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The Research Process For Undergraduate Students: Books

This libguide will help undergraduate students with skills required to find, retrieve and evaluate information on research topics

Library Collection

Location of Library Collection

Open Shelf

Books are available in different formats: print and electronic

Print books can be:

  • Borrowed for a limited period
  • Books can be renewed electronically or by visiting the Circulation Desk provided they are not booked.
  • Books which are out on loan can be reserved at the Circulation Desk.
  • Fines are charged per day, per item for late returns

Reserve Shelf

  • Consists of prescribed and recommended books in high demand
  • Loan period of 4hrs 
  • Books can be renewed
  • Fines are charged per item per hour for late returns.

Loan of books

Open Shelf books

5 books for 2 weeks

 

Reserve Shelf books

2 books for 4 hours

Finding ebooks

Most ebooks purchased by SMU library are housed on different databases such as Ebscohost, Clinicalkey but are all listed in the Catalogue with a clickable to get to the fulltext.

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