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Services

Services for Off-Campus Users  -  Requesting UNSW materials as an External User
 
Registered UNSW staff and postgraduate off-campus users can request the loan of books and the supply of journal articles held by UNSW Library and other Libraries.
Registration is required for first-time users. Once registered, a DDU password will be sent to your UNSW email shortly. You can then request materials via the Online Off-Campus Users Request Form.
**Please read the Off-Campus Users Policy before using the service.
Reciprocal Borrowing (ULA) - borrowing from other university libraries
 
Reciprocal Borrowing (ULA) is a national borrowing scheme that allows all current staff and students of the Australian Vice Chancellors' committee (AVCC) member universities to borrow from any other member university in Australia.
Go to the Reciprocal Borrowing webpage for further details on how to register for the service. If you need more help, please contact Frances Liston on (02) 9385 8051 or email Biomedext@unsw.edu.au.
UNSW Library Resources 
 
A UniPass is required to access all UNSW Library resources including the LRD, MyCourse, Sirius and SFX. Contact DisConnect for help with UniPass. Once UniPass is provided please link and complete 'agree to the rules' conditions of use. 
Note: Library systems/resources work best with the appropriate settings. You must adjust the settings on your computer according to this access requirements.
Postgraduate Borrowing
  Please read the details of Borrowing entitlements and requirements for Postgraduate Students.

Help Yourself

Medicine Online Tutorials and Guides
 
A collection of useful tutorials and guides on using UNSW Library resources more effectively.
The Online tutorials of Medline, Medicine 3802 Information Skills, and Sports Science Information Skills are specially helpful for students to refine their research skills at their own pace. Although examples used in the tutorials are medicine and health related, the information skills involved are relevant to students from all disciplines.
UNSW Library Online Training
Online resource help-sheets and tutorials of the UNSW Library resources are available from the 'how to use' menu. The tutorials and help sheets for Library Resource Database(LRD) and Sirius are specially helpful to understand and locate the Library resources more effectively.
Biomedical Library Subject Guides
These subject guides have been prepared by UNSW Library staff to support learning, teaching and research within the UNSW Faculty of Medicine
Alert Services
Alerting Services, also known as SDIs (Selective Dissemination of Information), allow you to keep up-to-date with the latest research and literature in your field of study. They are particularly useful to staff and postgraduate or final year students who are engaged in ongoing research and need to follow developments in their discipline.
Referencing
Online illustrations of appropriate documentation style using the APA (American Psychological Association)  referencing style.
Also look into the UNSW Learning Center  website for more referencing resources.
Endnote
EndNote is bibliographic software that allows you to store, organise and manage your references in a database (called an EndNote library). These references can be linked to your word processing documents to instantly create in-text citations and bibliographies in the referencing style that you require.