Last updated August 2009 by Mick Draper

Library Tour and Seminar for FHS Bridging Students

The Catalogue

To use the Catalogue, left click once on the Catalogue tab at the top of the Library home.

Alternatively you can click on the underlined text in Use the Catalogue.

The Catalogue will help you to find books, journals, and other items in the Library Collections.
Before you can use the Catalogue you need to be able to tell the difference between books, chapters in books, and journal articles.
This is because these different sorts of citations are found on The Catalogue using different methods.

Here is an example of a reading list.

Steenberghe, D. van 2004. Breath malodor : a step by step approach. Copenhagen : Quintessence
Boon, Nicholas A. (ed) 2006. Davidson’s principles & practice of medicine. 20th ed Edinburgh ; Sydney : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone
Glasziou, P 2007 Designing monitoring studies (in) Price, C., & R. Christenson Evidence-based laboratory medicine 2nd ed pp 83-93
Rubin, G.J. et al 2009. Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey. BMJ 339(7713) 144-156

Identifying Books

The first item in the reading list is a book

You can identify a citation to a book by the presence of:

author(s) or editor(s), date, book title,
publisher, and place of publication.

Identifying Chapters in a Book

You can identify a citation to a chapter in a book by the presence of:

the word 'in'
before the title of the book
also
the chapter author(s), chapter title
and details of the book itself

When you search for a chapter in the Catalogue, you need to search for
the book containing the chapter,
not the chapter itself.

Sometimes lecturers have permission to copy chapters or other parts of books.
These are made available to students on MyUni.

Identifying Journal Articles

You can identify a citation to a journal article by the presence of:

author(s) of the article, publication date, title of the article (usually),
title of the journal, journal volume number (and sometimes the issue number), pages of the article

and the absence of

publisher and place of publication

Finding Books in the Catalogue By Title

Using Title search is usually the best method of searching for books in the Catalogue.

Enter the title in the Search for: box

enter the title in full

breath malodor a step by step approach

or truncate the title

breath malodor a step by

but don't leave out words

breath malodor step by step

Do leave out the word A, An, or The if it is the first word of the title.
The Catalogue isn't case sensitive so it doesn't matter if you use capital letters.
The Catalogue ignores punctuation including foreign language diacritics.

Click on the Search button.

The result appears.

If only one title appears, check that is the book you are looking for.
Scroll down the screen to find the Location, Call Number and Status.

If more that one book has the same title The Catalogue will show you a screen of all the items with that title.
You'll need to find the one you want.

One way to help find an item you want is to sort the list.
Click in the Sort by box and choose an option.

Click on the highlighted text of the edition you want.

Scroll down the screen to find the location, call number and status.

Notice that Requests can be placed on books that are out on loan.
Instructions on how to request a book that is on loan

Searching by Author Names

In the Search for box, enter the author's last name, a space and first initial.
Click on the triangle at the end of the by: box.

In the by box, click on Author-last name.

If the library has items by that author then the Author's name will appear in an alphabetical list.
The Catalogue will also indicate how many items it holds by the author.
Click on the author's name to see the list of items.

Click on the title of any item you want to see in more detail.

Finding a Chapter in a Book

Always begin by searching for the title or editor of the book in which the chapter or essay appears.
To find Glasziou, P 2007 Designing monitoring studies (in) Price, C., & R. Christenson Evidence-based laboratory medicine 2nd ed pp 83-93

You can use title search, or author search as above to find the book. Remember to look for the book title or book author(s) not the chapter title or chapter author(s)

Once you have found the book scroll down to find the location and call number of the book.

This gives you the information you need to find the book.
Opening it at page 83 will find the chapter.

eBooks
The library has access to some electronic books.
Again search for the book title and when the electronic book appears search the contents to click on the chapter you want.

Journal Title Searches

Electronic Journals

Finding the article

Kilarski, W.W. et al 2009.Biomechanical regulation of blood vessel growth during tissue vascularization Nature Medicine15(6) 657 - 664

You can search for the titles of journals (not the titles of articles) using the Catalogue.
Type the full title or truncated title of the journal into the Search for: box.
Click on the triangle at the end of the by box, or click within the box.
Click on Journal or Newspaper Title.
Don't use abbreviated journal titles, and don't include the, a, or an if it's the first word of the journal title.

Printed Journals

Many older volumes of journals and a few recent journal titles are still collected by the library in print format.
Search for the title using Journal or Newspaper Title in the by: box

You'll need to find location, call number, and check the Library Has section in the Catalogue to find out which volumes of the print journal are held.

Joint Store
Less used books and journals are stored at the Flinders University campus.
This material can be retrieved for you to use.
Details of how to do this are available here

Requesting items from Joint Store

The Catalogue will tell you if particular books or journal volumes are in the Store.

Guided Keywords Searching

Finding items using Guided Keyword

Guided Keywords is useful when you know some details of an item, but not enough to use title search, or author search.

Perhaps you know about a book that includes the word falls in the title and you think the author's name is Lord but you don't know the author's initial.

Guided Keyword search will help find the book quickly.
Click on the Guided Keyword Search button.
If the screen has returned to the Library home you will have to click on the Catalogue tab again.

Enter the terms you want to search (in this example falls and lord)
Click on the Search button.

This search finds 14 items which isn't too onerous to look through.

Searching for Topics Using Guided Keyword

Guided Keyword search is also useful for finding items on a particular topic such as blood pressure.
You can type these words into the Search for box.
If you leave the search conditions as all of these, then your search will find items that have both blood AND pressure in their catalogue records.
You can change the conditions to search for blood pressure as a phrase.

You can also truncate words using the * symbol.
This * at the end of a word stem such as arter*
will search for artery OR arteries OR arterial OR arteriole etc.

Logic Grids
To make sure that you get your search logic right before beginning to search it's very useful to use a logic grid.
Write down the main concepts that you want to search.
Under each concept write down any synonyms or alternative terms.

A search on blood pressure in different blood vessels might be placed in a grid like the one below.
You can use any piece of paper to sort out your logic.

First let's look at searching for the blood vessels.
We want to find items that have any of the terms aorta OR aortas OR artery OR arteries etc.
Write these in a single column using truncation to find plurals and other variations on the word stems.

aorta*

arter*

vein*

venule*

capillar*

We want to combine these terms with the phrases blood pressure OR blood pressures.
We can write this as blood pressure* in a separate column.

aorta*	blood pressure*
arter*
vein*
venule*
capillar*

Because we want any item that includes any one or more of the terms in the left hand column, we should search for any of these.

We want to search blood pressure* as a phrase.

Because we want items that have any one or more of the terms for blood vessels, AND the phrases blood pressure or blood pressures, we need to make sure that the AND button is selected.
Then click the Search button.

This search is equivalent to

(aorta* OR arter* OR vein* OR venule* OR capillar*) AND blood pressure*

except that blood pressure* has to be a phrase not blood AND pressure*

You can make your searches more specific by limiting searches to particular elements of Catalogue records.

Citing References
When you use information from books and journal articles in your essays and other assignments, you must acknowledge this.
You must give credit to the authors you quote by citing them in a bibliography (list of citations) at the end of your assignment. If you don't do this you commit plagiarism.

Right click on the link below and then open in a new window to read.
Avoiding Plagiarism by Helene Hipp & Ursula McGowan from the Uni of Adelaide Language and Learning Service

Citation Styles
There are many citation styles that can be used for bibliographies.
You should always follow the citation style recommended by your University School or Discipline.
If there is no recommended style you should choose an internationally accepted style.

Here are some links to styles
Right click on the link below and open in a new window to view the instructions for writing manuscripts (journal articles, books etc) using the
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts style.
From International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

On the link below right click and open in a new window to see how to cite references under the Uniform Requirements.
This is known as the Vancouver style.
From Monash University Library
The Vancouver style is often recommended to students by the Faculty of Health Sciences.

B Davis Schwartz Memorial Library has links to other citation styles

University of Leeds version of Harvard style bibliographies and references
University of South Australia's Referencing using the Harvard author-date system
There isn't a single standard version of the Harvard system.

The Library has some books on the topic of citation styles

The Chicago manual of style.
808.02 U58.15
1 copy in Reference, 1 copy in Main Collection

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
808.06615 A512p.5
Copies in Reference, Reserve, and Main Collections

Other Resources on Scientific Writing for Medicine
Catalogue search for items on this topic

Uni of Adelaide's Writing Centre

Now you should know

Where to find books and printed journals in the Barr Smith Library
How to identify books, book chapters, and journal articles in reading lists
How to use the Library Catalogue to find known items
How to use Guided Keywords to find items on a particular topic
Your obligations in citing your sources
Where to find information on citation styles

Other Barr Smith Library Resource Guides

This site was produced by Mick Draper

Mick Draper is the Research Librarian for the following disciplines in the Faculty of Health Sciences: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Anatomical Sciences, Dentistry, General Practice, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics and Trauma, Paediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Surgery.

Maureen Bell is the Research Librarian for Clinical Nursing, Mental Health/Psychiatry, Psychology and Public Health.