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Share your library tips!

Have you found a good way to make the library work for you?

Have you had a problem getting what you need or finding that perfect article?

Use the comments area to share your good and bad experiences, share tips and see what has worked for other distance education students.

To start the blog, I’m copying some questions I’ve recieved by email and my answers to them.

Ask, and answer, questions here!

Dan the Librarian

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 at 11:52 am and is filed under Share tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Comments »

  1. Hello,
    I printed off the library services for distance ed students and attempted to use the electronic web site, but it went no where. So I am emailing to see about getting 2 articles:

    1. International Journal of Nursing Studies, Jan 2004 59-65 by Tsay, SL. Empowerment of patients with ESRD– a randomized controlled study.

    2. Patient education and counseling. April 2007 13-20. Patient Empowerment in theory and practice by Aujoulat.

    Thanks, sending them by email would be lovely.

    Comment by Anonymous — December 10, 2007 @ 2:13 pm

  2. There are a couple options for you. As a first step, try using our article locator at http://infolink.lib.uiowa.edu/sfx_local/cgi/core/citation-linker.cgi to see if your specific artcle is available online. The Article Locator searches all the sources of online articles at the University of Iowa and, if it finds your article online, links you to it (or close to it). You’ll need at least the title of the journal and the more information about the article you can give (volume, issue and page number, for example), the better the system works.

    Not all publishers grant copyright permission to make their articles available online, however. Whether an article is available electronically or not, you can request a copy through the University of Iowa Library’s InterLibrary Loan/Document Delivery department. More information specifically for distance students is available at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/disted/getmaterials.html.

    You can, of course, always call us for help, too. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/disted/gethelp.html

    Comment by Daniel — December 10, 2007 @ 5:52 pm

  3. Nice Post… Keep the good work up.

    Comment by Sam Tylor — August 28, 2009 @ 1:56 pm

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