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 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 Our eBook collections What we will cover in this session

Accessing Books & ebooks You can search for Books & eBooks via your Subject Resource page. You need to select the finding books tab and search for a book using the search box. This will take you through to our search engine Summon. Access http://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/sportexercise/books

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 Cataloguehttp://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

Search for an electronic book Navigate to http://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/sportexercise/books and search for a book Select Full Text Online. This will show you a list of eBooks

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

Accessing an electronic book You then have the option of reading the eBook online or downloading it in PDF format We have a guide highlighting useful eBook tools via http://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/sportexercise/guides

eBook Central (Ebrary: a collection of eBook titles) Ebook Collections The Library has 4 eBook collections that are useful for the subject area of Sport and Exercise: eBook Central (Ebrary: a collection of eBook titles) Dawsonera: 1000’s of books specifically chosen by your lecturers EBSCO eBook collection: A collection of eBooks PsycBOOKS: A comprehensive collection of academic psychology eBooks Access these books via your Subject Resource Page Our eBook collections