UCL Library

							UCL Library


Ruth Russell

ruth.russell@ucl.ac.uk
Introduction

•   Library essentials
•   Library website
•   Subject pages & WISE
•   Searching UCL’s collections
•   Finding journal articles
•   Other libraries & inter-library lending
Library Essentials

•   UCL ID card
•   Collections
•   10 books
•   Loan periods
•   Fines (50p per hour for 3 hour loans!)
•   PIN number
•   Self issue and return
Library web pages
        http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library
Subject guide

• Computer Science and Psychology subject
  resources pages:
   – Computer Science at:
   http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/guides/subjcs.shtml
  – Psychology at:
   http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/guides/subjpsych.s
   html
WISE: Online library skills in Moodle



   • WISE: library skills modules in Moodle
   • Include training on individual resources
     – WISE for Engineering and the Built Environment
       for Computer Science resources
     – WISE for Biomedical and Life Sciences for
       Psychology

     http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/wise.shtml
Searching the collections: UCL Explore
Ebooks



• UCL Explore
• Safari
• Synthesis Digital Library
Databases

• Bibliographic databases index large groups
  of journals
•        checks if UCL has access to articles
  discovered in database searches
• Use the databases list to access these
  resources:
 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/database/index.shtml
Search Strategy: example search

Interaction design for culturally diverse users

• Possible key concepts (remember synonyms,
  alternative words)
  – Interaction design or (“user interface” and design
    and interaction)
  – Diversity or cultural difference*
Search techniques
• Truncation/wildcards - *, $, ?
  – e.g. ergonomic* = ergonomic, ergonomics,
    ergonomically…
  – e.g. organi$ation = organisation or organization
         behavio?r = behaviour or behavior
• Phrase searching
  – e.g. “human computer interaction”
• Grouping using brackets
  – e.g. (diversity OR “cultural difference*) AND
    “interaction design”
Boolean logic for combining search terms

 All foods with raspberries                                 All flavours of ice cream
                                   Raspberry ice cream




                              Ice cream AND raspberries




                                                         Ice cream NOT raspberries
 raspberries OR ice cream
Key databases

• Web of Science
• SCOPUS
  – Large multidisciplinary bibliographic databases
• psycINFO
  – Bibliographic database indexing journals in all areas of
    psychology
If UCL doesn’t have it…

• Other libraries:
  – British Library
  – COPAC: http://www.copac.ac.uk
• Inter-library loan
• Suggest books for purchase
Summary

• Subject resources & WISE
• Library collections
• Accessing e-resources and SFX
• Using library databases for subject
  searching
• Material outside UCL
• Help
Help!

•   Subject guides
•   WISE
•   Enquiry Desk
•   Subject librarian
      ruth.russell@ucl.ac.uk
      020 7679 2634