INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES

Presented by Jen Eidelman

E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.zaTelephone: 021 650 2773

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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

WHERE TO START? - Subject GuideOn the Library Web Page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment

EGS - Subject Guidehttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment

ALEPH – Library cataloguehttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za

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.

EGS Library guide:

Finding Books

How to find a book: See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findbooks

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

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

ALEPH – Library catalogue Using the BROWSE function

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?

Library Guide – Finding Mapshttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findmaps

ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

EGS Library guide:

FindingJournals

http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findjournals

Print Journals - Aleph

e-Journal Portal

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

Type NAME of journal

Finding e-journals

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

WorldCat – Search & Discover

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.

Let’s have a break!

Photo by Jen Eidelman

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

Databases for EGS http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/databases

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

Databases:GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

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

Download PDF to read the full text

Save the article to your computer

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

RefWorks Login / sign up for a new accountOrganise your work - Create a reference list in RefWorks

The information (bibliographic detail) is imported to 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

Keep up to date – Keep a Search History / Create Alerts

The My EBSCOhost banner shows that you are signed in.

Click on ‘Create Alert’

Keep up to date – Create Alerts

Keep up to date – Create Alerts

Keep up to dateRetrieve searches / Retrieve Alerts / Save searches

Keep up to date - Save searches

Give your search a name. Click Save

Keep up to date - Retrieve Saved searches

Go to ‘Folder’ to find saved searches

Databases: SCOPUS

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?

Databases: SCOPUS

Keep up to date - Create a profile - Save searches

Scopus – Author search

Databases: SCOPUS

Click on link to view articles

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’.

Change drop down menu to topic

Change timespan to limit your search to specific years

Refine results of search here

Choose how to sort the results of your search

The SFX button will tell you if the full text of the article is available or not.

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

• Give your search a name

• Click ‘Save’

Keep up to dateSave Searches / Create Alerts

• Click on ‘My Tools’ • Click on ‘Saved Searches and Alerts’ to

see all your saved searches

Keeping up to date Library Guidehttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/uptodate

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

THANK YOU!

This presentation is available at: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/workshop-msc&phd