Library Introduction

Rowena Stewart, Liaison Librarianrowena.stewart@ed.ac.ukTel: 0131 650 5207

• Finding what you want to read in the library

• Getting what the Library doesn’t have

The Main Library holds the 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)

Intra-library loans for material in other sites

Library Catalogue print and electronic resources renew books on loan

Electronic Journal webpages

Electronic journals only

slightly more up to date than the library catalogue

When you have a reference (or citation) for what you want to read, use:

Finding what you want in the Library

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

Which bits of a reference to use?

• Burnard, P. (2011) Nursing research in action: developing basic skills (3rd ed) Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan.

• Peters, L. and Sellick, K.(2006) Quality of life of cancer patients receiving inpatient and home-based palliative care, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 53(5): 524-33.

Book - use title or author.

Which bits of a reference to use?

• Don’t type in The or An etc from the beginning of a book or journal title

Journal article - use the journal name.

Which Library?

Borrowing Books

40 books (including up to 3 Reserve books)

Standard loan = 12 weeks. Short loan = 1 weekReserve books = up to 3 hours or overnight

Most books (excluding Reserve books) may be renewed up to 5 times

http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/login

Borrowing Books

• 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

• 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

Online Collection

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.

Off-campus access to online collection

Through EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)

VPN – access to University network + wireless access http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpn

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

Use eduroam not central to connect to “normal” campus network.http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless

University of Edinburgh EASE

If you’ve not logged in and can’t get full-text you can try this… …but better

information via Library tools.

Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for what we don’t have

“Intra-library loan” - get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB

• same form • FREE

http://illiad.lib.ed.ac.uk/illiad/

20 free per year

[30 for research postgraduates, 5 for undergraduates]

• then £5 per request received

Finding Academic Information

Catalogue vs bibliographic databasesReading the full-textCiting references

Bibliographic databases

• Contain information about the contents of a range of publications (abstracts, journal articles, book chapters, reports and standards). Often subject specific.

• Perform sophisticated searches with strong search functions

Library catalogue and e-journal pages tell you what journals we have, eg Journal of Advanced NursingBut, not who has published what in those journals, eg Shahoei et al’s article ‘Safe passage’: pregnant Iranian Kurdish women’s choice of childbirth method in the current (Oct11) issue.

Bibliographic (or abstracting and indexing (A&I)) databases are designed to do this; they have the content and the functions and features.

N.B. Bibliographic databases provide references/citations for material and

often abstracts or summaries as well but only link out to full-text

Databases for Reviewing the LiteratureYou will need at some stage to find out what has already been published

in your research field:

CINAHL Plus– Information on articles from thousands of nursing journals.

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.

PsycINFO – references to articles from thousands of psychology and related

journals, conference proceedings, etc.

The Knowledge Network – NHS Scotland portal to ejournals and databases

• 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

Suggest the Library buys Something

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

Journals – me (Liaison Librarian) or library rep: Jilly Taylor

Citing References

There is reference management software which may help, eg EndNote, RefMan

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.• formal and informal terms (myocardial infarction and heart attack)• broader and also more specific terms

uCreate provides multimedia and specialist IT facilities on a self-service basis including printing posters.

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

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

This presentation at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-nursing

ISiskills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk

http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/help

When you start thinking about the 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.