Need to Know: Western Libraries

Psychiatry Residents

1. Western Libraries: What we’ve got Journals

and databases Books

Clinical Tools

Learning modulesCalculators

Drug Identification Tools

2. Psychiatry Info: How to access- Go to: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/

- Log in to Off-Campus Access with your UWO username and password (same as email)

- Select Browse by Program

- Select Medicine and Dentistry

- Select Psychiatry

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/psychiatry/Use this page to find selected resources for psychiatry

Electronic Books

Point of Care Tools

Databases

2. How to search our collections

Select “Catalogue”

Search the Catalogue to find anything Western Libraries owns or subscribes to

...including:

• Journals• Books• Databases• Point of Care Tools

http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca

You can even search for electronic full-text articles.

Select “Journal Title”

Then enter the name of the journal

And select “Go”

Parts of a Catalogue Record

Full title of the journal

Links to electronic articles

Coverage dates

Call # & location of print volumes

Other ways to access electronic full text

• When searching for articles in databases, use the button to link to full-text

Tip: To see the buttons in PubMed • Use the PubMed links from the library website• Change the display in PubMed to Abstract or AbstractPlus

Summary & Key Points

• Use the “Off campus access” to connect to library subscriptions

• Use the “Browse by Program” page for Psychiatry to find selected resources

• Search the Library Catalogue to find anything Western Libraries owns or subscribes to

And, finally...• Who to call for help:

– Research Help: General or access type questions• Service Desk• Phone: 519 661 3168• Email, Chat: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/taylor/researchhelp.shtml

– Subject Librarian (Robin Featherstone): Specific searching questions

• Phone: 519 661 2111 ext: 86383• Email: rfeathe@uwo.ca• Chat: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/psychiatry/

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