have any problems or questions about Athens please contact the library

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To access the A-Z List of e-journals you can either click on the link on the library webpage or go directly to NHS Evidence and follow the ‘journals’ links.

www.bfwh.nhs.uk/departments/library www.evidence.nhs.uk

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Click to continue Log in with your Athens username and password to access the full list of journals

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Once you are logged into Athens you can search the full A-Z List either by part or full title in the quick search or by topic for example ‘midwifery’. Or you can use the A-Z links.

If you are searching for a particular citation you can use the ‘citation look up’ – fill in as many details as you can.

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Results Click to continue Example - searching for an ‘exact title’.

Results This can be useful if you only know part of the title.

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Results This can be useful if you are just wanting to browse the available journal titles.

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Results You will need to follow the links to the journal and then the article… Click to continue Example – citation look up, fill in as many details as you can.

Available titles and links to available sources show on the left of the results list.

Viewing the results… On the right you will see available dates, some journals will be available up to present, some will show a date range and some will say embargo of for example 6 months.

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Please note that each site will look different but will have similar features.

When you select a journal title… Click on the link to go to the journal you want to view.

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When you select a journal title… Most sites will open to the current issue. Similar features to look out for include ‘archive’ links or links to previous issues.

Click to continue In some cases when you select the full text option it may ask you to log in… look for the ‘log in via Athens’ links. Your Athens details will not work if you put them into the standard log in boxes.

Click to continue In many cases you can also search within the journal itself for a topic, or author etc.

Viewing full text articles… Click to continue

Viewing full text articles… Once you have opened the full text article you will notice options for either saving, printing or emailing the article

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http//www.bfwh.nhs.uk/departments/library Click to continue E-books can be accessed from the library webpage. As well as the link to all e books there are links to the Oxford Handbooks and Oxford textbooks.

You will need your Athens password.

You can also access the e-book collection by going to NHS Evidence and selecting eBooks. Remember you will need your Athens password.

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Click to continue You can search for eBooks by title, author or keyword.

You can also browse using the A Z Links or the subject/ publisher lists.

Click to continue Once you have performed your search you will see a list of results like this one.

You can open an eBook by clicking on ‘read book’ or by clicking on the title or image.

Viewing an eBook You can navigate an eBook using the contents links, or by going to a specific page or by turning the pages in turn as you would with any book.

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Click to continue You can also print or download pages from the book.

Viewing the Oxford collections You can browse the Oxford collections by Specialty, Series for example the handbooks or by career stage.

Remember you will need your Athens username and password.

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Viewing the Oxford collections Once you have made your selection it is easy to navigate the eBook using the chapter links.

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Optional Task: The purpose of this task is to allow you to practice accessing the e journals and full text articles.

You will need your Athens username and password.

Go to the journals A-Z and search for a journal using any of the search options. Remember you can access the journals either from the Library Webpage or from NHS Evidence.

Navigate your way to the journal contents and select an article. Open the full text article.

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Optional Task: The purpose of this task is to allow you to practice accessing eBooks and to allow you to become more familiar with using eBooks.

You will need your Athens username and password.

Go to eBooks collection and search for a book using any of the search options. Remember you can access the eBooks either from the Library Webpage or from NHS Evidence.

Select a book and spend some time using the different navigation tools.

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Congratulations, you have now completed this introductory course on eBooks and e-journals, we hope that you have found it useful.

Click here for your certificate Enter your name and the date of your course.

You can either print this certificate or save it by clicking ‘file’ and then ‘save as’.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this course please contact the library by emailing [email protected]

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