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Introducing UCT Libraries to Geological Science Honours students in 2014
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Geological Sciences 2014HONOURS
INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN
2014E-mail: [email protected]
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!
