UCL Library

Lynne Meehan and Ruth Russell

lib-sciteam@ucl.ac.ukhttp://delicious.com/LynneMeehan/eap

How and where to searchHow:Example search: Healthcare funding Breakdown search

Key Concept 1 Key Concept 2Health care Fund or funds or funding

Where:Library catalogues, web gateways and websites, databases

Library catalogue

• http://library.ucl.ac.uk

Useful for searching for books on topics and for finding books on your reading list

• QUIZ: • In which library would you find the book “Rationing

in the NHS” by Bill New, and what is the shelf location?

• What is the earliest issue of “ Healthcare policy” available electronically?

Intute

www.intute.ac.uk

A gateway to peer-reviewed academic information on the web

WHO

http://www.who.int/en/

Useful for information on health policy across the world

Quiz:

Find the factsheet “Paying for health services”

Current research: Step 1: Define your topic

• Manufacturing potential therapies for AIDS

• Key concepts

• Alternative terms

Health care Funding or fund or funds

Healthcare Economic or economics

Finance or finances or financing

Boolean logic for combining search terms

All foods with raspberries All flavours of ice creamRaspberry ice cream

raspberries OR ice cream

Ice cream AND raspberries

Ice cream NOT raspberries

Current research: Step 2: More hints and tips• Phrase search

e.g. “Health care”• Nesting

e.g. “Health care” and

(funding or finance)• Wildcards

e.g. Wom?n• Truncation

e.g. Financ*

Current research: Step 3: Search the databases

• Database of engineering journals and conference proceedings

• Go to the library website www.ucl.ac.uk/library• Click on Databases• Click on W• Click on Web of Science

• QUIZ: • Using Web of Science find three articles on Health care

funding using the tips shown in the previous slides?• Use SFX to locate the articles?• Email yourself the records for the two articles?

Material not held at UCL

• can be used in most databases to check journal holdings at UCL and other universities

• Use the drop down menu in SFX to search across library catalogues with COPAC or ULS

• Links to nearby university libraries here http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/otherlib.shtml

• Books and journal articles can be requested via inter-library loan: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/ill.shtml

How to avoid plagiarism - Citing your references

Citing styles: Harvard and Vancouver Systematic notes Note the content

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/current-students/guidelines/policies/plagiarism

Access to e-resources

• Most electronic resources can be accessed on or off campus

• The best route to these is via the library website• You will need your UCL userid to log in• For further information go to

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/e-res.shtml#res-home

WISE

• Library Services’ online induction• Includes training in various resources • Go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/wise.shtml• Click the link to WISE for beginners and log in

using your UCL computing username and password

• Enrol yourself on the course

Help!

WISE: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/moodle Ask at the Enquiry Desk

Ground floor, Science Library

Opposite the Issue Desk at the Main Library

Tel: 020 7679 7700

Email: library@ucl.ac.uk

Find your subject librarian listed at

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/who.shtml

Thank you

Please fill in the evaluation form at

http://tinyurl.com/ylgdpws

Lynne Meehan (Room 314, Science library)Tel: 020 7679 2634 (ext 32634)Email:lib-sciteam@ucl.ac.uk