Welcome to the Library Rowena Stewart Liaison Librarian Tel: References and what they mean How to find out what the library has Where your books and journals are Electronic books and journals Borrowing and returning Finding Academic Literature

The Main Library holds the print collection for Health in Social Science (also Medicine and most of the Arts and Humanitites Collections). Which Library holds the Counselling print Collection? There is the department library: Psychology & Philosophy Library in the Psychology Building (7 George Square)

BOOK REFERENCE Bond T. (2010) Standards and ethics for counselling in action, London:SAGE. Macaskie J. (2008) Working with transference in counselling, in: Dryden, W, & Reeves A.(eds) Key issues for counselling in action, Los Angeles:SAGE pp On the library catalogue or ejournal web pages look for the: Author (or editor) of the whole book Title of the whole book The rest of the information helps you decide if what the library has is exactly the same book and which chapter or pages of the book to read.

Which Library? Library Catalogue  print journals and (online or print) books  renew books on loan On the Library homepage at Library tab on MyEd

Which Library?

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 Self-issue and self-return But please ask the Helpdesk staff if you have questions etc.

Renewing Books Most books (excluding Reserve books) may be renewed up to 5 times Can’t renew if: recalled, fines too high or on/after due date

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 for overdue standard loan books [on day 6, fine is added at cost of 6 days overdue]  no grace period for overdue recalled books Borrowed books you want (borrower has week at most): Request Charged or Annexe Item

Ebooks on the library catalogue  [electronic resource] in the title means you can read online 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

ARTICLE REFERENCE Article author (year), article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages Saxon, D., Ricketts, T. and Heywood, J. (2010) Who drops-out? Do measures of risk to self and to others predict unplanned endings in primary care counselling? Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 10(1), On the library catalogue or ejournal web pages look for the: Journal title The rest of the information helps you decide if the library has the issue of the journal you need and where in that issue to find the article you want to read.

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 - Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service : secure internet access from eduroam-enabled institution around the world - Use eduroam not central to connect to “normal” campus network Visiting/Borrowing from other Libraries: >Access to other libraries Plus: Professional bodies and their resources

Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for what we don’t have ILLiad form: 30 free per year [5 for undergraduates] then £5 per request received 2 renewals which are done via Helpdesk or I.L.L. staff. More information: “Intra-library loan” - Get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB same form FREE Annexe scans/items - same (week)day if in before noon

Suggest the Library buys Something Books: Journals etc – Rowena Stewart (Academic Support Librarian) or Alette Willis (library rep)

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 Bibliographic (or abstracting and indexing (A&I)) databases are designed to do this. They: N.B. Bibliographic databases provide references/citations for material and often abstracts or summaries as well but only link out to full-text At some stage you will want to find out what has been published on a particular topic. Library catalogue and e-journal pages tell you what journals we have, eg Aging and Mental Health But, not who has published what in those journals, eg Ho’s article ‘A peer counselling program for the elderly with depression living in the community in 2007.

Databases for Reviewing the Literature AMED, ASSIA, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts CINAHL Plus –Information on articles from thousands of nursing journals. PsycINFO –references to articles from thousands of psychology and related journals, conference proceedings, etc. MEDLINE –National Library of Medicine’s database of articles from thousands of medicine and related journals and other academic literature.

Where to find (out about) databases A-Z list and lists by subject

Searcher – the default tab Library catalogue plus databases etc. Good for finding academic literature for essays and reports. Default limit set to what you can read now.

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

Citing References There is reference management software which may help, eg EndNote, RefMan EndNote Online – [have to register yourself] 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 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. Printing via a web interface: Connecting your laptop: follow the links from Connecting to network printers Connecting to network printers Printing –

Study spaces in the Libraries There is a variety of study areas. Some can be booked via the MyEd “Student Study Space” channel but there are no bookable group study rooms in the Main Library. Group Study Spaces Main Library locker rental & daytime use lockers – information about locker use or ask Helpdesk staffinformation about locker use There is a Postgraduate study area on the 5th floor of the Main Library.

Contacting Information Services IS Skills Development open courses and manuals – ISiSkills – IAD – uCreate – Mobile device clinics – If you have a learning technology, IT or library enquiry, contact the IS Helpline: Self-service portal: Phone: +44 (0) There is an IS Helpdesk in each of the IS managed libraries Help

Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMB, The King’s Buildings Tel: This presentation at 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.