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ACCESSING E-BOOKS

AND E-JOURNALS

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This course is for anyone who would like to learn how to find and access electronic books and journals. The course will show you where to find e-books and e-journals, how to search within them

and how to find and download full text articles.

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The course is provided by the Tameside Hospital’s Knowledge & Library Services. It is based on the one designed by Laura

Sims of Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS FT.Our thanks to Laura for allowing us to customise it.

ABOUT THE COURSE• The course will take the form of a presentation that you can work

through at your own pace.

• The course will take about 20 minutes to complete.

• There will be optional tasks and it is up to you whether you feel you want to or need to complete them.

• If you have any questions about this course or any issues accessing the course please contact the library on 0161-922-6662 or email library@tgh.nhs.uk

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ATHENSYou will need an NHS Athens username and password to access

the electronic books and journals.

If you do not already have an Athens account click here to register now.

If you have any problems or questions about Athens please contact the library.

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E-JOURNALSTo access the Trust A-Z List of full text e-journals , you

can click on the link on the library webpage and scroll to the ‘journals’ links.

http://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/our-services/non-clinical_services/knowledge_Library_Services

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E-JOURNALSTo access all full text e-journals available to you, go

directly to NICE Evidence Search and follow the ‘Journals and databases’ links.

www.evidence.nhs.uk

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E-JOURNALSLog in with your Athens

username and password to access the full list of journals.

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E-JOURNALSOnce you are logged into Athens you can either search the full

list by exact title, using the start of the title, or by topic or words in a

title.

Or you can use the A-Z links.

You can also search for a journal using the ISSN if you know it.

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E-JOURNALS

Example - searching for an ‘exact title’.

Results

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E-JOURNALSExample – searching for

‘start of title’

Results

This can be useful if you only know part of

the title.

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E-JOURNALSExample – searching for

‘all words in title’

Results

This can be useful if you would like to search for journals in a specialty area or topic.

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E-JOURNALSExample – using the

A-Z Links

Results

This can be useful if you are just wanting

to browse the available journal

titles.

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E-JOURNALSExample – Journal look

up – ISSN search

Results

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E-JOURNALSViewing the results…

Available titles and links to

available sources

are shown.

Each source is

listed separately.

Below the journal title you will see

available dates. Some journals will be available

up to present,

some will show a date range and

some will say embargo of

for example 6 months.

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E-JOURNALSWhen you select a journal title…

Click on the link to go to the journal you want to view.

Please note that each site

will look different but

will have similar

features.

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E-JOURNALSWhen you select a journal title…

Most sites will open to the current issue.

Similar features to look out for include ‘archive’

links or links to previous issues.

In some cases when you select the full text option

it may ask you to log in… look for the ‘log in via Athens’ links. Your Athens details will not work if you put them

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E-JOURNALS

In many cases you can also

search within the journal itself for a topic, or

author etc.

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E-JOURNALSViewing full text articles…

Look for the ‘full

text’ or ‘PDF’ links.

Remember it may ask you to log in – look for the ‘log in via Athens’ links.

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E-JOURNALSViewing full text articles…

Once you have opened the full text article you

will notice options for

either saving, printing or

emailing the article.

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E-BOOKSE-books can be accessed from

the library webpage.

As well as the link to all e-

books there are links to the

Oxford Handbooks and

Oxford textbooks.

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http://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/our-services/non-clinical_services/knowledge_Library_Services

E-BOOKSYou can also

access the e-book collection by going to NICE

Evidence Search and selecting

eBooks.

Remember you will need your

Athens password.

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E-BOOKSYou can search for

eBooks by title, author or keyword.

You can also browse using the A-

Z Links or the subject/ publisher

lists.

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E-BOOKS

Once you have performed your

search you will see a list of results like

this one.

You can open an eBook by clicking

on ‘read book’ or by clicking on the title

or image.

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E-BOOKSViewing an eBook

You can navigate an eBook using the contents links, or by going to a specific page or by turning the

pages in turn as you would with any book.

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E-BOOKS

You can also print or download

pages from the book.

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E-BOOKS

You can browse the Oxford collections by Specialty, Series for

example the handbooks or by career stage.

Remember you will need your Athens username and password.

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http://oxfordmedicine.com/

E-BOOKSViewing the Oxford collections

Once you have made your selection it is easy to navigate the eBook using the chapter

links.

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TASK 1Optional Task:

The purpose of this task is to allow you to practice accessing the e-journals and full text articles.

You will need your Athens username and password.

Search for a journal using any of the search options. Remember you can access the journals either from the Library Webpage or from NICE Evidence Search.

Navigate your way to the journal contents and select an article. Open the full text article.

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TASK 2Optional Task:

The purpose of this task is to allow you to practice accessing eBooks and to allow you to become more familiar with using eBooks.

You will need your Athens username and password.

Go to the eBooks collection and search for a book using any of the search options. Remember you can access the eBooks either from the Library Webpage or from NICE Evidence Search.

Select a book and spend some time using the different navigation tools.

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CONGRATULATIONSCongratulations, you have now completed this

introductory course on eBooks and e-journals, we hope that you have found it useful.

Click here for your certificate. You can fill in your name and the date of completion before printing.

Please note the certificate is only available within the Trust network.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this course please contact the library by emailing

library@tgh.nhs.uk

Thank you.

Press ‘ESC’ on your keyboard to exit the course.