Introduction to Library Searches

• The slides take you through some of the basic ways of searching the Library’s electronic information resources

Help?

• If you have any problems finding information contact David Clark (Subject Librarian : Science & Technology) (Tel: 01332 591203, email: d.clark@derby.ac.uk)

• Or the Subject Information Desk is open in term time between 8.45a.m. – 8.45p.m Mon-Thurs, & till 4.45 p.m Friday & between 10-1.00 Saturdays 01332 591207.

More help

• Or the Distributed (Distance) Learning Unit is here to help distance learning students.

http://www.derby.ac.uk/infocus

Logging into the University of Derby Electronic Library (Udel)

Use the Electronic Journals A-Z to find a specific electronic journal.

Make sure you find the Athens login link(s) & click on it (them) otherwise you will not be able to see a full journal article we have access to.

Make sure you find the Athens link to see the whole journal article

You are now signed in & have access

Another example of Athens sign in from the publisher Taylor & Francis

Searching for articles on a topic

• There are several databases which you can use to find some journal articles on a topic

• The following slides show you :• EBSCO Electronic Journals Service• PsycARTICLES• Elsevier Science Direct

EBSCO Electronic Journals Service allows you search across a range of journals we subscribe to from different publishers.It’s not sophisticated, you just type in a few key words & it doesn’t find all we have but it’s very useful & easy to use

PsycARTICLES is a database containing the complete articles of the journals of the American Psychological Association (APA) & others.

Many are not covered in EBSCO EJS so it is another very useful place to search

Science Direct is the database of Elsevier, one of the world’s largest journals publishers. Though many of the journals are contained in EBSCO EJS, the latter does not go as far back in time as Science Direct.

The first time you use it, you need to register your details with Science Direct.

For later ….Other databases widen your search by indexing which journal articles have been published. The Library may have some of the journal articles but not others.

e.g.Web of Science

PsycINFOGoogle Scholar

Electronic Books

• We have a growing number of e-books but not all books we would like are available for Libraries to buy

• The next slides take you briefly though accessing electronic books & how to see them but bear in mind that they have a lot of features & so this barely skims the surface

• We have to use different e-book suppliers which work slightly differently to each other

You can see a brief title listing of e-books with links from the Resources by Subject Library page for Psychology

You can look for e-books using the library catalogue & limit your search to e-books if you like.

At present for Dawsonera e-books, you are taken to the Dawsonera home page & then have to look for the e-book within the database e.g. type in the author’s surname.

Hopefully this should be rectified soon by Dawsonera.