Library Essentials – Medical Physics

Lynne Meehan                        Room 314, UCL Science LibraryEmail : l.meehan@ucl.ac.uk                    ☎: 020 7679 2634

UCL Library Services

There are 16 library sites across UCL which you are entitled to use. For information on all the sites and their collections:-

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/sites.shtml

Science Library

Your main base will be the Science Library is in the DMS Watson Building on Malet Place. To enter the Science Library you need your ID card and to borrow books and check your account you need your PIN.

Opening Hours

During term time, the library opens at 8:45 and closes at 22:30, Monday to Thursday, 8-45-19.00 Friday. It is also open 11:00-21:00 on Saturday and Sunday. The assistance desk and Self-service machines have shorter hours. Please note that opening hours change throughout the year. For more details:-

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/science.shtml#open

Contact details

Telephone:  020 7679 7795                            Email: library@ucl.ac.ukBlog: Library news for Engineers http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/blog/engin/Twitter www.twitter.com/_uclsciencelib_

Library regulationsRespect Quiet studyPlease switch mobiles to silent modeNo food in the libraryNo drinks except bottled waterFor more details :-

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/regs.shtml

Studying in the Library

On the ground floor their are several areas for group work including the group study rooms, which have computing facilities and white boards For more details:-

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/rm_intro.shtml

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Photocopying

A common re-chargeable copycard is available and works in most of the UCL libray sites. The card costs £1.00 which does not include any copy credit. For more details:-

www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/photocopy.shtml

Borrowing

As an undergraduate you can borrow up to 10 books. To borrow the book use the self-service machines or visit the Assistance Desk

Loan type Loan period Fine if overdue

Standard 8 weeks 20p per day

1 week 7 days 30p per day

2 day (short loan) Mon-WedWed-FriFri-MonDUE BY 10 am

50p per HOUR, or each part of an hour

3 hour (short loan) 10.00-13.0013.00-16.0016.00-10.00 (next day)

50p per HOUR, or each part of an hour

Overnight 16.00-10.00 (next day) 50p per day

Reference NOT FOR LOAN

The standard loan (8 week) period will be shortened if somebody else requests the item. You will be advised of a new return date by email (see below).

One week loans are non-renewable if somebody else has requested the item. If you have fines outstanding, or overdue books you will not be allowed to continue

borrowing. Short loan collection is for providing maximum access to the most heavily used

material

Renewing

Standard and 1 week loans can be renewed if nobody else has requested them.How to renew:

In person at the Issue Desk At the Science Library - at the self-renewals terminal Via your library account By telephone, during opening hours:

For more details on Borrowing, renewing and reserving go to:-

www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/borrow.shtml

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Source of Information (or where to look for stuff for your coursework)

Assignment Search engine (e.g. Google)

Wikipedia Library Catalogue Database

Writing a short assignment

- Look for news items on climate change - Google Scholar

An overview of your topic

Find a book on climate change that you can use

Look for references to journal articles if you had time to do it.

Writing a long assignment

- Look for news items on climate change -Google Scholar- Finding organisations linked to climate- Political policies relating to climate change

- An overview of your topic- Suggested keywords you can use when searching the database's.

- Find a book on climate change that you can use - Possibly find conference papers

You might try using a database of journal articles to look for what research there has been over the last few years into climate change.

Type of Information Useful for ExamplesJournalsUsually published monthly or quarterly, and contain a selection of articles providing details of recent research.

Up-to-date research developments within the field, or rports on technological innovations, current affairs, business matters, conferences, practical experience 'in the field

-Nature-Scientific american-Science

BooksTake a general approach to the subject, typically covering basic principles, facts and theories

Useful to provide an introduction or overview of a topic or building on research published in journal articles.

-Textbooks as part of your course material -Knovel is our largest collection of engineering books.

Technical data Traditionally found in printed handbooks or manuals, many of these are available online now

Quick and convenient retrieval of facts and figures

-National Institute of Standards and Technology's NIST WebBookhttp://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ -Knovel

Standards are accepted current methodologies and technologies relating, for example, to dimensions, quality, testing, terminology and codes of practice.

Standards represent a level of quality that manufacturers and service providers can work toward achieving.

-British Standards Online for full text of British Standards-IEEE Xplore for full text of over 1000 standards in electronics, telecommunications, robotics, automatic control and computer science.

Patents are Intellectual Property protecting working parts and processes. They are a great source of scientific, technological and competitor information

Patents provide up-to-date comprehensive information about technological innovations that is often not available elsewhere.

-esp@cenet for european patent-UK Patent Office is responsible for Intellectual Property in the UK.-US Patent and Trademark Office for US patents

Web Useful for official information, specialist organisations, statistics and data, news, journal articles.

Librarians’ Internet Index - www.lii.org-Intute – www.intute.ac.uk

Official publications Publications issued by the government and its departments.

Governments are involved with most areas of society, and there are few subjects that are not covered. Official publications will ultimately affect corporate strategy to a greater or lesser degree.

-Directgov website provides access to a wealth of government information and services online. -Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform website is a good example of an government website

Reference materialSuch as dictionaries, directories, and encyclopedia

Useful for providing specific pieces of information (i.e. facts) quickly.

-CRC Handbook of Chemstry and Physics-Dictionary of image technology / BKSTS

Looking for items on your reading list 3

In order to locate references from a reading list you first need to look at the reference to see whether it is a reference to a book, a chapter in a book, or a journal article. The following will help you to decide;

WHOLE BOOK

Example: Smith J M, Van Ness H C. Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. 7th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2005.

This is a typical way of listing (citing) a book on a reading list. Some lecturers may use slightly different styles.Some clues that it is a book:

there are publishing details there are NO volume or issue details

BOOK CHAPTER

Example:Chua, David KH., "Value improvement methods", IN The civil engineering handbook. Edited by W. F. Chen and J. Y Richard Liew. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2003, pp. 7/1-7/23

Some clues that it is a book chapter: there are publishing details there are NO volume or issue details there appear to be two titles - use the book title to search in the catalogue there appear to be two authors - use the book's author/editor to search in the

catalogue the word "in" appears after the first title, indicating that the material appears in some

other item

You will find this book in the catalogue under the names of the editors (Chen and Richard Liew). If you look up the author of the chapter (Chua), you will not find this item.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

For example:Hart, Gary C., Srinivasan, Mukund. "Typical costs of seismic rehabilitation of existing buildings", The structural design of tall buildings, 17(2), 2008, p. 445-469

Some clues that it is a journal article: there are no publishing details there are volume or issue details there seem to be two titles - use the journal title to search the catalogue

There are a number of different ways this information can be written, the two most widely used formats are called ‘Harvard’ and ‘Vancouver’

Library catalogue                             (http://library.ucl.ac.uk/)

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BooksTo find a book that you know the author and/or title of:

Use the Quick search Enter the author surname and key words from the title No need for diacritic marks like commas

ResultsBy clicking on the blue “Library site” links on the right hand side of the “Results List” page you can see which UCL Library the book is kept in as well as:-‘Item status’ = how long the book can be borrowed for‘Due date’ = displays as “Available” if it isn’t out on loan‘Location’ = where it is shelved

The Science Library has its own scheme for arranging books on the shelves. A typical Engineering location (or classmark) looks like this: PHYSICS S 5 BEV . This is the classmark for Contemporary health physics : problems and solutions / Joseph John Bevelacqua where:

PHYSICS is the book collection; S 5 is the classification (all books with S 2 are about Medical Physics); BEV is the first three letters of the author's surname.

Reservations You can ‘request’ books if all copies with the same loan status are out on loan. To reserve an item, find it in the catalogue and display the holdings information. Select one of the copies which are on loan, and click the ‘Request’ option on the left-hand side of the screen. You will then be prompted to enter your barcode and PIN. Click ‘Go’ to confirm.

For more information on finding books please look at the UCL Library Services leaflet “Finding books etc” available to download from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/prints.shtml.  

Journals Use the Quick search Type in the words you know e.g. Medical Physics Select “All journals” Click on “Search” Click on the (copies/on loan) link for location information, or, if available

electronically, click on the SFX link to go the full text

TIP: The library catalogue only lists which journals UCL has, and does not list the individual articles within those journals, therefore when looking for journal articles ONLY look up the FULL NAME OF THE JOURNAL on the Library catalogue

SFX

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SFX is a tool to link all UCL electronic library resources, including the catalogue and databases, straight to the full text of journal articles and books.

For more information on finding journals please look at the UCL Library Services leaflet “Finding journals” available to download from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/prints.shtml.  

Your library record Click on “My account”  (on the top tool bar).     Enter your barcode – the 10-digit number located on your UCL ID card. Enter your PIN number which will be the first 4 digits of your date of birth, DDMM –

not the year, just the date/month. Click on ‘Sign-in’. Your name should now be displayed at the top of the screen, with

a list of books on loan, reservations, etc. Always click the “Reset” option (located at the top right-hand corner) after looking at

your personal information, so that no one else can see your personal details or borrow books using your account.

TIP:  Renewing books – when you have borrowed any books from a UCL library, it is possible to renew your books yourself from within your personal record – select ‘loans’ followed by ‘renew’. You are not able to renew if you owe the library more than £20 or if your books are reserved by other library members.

TutorialFor an online tutorial on the library catalogue, go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/moodle, log in, click on WISE, and select Engineering and the Built Environment.

Knovel

Knovel is an interactive e-book and database package which gives searchable access to the full text of a range of text and reference books. It covers all aspects of engineering and applied science. Link to Knovel from the Library’s databases list: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/database/.

You can search for terms within all of the subscribed titles or browse the available resources by navigating through the subject areas.

For help with using Knovel, see section 3 of WISE (Finding information): go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/moodle, log in, click on WISE, and select Engineering and the Built Environment.

Citing Sources

It is important to include references in your work in order to indicate that you have used relevant information resources, to avoid plagiarism and to allow readers of your work to be able to find the information sources for themselves.  You should remember to list all the details of the books/journals that you consult so that you can reference them correctly. Failure to cite your sources constitutes plagiarism and you may be penalised!Citing            acknowledging within your piece of work the source from which you             obtained information.Reference          full details of the source from which you obtained your information. Bibliography      a list of the references you have used, usually placed at the end of

your text.

For help with citing sources,

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See section 5 of WISE (Working with information):  go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/moodle, log in, click on WISE, and select Engineering and the Built Environment.

Read Neville, C. (2008). Complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism. Milton Keynes: Open UP held at MEDICAL SCIENCES A 9 NEV (2nd floor) and GEOGRAPHY A 9 NEV (1st floor)

Try Internet detective - http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/ Library guide to references, citations and avoiding plagiarism available online at

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/References_and_Plagiarism.pdf and at enquiry desks

For more information, please go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/current-students/guidelines/policies/plagiarism for more information.

Access to electronic resources

UCL users are advised to access resources through the lists of ejournals (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/ejournal) and databases (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/database) available on MetaLib. This will guarantee that you get free access to all the resources to which you are entitled as a UCL member. If you are on-site you will not need to log in to resources. If you are off-site, you will be prompted for your UCL userid and password automatically.

Further information For more information on access to e-resources, visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/e-res.shtml. To report a problem with access, please fill in a problem report form at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/e-res_prob.shtml.

Further help

Library website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/

WISE:  go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/moodle, log in, click on WISE, and select Engineering and the Built Environment.

Science Enquiry Desk:  located on the ground floor of the Science Library.  It is staffed from 09:30-18:00, Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 09:30-17:30 Tuesday and Thursday.  Telephone on ext. 37789 or 020 7679 7789.

Lynne Meehan (science subject librarian) contact me on l.meehan@ucl.ac.uk or 020 7679 2634 or come and see me in Room 314, Science Library.

Links to slides and resources used in this course: http://delicious.com/LynneMeehan/medphys1

Evaluation

Please fill in the evaluation form about your session at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CX3NHHH

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