1. 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
Rowena Stewart
Academic Support Librarian
Tel:

2. Which Library holds your print Collections?
Main Library - print collections for Health in Social Science and Medicine (plus most of the Arts and Humanities Collections).
Main Library – 5th floor
– Postgraduate study area
Western General and RIE have libraries too.
There are department libraries, eg Psychology & Philosophy Library in the Psychology Building (7 George Square)

3. DiscoverEd – http://discovered.ed.ac.uk
Online and print, journals and books plus records of articles, theses, conference proceedings…
From the Library homepage
Library tab on MyEd

4. Journals Many thousands of journals online
Not always bought from every available host site
Not always bought for access from volume 1 to now
Some issues (even titles) only taken in print.
“double quotes” force a search for the phrase.

5. Journals

6. Journals Library Annexe – Request online for physical volume/issue
LINKS – for same (week)day article scans
Library Annexe – Request online
for physical volume/issue

7. Journals: article scan requests from print only journal issues

8. Off-campus access to online collection
EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)
VPN – access to University network + wireless access –
Connecting to the network -
Get Connected sessions – Ground floor concourse, Main Library,
George Square, 11th – 22nd Sept
Monday – Friday
(11th – 22nd Sept)
Saturday (16th)
Sunday (17th)
Wednesday (20th)
10am - 6pm
noon - 6pm
noon – 7pm
Late night opening til 8pm
Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service : secure internet access from eduroam-enabled institution around the world -

9. Databases for Reviewing the Literature
DiscoverEd includes article level records. Default setting is to what you can read because the library has bought it.

10. Databases for Reviewing the Literature
To find what has already been published in your field:
> Clinical Psychology (etc)
PsycINFO
American Psychological Association for psychology and psychiatry
EMBASE and MEDLINE
Both clinical medicine and related fields.
Former has coverage of more European-based journals.
ASSIA and Social Services Abstracts
Research done or reported for those working outside a clinical setting
CINAHL Plus
Nursing
ERIC
Education but good on wellbeing of the child.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index , Proceedings…)
Tracking a particularly useful article through the literature since it was published.
Journal Impact Factors

11. Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for what we don’t have
30 free per year [5 for undergraduates]
then £5 per request received
2 renewals which are done via Helpdesk or I.L.L. staff.
Intra-library loan – Scans sent to you (or books/physical items sent to the Main Library for collection) from Library Annexe and other UoEdinburgh libraries not in the Central Area.
same form (ie ILLiad above)
FREE
Annexe scans/items - same (week)day if in before noon
Plus:
NHS Knowledge Network -
Professional bodies and their resources

12. Dissertation Reference management software
Eg EndNote –
Direct import of records
Group records and attach files to them.
Cite while you write
Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)
Electronic copies of UoEdinburgh awarded theses are deposited in ERA (a printed and bound copy goes to the University Archive).
Find other theses awarded in your field
> Theses

13. The online version is free.
The University supports the reference management software, EndNote, for which there is a desktop and online version.
The online version is free.
Comparison table at:
EndNote desktop (see below for EndNote online) at an academic discount:
Workshops, including webinars, for which anyone can sign up:
ENDNOTE ONLINE:
Register via web of science. Instructions:
Then go directly: 
Workshops listed in the workshop link above but in the session descriptions there you'll see links to the workbook used you can go through yourself in your own time:  
ENDNOTE CITE WHILE YOU WRITE (CWYW)
Is installed on the open access computers but for your own laptop/personal computer - Go to EndNote Online’s Format tab > Cite While You Write Plug-in.
The CWYW plugin doesn't work with Word online - but you can download Word 2016 on up to 5 devices:

14. But please ask the Helpdesk staff if you have questions etc.
Borrowing Books
50 books – PGTs (60 for PGRs, 30 UGs)
- 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.

15. Which Library?
For information on the different experiences you can have with ebooks see:
Navigating ebooks (pdf)

16. Getting books on loan Sign-in [EASE authenticated]:
Request early returns for you to borrow next.
Find as many results as there are to find (esp off-campus).
See loan period defined for you.
See previous as well as current loans.
Save records.
Save searches to run again.

17. Renewing Books
Most books (excluding Reserve books) may be renewed for up to:
18 months in total, ie from first issue date, for (STANDARD) 12 week loans.
4 months for (SHORT) 1 week loans.
You can’t renew if:
you’ve reached the limit.
the book’s been requested.
your fines are too high.
If you think it’s none of those, contact library staff and they’ll be able to help.

18. Suggest the Library buys Something
Borrowing Books contd
Fines for overdue books:
20p per day for standard books / 40p per day for short loan books [maximum £10]
– with one day’s grace.
- on day two of being overdue, a fine equals the cost of two days being overdue.
N.B.
£1 per day for overdue recalled books [maximum £10]
2p per minute for overdue reserve books [maximum £25]
Suggest the Library buys Something
N.B. not as fast as I.L.L.
Books:

19. Printing and photocopying
Payment via your Print account which you can top up at the machines, by 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
Printing –
uCreate
Provides multimedia and specialist IT facilities on a self-service basis including printing posters.

20. Contacting Information Services (IS)
IS Helpline for learning technology, IT or Library enquiries:
Self-service portal:
Phone: +44 (0)
Follow: IS Helpline -
Staffed IS Helpdesk are in each of the Information Services managed libraries -
Mobile Device Clinics
Help diagnosing and fixing software faults as well as general system clean-up and maintenance.
Main Library foyer -

21. Help I am happy to see people on an individual basis
or to answer questions directly:
Rowena Stewart
Tel:
Digital Skills and Training -
open courses and manuals
plus online courses / videos (>5,000) from Lynda.com
Institute for Academic Development -
Copyright information -