Essential library skills metanoia sessions 2013

PsychotherapyEssential Library Skills

http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/

Today we are going to cover...

• What sorts of resources are available for your studies

• How to find books and journals using the library catalogue

• Requesting and renewing books• Using the library pages on myUniHub and

Library subject guides

UniHub home page and login http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/

REMEMBER! Always use MyUniHub as a gateway to library

resources

Use library in person or request item to be posted via DL service

Studying at a distance – dedicated servicehttp://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/services/distance/index.aspx• Postal delivery of books from within the Middlesex

University collection.• Electronic delivery of photocopies of journal articles

and chapters of books as allowed within British copyright law.

• Inter-library loans – electronic journal articles and book chapters

Finding Books Using the Library Catalogue

If you have a reference:

search the main author’s last name AND keywords from the title (leave out and, in, for etc)

Search results

• In this example, same book appears as ebook and hard copy (in library)

• Click on the title of the one you want to use

If you see [electronic resource] after the title it is either an ebook or online journal

If just the title appears it is a hard copy item which is in the library

Where to find the book

Make sure it’s not in Dubai!

Write down the WHOLE call number so you

can find the book on the

shelf

Check which

floor to go to

How long you can borrow

for

Check it is AVAILABLE! If it says ON LOAN it’s

not on the shelf so don’t look for it

REQUEST IT!

Don’t have a reference? Doing a subject search

• Use ‘general keyword search’ to look for books on a particular topic

• Depending on your topic you may not find a whole book covering it but there may be a very useful chapter in a larger text with wider scope

• Remember ‘general keyword’ search will search both words in the title and subjects

• If you only want ebooks add ebook into your keyword search

How do I find an e-book?• E-books can be found using the library catalogue, just like a

print book.

• You will see the words ‘[electronic resource]’ after the title.

• Click on the blue ‘online access’ link to download or read the book online – make sure you have logged into myUniHub!

• If you only want ebooks add ‘ebook’ into your keyword search for example: psychology qualitative ebook

Access full text

Requesting Books

If the book you are seeking is already on loan or you are a distant learner, you may request it via the library catalogue

Making A Request

Making A RequestStudent number

Date of birth DDMMYY

Click here to request

Renewing Books Online

Use the ‘Login to My Library Account’ option to see what items you have on loan and to renew them

N.B. You will not be able to renew requested books

Logging in to My Account

Student numberDate of birth

DDMMYY

Renewing Books Online

Must click HERE

AND here

Journals

This is a journal reference from a reading list:

Gabbard, G. O. and Hobday, G. S. (2012). ‘A Psychoanalytic perspective on ethics, self-deception and the corrupt physician’. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 28 (2) pp. 235-248

Can you identify the following parts of the reference?

Author, Date, Title of article, Journal Title, Volume, Part & Page Numbers

Journals

Author Date Title of article

Gabbard, G. O. and Hobday, G. S. (2012). ‘A Psychoanalytic perspective on ethics, self-deception and the corrupt physician’. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 28 (2) pp. 235-248

Volume Issue Page Nos. Journal title

Journal Access• Most of our journals are available electronically• All our journals are listed in the library catalogue

• IF we have it online there will be a blue ‘online access’ link to the available online issues of the journal

• If you know the journal title, this is the easiest way to find it

Finding electronic journals • If you have the name of an article you CANNOT put that into the library

catalogue (the catalogue does not list individual articles – this is what databases are for)

• You must do a ‘journal keyword’ search for the name of the journal itself, click the link for the correct year and then find the article in the correct issue

Notice there are two different links which cover different date periods

for the journal – make sure you click the correct link for the article you

want

Library Subject Guideshttp://libguides.mdx.ac.uk

Download server – access to SPSS

Login to download server to access available software

Need help?

• Distant Learner support lrdlsu@mdx.ac.uk• Renewal queries: UniHelp 020 8411 6060• Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/ • Psychology and Psychotherapy Library Subject

Guideshttp://libguides.mdx.ac.uk