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Library Resources and Services

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. Library Resources and Services. Rowena Stewart Liaison Librarian. Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library – print books

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Library Resources and Services

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  1. 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 Library Resources and Services Rowena Stewart Liaison Librarian

  2. Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library – print books • KB Library Store - all KB print journals Murray Library building: 08:30 - 23:00 09/noon - 19:00 • Informatics, Medicine & HSS in Main Library, George Square • Print journals in Library Annexe, South Gyle.

  3. Which Library? On the Library homepage at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/library Library Catalogue • print journals and (online or print) books • renew books on loan Library tab on MyEd

  4. Which Library?

  5. Borrowing Books • 40 books (including up to 3 Reserve books) • Standard loan = 12 weeks. • Short loan = 1 week • Reserve 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

  6. 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

  7. Online Chemistry Collection • 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 http://sfxhostedeu.exlibrisgroup.com/Edinburgh/az

  8. E-journals In the e-journal pages you can search, browse or look at subject groupings. The library catalogue link goes to the same information but the ejournal pages are more up to date with purchases.

  9. Off-campus access to online collection Through EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal) If you’ve not logged in and can’t get full-text you can try this… …but better information via Library tools. University of Edinburgh EASE 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

  10. Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for what we don’t have • 30 free per year • [20 for taught postgraduates, 5 for undergraduates] • then £5 per request received • take e-payment requests to Store (deducted from grant) http://illiad.lib.ed.ac.uk/illiad/ For (non-UoEd) UK theses start at EThOS. If asked to pay use ILL. North American and worldwide – “Dissertations and Theses” (then ILL) • “Intra-library loan” • Get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB • same form • FREE

  11. Suggest the Library buys Something Books: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB Journals – me (Liaison Librarian) or library rep: Colin Pulham

  12. Databases for Reviewing the Literature You will need at some stage to find out what has already been published in your research field: SciFinder Scholar (web only – personal registration required) • Information on articles from many thousands of journals. • Can search on chemical structure and reaction Reaxys [Beilstein (organic) & Gmelin (inorganic), CrossFire] • Compound and reaction data. Literature citations from 1980 onwards • Can search by chemical (sub)structure. WoK (Science Citation Index , Proceedings…) • Tracking a particularly useful article through the literature since it was published. Index to Theses– UK and Irish Theses EThOS (UK) & Dissertations and Theses (North America+) – full text theses ERA – full text of recent UoEdtheses – http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk

  13. Where to find (out about) databases Searcher (default tab) for quick searches and probable full-text Subject guides to go to pages which include this presentation. A-Z list and lists by subject http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects

  14. Types of Resources Follow link “Types of resources” at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/finding-resources

  15. Help • IAD Programme: Finding Academic Literature http://www.ed.ac.uk/iad • Chemistry, Maths & Physics: Tues 22nd Oct, 9.30amrm3212 JCMB • Multiple others • Happy to see people/take questions individually: Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMB Tel: 650 5207 e-mail: rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk This presentation at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-chemistry http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/help ISiskills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk eg EndNote

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