Library Resources and Services

Rowena StewartAcademic Support Librarian

To cover:• Where your books and journals are• Finding out if the Library has what you need• Getting what the Library doesn’t have• Finding academic literature on your subject

Tel: 0131 650 5207rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk

Main Library print collections for Health in Social Science and Medicine

(plus most of the Arts and Humanities Collections).

Which Library holds your print Collections?

Western General and RIE have libraries too.

There are department libraries, eg Psychology & Philosophy Library in the Psychology Building (7 George Square)

www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations

Main Library, 5th floor: •all study spaces • includes postgraduate study area

uCreate - Provides multimedia and specialist IT facilities on a self-service basis including printing posters. Equipment loan too. www.ed.ac.uk/is/ucreate

Self-issue and self-return

But please ask the Helpdesk staff if you have questions etc.

Undergraduates

Loan period (STANDARD) 4 weeks(SHORT) 1 week

(RESERVE) up to 3 hours or overnightBorrowing limit of books/items per person

(includes 3 RESERVE) 30

Borrowing Bookswww.ed.ac.uk/is/library-borrowing

DiscoverEd

From the Library homepage http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/library

Library tab on MyEdwww.myed.ed.ac.uk

Online and print, journals and books plus records of articles, theses, conference proceedings…

Go directly - http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/

“double quotes” force a search for the phrase.

Which Library?

Which Library?

If a book is out you can request it be returned early for you to borrow.You need to have signed in to DiscoverEd to do this.

Print books

Sign-in [EASE authenticated] to:• Request early returns for you to borrow next.

• Find as many results as there are to find (esp off-campus).• See loan period defined for you.• See previous as well as current loans.• Save records.• Save searches to run again.

Request borrowed books

Maximum borrowing time by loan period Undergraduates

(STANDARD) 6 months

(SHORT) 4 months

(RESERVE) Must be returned - Cannot be renewed

Renewing Books

You can keep books longer than the first loan period

You can’t renew when: • you’ve reached the limit, • the book’s been requested or • your fines are too high.

If you think none of these reasons should be stopping you renew a book, contact library staff

and they’ll be able to help.

FinesFines for overdue books:

20p per day for standard books / 40p per day for short loan books [maximum £10] – with one day’s grace. - on day two of being overdue, a fine equals the cost of two days being overdue.

N.B.£1 per day for overdue recalled books [maximum £10]2p per minute for overdue reserve books [maximum £25]

Suggest the Library buys Something

Books: www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB

N.B. not as fast as using the interlibrary loan service (see below)

Online booksFor information on the different experiences you can have with ebooks see:

Navigating ebooks (pdf)

Off-campus access to online collectionEASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)VPN – access to University network + wireless access –

www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpn

Get Connected sessions – Main Library, George Square

Mobile Device Clinics (all year) - book via MyEd Events channel - www.ed.ac.uk/is/MDC

Connecting to the network - www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless

Monday - Friday 12th - 16th Sept 10am - 4pm Mezzanine Level, Main Library

Monday - Wednesday 19th - 21st Sept 10am - 4pm Mezzanine Level, Main Library

Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service : secure internet access from eduroam-enabled institution around the world - www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless/jrs

Many thousands of journals online• Not always bought from every available host site• Not always bought for access from volume 1 to now• Some issues (even titles) only taken in print.

Journals

“double quotes” force a search for the phrase.

Journals

Databases for Reviewing the LiteratureDiscoverEd includes article level records. Default setting is to what you can read because the library has bought it.

Databases for Reviewing the LiteratureTo find what has already been published in your field:

www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects > Counselling (etc)CINAHL Plus

• Nursing

PsycINFO• American Psychological Association for psychology

and psychiatry

EMBASE and MEDLINE• Both clinical medicine and related fields. • Former has coverage of more European-based journals.

ASSIA and Social Services Abstracts• Research done or with populations outside a

clinical setting

ERIC

• Education but good on the wellbeing of the child.

Web of Science (Science Citation Index , Proceedings…)• Tracking a particularly useful article through the literature since it was published.• Journal Impact Factors

ThesesFind theses awarded in your field - www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects > Theses

• Electronic copies of UoEdinburgh awarded theses are deposited in ERA. You’ll also find links from DiscoverEd

eg ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global for those awarded worldwide. Includes online full-text.

Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) - www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk

Reference management software

Eg EndNote – www.myendnoteweb.com • Direct import of records • Group records and attach files to them.• Cite while you write

Comparison table at:www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/mvm/BiblioManagersTable.pdf?t=1319975641nt/library/downloads/refworks/Biblio.pdf  EndNote desktop (see below for EndNote online) at an academic discount:www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/computing/desktop-personal/software/main-software-deals/endnote-ref-manager  Workshops, including webinars, for which anyone can sign up:www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/classroom-courses/basic-it-library-and-bibliography  ENDNOTE ONLINE:Register via web of science. Instructions:www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/Libraries/PDF/guideEndNoteWebregistering.pdf  Then go directly:  www.myendnoteweb.com  Workshops listed in the workshop link above but in the session descriptions there you'll see links to the workbook used you can go through yourself in your own time:  

www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/catalogue/text-catalogue/endnote-web-intro

The University supports the reference management software, EndNote, for which there is a desktop and online version.

The online version is free.

ENDNOTE CITE WHILE YOU WRITE (CWYW) Is installed on the open access computers but for your own laptop/personal computer - Go to EndNote Online’s Format tab > Cite While You Write Plug-in. The CWYW plugin doesn't work with Word online - but you can download Word 2016 on up to 5 devices:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/computing/comms-and-collab/office365/latest-office

Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for what we don’t have

https://ed-ac.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html

5 free per year [30 for postgraduates & staff]

• then £5 per request received • 2 renewals which are done via Helpdesk or I.L.L. staff.

Plus:• NHS Knowledge Network - http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/

• Professional bodies and their resources • Other libraries – ask library staff for what you need to do before you visit

Intra-library loan – Scans sent to you (or books/physical items sent to the Main Library for collection) from Library Annexe and other UoEdinburgh libraries not in the Central Area.

• same form (ie ILLiad above) • FREE• Annexe scans/items - same (week)day if in before noon

Help

Institute for Academic Development – www.ed.ac.uk/iad/

I am happy to see people on an individual basis or to answer questions directly:

Rowena Stewart (Academic Support Librarian)Tel: 0131 650 5207

e-mail: rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk

Digital Skills and Training - www.ed.ac.uk/is/skills• open courses and manuals • plus online courses / videos (>5,000) from Lynda.com

IS Helpline (IS.Helpline@ed.ac.uk) – IT or Library

Staffed IS Helpdesk in the Libraries - www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations

Courses etc