Rowena Stewart Academic Support Librarian To cover Where your books and journals are Finding out if the Library has what you need Getting what the Library doesnt have Finding academic literature on your subject ID: 357374
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Getting started with the Library
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Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library
– print books
Murray Library building,
semester opening hours
:
08:30 - 23:00
09/noon - 19:00
www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations
More information about all of your 11 University libraries:
Open access study spaces at KB also at Murchison House and JCMB
Main
Library building
, George Square is 24/7Slide3
MSc Postgraduates
50
“items” at one time
includes up to 3 RESERVE
(STANDARD)
12 weeks
(SHORT)
1 week
(RESERVE)
up to 3 hours or overnight
Borrowing Books
www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-borrowing
N.B.
University of Edinburgh Library imposes fines for overdue books
Self-issue and self-return
Sign in
to
DiscoverEd
to
Renew
what you have borrowed.
Request
what has been borrowed by others is returned early and kept aside for you.Slide4
DiscoverEd
Online and print
Journals and books plus records of articles, theses, conference proceedings…
From
MyEd
www.myed.ed.ac.uk
http://discovered.ed.ac.uk
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Use Refine my results to,
eg
“Sort by”, and have the most recently published at the top.
To read online, use the link.
To borrow a print copy, check the information about which library to go to and note the
shelfmark
.
Click on a title to see where to go to read what you’ve found.
DiscoverEd
http://discovered.ed.ac.uk
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What
you need to read online Library resources
For information on the different experiences you can have with
ebooks
:
Navigating
ebooks
(pdf)
Off-campus access to online collections:
EASE (authentication)
/
MyEd
(portal)
Occasionally, VPN is needed
–
access to University network + wireless
access
www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpnSlide7
Library Help
Staff at the Libraries’ Helpdesks
www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations
G
uide to Library resources and services for
S
chool of Mathematics and Statistics
For books and journal articles the library does not have, make an
inter-library loan request
.
For books
not in the Library which should be, go to the
Student Request a Book
form.www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-maths
www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library
www.ed.ac.uk/is/book-recommendations