Using Other Libraries - Finding Locations

• Union Lists
• Other institutions' catalogues

Union Lists

CAIRNS - the Co-operative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland providing descriptions of information resources of all kinds held in libraries in Scotland and online resources of interest to Scotland and its people.

COPAC - a union catalogue. It provides access to the merged online catalogues of 22 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland and the British Library.

SALSER - SALSER is an online information service about serials held in Scottish academic and research libraries,including all the University libraries, the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh City Library, The Mitchell Library in Glasgow and some Union Lists. SALSER also provides a library directory giving useful information about addresses, phone numbers, opening hours and lending services.

SHINE - SHINE is the database of the Scottish Health Information Network and covers health Libraries in Scotland. Choose the Shine Union List menu option to find out where journals are held in health libraries in Scotland. Libraries.

SUNCAT - The Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.

E-Library - part of the Scottish Health on the Web (SHOW) NHS site. NHS staff can access e-journals through this site.

Other institutions' catalogues

• Libraries in Edinburgh
• Libraries outwith Edinburgh
• Scottish Library and Information Resource - online directory providing information about the location and accessibility of information resources in Scotland
  

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