Welcome to Edinburgh University Library Christine Love-Rodgers C.H.S.S Library Consultancy Team ACE Research Methods 2010

Summary of today’s session The Main Library in 2010 Tips for making the most of the Library Your Research Strategy Online Library Resources for Architecture, History of Art, Music Other Academic Resources

What’s new? The Main Library in 2010

Getting In Access is by swipe- card. Remember to bring your Library Card! New longer opening hours in semester time – until 2.30am

Self-Issue and Return New for Sept 2010 – you can now self issue Music Scores & CDs. (Please take fragile items to Helpdesk) We have an easy to use system for the self-issue and return of books. Self-issue is also available on Floors 2 and 4.

Journals Current and bound back issues of journals are now on the Lower Ground Floor.

Lending Stock – Floors 2 and 4 New for History of Art & Architecture books are shelved at N on Floor 2. Music Books, Scores and CDs are shelved at M on Floor 2. There is a new purpose built listening and playing area.

Study Space in the Library New for 2010 – Postgraduate only study space on Floor 5.

Tips for making the most of the Library Did you know that you can : Recommend books for the library? Ask for books to be moved to another location or missing items replaced? Set up alerts to you when new materials in your area become available? Request one to one help from your liaison librarian?

Recommending Books for the Library Q1. These books would be useful to my future research and the library seems to have a gap in this area A1. Use the Student Book recommendation formStudent Book recommendation form Q2. I need this book urgently for my research and the Library doesn’t have it A2. Either obtain it via Inter-library loan OR ask your supervisor to recommend it as urgent using the Staff recommendation formStaff recommendation form Q3. I need this journal for my research and the library doesn’t subscribe to it A.3 Contact your liaison librarian to request. We will check if it is available locally (e.g. NLS, ECA) and may suggest that as an alternative to subscribing

Help with using the Library or, face-to-face, Ground Floor Help with IT related issues or, phone Help with your study/research

Find your way online Find the Library home page & catalogues Find what’s available for your subject Find e-journals

Find your way online : Getting In Via MyEdMyEd Library catalogue Library Online web page

Planning Your Search Strategy What is your research question?. Think about the scope and limits of your search (date, language, country, etc).. Define some subject keywords and phrases.. Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to refine your search.. Try “snowballing” from things you already have.

Let’s look at a research question - “Noise is a sound which is out of place” (Gurney 1999) What is the influence of music, sound and noise in the urban landscape?

Keywords – a summary Think of related terms. Think of synonyms. Abbreviations Watch out for UK/US spellings (e.g. colour, color). Homonyms (same word or phrase but different meaning, depending on the subject e.g. “election”). Variant terminology (farmers markets (UK) greenmarkets (USA). Changes in terminology. (Aborigines, First Nations, Native Peoples). Consider variation in word endings.

Noise Urban Cit* Think of some subject keywords to try Music Sound Landscape

Truncation - a summary Truncation allows you to look for all forms of keyword….plurals, variant endings. Type in start of word plus the truncation or abbreviation symbol ($ * ? #) depending on the search tool or database you are using. e.g. child* will find child, childhood, childs, children, childrens

Record contains both A and B Record contains A but not B Record contains either A or B Now the scary bit! Boolean Searching

Using Online Library Resources Via SearcherSearcher Library Databases for ArchitectureLibrary Databases for Architecture Databases by subject

A result from Avery …

Snowballing? Just one useful article can lead you to more: Search for other writings by the same author and co-authors. Follow up on references used by author in their bibliography. Look for the article in databases. Note keywords assigned to it and use them to run a new search. Use “cited by” or “more like this” feature if there is one.

An Article to “Snowball”… Atkinson Roland (2007) Ecology of sound: the sonic order or urban space Urban Studies Vol. 44 No. 10 p

A result from Web of Knowledge …

Other Academic Resources Theses Inter-Library loans Using other libraries Before you start – plan your search

Finding theses Find out about British theses using Index to Theses. International theses can be located using Dissertations and Theses Find these databases on the library website at: dlits.shtml#t

Finding theses in full text online ERA – Edinburgh University Theses EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service

Useful websites for finding foreign theses Australian Digital Theses Program Center for Research Libraries foreign dissertations Cybertesis.net DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)

Finding printed theses Post 1985? – Pre 1985? –Handlists in Centre for Research Collections Theses from other universities? –

Resources Beyond Edinburgh University Library Inter-Library loans – National Library of Scotland – COPAC –

Good luck with your studies. Christine Love-Rodgers C.H.S.S Library Consultancy Team