1. 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:

2. Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library – print books
Murray Library building:
08: :00
09/noon - 19:00
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 -

3. But please ask the Helpdesk staff if you have questions etc.
Borrowing Books
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.

4. DiscoverEd
Online and print, journals and books plus records of articles, theses, conference proceedings…
From the Library homepage
Library tab on MyEd
Go directly -

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.
If you think it’s none of those, contact library staff and they’ll be able to help.

9. 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:
N.B. not as fast as using the interlibrary loan service (see below)

10. 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.

11. Journals

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

13. Journals: article scan requests from print only journal issues

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

15. Databases for Reviewing the Literature
To find what has already been published in your field:
> 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,

16. Dissertation Reference management software
Eg EndNote –
Direct import of records
Group records and attach files to them.
Cite while you write
Export in BibTeX format
Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)
Electronic copies of UoEdinburgh awarded PhD theses are deposited in ERA.
Find other PhD theses awarded in your field
> Theses

17. 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.
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

18. 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:
IS Helpline for learning technology, IT or Library enquiries –
Self-service portal:
Phone: +44 (0)
Follow: IS Helpline -
Staffed IS Helpdesk are in each of the Information Services managed libraries -
In the Murray Library:
Specific topics, semester Tuesdays – group study room 1, pm.
Literature review clinic, semester Thursdays – pm & pm.
Events booking