Access to e-books, databases and other e‑resources

Google Scholar and library links

To access as many articles as possible when searching Google Scholar off-campus, you need to make a setting in Google Scholar. To do this, you must enable library links. Do this:

• Go to databases External link. and search for Google Scholar.
• Click on the link and log in with your SH account.
  
• Once you have reached Google Scholar, click on the three horizontal bars in the top left corner.
  
• Select settings and then library links.
  
• Search for Södertörn University Library in the search box and check the box to the left of Södertörn University Library - Full-text @ SH and click Save.
  

Tips for using e-books

When you need to find and read an e-book, it is easiest to search for it in SöderScholar. Via the link "full text available", you will proceed to the e-book.

Three quick tips when reading an e-book:

• Read the e-book online if that option is available. Then you can save bookmarks for pages you want to return to, add notes and select text.
  
• If you download the e-book instead - check if there is a limit to how many days you have access to the downloaded file. To read the downloaded e-book, you may need to download some software.
  
• To find your way back to the e-book if you read it online - save the link to the e-book.
  

Remember that you as a student at SH can get text to speech on your own computer. This means that you can have e-books, articles, your own texts and other digital text read by a computer voice with the program Tortalk. Feel free to read more about text to speech and how to download the Tortalk program on your computer on Studieverkstan's website.

Articles in subject databases

When looking for scientific articles, you can search in article databases within your subject area. These subject databases are available in a number of subjects, such as psychology, teaching and business studies. An advantage of searching in subject databases is that it can be easier to find relevant articles there.

Here's how to find article databases on a topic:

1. Go to the library's list of databases External link..
2. Once inside the database list, select a subject in the menu under "Subject".
3. Here there are different types of databases within the subject. Hover the mouse pointer over the titles to see if the databases contain articles.
   
4. Click on the title of a database to proceed to it. You may need to log in with your SH account to enter the database.
   

For students and staff at the Swedish Red Cross University

Below, we have compiled information for students and staff at the Swedish Red Cross University (RKH) on how to access databases and other e-resources and what you have access to.

RKH subscribes to a number of its own databases, such as Cinahl and Cochrane. These can be found in the library's database list External link, opens in new window.. In the database list, the databases to which RKH has access are marked with the Red Cross symbol.

To search for articles, books, journals and databases, you can use the library's search tool SöderScholar, which is available on the library's home page. When you search in SöderScholar, you will get hits on material such as:

• is available for both SH and RKH
• only available for RKH
• only available for SH

If you are on the Södertörn University campus, you will have access to most of the resources subscribed to by the library, i.e. both those available to RKH and SH.

If you are outside the campus, you will only be able to access what RKH subscribes to.

Accessing articles in the Cinahl database

When searching for articles in databases such as Cinahl and Pubmed, there are several ways to access the article itself. Sometimes there is a PDF link to the article in the search results, but for articles that do not have a PDF link, you can do the following:

• Go to Cinahl and do your search.
• Click on the article title to get more information about the article.
• Look for the article's DOI number. It is often written as DOI, followed by a link with a long string of numbers and letters.
• Click on the DOI link. In most cases, the DOI link will take you to the article itself.
• If you cannot access the article via the DOI link, you can check whether the article is available in SöderScholar. If so, copy the article title and search for it in the SöderScholar search box.