School of Engineering and Materials Science MSc Medical Electronics

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School of Engineering and Materials ScienceMSc
Medical Electronics Physics MSc Biomedical
EngineeringFinding information at Queen Mary,
University of London Kathy Abbott, Subject
Librarian

• Your questions to ask a Librarian on Library
  web page
• You can ask general questions using ask a
  Librarian or at the Help Desk on the Ground
  Floor
• Lots of information on the Web and in the printed
  guides
• But dont be afraid to ask! (09/08)

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Information guides on the web

• Start from The Library web page
• On the black bar, click your subject, then
  Engineering
• See QM Information Guides and information skills
  training link for this PowerPoint presentation,
  as a reminder
• Your Information guides are on the web

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To use blue-screen workstations Student Service
workstations

• If you wish to come to campus and use the
  Internet, you need to use blue-screen Student
  Service workstations. There are many workstations
  in different labs, and many in the Main Library
• You obtain your username from Computing Services
  Reception, Queens Building, W209. West side,
  Second Floor, Room W209. Open 0900 - 1700 Monday
  to Friday
• The Student Service username is very useful for
  accessing electronic information resources off
  campus. This includes IEL (IEEE/IET Electronic
  Library)

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Library Reception Team
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Help Desk on Main Library Ground Floor
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Up the stairs to the Main Library First Floor
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Group Study space

• The Hive/Level One, above the café called ground
• open 8 am - 8 pm, Monday to Sunday
• If you need to discuss your work with your
  colleagues in the Main Library, use
• The Quiet Zone on the Ground Floor
• Group Study Room 2 on the 2nd floor book with
  the Library Reception Team (8 seats) (not
  available for 4 weeks)

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Group study in the Hive
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The Library study environment

• The areas by the books on the Main Library 1st
  and 2nd floors are SILENT STUDY ZONES
• You may to tell anyone nearby who is disturbing
  you to be quiet. If the noise continues, ask a
  member of Library staff to speak to the noisy
  people

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Always keep your personal belongings with you

• Everywhere in London, thieves operate
• Strangers have entered the Library, and have
  stolen handbags left on the floor by chairs, and
  wallets left in jackets on the back of chairs,
  while the student is sitting concentrating on
  their work
• Keep your personal belongings close to you, on
  your body or in your sight

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• Always have your Student/Library card with you
• Switch off your mobile phones in Silent Study
  Zones!

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To pay for photocopying

• Copy charges A4, 4p A3, 8p
• 12 copiers at Main Library 1 colour copier
• Change machines on Ground Floor they change
  notes into 1 coins
• Use the grey revaluation kiosks to top up your
  credit balance
• Copiers will do reductions, enlargements, and
  double sided copying
• Show the barcode on your Student card to the
  barcode scanner on each copier

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To Ground Floor photocopiers, change machines and
revaluation kiosk
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Revaluation kiosk to add credit for photocopying
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To pay for printing on Computing Services Student
Service

• You receive an initial free allocation of 100
  pages
• To top up your print credit, purchase scratch
  cards
• Available from vending machines at Main Library
  (1 5 cards)
• Enter your details the scratch card number on
  the Computing Services print credit top-up web
  page
• The web page can be accessed from Library
  catalogue terminals, QM Student Service
  computers, and Computing Services web pages
• http//quota.stu.qmul.ac.uk/cgi-bin/balance/acbala
  nce.pl

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Scratch card vending machines
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The Library catalogue

• Use dedicated kiosk workstations in the Library
• Or from anywhere in the world, access the Web
• Go to the Queen Mary Library homepage
• Library catalogue
• You need to search ALL the Librarys collections
  to include the Medical libraries

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If you cannot obtain the books you need, or the
Hold queue is too long, PLEASEuse Ask a
Librarian. We will try to buy the books or more
copies of the booksSearch for a book with the
authors Mano and the title Digital design
.
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TK7888.4 is the classmark, the place where we
look on the shelvesMAN is the 3 letter shelving
codeUnited States Library of
Congressclassification scheme(QM Medical
Libraries use US National Library of Medicine
classification scheme)
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T books
QA books
Main Library First Floor
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How to borrow a book from the Library

• Find it on the ordinary shelves on the First (or
  Second) Floor
• Use Self Issue machine on Ground Floor, or
• Go to the Issue Counter on the Ground Floor
• Show your Student/Library card so that the staff
  can see your photo and can scan the barcode with
  the lightpen
• Open the book so the barcode can be scanned
• Say Please may I borrow this book?

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Self issue machine, near Library Reception
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Obtaining a Short Loan Collection copy

• Note the author, title and classmark
• Go to the Issue Counter on the Ground Floor
• Ask for the book by the author, title and
  classmark (write it on a piece of paper if you
  like)
• One day loan, or over the weekend

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Ground Floor Issue Counter
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Booking an SLC copy in advance

• You can book a copy of a book kept in the Short
  Loan Collection in advance, for the day you want
  to borrow it
• Find the book in the Library catalogue
• Use Book SLC Loan
• Then you can plan your work in advance
• You can cancel an SLC booking using Self Service

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Returning a Short Loan Collection copy

• Return the book to the Issue Counter, and make
  sure it is properly discharged from your name
• When the Issue Counter is closed, you may return
  books by posting them through the letter box to
  the left of the green doors
• The letter box is called the Out of hours book
  return

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Library Square, Main Library North side entrance
- you may return items here when the Issue
Counter is closed
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Out- of-hours book return
Library Square, Main Library North side entrance
- you may return items here when the Issue
Counter is closed
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Short Loan link, at top of screen

• Short Loan Collection by course code and course
  name
• MSc Medical Electronics has a entry for its book
• Key DEN and click on Course code to see all
  courses for Engineering programmes
• Not all recommended textbooks have a copy in the
  SLC
• If you think a copy of a book should be in the
  SLC and it is not, please use ask a librarian
  on Library web page
• If you think that the Library does not have
  enough copies of a book, please use ask a
  librarian

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Placing a Hold on a book which is on loan to
other users

• If all items are On loan, all the Librarys
  copies of a book are out on loan to other users
• You must place a Hold click the Place Hold
  button
• Then the Library will send an e-mail to the
  people who have the book out on loan if it is
  an ordinary loan. One Week Loan copies are due
  back within one week in teaching period
• They must then return the book to the Library
  Issue Counter on the Ground Floor
• Then the Library will send you an e-mail, saying
  you can collect the copy from the Issue Counter
  on the Ground Floor
• If you wish to cancel a Hold, use Ask a
  Librarian or tell us at the Issue Counter

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Check loans, holds and bookings

• For your Library barcode , you need the number
  underneath the barcode on your Student/Library
  card
• For your PIN (4 figure Library security number),
  if you did not receive your PIN when you
  registered with Computing Services, please ask
  for it at the Issue Counter on the Ground Floor

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What to do when you cannot find a copy of a book
you need on the shelves of the Library. Sometimes,
the Library catalogue says that a copy of a
book is Available for Loan, but when you look on
the shelves, you cannot find the copy. Someone
may be looking at it in the Library PLEASE DONT
GIVE UP! FILL IN A GREEN MISSING ITEM
RESERVATION CARD AND HAND THE CARD IN AT THE
ISSUE COUNTER ON THE GROUND FLOOR
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Green Missing Item Reservation cards
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Green Missing Item Reservation cards
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Now we are going to look for a book by the
title Encyclopedia of electronic
circuits (Science Reference example) or Art of
electronics
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T books
QA books
Science Reference books
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Placing a Hold on a book at the Medical Libraries

• You must search only the catalogue of the Library
  where the book is in stock
• Then place a Hold
• If you do not search the right Library catalogue,
  the Hold will not work properly

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Looking for books on a subjectin the Library
catalogue

• We can try Guided search
• Words or phrase (NOT Subject - it only searches
  US Subject Headings)
• Medical elect
• cardiovascular physiolog
• We can LIMIT SEARCH and sort by New to Old

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Looking for subjects

• Our catalogue isnt clever. There is no
  controlled vocabulary
• You have to think of alternative keywords
• different keywords to describe the same subject
• singular and plural words
• If you search for more than one keyword, the
  catalogue assumes the Boolean logic AND between
  the words.It assumes you want BOTH keywords

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right hand truncation

• You can use a symbol at the right hand end
  of a word
• to stand for no characters, or any number of
  characters
• So if you search for writ report, and click
  Search, the Library catalogue searches for
• writing reports
• report writing
• how to write reports
• how to write a report
• etc

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• Now we know some classmarks.
• We can go and look on the shelves.
• Well only find the books no one wants!
• So to find all the books, including the ones on
  loan, we can search for the classmark in the
  Library catalogue
• Remember that not all the books on the same
  subject will be at the same classmark. You must
  look at the Details for many records

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Electronic books

• Are in the Library catalogue
• Also, you can click Selected web sites link
• Encyclopedia of medical devices and
  instrumentation full text of this encyclopedia
  available on the web, also off campus using your
  Athens username
• Wiley encyclopedia of electrical and electronic
  engineering
• You will see Kathys brief guide to web searching
• You will see some gateways and other sites

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Library catalogue Self Service(1) Change PIN,
to a number you can remember more easily(2)
Check loans, holds and bookings. Cancel SLC
bookings(3) Renew books over the Internet or by
phone 6 times for One Week Loan copies and 3
times for Ordinary Loan copies ( extend the
loan, after the date it is Due back to the
Library), if no one else has placed a Hold,
before you need to carry the books into the
Library. Then, when maximum no. of self-service
renewals reached, at the Issue Counter, please
say Please may I renew this book?
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• When you have finished with a book, return it by
  the date stamped inside, or the date you renewed
  it to over the Internet or by phone (please write
  this date on the date label inside the book)
• Bring it to the Library Issue Counter and say
  Please may I return this book?
• Wait until the light pen is waved over the
  barcode and listen for the beep!
• You may return books from the Medical libraries
  to the Main Library, and books from the Main
  Library to the Medical Libraries
• Past (old) examination papers available on the
  web. See the Library web page

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IEL IEEE/IET Electronic Library

• The full text of all publications since 1988 (and
  earlier for important publications) of
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (was
  Institution of Electrical Engineers) (IET, UK
  based)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  (IEEE, US based)
• A fantastic resource, on the Web
• Includes the periodical IEEE transactions on
  biomedical engineering

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Now we are going to look for a periodical(also
called a journal or a magazine)in the Electronic
journals list1) IEEE transactions on
bio-medical engineering(We can search ieee
bio-medical)2) Physiol. Meas.3) J. Biomech. eng
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Study Skills
Main Library First Floor
Periodicals, around Bay 700
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Catalogues of other libraries

• Click on the Catalogues of other libraries link
• University College London
• Imperial College
• other links
• British Library Integrated Catalogue

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British Library Integrated Catalogue, for St
Pancras

• Back to Catalogues of other libraries link,
  click on British Library Integrated Catalogue
  link
• Use a few significant words, For right hand
  truncation, use ?
• Example search medic? elect?
• Shelfmark is where you find it at the British
  Library
• (B) for books, (P) for periodicals
• Shelfmark YC1999. Is in closed access - you
  have use Direct Requesting, using a workstation
  at BL

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British Library, St Pancras

• A lot of information is secret or confidential in
  some way
• See the Information for Queen Mary on how to use
  the British Library link, for special
  identification to take
• You can request closed access material in
  advance when you have a reader pass

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Information databases to find periodical papers
and conference papers on a particular subject

• PubMed Medline for medical periodicals
• Web of Science - for interdisciplinary subjects,
  and citation indexing
• Compendex - index to engineering
• Your Student Service login acts as your Athens
  username
• Athens usernames link, go to QMUL Athens Login
  page, click on Set Athens Home Institution on
  each web browser you use

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Web of Science Service (WoS)

• online index to wide range of periodicals
• plus citation indexing
• from 1970, updated weekly
• papers enter WoS very quickly - its very
  up-to-date
• 100 institutions subscribe
• Help on the Web

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Finding periodicals in London

• Check the Library catalogue
• Use Union List of Serials (periodicals/journals)
• From the Catalogues of other libraries link
• If not available in a college library in London,
  try the British Library Integrated Catalogue
• From the Catalogues of other libraries link
• Unfortunately, you cannot search only for
  periodicals at the British Library, St Pancras .
  This can cause problems with short, simple titles

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Queen Mary Inter-Library Loans Service (ILL)

• If you really need a few important items for
  your project, and they are not available in any
  London library, ask for permission from your
  supervisor. Then come to me, and ask for an ILL
  paper form to fill in
• If you use the QM Inter-Library Loans Service, we
  usually apply to the British Library Document
  Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Yorkshire
• ILL loans of books currently charged at 9.70
  each, photocopies at 6.25 each, to your
  department
• Inter-Library Loans will be available when you
  work in industry or the health services

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To use blue-screen workstations on the campus

• There are many workstations in different computer
  laboratories on the campus, and many in the
  Library
• Obtain your username from Computing Services
  Reception, Queens Building, W209 (West side,
  second floor)
• When you register with Computing Services, you
  may receive your four figure Library PIN. Or you
  can ask at the Library Issue Counter on the
  Ground Floor

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Using information resources remotely

• You can access many information resources and
  databases from work or home
• For resources like Web of Science, and many
  electronic journals, you need your
  Student/Teaching Service username, which acts as
  your Athens Username
• You use your Student Service/Teaching Service
  username as your Athens username
• On the Athens usernames link, click QMUL Athens
  Login page, Set Athens Home Institution, click
  Go, on each web browser you use
• You can check your QM e-mail off-campus
• http//www.css.qmul.ac.uk/mail/index.html

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School of Engineering and Materials ScienceMSc
Medical Electronics and Physics MSc Biomedical
EngineeringIntroduction to finding information
at Queen Mary

• This PowerPoint presentation is available on the
  web via the Information Guides and information
  skills training link
• You are welcome to contact me at any time for
  help
• I will be pleased to try to help you
• Feedback and comments about this introduction are
  very welcome
• You will attend hands-on workshops for DENM/014
  in January 2009, when you start your projects
• Version 11 21 Sept 2008
• mscmedi.ppt