Metanoia essential library skills 2014
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Essential Library Skills: MetanoiaKathy McGowan for Viv Eades
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Today we are going to cover...
• The resources are available for your studies
• How to find books and journals using the library catalogue
• Requesting and renewing books
• Using the library pages on myUniHub and Library subject guides
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REMEMBER! Always use
MyUniHub as a gateway to library
resources
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Use library in person or request item to be posted via DL service
Studying at a distance – dedicated service
http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/services/distance/index.aspx
• Postal delivery of books from within the Middlesex University collection (you are responsible for the return postage costs only)
• Electronic delivery of chapters of books from Middlesex (as allowed within British copyright law) £2 each
• Inter-library loans – see next page
login to My Unihub > click My Study tab > scroll down to the ‘My Library box’ > click ‘Studying at a distance’
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Inter Library Loans
Can request electronic journal articles or book chapters from the British Library (if available digitally)
Usually PDF emailed to you in 1 week
£3 charge for articles/chapters from BL
1. login to My Unihub > 2. click ‘My Study’ tab > 3. scroll down to the ‘My Library
box’ > 4. click ‘Studying at a distance’ > 5. Scroll down and click ‘request a
journal article’ or ‘request book chapter’
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Finding Books Using the Library Catalogue
If you know what you’re looking for:
type in the main author’s last name
AND
keywords from the title (omit the, and, in, etc.)
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Search results
• In this example, the same book appears as ebook and hard copy (in library)
• Click on the title of the one you want to use
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Where to find the book
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Don’t have a reference? Doing a subject search
• Use ‘general keyword search’ to look for books on a particular topic
• You may not find a whole book covering your topic, but there may be a useful chapter in a book with broader scope
• Remember ‘general keyword’ search will search both words in the title and subjects
• If you only want ebooks, add ebook into your keyword search
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How do I find an e-book?
• E-books can be found using the library catalogue, just like a print book.
• You will see the words ‘[electronic resource]’ after the title.
• Click on the blue ‘online access’ link to download or read the book online – ensure you are logged into My UniHub!
• If you only want ebooks, add ‘ebook’ into your keyword search for example: psychology qualitative ebook
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Requesting Books
If the book you are seeking is already on loan or you are a distant learner, you may request it via the library catalogue
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Making A Request
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Making A Request
IT User IDPassword
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Renewing Books Online
Use the ‘Login to My Library Account’ option to see what items you have on loan and to renew them
N.B. You will not be able to renew requested books
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Logging in to My Account
IT User IDPassword
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Renewing Books Online
Must click HERE
AND here
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Journals
This is a journal reference from a reading list:
Gabbard, G. O. and Hobday, G. S. (2012). ‘A Psychoanalytic perspective on ethics, self-deception and the corrupt physician’. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 28 (2) pp. 235-248
Can you identify the following parts of the
reference?
Author, Date, Title of article, Journal Title,
Volume, Part & Page Numbers
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Journal Access
• Most of our journals are available electronically
• All our journals are listed in the library catalogue
• If we have it online there will be a blue ‘online access’ link to the available online issues of the journal
• If you know the journal title, this is the easiest way to find it
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Finding electronic journals
• The library catalogue does not list individual articles
• To check whether the library has a particular journal and access it online, do a ‘journal keyword’ search for the name of the journal itself in the library catalogue
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• To find a specific article, click the link for the correct year and then find the article in the correct issue
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Library Subject Guideshttp://libguides.mdx.ac.uk
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Download server – access to SPSS
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Login to download server to access available software
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Need help?
Distant Learner support [email protected] queries: UniHelp 020 8411 6060Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/ Psychology and Psychotherapy Library Subject Guides
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk
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Any questions?