Library Services and Literature Searching

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Library Services and Literature Searching

• Rowena Stewart

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Library Services Literature Searching

• To cover
• Where your books and journals are
• Finding out if the Library has what you need
• Getting books, journal articles, etc which the
  Library doesnt have
• Finding academic literature on your subject

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Library Services Literature Searching

• Darwin Library holds the Universitys Chemistry
  print Collection (also the Biological Sciences
  collection)
• JCM Library
• Physics, Maths,
• Meteorology
• Robertson
• Engineering
• (incl. Chemical),
• Geosciences
• Medicine and Informatics, also Humanities
  subjects - print Collections in the Main Library

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Which Library?
Library Services Literature Searching

• Library Catalogue
• print and electronic resources
• renew books on loan
• On the Library homepage
• http//www.lib.ed.ac.uk

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Which Library?
Library Services Literature Searching
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Borrowing Books
Library Services Literature Searching

• 25 books (including up to 3 Reserve books)
• Standard loan 12 weeks.
• Short loan 1 week
• Reserve books up to 3 hours or overnight
• Most books (excluding Reserve books) may be
  renewed up to 5 times

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Borrowing Books
Library Services Literature Searching

• Fines for overdue books
• - 20p per day for standard books
• - 50p per day for short loan books
• - 1 per day for recalled books
• (-2p per minute for reserve books)
• 5 days grace applies to overdue standard loan
  books
• on day 6, fine is added at cost of 6 days
  overdue.
• no grace period for overdue recalled books
• Ask library staff to recall for you, books you
  want to read but which are on loan.

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Online Chemistry Collection
Library Services Literature Searching

• Many journals available online
• Not always bought from every available host site
• Not always bought for access from volume 1 to now
• Check electronic
• journals pages
• www.lib.ed.ac.uk

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E-journals
Library Services Literature Searching

• In the e-journal pages you can search,
  browse or look at subject groupings.

The library catalogue takes you to the same pages.
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Off-campus access to online collections
Library Services Literature Searching

• Through EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)
  https//www.ease.ed.ac.uk
• VPN access to University network wireless
  access
• UCS run service
• http//www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/nsd/access/vpnservice.html
  

• What you have out, links to e-journals and to
  the literature databases pages.

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Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for what we dont have
Library Services Literature Searching

• Forms and payment vouchers at The Store
• Send or hand in to library staff
• ask library staff about getting articles
  electronically
• non-photocopies collected from the library to
  which you hand in the form voucher
• theses may come in microfiche
• Material from non-KB libraries brought up by
• form voucher
• Possible to use (even borrow from) other
  institutions
• ask library staff

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Databases for Reviewing the Literature
Library Services Literature Searching

• You will need at some stage to find out what has
  been published in your field of research
• SciFinder Scholar (chemistry)
• References from mid 1800s onwards.
• Can search on chemical structure.
• Crossfire Beilstein (organic) Gmelin
  (inorganic)
• Millions of records on compound and reaction data
  (1770s onwards). Literature citations from 1980
  onwards
• Can search by chemical structure diagrams
• WoK (Science Citation Index , ISI Proceedings)
• - Tracking a particularly useful article forward
  through the literature since it was published.
• Index to Theses UK and Irish Theses

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Where to find (out about) databases
Library Services Literature Searching

• Search lots of resources at once

A-Z list and all subjects. Scroll down front
page for
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Library Services Literature Searching
Help
Transkills Information Resources
Rowena Stewart JCM Library Tel [phone] E-mail
rowena.stewart_at_ed.ac.uk
This presentation at http//www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resby
sub/scitraining.shtml