Welcome to the Library Rowena Stewart Liaison Librarian [email protected]c.uk Tel: 0131 650 5207 How to find out what the library has Where your books and journals are Electronic books and journals Borrowing and returning Finding Academic Literature
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Welcome to the Library Rowena Stewart Liaison Librarian [email protected] Tel: 0131 650 5207 How to find out what the library has Where your books.
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• Fines for overdue 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 applies to overdue standard loan books on day 6, fine is added at cost of 6 days overdue. no grace period for overdue recalled books
For books you want to read but which are on loan: Ask library staff to recall them for you
Demo – journals - E-journal web pages and Classic Catalogue
Catalogue vs bibliographic databasesReading the full-textCiting references
Academic Literature databases
• Contain information about the contents of a range of publications• Often subject specific. • Perform sophisticated searches with strong search functions
Library catalogue and e-journal pages tell you what journals we have, eg Qualitative Health Research
But, not who has published what in those journals, eg Strohschein et al’s Patient decision making among older individuals with cancer, in 2011.
Academic literature databases:
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
• 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
Reading the Full-text
Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for material we don’t have at all
Where to find (out about) databases
A-Z list and lists by subjecthttp://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects
Subject guides to go to pages which include this presentation.
Searcher (default tab) for quick searches and probable full-text
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Printing
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.
Help
Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMB, The King’s BuildingsTel: 650 5207
This presentation at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides
ISiskills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk
eg EndNote
When you start thinking about the literature review for your theses, please get in touch if you would like a run through of the resources available to you and how you