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 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 www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations Informatics, Medicine & HSS in Main Library, George Square Print journals in Library Annexe, South Gyle. uCreate for multimedia and specialist IT facilities, including design software, A0 poster printing - www.ed.ac.uk/is/ucreate

But please ask the Helpdesk staff if you have questions etc. Borrowing Books www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-borrowing Taught Postgraduates (Undergraduates) Loan period (STANDARD) 12 weeks (4 weeks) (SHORT) 1 week (RESERVE) up to 3 hours or overnight Borrowing limit of books/items per person (includes 3 RESERVE) 50 (30) Self-issue and self-return But please ask the Helpdesk staff if you have questions etc.

DiscoverEd Online and print, journals and books plus records of articles, theses, conference proceedings… From the Library homepage www.ed.ac.uk/is/library Library tab on MyEd www.myed.ed.ac.uk Go directly - http://discovered.ed.ac.uk/

Is my book in the Library? “double quotes” force a search for the phrase. You can do a search and narrow down the results, eg Resource Type > Books, Or order the results, “Sort by”, to have the most recently published at the top.

Where is your book? Online books Print books For information on the different experiences you can have with ebooks see: Navigating ebooks (pdf) Print books If a book is out you can request it be returned early for you to borrow. You need to have signed in to DiscoverEd to do this.

Sign in to Request books on loan and… Sign-in [EASE authenticated]: Request early returns for you to borrow next. Find as many results as there are to find (esp off-campus). See loan period defined for you. 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 (6) months in total, ie from first issue date, for (STANDARD) 12 (4) week loans. 4 months for (SHORT) 1 week loans. You can’t renew if: you’ve reached the limit. the book’s been requested. your fines are too high. www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-borrowing If you think it’s none of those, contact library staff and they’ll be able to help.

Suggest the Library buys Something Fines 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, a fine equals the cost of two days being overdue N.B. £1 per day for overdue recalled books [maximum £10] 2p per minute for overdue reserve books [maximum £25] Suggest the Library buys Something Books: www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB N.B. not as fast as using the interlibrary loan service (see below)

Journals Many thousands of journals online 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. “double quotes” force a search for the phrase.

Journals

Journals Library Annexe – Request online for physical volume/issue LINKS – for same (week)day article scans Library Annexe – Request online for physical volume/issue

Journals: article scan requests from print only journal issues

Databases for Reviewing the Literature DiscoverEd includes article level records. Default setting is to what you can read because the library has bought it.

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 Information on millions of applied and pure Maths articles. Reviews of the articles from 1940s onwards. ZentralblattMATH Information on articles from thousands of maths & statistics journals. As for MathsSciNet, can use MSC to focus on your research interest. Finance and market datasets and information eg Datastream Advance, FAME, KeyNote, Osiris… Economics and Business bibliographic databases egs Business Source Complete, Factiva, Nexis UK,

Dissertation Reference management software Eg EndNote – www.myendnoteweb.com Direct import of records Group records and attach files to them. Cite while you write Export in BibTeX format Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk Electronic copies of UoEdinburgh awarded PhD theses are deposited in ERA. Find other PhD theses awarded in your field www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects > Theses

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. https://ed-ac.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html Intra-library loan – Scans sent to you (or books/physical items sent to the Murray Library for collection) from other Edinburgh University Libraries. same form (ie ILLiad above) FREE Annexe scans/items - same (week)day if in before noon

e-mail: rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk Getting Help I am happy to see people on an individual basis or to answer questions directly: Rowena Stewart Tel: 0131 650 5207 e-mail: rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk IS Helpline for learning technology, IT or Library enquiries – www.ed.ac.uk/is/help 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 Staffed IS Helpdesk are in each of the Information Services managed libraries - www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations In the Murray Library: Specific topics, semester Tuesdays – group study room 1, 1.15-1.45pm. Literature review clinic, semester Thursdays – 12.30-1pm & 1-1.30pm. Events booking