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 todayWhat 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/biological-science-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/biological-science-referencing

How to Write uphttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-writing

LIBRARY WEB PAGE: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

This is where you will find a link to your

Subject Guide

LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE

These are your subject guides:http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-

science http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/

oceanography

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

ALEPH – Library catalogueALEPH – Library catalogue

New Library web site coming soon PREVIEW

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

ALEPH – Library catalogueALEPH – Library catalogue

Insert your student or staff number here

Your password is your year of birth in the following format:

YYYYMMDDe.g. 19801205

Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this book:

Encyclopedia of ocean sciences.

What is the shelf number?

Pezza, A.B. (2012) Author and date of publication

Severe heat waves in southern Australia: synoptic climatology and large scale connections. Title of article

Climate Dynamics 38:209-224 Journal name volume no:pages

Griffiths, C.L. 2009. A brief history of marine bio-invasions in South Africa. African zoology 44(2):241-247.

Is it available in print at UCT Libraries? Is it available online?

SEARCHING DATABASES

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1

1. Write down your topic in its simplest form

Then break it up into CONCEPTS.

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1

2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :

CONCEPT 1

POLLUTION

CONTAMINATION

SEWAGE

OIL

CONCEPT 2

MARINE

OCEAN

SEA

CONCEPT 3

BIODIVERSITY

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 :

pollution AND ocean

Use OR to enter keywords for the same (single) concept :

ocean OR marine OR sea

Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :

cetacea NOT dolphins

POLLUTIONOR

CONTAMINATION OR

SEWAGEOROIL

MARINE

OR

OCEAN

OR

SEA

BIODIVERSITYAND

CONCEPT 1

POLLUTIONCONTAMINATION

SEWAGEOIL

CONCEPT 2

MARINEOCEAN

SEA

CONCEPT 3

BIODIVERSITY

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

AND

ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your conceptsONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts

STRUCTURED SCREEN:STRUCTURED SCREEN:

POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE

MARINE OR OCEAN OR SEA

BIODIVERSITY

(POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE) AND (OCEAN OR SEA OR MARINE) AND BIODIVERSITY

4. Type your search strategy into the database search screen

Change drop down menu to topic

Change timespan to limit your search to specific years

Refine results here

Choose how to sort your results

Click on FULL TEXT and then SFX

The full text is available from ScienceDirect

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 is available.

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

Click on Download PDF to get the full text.

Save the article to your computer

Tick the box.Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

ARE

YOU

STILL

WITH

ME?

Photo by Jen Eidelman

Useful databases:ScienceDirectScopusWeb of ScienceWaters and Oceans WorldwideBiological AbstractsZoological RecordBiol & Agric IndexAfrica-Wide: NiPadEnvironment AbstractsJSTOR (Journal archive)

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 : ALEPH (library catalogue), E-Journal portal, Subject Guides

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/biological-science-writing Referencing help. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-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!