Environmental & Acoustics Journals Tutorial

Sensitivity: Internal
Introduction to electronic journals
Environmental Management
Environmental Health
Acoustics & Noise Control
Public Health

Logging in
All our electronic library resources need to be
accessed through the University of Derby Library
pages. Login through UDo or UDOL & go to the
Library pages from there.
This is because we pay for our online resources
and you need to show that you are eligible to use
them.

Library journals subscriptions
The Library subscribes to a large number of
journals:
•Individual titles
•All the journals from some publishers typically from
the late 1990s (e.g. Elsevier Science Direct, Taylor &
Francis, Springer)
•A large number of journals contained in databases
we subscribe to (e.g. Expanded Academic, Science
Full Text Select, Business Source Premier, Cinahl
Plus)

But we don’t have everything
Journals are usually not freely available and are
often very expensive so we can’t subscribe to all
journals. Therefore don’t expect to have immediate
access to everything.

Finding a journal article when you know
the journal you need to look for.
• Use the E-Journals Finder to find a specific electronic
journal or to find a specific journal article where you know
which journal it is in.
• Do not use E-Journals Finder to find articles from a range of
journals.
• (You can also use Library Plus in many cases – see later)

e.g. Find the following journal
article:
Johnson, E. (2009) Charcoal versus LPG grilling: a carbon-footprint
comparison. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 29 (6)
pp. 370-378
Use the E-Journals Finder to look up the journal Environmental
Impact Assessment Review

E-Journals Finder
To go to the E-Journals Finder
click on Find Subject
Information.

E-Journals Finder
Then E-Journals
Finder.

Type in the journal title (not a journal article title) or one or two
specific words from the journal title.
e.g. to find the journal article Johnson, E. (2009) Charcoal versus
LPG grilling: a carbon-footprint comparison. Environmental Impact
Assessment Review, vol. 29 (6) pp. 370-378
You need find the journal Environmental Impact Assessment Review
E-Journals Finder

You can then either:
Type in some title words in the
search box for Environmental Impact
Assessment Review See search
box left.
Or: You can click on the publisher
link (Science Direct) to browse the
journal. This will also tell you which
years we have access to.
E-Journals Finder

In this case we have full
access. Click on the Get
Full Text link.
E-Journals Finder

You may be taken straight
to the full article or may
need to click on another
link.
Library Plus

The full journal article. You may
legally copy or print this (use the
PDF version).
E-Journals Finder

Or you can browse
the journal & its
volumes if you
click on the publisher
link.
E-Journals Finder

Scroll down to find vol 29 (no 6) 2009
You can also do a keyword search for
articles from the journal. This will search
for all issues of the journal but we typically
have full access to e-journals from the
1990s though in some cases there is
access further back in time.
E-Journals Finder

Then click on vol 29 2009
E-Journals Finder

Click on the title or PDF link to
view the whole journal article.
A green square indicates we
have access.
E-Journals Finder

The full-text journal article is
then displayed. PDF – best
for printing or saving.
E-Journals Finder

Searching for articles on a topic
There is no one single correct way of finding journal
articles but the Library has a database which we call
Library Plus which searches across a wide range of
journals and other databases which the Library
subscribes to.

Library Plus Includes many journal
articles & resources we have full
access to
Library Plus includes
• Library book catalogue (print & e-books)
• Many of our e-journals subscriptions
• Full-text journals contained in the databases
subscribed to (e.g. Science Direct, Expanded
Academic, Science Full Text Select, Business
Source, Cinahl Plus)

Library Plus also includes
Lists of resources we don’t have immediate access
to e.g.
•Journals we don’t subscribe to but indexed in
databases we subscribe to (e.g. indexed in Web of
Science, Cinahl but where we don’t have access to
the complete journal)

Library Plus
There are various ways of searching Library Plus. You can search Library Plus
directly from the Library page. This is a very basic search, but you are then able to
refine your search. This Basic Search only searches articles we have full access to.
e.g. type water quality swimming pools into the Library Plus search box to do a basic
search.
(Or you may want to use the Library Plus link under Find Subject Information & use
the Library Plus Advanced Search).

Library Plus
You may often be faced with a large number of
references, so you may need to narrow down.
You can alter or add keywords & the best way
is usually to go to Advanced Search.
Other useful ways to limit a search are by date
or limit to academic journals

The Search box on the Library page is quite basic
& you may often want to do a more detailed search.
You can go to the Library Plus search page by
selecting Find Subject Information, then Library
Plus.
Library Plus

Click on Library Plus under Quick Links.
There is also a link in the Subject Guides
for Environment and Acoustics and Public
Health on the right under Science.
Library Plus

Advanced Search can
give more flexibility &
allows you to do a more
sophisticated search.
Library Plus

Library Plus
You can combine search terms by
using the different search boxes.
AND combines the search terms
& narrows the search
OR widens a search & looks for
either term.
“ ” searches an exact phrase
e.g. “public houses”
* Finds any words beginning with
the stem of the word
e.g. acoustic* will look for
acoustic, acoustics, acoustical.
Tick this box & you will only see articles we have full
access to.
But you could miss articles which may be really useful.

Library Plus
An abstract or summary is often available
from the title link.
Get Full Text gives access to the full journal
article.
You can use Source Types (left)
to restrict e.g. to Academic
Journals or Limit by date.

If you leave the full text box unticked,
then you will find publications we do not
have immediate full access to. However
you are usually able to obtain these via
the inter library loan service if needed for
your project

You can use the words AND
OR NOT to refine your
search.
This is explained on the help
screen (next slide).
Library Plus

From the Library
Plus Help pages
Library Plus

If we don’t have a journal article you
need.
Any book or journal article we don’t have can
be obtained through the inter-library loans
service (usually from the British Library
Document Supply Centre).
Inter-library loans are available to students
from Stage 2 onwards. Masters students are
allowed 20 free of charge and then a further
20 at £2.00 per item.

Using Library Plus to look for a
specific journal article
You can look for a specific journal article where you
know the details either using:
•Electronic Journals A-Z (as earlier example)
•Library Plus (but doesn’t include absolutely every
journal which is in our A-Z list)

Example of using Library Plus to
find a specific journal article
Barlow,C & Castilla-Sanchez,F (2012) Occupational
noise exposure and regulatory adherence in music
venues in the United Kingdom, Noise and Health,
14(57), p.86-90

You can change the Field
to e.g. author, title words,
source (journal)
Using Library Plus to look for a specific journal article

Saving references in Library Plus
If you want to save references or searches for future
use you can create your own personal account and
then Sign In to your personal account.
You still need to login through the Library page to
start with. Then Sign in with the personal account
you have made
You can save references into “folders” & give folders
names & then view them later or add to them.

First Sign in with a personal username & password.
You can create a named folder to put your search results in or just put them into an
unnamed folder.
To create a named folder click on Folder & create a new folder with a name.
Saving References in Library Plus

You can then save relevant references to the named
folder by clicking on the + icon & saving to the folder.
The icon changes to a yellow folder.
You can then see the selected references by clicking on
Folder View.
Or you can just click on the + icon & references will be
saved into a general folder which you can name
afterwards if you want.

The folder icon will turn yellow.
To view what you have put into
a folder click Folder View

The references in the folder displayed, & then if you want,
you can save them into a word file, export to a referencing
software package.
They will be there in the folder next time you login & sign
into Library Plus

You can also Save
searches to go back to
later if you sign in.
Click on Search History

You can save any of your
searches for later use

Information on searching Library Plus is also
available from the Library Plus help screens
and the library guide to Library Plus.
Further Information on Library Plus

Google Scholar
• Google Scholar is a very useful index to journal
articles and books.
• Note that unless an article or report is freely
available or we have a subscription, then you will
not be able to see it in full.
• Where we have paid for a journal, you can often
link through to it. To do this you need to set up the
Library Links in Google Scholar Settings. You also
need to have logged in through UDo.

To view journal
articles we have
subscribed to, to
set up the Library
Links under
Settings.
Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Type Derby in Library Links.
Tick
“University of Derby – Check
E-Journals Finder”.
Google Scholar

For the Advanced
Search click on
the 3 bars top left
then Advanced
Search
Google Scholar

We are likely to have full
text of those labelled E-
Journals Finder.
Google Scholar

If we don’t have a journal article you
need.
Most journal articles we don’t have can be obtained
through the inter-library loans service (usually from the
British Library Document Supply Centre) which are
emailed to your university email address.
Masters students are allowed 20 free of charge and
then a further 20 at £2.00 per item.

Inter Library loans for distance
learning students
• See the Library “Infocus” web pages
• http://www.derby.ac.uk/infocus/guide-to-services

Online library subject guides are
available which have links to the
main resources and help on how to
use them.
Library Subject Guides

Information on resources is given,
with links to resources, using the
tabs at the top

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