Postgraduate Course FeedbackEssential Library Skills

BMS1503

October 2013

Today we are going to cover...

• Types of resources available

• The Library Catalogue

• Finding books and journals

• Requesting and renewing books

• Using your Library subject guide

• Referencing

Library facilities

Different types of resources

Types of information

Exercise 1:

1.Each group will be given a pack of cards 2.The cards contain the names of 4 different resources3.Match together the correct: Resource Type + Definition + “Good for” + “Not so good for”

Time: 4 mins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e32kaa9TzeE

Books

What are they: A written or printed work of fiction or fact. May be electronic.

Good for: Clear overview

Not so good for: Up to date information

Web pages

What are they: An information resource which can be easily created by anyone on any topic.Electronic.

Good for: Very up to date information

Not so good for: Accurate and reliable information

Newspapers

What are they: A regular publication containing current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising.

May be electronic.Good for:

Daily informationNot so good for:

Balanced and well researched information

Journals

What are they: A regular publication containing articles on a particular academic subject.Presents new research.

Good for: Latest research, critically reviewed by experts

Not so good for: Broad overview of a subject

Library Catalogue

Go to: MyUniHub

My Study

My Library

Library Catalogue

Library Catalogue

Finding books on the Catalogue

How to search:

• Keyword search

• A-Z search

Exercise 2:Using the Library Catalogue, try finding the following books yourself....

Books for BMS1503

• Kaplan, L.A., Pesce, A.J., Kazmierczak, S.C. (2003) Clinical Chemistry: Theory, Analysis and Correlation. Mosby.

• Walters, N.J., Estridge, B.H., Reynolds A.P. (2000) Basic Medical Laboratory Techniques. Delmar.

• Adams, D.S. (2003) Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Finding books on the shelves

610.73 BUR, 610.73 CLI, 610.7301 NUR

Where are the BMS books?

1st floor, 2nd Floor, 3rd Floor

Finding books in the Library

Exercise 3:

• 7 volunteers

• Direct them into the correct shelf order

• Use the main number, then the decimal number, then the three letters

Finding e-books

• Also find these on the Library Catalogue.

• ‘[electronic resource]’ appears after the title.

• Click on the blue link to download or read it

• Make sure you have logged into myUniHub!

Access Full Text

Finding e-books

Reserving an item

Reserving an item

Student numberDate of birth DDMMYY

Collecting a reserved item

• Check your Middlesex e-mail.

• Write down the 6-figure reference number in the e-mail.

• Go to the Reservations shelves.

• Remember to borrow the book!

Renewing your loans

Journals

Here’s a journal reference from a reading list:

Schoefs, B. (2004). Determination of pigments in vegetables. Journal of chromatography A. 1054, (1-2), p. 217-226.

Exercise 4: Can you identify the following parts of the reference?

Journal title, Issue number, Date, Volume number, Author, Page numbers, Article title

Finding journals on the Catalogue

How to search:

• A-Z search > Journal A-Z

Schoefs, B. (2004). Determination of pigments in vegetables. Journal of chromatography A. 1054, (1-2), p. 217-226.

Finding journals

Exercise 5:Find and access this journal article:

Gaspar, A. and Bacsi, I. (2009). ‘Forced flow paper chromatography: A simple tool for separations in short time’. Microchemical Journal. 92, (1), p. 83-86.

If you have time, try finding and accessing:- Trends in microbiology- Human immunologyLook for an article on a topic that you are studying.

Your Library Subject Guide

Referencing

Open the Natural Sciences Guide to Citation and Referencing, available here:

BMS Library Subject guide

Information Skills

Referencing and Plagiarsim

Open the Guide (PDF)

Referencing

Step 1 - Citing a reference

There is evidence to suggest that …… (Newsholme and

Leech, 2009).

Step 2 - Compiling a reference list

Newsholme, E.A., Leech, T.R. (2009) Functional

Biochemistry in Health and Disease. Chichester:

Wiley-Blackwell.

Referencing a book

Exercise 6:

• Open a blank Word document• Type a reference to the book Statistics for dummies

that you have been given.

• Follow this example:

Ahmed, N. (2010) Clinical Biochemistry. 2nd ed. Oxford:

Oxford University Press.

Referencing a book

The correct format is:

Rumsey, D. (2011) Statistics for dummies. 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing.

Referencing a journal article

Exercise 7:

• Now type a reference to the article by Carter and Howell that you have been given.

• Follow this example:

Perry, C., Ikram, M.S. (2001) What health care

assistants know about clean hands. Nursing

Times 97 (22): 63-64.

Referencing a journal article

The correct format is:

Carter, V., Howell, W.M. (2013) Vimentin antibody

production in transplant patients and

immunomodulatory effects of vimentin in-vitro.

Human Immunology 74: 1463-1469.

Next time...

• Evaluating information

• Searching effectively for journal articles

• Using information ethically (more on citing and referencing)

Need help?

• Librarians in the Specialist Zone (1st floor) 11-3 Monday - Friday

• Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/ • Biomedical Sciences Library Subject Guide

http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/biomedicalsciences