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
rm1406 JCMB
Tel: 0131 650 5207
rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk
Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library – print books
Murray Library building:
08:30 - 23:00
09/noon - 19:00
Informatics,
Medicine & HSS in
Main Library,
George Square
Print journals in
Library Annexe,
South Gyle.
DiscoverEd
Online and print, journals and books plus records of articles, theses,
conference proceedings…
From the Library homepage
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/library
Library tab on MyEd
www.myed.ed.ac.uk
Journals
Many thousands of journals online
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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.
Use DiscoverEd to look them up – http://discovered.ed.ac.uk
“double quotes” force a search for the phrase.
Journals
Off-campus access to online collection
EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)
VPN – access to University network + wireless access –
www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpn
Connecting to the network www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless
Get Connected sessions – Main Library, George Square
SCONUL Access scheme allows borrowing from other UK HEI Libraries
www.sconul.ac.uk
Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service : secure internet access from eduroamenabled institution around the world – www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless/jrs
Databases for Reviewing the Literature
To find what has already been published in your field:
www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects > Mathematics & Statistics
MathSciNet
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Information on millions of applied and pure
Maths articles.
Reviews of the articles from 1940s onwards.
ZentralblattMATH
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Information on articles from thousands of journals.
As for MathsSciNet can use MSC to focus on your research interest.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index , Proceedings…)
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Tracking a particularly useful article through the literature since it was published.
Journal Impact Factors
Databases for Reviewing the Literature
DiscoverEd includes article level records. Default setting is to what you can
read because the library has bought it.
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.
• More information at www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library
https://ed-ac.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html
“Intra-library loan”
• Get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB or scans of articles from print
journals in the Library Annexe.
• same form
• FREE
• Annexe scans/items - same (week)day if in before noon
Theses
Find theses awarded in your field
www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects > Theses
eg ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Global for those awarded worldwide.
Includes online full-text.
Reference management software
Eg EndNote – www.myendnoteweb.com
• Direct import of records
• Group records and attach files to them.
• Cite while you write
• Export chosen references in BibTeX format.
Which Library?
For information on the different experiences you can have with ebooks see:
Navigating ebooks (pdf)
Borrowing Books
50 books – PGTs (60 for PGRs)
- 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.
Which Library?
Sign-in, EASE authenticated, to:
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Request early returns for you to borrow next.
Find as many results as there are to find (esp off-campus).
See previous as well as current loans.
Save records.
Save searches to run again.
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 or your
fines are too high.
If you think it’s none of those, contact library staff and they’ll be able to help.
Borrowing Books
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 fine will equal cost of two days.
N.B.
£1 per day for overdue recalled books [maximum £10]
2p per minute for overdue reserve books [maximum £25]
Borrowed books you want (borrower has week at most):
Suggest the Library buys Something
Books:
www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB
Contacting Information Services (IS)
IS Helpline for learning technology, IT or Library enquiries:
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Self-service portal: www.ed.ac.uk/is/selfservice
Email: IS.Helpline@ed.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)131 651 5151
Follow: IS Helpline Alerts@isalerts - https://twitter.com/isalerts
Schools providing IT support for their staff are listed at Contact the IS Helpline
Staffed IS Helpdesk are in each of the Information Services
managed libraries - www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations
Level 1 in the Murray Library.
Help
IAD Programme: Finding Science & Engineering Academic Literature
Wednesday 11th November, 12:15 - 13:45, [rm3212 JCMB].
Thursday 11th February (2016), 15:15 - 16:45 [rm3212 JCMB].
Institute for Academic Development – www.ed.ac.uk/iad/postgraduates
• IS Skills Development open
courses and manuals:
www.ed.ac.uk/is/skills
Help
In the 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 noon2pm.
[Mobile Device Clinics - Murray Library
sessions: Tuesdays 2-4pm, grp study rm3
www.ed.ac.uk/is/MDC ]
Happy to see people and/or be contacted with questions
Rowena Stewart, rm1406 JCMB
Tel: 0131 650 5207
e-mail: rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk