Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)

Welcome to the Edinburgh Futures Institute subject guide - your guide to using the library resources, services and facilities for EFI.

Overview

A warm welcome to the University of Edinburgh Library. This guide aims to help you with information on library resources, services and facilities for your subject. You can explore the different topics using the left-hand navigation. 

Introduction to the Library for EFI

Welcome to the Library 2024-25

 

Finding Library Resources - DiscoverEd

 

Use DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more. Sign into your Library account using your University Login to manage your loans and requests.

DiscoverEd Help FAQs

Using Google Scholar to find scholarly literature

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Like DiscoverEd, Google Scholar can be a good place to start your search but it does not allow for advanced or complex searching as in the databases.

Google Scholar may not provide access to full-text, however, by linking to the Library you can access full-text where there is a University subscription.

  1. Select Settings from the top of the Google Scholar Home Page
  2. Select Library Links
  3. Search for University of Edinburgh. Select it from the list and Save your settings

You will now see FindIt@Edinburgh links next to items in your Google Scholar results that you can use to access the full-text.

This short video below demonstrates how to do this.

Your Academic Support Librarian

Profile Photo
Christine Love-Rodgers
she/her
Contact:
Subjects : CAHSS, Divinity, EFI
Website
Social: Twitter Page

Book a meeting

I have a regular office hour on Monday afternoons for students to book appointments for librarian consultations.

Book a librarian consultation to help you research more effectively, by enhancing your knowledge of library resources and helping you develop effective search strategies and reference management software skills. Consultations are usually online.

To book an appointment, please email me at Christine.Love-Rodgers@ed.ac.uk

More information at : https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/academic-support-librarians/one-to-one-librarian-consultations

Subject guides

 

 

 

 

 

We hope that you find this subject guide for EFI useful - please use the feedback form to tell us more.

Our other library subject guides can be a great source of ideas and information, particularly when you are researching interdisciplinary topics. There is a library subject guide for each School and for many individual subject areas. 

Check out the full list of subject guides available : 

Did you know?

We have interdisciplinary subject guides that tackle key topics, including:

Feedback Form

Library News