Trinity Hall: Library Introduction: Finding resources

You might also find it useful to start your search for articles from:

• Subject Libguides: Guides to library resources for your subjects
• A-Z of online databases: A list of all of the online databases that we subscribe to in Cambridge.
• A-Z list of ejournals: A list of journals which are available online.
• Newspapers: A list of the archives and current news sites.
• Apollo, the research repository: this holds the research output of academics and students across the university, and includes many open access resources relating to a wide range of disciplines. There are also other sites you can use to track down theses and dissertations

iDiscover lets you search across all the printed and electronic resources in the university - including books, ebooks, journals, databases, Apollo (the University's repository) and other online content.Type one or more search terms into the search box and click on the ‘Search’ icon. Results for books in the Jerwood library have the location “Trinity Hall: Jerwood Library”.

For more information on getting the most out of iDiscover see the videos on this Youtube channel or check out the Quick guides to iDiscover

For more information on how to access and use ebooks see this video.

Reading Lists Online (Leganto) provides easy access to your course reading lists. It shows the location and availability for print books and links to electronic books, articles and websites, videos and digitised chapters. Videos explaining aspects of the Reading Lists Online system can be found at the webpage linked below. Full pdf transcripts are available for each of the videos.

https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/Leganto/students

Please note: On iDiscover you might come across books that are 'restricted to designated PCs'. These ebooks are supplied by publishers under Electronic Legal Deposit legislation, and may only be used on designated PCs. We don't have these in the Jerwood, but you can acess them from most departmental libraries. See the list here.

You can access eresources without a login when on campus or off-campus using your Raven username and password.

Lean Library is a really useful tool which automatically detects the articles that you can access through a Cambridge subscription when you're on other websites e.g. Google, Bing, Baidu, PubMed etc.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar can be set up to display an “ejournals@cambridge” link alongside article citations.  This link will indicate that you have access to the article as a member of the University.   By clicking on the link you will be routed to the article.

To set up the display of “ejournals@cambridge” links in Google Scholar:

• Go to Settings (three horizontal bars icon)
• Click on Library links
• Search for Cambridge in the search box.
• Check the tick box for “University of Cambridge – ejournals@cambridge” and click Save.

The next time you use GS you will see the links to your entitled access as a member of the University.