[00:00:01] >> Hi I'm Caroline Stirling the Academic Support Librarian... for History, Classics and Archaeology, and this short video is an introduction... to the university library, essentially looking at finding electronic books or e-books and journals. So we're going to do that by using something called DiscoverEd... and DiscoverEd is your main search tool at the university library... [00:00:19] and we're going to look at how to find e-books, how to find journal articles... and how to find journals themselves within DiscoverEd. You can access DiscoverEd through a number of different routes, there is a direct URL... DiscoverED.ed.ac.uk that you can go to, or there are search boxes... on the library website, within MyEd and on your history subject guide as well. [00:00:44] One thing that's important to point out now is that particularly for distance learning students... is that when you are using DiscoverEd you should get into the habit of signing into it. When you sign in to DiscoverEd it ensures all the functionalities available to you... but it also ensures that no matter whether you're on or off campus... [00:01:00] you are seeing the full set of search results. If you're off campus and using DiscoverEd... and you haven't signed in, DiscoverEd doesn't know who you are... it doesn't know that you're a member of the university... so it won’t actually show you the full set of search results. If you've signed in and it obviously knows that you're... [00:01:15] then a student at the university and it will give you that full set of results... so it's really important you get into the habit of signing in to DiscoverEd when you're using it. As I mentioned you can access DiscoverEd through MyEd. Students and staff have slightly different menu options here... [00:01:32] so I've just got a screenshot of the student version... and it's the studies tab you need to go to-you'll then see there's a library column... and then it's the search and access library resources that you need to click on. This then takes you to a page with some various links on it but it has the Discover Ed... [00:01:52] search box here in the middle so you can just start searching straight away. What is DiscoverEd actually searching though? Well it searches all of our physical resources- so stuff like... our print books and print journals and other types of material... but also our online resources so all of our e-books, our e-journals, a large range of our e-journal articles... [00:02:12] some databases and some other resources and repositories that the library has access to. So when you're doing a search on DiscoverEd... you will often come back with quite a wide and large range... of search results just because it is searching through such a vast range of material. So I want to look for a book first of all which will be... [00:02:34] one of the most common things you're doing in DiscoverEd... and I've got a reference here for a book by Marc Trachtenberg called... 'The Craft of International History: a Guide to Method’ published in 2006. So when you have a book that you're looking for... you can generally just search for it by using the book title... [00:02:52] and so I've just got ‘craft of international history’ here,... I haven't bothered putting in the subtitle just to save myself typing... but also generally you don't need to put the full title... in particular when you've got quite a long title. But one thing you can also do though is add in... [00:03:06] the author surname as another key word to your search just... to make the search a bit more specific, so I've added in... Trachtenberg there, because what this search box is actually... doing is a keyword search, that's not doing a specific title search or author search. Essentially when it will go off and look for all records it can find mention ‘craft of international history’... [00:03:26] ‘Trachtenberg’ so all of those keywords have to be mentioned... somewhere within the record for it to bring it back as a search result. So I'm going to go into the live site now just to sort of show you... how it works and how you sort of find your way around DiscoverEd. [00:03:42] So I'm in the staff version of MyEd but I've got my search down here ‘craft of international history’... ‘Trachtenberg’ and then I'm just going to hit the search button so discover to go off and do its search. Now as I mentioned it's good to get into the habit of signing in... [00:03:59] and I'm not signed in yet to DiscoverEd. So it's given me the option to sign in here just top of the search results... also I've got the option of the top right hand side of the men- of the page. So if I click on the sign in you always need to choose... [00:04:12] the EASE users option and because I'm already logged into MyEd... it's not going to ask me to log in again it just takes me straight back through to DiscoverEd. You haven't logged in then obviously you'll need to do so at that point, and I know that... I'm now signed in to DiscoverEd it because it's got my name up at the top there. [00:04:29] Now fortunately with the search I've done even though it's come back with over 2,000 results,... the book that I'm looking for has come up as the top result on this list... and I know it's the book because it says book here... and it has a little thumbnail image of the, the front cover. [00:04:47] You won’t always get a thumbnail image, just depends whether... they can find one in its databases, now the reason I point that out... it might seem really obvious that it's as book there is because sometimes what you'll find is... a review of the book might actually come up as the top result or it could be... [00:05:00] that we don't have the book you're looking for at all and it might just be reviews that we have... and this can often confuse people because they don't notice that it says review... and they just think- ‘oh we have access to the e-book because it's got full text available’. [00:05:12] One- there's a few ways you can kind of get around that actually happening at all... one of the ways is by using these drop down menus and just underneath... the search box and tell you to be a bit more specific with your searching. So at the moment it's just searching for, searching through all items available. [00:05:30] on DiscoverEd, it's looking for all the keywords here... in any sort of order and it's looking anywhere in the record for them. So what I could do instead of say, well actually, instead of looking through all items... I actually just want you to look at books and if I do the search again... [00:05:46] then you should see that I get this time I've just got 20 results... so it's brought the number of results down by a lot. What I could also do is maybe say well... I'm going to take the author's name out because I want to say... well I'm looking for ‘craft of international history’ but it has to be within the title. [00:06:05] So if I do the search again it's looking for... ‘craft of international history’ those cures have to appear in the title... and it has to be a book and you'll see this time it's actually only come up with two results. Again my result is at the top of the page,... [00:06:18] so these little drop down menus can be quite a good way... of sort of refining your search or limiting your search from the start. You click on advanced search over here you do have more options to do that and you can actually... build up your search a bit more within advanced search. [00:06:33] But it's quite easy to do it from these basic drop down menus here. So I can see from my book record that it's telling me it's available at the Main Library... hub reserve ground floor so that means we have to print... a copy of the book but it is also saying that we have online access. [00:06:52] So that means that we should have the e-book as well so if I I just click on online access... it will open up the full record and it should take me... to the point in the record where I can actually get access to the e-book. So it’s this view online section that we're interested in here... [00:07:06] it’s telling me the full text is available at DAWSONERA and it's got a link to it. DAWSONERA is just an e-book platform that we buy lots of our e-books through,... you will see other sort of platforms of publishers appear there as well. Sometimes it can be useful to have a look at the public notes... [00:07:23] there's an awful lot for this particular e-book. But it does tell us there's unlimited concurrent users... that means that any number of our students and staff at university... can access this e-book at one time, there are some e-books... that there'll be stipulations and restrictions on that so you might have... [00:07:38] only say 12 users can get in at one time or 6 users. Sometimes it can only be one user and the library does try and avoid buying e-books... that are like that but sometimes it's the only option that we have. Another thing it's telling us is a 24 hour download is available, so often... [00:07:54] with e-books you can only print or download quite limited numbers of pages... and it really is quite limited sometimes it's stipulations that the publishers... put on, it's because of copyright and there's no real way around it. However sometimes they will actually let you download the whole e-book. But that will just be for a limited period of time and 24 hours is quite common. [00:08:15] Anyway, the other thing to look at public notes for though is that if we know there is a problem... with an e-book or an e-book platform, then my colleagues in the e-resources team... will generally put a note there just to alert you... to any issues or any special login sort of routes that you have to follow. [00:08:31] So I'm just going to click on DAWSONERA to get in to the e-book so you can just have... a wee look at what that's like, all the e-book platforms will be slightly different. But in this case we've got the graphic details, we've got more of a description about the actual book itself. [00:08:47] I can just choose to read it online by clicking that button or if I want to download it on to my laptop... or my computer for 24 hours I can use the download e-book button. At the bottom here there is also a table of contents so if I know the specific chapter... [00:09:00] I want to look at I can actually just click on that link and it will take me straight into that particular chapter. So I can just read it online if I want but it is here... that I also get the options for copying, for printing, or downloading... and as I say it can be quite limited the amount of pages... [00:09:19] that it will actually allow you to copy, print or download. So I'm just going to close down and go back to DiscoverEd. Now if I take this back to looking for all items and so... it's just doing the default search, and again you'll see that... it comes back with quite a large set of searches because I’ve taken... [00:09:41] ‘Trachtenberg’ out, actually it's now coming up with over 300000 results. One thing I just quickly want to point out to you whether you're doing searching for books or articles... or whether you’re using DiscoverEd just to do more general searches on a topic or a or subject area... you can use this left hand menu to actually refine your results down as well. [00:10:01] So in this particular case where I know it's a book... that I'm looking for I might want to look at resource type first of all. It just shows the top 5 resource types, if I click on show more,... it will show you all the different resource types so I'm saying well... [00:10:14] it's just a book that I'm interested in looking at here so... that should reduce the number results I’ve got down to now 5000... and in your particular case as distance learning students... you might want to use the- for instance the full text online refine option... so that it just shows you material that's going to be available online. [00:10:34] And there are obviously lots of different other options in this left hand menu... that you can use to sort of refine your search down... if you're maybe having difficulty finding something or you're doing... a more general search and then kind of want to refine it down from there. [00:10:50] You can also use DiscoverEd to search for journal articles, so instead of searching for the journal title... itself like you were doing with the book, you can look for the individual article. So I am going to look for an article called ‘ethnicity and writing of medieval Scotland’... and this is a test to see if I can actually, how well I can actually title this. [00:11:13] So ‘ethnicity and writing of medieval Scotland’. I'm not going to put, I’m not going to use any of the dropdown menus... to add any limits into my search I'm just going to search for it like this and see what it comes back with. So as you can see, fortunately the top result is the article is looking for although actually it’s been quite clever... [00:11:32] because I actually had the title slightly wrong it's not ‘ethnicity and writing of medieval Scotland’... it's ‘ethnicity and writing of medieval Scottish history'. But it is the article I was looking for from the Scottish Historical Review 2006 by Matthew Hammond. So it’s telling me full text is available so that should mean that we have online access that particular article so... [00:11:50] if I just click on that to bring up the relevant point in the record where I can access it. You'll see here that there are 3 different sites, or is there maybe even more than that? Yeah, it was more than that actually that I can access this particular article through that's not uncommon... [00:12:05] when it comes to journal articles, you will often have more than one option... but I'm just going to click on the link to JSTOR... and so you can get a bit of an idea what it actually looks like again... because I'm log- I'm already signed into DiscoverEd. It will just push me straight through with asking me... [00:12:25] to sign in again and it takes me direct to the actual journal article itself. I could start just reading it online here but generally if there's a PDF option like I’ve got up at the top here... I would generally go for that, it means you can download it and save it so you can come back to it later. [00:12:40] It's also, it's the better way if you actually want... to print the article and also ensures you've got all the correct page... numbering and stuff like that, so that if you want to actually reference... or cite this article later on, you have all that necessary information there. So if I just close this down and go back to DiscoverEd, you will sometimes find... [00:12:59] if you're searching for a journal article on DiscoverEd that it doesn't find it. If that's the case, the next step would actually be to look for the journal title instead because while DiscoverEd... does index down to article level to a large number of our journals,... it doesn't index them all and it doesn't include print journals as well. [00:13:17] So just because you’re not finding the article doesn't mean that we actually don't still have access to it. So this time I'm interested in a review article on the 1st World War by Iraq and Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson... and this was published in ‘The Journal of Contemporary History’. [00:13:32] You can just pretend I’ve done a search for the article... and I haven’t found it, so this time I'm going to search for the journal itself. If I can actually spell it right; so ‘Journal of contemporary history’... and then I just need to do the search there. So the journal I was looking for has come up at the top... [00:13:53] of the search results list, it’s saying that we have online access... so if I just need to click on that to get a bit more information. Now this particular journal is available to me through 4 different sites but it's important... now to think about the year that the article I was looking for was from. [00:14:11] So I know that the year was 2000 so unfortunately third one on the list here and actually the fourth one... they only give access to the journal from 1966 until 1995. So I wouldn't be able to access an article from the year 2000 from either of those two. [00:14:29] However the top 2 JSTOR I’ve got 1966 onwards, not including... the most recent four years and the K.B. Plus collections sage premiere. See it is available from 1999 onwards, so I should be able to get access to an article from 2000 from that... so I'm going to go into sage premier this time and see if I can get the article that I was looking for. [00:14:59] So it's taken me to the journal home page I'm going to browse the journal and look at all issues... I know it's not the current issue that I’m actually looking for. So I know it was the year 2000 that it's from so I need to scroll down... and open up the 2000s there and then open up the year 2000. [00:15:21] Volume 35, and it was issue two- looking at my reference that it's actually from- so if I click on issue two... this will then bring up a table of contents now, I think the article starts around 318, page 318 or 19. So if I just start scrolling through then. [00:15:39] Oh there it is there! 1st World War, Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson and I've got the P.D.F. full text that I can actually look at as well. So in this short session we have covered how to use DiscoverEd to search for an e-book and a journal... article and if the journal article can’t be found, how to search for the journal title instead. [00:16:01] I hope this has been useful for you, but if you require further help please do contact me at the email address... at my email address which is on the screen. Or you can also contact the library help desk am for any problems with sort of searching DiscoverEd... finding material, access material as well. [00:16:17] So thank you very much for listening.