Library Services

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Library Services

• 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

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Library Services Literature Searching
Law and Europa Library Scots, UK International
Law and a European Documentation Centre Main
Library holds the Universitys Health in Social
Science print collection (also Medical,
Economics, Politics, Official Publications and
Management Collections)
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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
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• 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
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• Fines for overdue books
• - 20p per day for standard books
• - 50p per day for short loan books
• - 1 per day for overdue 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 Collections
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• 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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Off-campus access to online collections
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Off-campus access to online collections

• Through EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)
  https//www.ease.ed.ac.uk

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

VPN access to University network wireless
access UCS run service http//www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/ns
d/access/vpnservice.html
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Inter-Library Loan (ILL) for what we dont have
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• Forms from library staff and payment vouchers
  from James Lancaster (check with your programme
  director first)
• Hand in to library staff
• ask library staff about getting articles
  electronically
• non-photocopies collected from the library
• theses may come in microfiche
• Material from other site libraries not in walking
  distance
• form voucher
• Possible to use (even borrow from) other
  institutions
• ask library staff here before you go

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Databases for Reviewing the Literature
Library Services Literature Searching

• Bibliographic Databases help you find what has
  already been published in your field of research.
  They
• Contain information about a range of publications
  (abstracts, journal articles, book chapters,
  reports and standards)
• Are usually subject specific
• Search details of millions of articles to find
  what publications exist about a topic - even if
  not held in our library
• Perform sophisticated searches limited to topics,
  date, authors or type of publication
• Will provide you with references (or citations)
  for material and often abstracts or summaries as
  well

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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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Help
Rowena Stewart JCM Library Tel [phone] E-mail
rowena.stewart_at_ed.ac.uk