Geological sciences Honours 2014

Geological Sciences 2014HONOURS

INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES

PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN

2014E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za

Telephone: 021 650 2773

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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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 effectivelyhttp://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/refworks http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-referencing

How to Write uphttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-writing-guide

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

This is where you will find a link to your Subject Guide:

WHERE TO START? - Subject GuideOn the Library Web Page:

LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDES

This is your subject guide:http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/

geology

GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES - Library Guide

New Library web site coming soon PREVIEW

ALEPH – Library catalogue http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

Geological Sciences Library guide:

Finding Books

How to find a book: See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-finding-books

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: Encyclopedia of geology.What is the shelf number?

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

Lucky draw questions: Find this journal title in ALEPH

Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this journal title:

Journal title: Journal of the geological society

1.What are the dates of the print holdings?2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?

ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Mapshttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/maps

• Choose Multi-field from the tool bar.

• In the subject field type geology south africa

• In the ‘limit search to’ section from the drop down menu in the ‘format’ section choose ‘Maps’.

ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

Geological Sciences Library guide:

Finding Journals

Type NAME of journal

Finding e-journals

Example:

Stimpson, Ian. 2011.

Japan's Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.

Geology today. 27(3):96-98

Finding e-journals

NAME of journal Volume(issue):page numbers

Author and Date of publication

Styllas, M. 2014.A simple approach to define Holocene sequence stratigraphy using borehole and cone penetration test data.

Sedimentology. 61(2):444-460

Lucky draw question: Find this journal article

Finding e-journals

NAME of journal Volume(issue):page numbers

WorldCat Local – Search & Discovery

INTERLIBRARY LOANShttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/services/interlibrary-loans/

You can request items that are not available at UCT via UCT Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department.

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.

Let’s have a break!

Photo by Jen Eidelman

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 for Geology http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-databases

Useful databases:GeoRefSA GeolitScienceDirectScopusSpringerLinkWeb of ScienceWiley Online Library

Databases:GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

Databases:GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

Databases:GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

You can refine your search here.

Click on the SFX button.This tells you the availability of the article.

Databases:GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

SFX will tell you if the article is available in full text or not.

The full text is available from SpringerLink

Click on the GO button.

There is also a link here to the library catalogue (ALEPH) if you want to see if the print version of ‘Natural Hazards’ is available.

GEOREF – SFX

Scroll down to find the article on page 377

Click on Download PDF to read the full text.

Save the article to your computer

GEOREF – Export to RefWorks

Click on the title of the article to open the full view

GEOREF – Export to RefWorks

Select the ‘Direct export to RefWorks’ buttonThen click ‘Save’

This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

You do not have to sign in to use these databases, but if you create a personalised account, you can register your own profile, save searches and create alerts.

The My EBSCOhost banner shows that you are signed in.

Click on ‘Create Alert’

Search for a journal article about the Tohokuearthquake and tsunami event.

Databases: ScienceDirect

Databases: ScienceDirect

Click on PDF to get full text

Search for Earthquake OR tsunami AND TohokuFrom the Document Search tab.You can add as many search boxes as you like.

Databases: SCOPUS

Databases: SCOPUS

Click on the SFX button.This tells you the availability of the article.

Databases: SCOPUS

Databases: SCOPUS

Click on link to view articles

If you’re

off campus

you can still

access UCT

Libraries Catalogue, Databases, RefWorks and other resourcesfrom the library page

http://ezproxy.uct.ac.za

Photo by Jen Eidelman

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

Writing help : See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-writing-guide

Referencing help. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-referencing

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!