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INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
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What you can expect to learn today
Save Time– Learn what the libraries have to offer & how to use the library resources.
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
Work efficiently- Learn how to search effectively
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-databases
Keep up to date- Learn how to get Alerts to your email account and to Save Searches.
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/sci-tech-uptodate
Be organized. Organise the results of your searches. - Introducing RefWorks to organise your work and create a reference list /
reference help.http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/refworkshttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-referencing
How to Write uphttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-writing-guide
LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment
OFF CAMPUS LOGIN http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
It is possible to access library resources off-campus. Use the OFF CAMPUS LOGIN BUTTON on the library webpage.
How to find a book: See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findbooks
ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function
ALEPH LOGIN:
Insert your student or staff number here
Your password is your year of birth in the following format:
YYYYMMDDe.g. 19801205
Exercise: Find this book in ALEPH using the BROWSE function
Title: Managing climate risk in water supply systems
What is the shelf number?
ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function
Hands on exercise: Find this journal title in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this journal title:
Journal title: Journal of biogeography
1.What are the dates of the print holdings?2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?
Example:
Sutherland, C. 2014.
Water and sanitation provision in eThekwini Municipality: a spatially differentiated approach
Environment and Urbanization
26:469-488.
Finding e-journals
NAME of journal
Volume(issue):page numbers
Author and Date of publication
Moyo, B.H.Z. 2014.
Indigenous knowledge perceptions and development practice in northern Malawi.
The Geographical Journal. 180(4):392–401
Hands on exercise: Find this journal article
Finding e-journals
NAME of journal Volume(issue):page numbers
INTERLIBRARY LOANShttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/interlibrary-loans
You can request items that are not available at UCT via UCT Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department.
o Web of Scienceo Scopuso ScienceDirecto EIS Digests of environmental impact statementso GeoRefo SpringerlinkoWiley Online Library
Search Databases
ScopusVery large multidisciplinary database with articles dating from 1823 About 50 million records Indexes over 21,000 journal titles More than 5.5 million conference
papers
Huge organised collections of article references … indexed so that you can find articles by topic, author, etc. Some store the full text of the articles.
Web of Science1962 to the present Indexes more than 12,000
academic journals Indexes articles AND
citations Most highly-cited journals DHET accredited list
ScienceDirect A sub-set of Scopus Indexes over 3,000 journal titles
and 20,000 books Full text from 1995
Library’s home page
EGS Subject Guide
Menu: Search & Find / Databases
Databases – finding articles in journals tab
SEARCHING DATABASES
1. Write down your topic in its simplest form
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
The impact of climate change on natural resources & sustainable development
Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3
2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :
CONCEPT 1
Environmental change
Global warming
CONCEPT 2
Water
ocean
sea
river
CONCEPT 3
Sustainable development
The impact of climate change on natural resources & sustainable development
Concept 1 Concept 3Concept 2
3. Construct your search strategy
Boolean logic provides the language you use to structure your keyword search … the search engine needs to know how your search terms relate to each other
In Boolean searching, you make use of the three Boolean operators:
AND OR NOT
Use AND to combine different concepts :
Climate change AND Water
Climate change
Water
• ‘AND’ finds all of the search terms• ‘AND’ limits and narrows down your search results• The purple coloured area represents the results of your search
Use OR to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
Water OR Sea OR rivers OR Ocean
WATER
RIVERS
SEA
OCEAN
‘OR’ finds any one of the conceptsOR’ increases the number of results in a search‘The green coloured area represents the results of your search
Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
water NOT rivers
Water Rivers
‘NOT’ gets rid of unwanted conceptsThe purple coloured area represents the results of your search
Environmental Change
ORGlobal warming
Water
OR
Sea
OR
Ocean
OR
Rivers
Sustainable Development
AND
CONCEPT 1
Environmental Change
Global warming
CONCEPT 2
Water
Sea
Ocean
Rivers
CONCEPT 3
Sustainable development
AND
The impact of climate change on natural resources & sustainable development
ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
(Environmental Change OR global warming) AND (water OR ocean OR sea OR rivers) AND Sustainable Development
4. Type your search strategy into the database search screen
Environmental Change OR global warming
Water OR ocean OR sea OR rivers
Sustainable Development
Databases:GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST
You can refine your search here.
Choose how to sort the results of your search.
Click on the SFX button.This tells you if the article is available in full text or not.
Databases:GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST
The full text is available from ScienceDirect
There is also a link here to the library catalogue (ALEPH) if you want to see if the print version is available.
GEOREF – SFX
GEOREF – Export to RefWorksOrganise your work
Create a reference list in RefWorks
Click on the title of the article
GEOREF – Export to RefWorksOrganise your work - Create a reference list in RefWorks
Select the ‘Export’ button
Select the ‘Direct export to RefWorks’ buttonThen click ‘Save’
This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
GEOREF – Export to RefWorksOrganise your work - Create a reference list in RefWorks
You do not have to sign in to use these databases, but if you create a personalisedaccount, you can register your own profile, review your previous searches and create alerts.
Sign In - Keep up to date – Save Searches / Create Alerts
The My EBSCOhost banner shows that you are signed in.
Click on ‘Create Alert’
Keep up to date – Create Alerts
Exercise
Find an article in SCOPUS using the search terms
Peninsula shale renosterveldAND
restorationAND
Anderson (author name)
QUESTIONS:
What is the date of the article?Is the full text available online?
From the dropdown menu you can choose ‘All Databases’ to search across all the databases.
If you search in the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ you will be able to create search alerts & RSS feeds.
Alerts are not enabled when you search in ‘All Databases’.
Tick the box.Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
Web of Science - Export to RefWorksOrganise your work and create a reference list in
RefWorks
• Click on the ‘Search History’ tab• And then click on ‘Save History / Create Alert’
Keep up to dateSave Searches / Create Alerts
Finding material in UCT Libraries : Subject Guide, ALEPH (library catalogue), E-Journal portal
Doing your literature search : DATABASES (Boolean searching)
Retrieving materials: SFX; ALEPH, SABINET; Interlibrary Loans
Organising your results : RefWorks. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/refworks
Referencing & Writing help. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/referencing-writing
Keeping up to date : Current Awareness; Alerting services. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/sci-tech-uptodate
Off-campus access: Use the button on the library page