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Library Resources and Services
Rowena StewartLiaison Librarian
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
Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library – print booksKB Library Store - all KB print journals
Informatics, Medicine & HSS in Main Library, George Square
Murray Library building: 08:30 - 23:00
09/noon - 19:00
Print journals in Library Annexe, South Gyle.
Which Library? Library Catalogue
print journals and (online or print) books renew books on loan
On the Library homepage at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/library
Library tab on MyEd
Which Library?
Ebook example: string theory date descending- http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/searchBasic
Borrowing Books
40 books (including up to 3 Reserve books)
Standard loan = 12 weeks. Short loan = 1 weekReserve 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
http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/login
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 BooksFines for overdue books:
20p per day for standard books / 50p per day for short loan books£1 per day for overdue recalled books2p 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):
• 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 Maths Collection
http://sfxhostedeu.exlibrisgroup.com/Edinburgh/az
E-journalsIn the e-journal pages you can search, browse or look at subject groupings.
The library catalogue link goes to the same information but the ejournal pages are more
up to date with purchases.
Off-campus access to online collectionThrough EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)
VPN – access to University network + wireless access - www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpn
Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service : secure internet access from eduroam-enabled institution around the world - www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless/jrs
Use eduroam not central to connect to “normal” campus network www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless
University of Edinburgh EASE
If you’ve not logged in and can’t get full-text you can try this, but better information via Library tools.
SCONUL Access: borrowing from other UK HEI Libraries - www.sconul.ac.uk
Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for what we don’t have
For (non-UoEd) UK theses start at EThOS. If asked to pay use I.L.L..North American and worldwide – “Dissertations and Theses” (then I.L.L.)
“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
ILLiad form: http://illiad.lib.ed.ac.uk/illiad/
30 free per year [5 for undergraduates]
• then £5 per request received • take e-payment requests to Maths Admin• 2 renewals which are done via Helpdesk or I.L.L. staff.
More information: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library
Suggest the Library buys Something
Books:http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB
Journals etc – Rowena Stewart (Academic Support Librarian) or Tibor Antal (library rep)
Databases for Reviewing the LiteratureYou will need at some stage to find out what has already been published
in your research field:
MathSciNet Information on millions of applied and pure Maths articles. Reviews of the articles from 1940s onwards.
ZentralblattMATH Information on articles from thousands of journals. As for MathsSciNet can use MSC to focus on your research interest.
WoK (Science Citation Index , Proceedings…) Tracking a particularly useful article through the literature since it was published.
Searcher: library catalogue, databases etc with default limit set to what you can read now.
Where to find (out about) databases
A-Z list and lists by subjecthttp://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects
Subject guides to go to pages which include this presentation.
• Index to Theses – UK and Irish Theses• EThOS (UK) & Dissertations and Theses (North America+) – full text theses • ERA – full text of recent UoEd theses - http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/
Managing your referencesEg EndNote • Desktop and an online version• Direct import of records (look under Save or Export function on website etc)• Attach files to records.• Cite while you write• Export chosen references in BibTeX format.
Use what you like but use something [N.B. link goes to UoLoughborough information
Publishing your research
Data - www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-management
Open Access (OA) - www.ed.ac.uk/openaccess Money to make it OAAdvice (on copyright implications etc.)
Open repository, Edinburgh DataShare. Training - http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/Advice
Contacting Information Services
• IS Skills Development open courses and manuals – MyEd Events or Uni web search box
• ISiSkills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk• IAD – www.ed.ac.uk/iad • Learning Technology Team (Turnitin, VLEs)
www.ed.ac.uk/is/learning-technology • uCreate – www.ed.ac.uk/is/ucreate
If you have a learning technology, IT or Library enquiry, contact the IS Helpline:
Self-service portal: www.ed.ac.uk/is/selfservice Email: [email protected]: +44 (0)131 651 5151
• Schools providing IT support for their staff - www.ed.ac.uk/is/contact-helpline
There is an IS Helpdesk in each of the IS managed libraries - www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locationsLevel 1 for the Murray Library
Help
Help
Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMBTel: 0131 650 5207
e-mail: [email protected] presentation at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-maths
IAD Programme: Finding Academic Literature - Science and Engineering
Main Library: Wed 8th Oct 10am-noon rm1.10KB: Tues 21st Oct, 10am – noon, [rm3212 JCMB]KB: Thurs 9th Apr15, 2pm-4pm [rm3212 JCMB]
Happy to see people/take questions
Murray Library:
• Specific topics, semester Tuesdays – group study room 1, 1.15-1.45pm. MyEd booking.
• Drop-in literature review clinic, semester Thursdays – level1 seating area noon-2pm.
[Mobile Device clinics – Book via MyEd EventsTuesdays 2-4pm, grp study rm3]