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Presentation by Nadine Edwards at Supervising Postgraduate Research Students - Day 2 held at Blake 028, Medway Campus, University of Greenwich on 19th April 2013.
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Access to Information and the Literature Search
Our role
• Linking library content and collections to researchers strategies
• Cataloguing, navigation, discovery, delivery and access: researcher’s needs
Literature searching
• Major research content via SciVerse Science Direct, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Emerald, Engineering Village, Wiley Online Library, IEEEXplore/IET Library, SwetsWise, SAGE Journals Online, Springer Link, JSTOR, Web of Knowledge, Cambridge Journals, Oxford Journals, RSC Journals PLUS Archive & more
• Resources accessed via the Library & Computing/IT tab in the university portal
• No single cross-search yet
Managing references
• Use alerts, saved searches and other personalization features
• EndNote Web for managing references
• JournalTOCs
10,000 eBooks
• MyiLibrary – over 7000 titles
• Dawsonera - search, rent and preview over 255,000 titles (we own 1646)
• Cambridge Books Online - 984 titles in 3 collections
• Oxford Scholarship Online - 433 titles in 2 collections
Digitised theses
• EThOS is the British Library’s Electronic Theses Online System – for UK doctoral theses digitised by the British Library
• Download digitised UK theses from EThOS & GALA
• Access US theses via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database in the portal
Library networks
• Document Supply (via the British Library)
• Join asap
• Search25
• Union catalogues for specialist information
Other resources
LinksAccess Schemes and Services• SCONUL Access http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access• Search25 http://www.search25.ac.uk/ • COPAC http://www.copac.ac.uk/• Document Supply http://www.gre.ac.uk/offices/ils/ls/guides/ill • Ethos http://ethos.bl.uk/
Journals• SUNCAT http://www.suncat.ac.uk/• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/• JournalTOCs http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/ • Other union catalogues http://www.suncat.ac.uk/other.shtml
Images Attribution• 'Longleat Hedge Maze‘ www.flickr.com/photos/90514086@N00/952953634
Thank you
Nadine Edwards Senior Academic Services E-LibrarianDreadnought LibraryGreenwich CampusTel. 020 8331 9781Email: [email protected]
