Searching for print and electronic books By Paul Biggs Librarian for Psychology, Sport & Exercise, Biology & Biomedical Sciences and Education Title Slide

In This Session We Will Cover How to search for a print book How to access a book from Summon and the Library Catalogue Placing a hold on your book Renewing your book (automatic renewal) Placing a hold on your books – a Postal Loan Searching for an electronic book What we will cover in this session

Accessing Books & ebooks You can search for Books & eBooks via your Subject Resource page. Navigate to http://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/biology/books use the search box to search for a book

Accessing Books & ebooks This will identify hard copy books we have in the library and also eBooks via Summon our all in one search engine Summon is a great tool to use when you are starting a new topic or subject area!

Searching for a book in the library You can see if we have the book as a physical copy in the library or as an electronic book. Select the book link This will take you through to the book record on the Library Catalogue and tell you where the book is located

Placing a hold on your books You can place a hold on your books via the Library Catalogue http://libcat.staffs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl To place a hold on the book on Summon you can select the book Select place hold, log into your account and follow the instructions

Placing a hold on your books A Postal Loan If you are a Distance Learning Student living in the UK we provide a postal loan service. When placing a hold on a book log into your account. Make sure when you place a hold you open up the options and in the box type “Off Campus User”. Select Place Hold For more information visit the Off Campus User page

Renewing your books Your books will automatically renew after 2 weeks However, if the book is popular and other students have placed holds on the book you will be requested to return it. Usually you will receive an eMail to your student eMail inbox Please return the book promptly otherwise you will have to pay a recall charge

Accessing an electronic book To access an eBook select the Full Text Online link You will need to log into the eResource using your username & password

Reading an ebook To read an electronic book you have the option of downloading it as a file or by selecting read online You can find a useful eBook tools guide via http://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/biology/guides

eBook Central (Ebrary: a collection of over 100,000 titles) Ebook Collections The Library has 3 eBook collections that are useful for your subject area: eBook Central (Ebrary: a collection of over 100,000 titles) Dawsonera: 1000’s of books specifically chosen by your lecturers EBSCO eBook collection: A collection of eBooks Access these books via your Subject Resource Page Our eBook collections