Library Research Guide

Research Guide for BIO 100 Library’s webpage: www.uu.edu/library Online catalog: voyager.uu.edu/

Finding books

. Go to voyager.uu.edu . Use the Simple Search to look for books (both print and electronic) on your topic. . The default is to Keyword Relevance Search, which is probably your best bet. You may also search by title, author, and several other options. . Your results will be listed in the order of most relevant first. . Be sure to check location (Reference, IMC, stacks, etc.) as well as call number. You should also look to see whether the title is checked out. Electronic books will have a hypertext link into NetLibrary (our e-book collection) rather than a call number. . All Reserve materials are available at the Circulation Desk under your professor’s name. Most must be used in the library; you will be asked to leave your student ID at the Desk while you read or make copies of the Reserve material. . Undergraduate students may check out up to 20 items from our library. You will need to have your ID with you to check out books. Books are checked out for 2 weeks. Videos are overnight, CDs are loaned for three days, with significant fines attached for overdue items. Please return promptly. . You may renew materials by phone; please call 731-661-5070. You will be asked to provide your ID number. You may also renew your materials online; simply select “My Account” on the voyager.uu.edu page, log in, and check the items you wish to renew.

Finding articles

. Go to voyager.uu.edu . Select the Online Databases button

o Academic One File (full text and citations) . Enter your key term(s) in the ADVANCED SEARCH box(es). . Results are divided (by tabs at the top of the results) into academic articles, magazine articles, books, news, and multimedia. . Again, many of the journals indexed are full text. Your results will be displayed 20 at a time, most recent first. For each result, there is a hypertext link to a citation, abstract, or the full text. To view PDF files, you will need Adobe Acrobat. . You may print each article/citation or email it to yourself. . For those with only abstracts or citations, click on “find the full text of this article,” which checks our other databases for that article to see if the full text is available in another database. It also checks our library’s holdings to see if we have the journal in print, and offers you an ILL link if you need to order the article from another library.

o Health Reference Center Academic (from Gale, fulltext and citations) . Enter your key term(s) in the Advanced Search box(es) and select if you want to search by title, author, keyword, etc. . Again, many of the journals indexed in TEL are fulltext. TEL will display your results 20 at a time, most recent first. For each result, there is a hypertext link to a citation, abstract, or the full text. Again, to view some of the full text articles, you may need Adobe Acrobat. . You may print each article/citation or email it to yourself. . For those with only abstracts or citations, click on “find the full text of this article,” which checks our other databases for that article to see if the full text is available in another database. It also checks our library’s holdings to see if we have the journal in print, and offers you an ILL link if you need to order the article from another library.

o PubMed / PubMed Central (from the National Library of Medicine, fulltext and citations) . You should choose either PubMed or PubMed Central. Begin your search by entering your search term(s) in the search box. You will need to use AND, OR, or NOT to link more than one term. . Your results will be displayed 20 at a time. . With PubMedCentral, each entry should have a link to a PDF or to the fulltext of the article housed somewhere on the web (usually the publisher’s website). . With PubMed, each entry will only have a citation. It will be your job to consult our ELECTRONIC JOURNALS list to see if it’s in full-text in another database (click on the ELECTRONIC JOURNALS link from voyager.uu.edu). You should also check the catalog at voyager.uu.edu to see if we have the journal in a print subscription. . To save those citations, check the box in front of each one. Then click on the “Send to” drop down box at the top of the page and choose clipboard. You can also click on the “related articles” tab beside an article to display other relevant articles.

Other Information

. InterLibrary Loan: As a Union student, you may order any book or article you find cited which we do not have in Summar Library on InterLibrary Loan. This free service takes 7-10 days from the time you order until the item arrives (though articles often come electronically and can arrive in 4-7 days). ILL forms are available at the Circulation Desk (you should complete one form for each item you want to request); or you may order ILLs electronically. Go to www.uu.edu/library, and under “Services” on the top of the screen choose Interlibrary Loan. Select either book or article request, then complete the form.

. Off-Campus Access: You can get into any of our databases from off campus. When you try to click on the link for Ebsco or other databases while off campus, you will be taken to a log-in screen. Simply enter your username and password (the same that you use to log in when you are on campus), and you’re in! Detailed instructions can be found by clicking on the “off campus access to databases” link at the top of the database page.

. Questions? If you have questions about renewing books or locating materials, you can call the circulation desk at 661-5070 or send us an email at [email protected]. If you need reference assistance, you can call the Research Assistance Center (the RAC) at 661-6571 or send us an email at [email protected]. We can help you out from a distance, or you can schedule an appointment with a reference librarian.

Melissa Moore Reference and Reader Services Librarian [email protected] 731.661.5408 Updated 08/22/07