For Researchers

For Researchers

The Library can support researchers in many different ways. Your Liaison Librarian can assist in planning and help you to get started with searching the literature. Services and resources available include:

Databases and journals available to you both onsite and offsite
Institutional digital repositories for scholarly material
Inter-library loans for items we do not hold
A range of information skills and IT training courses and guides and helpsheets
If you do not see the training you are looking for please contact your Liaison Librarian
CARES service (Clinical and Research Enquiry Service) - requests can be submitted online
Access to RefWorks - a web-based reference management tool; allows you to import reference from online resources and cite references whilst writing a document, for example, using Word. A training workbook is here
Services to keep up to date with the research
Guidance for literature searching and appendices - prepared by South Central Healthcare Librarians Oct 09

Access to other libraries
SGUL particpates in the SCONUL Access scheme. This enables research students, full-time and part-time postgraduates, distance-learning and placement students to borrow material from other UK HE libraries. Joining details are here.

Senate House Library in central London allows SGUL staff and students to use the LIbrary free of charge which includes a range of electronic resources. You must register first.

InforM25 consortium - Union List of Serials - search journal holdings of the constituent libraries of the University of London, Imperial College London and the University of Westminster. Check with the holding library for access details.

Copac National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.

SUNCAT (Serials Union Catalogue) for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers locate serials held in the UK.

Web 2.0 tools
A range of free tools are available dedicated to the needs of researchers. Some of the more popular ones are:
To manage and share references:
http://www.connotea.org/ - from the Nature Group
http://www.citeulike.org/ - from Springer Publishing
http://www.2collab.com/ - from Elsevier

To find, manage, and cite research from all types of sources from the browser:
Zotero - an add-on for the Firefox browser

To find, manage and share research papers:
http://www.mendeley.com/ - from a collaboration between Skype, Last.fm, and Warner Music

To find, manage and share scientific workflows or methodologies - from the Universities of Manchester & Southampton
http://www.myexperiment.org/

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