CHE1004W Design Project

LIBRARY SKILLS TRAINING

CHE1004W Design Project

LIBRARY SKILLSREFERENCE MATERIALS

(Encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.)

BOOKS … Finding books in the Library

JOURNAL ARTICLES … Searching for articles on your topic

INTERNET … Evaluating information on the Web

REFERENCE MATERIALS

DSR 660 RULE

DSR 660.0212 HAND

DSR 660.2842 HAND

(ONLINE) and in print at DSR 660.03 KIRK

DSR 660.283 CHER

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

DSR 669 META

DSR 669 HAND

DSR 503 MACG

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

Provides access to:

•Web page for this project

•Electronic resources for finding information and library materials.

BOOKS

FINDING BOOKS …

Search ALEPH

Get SHELF NUMBER

Find book on shelf

FINDING BOOKS

SEARCH ALEPH for books on these topics :

extractive metallurgy

hydrometallurgy

pyrometallurgy

Write down the SHELF NUMBERS

Are the books on the shelf, or out on loan?

HANDS-ON EXERCISE

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

Use BROWSE to find books about metallurgy

WHAT ARE ACADEMIC JOURNALS?

Published regularly (up to date)

Collections of articles by researchers and practicing engineers

Communicate research findings / report on case studies

Peer reviewed

JOURNALS

More than 36,000 of these are electronic journals on the Web

UCT Libraries subscribe to over 60,000 journals

Where to find the print journals …

Recent journals: 2002 - 2009

To latest journals and older journals … go past Loans Desk

Go past Short Loans

Up the stairs to Current Journals (2010)

Down spiral stairs to older journals

Down to Level 3

Older journals

Older chemical engineering journals are down in the basement

Down to Level 2

Older Chem Eng journals

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Search DATABASES

Choose relevant articles

GET ARTICLES

e-Journals… on the Web

Print Journals… on the shelves

BOOLEAN SEARCHING

AND … to combine DIFFERENT concepts

Boolean operators: AND OR NOT

ZINC AND EXTRACTION

OR … to search using several terms for the SAME concept

MILLING OR GRINDING OR CRUSHING

NOT … to get rid of concepts you don’t want in your search

METALS NOT COPPER

Demo of database searching :

Ei Compendex …

JOURNAL ARTICLESHANDS-ON EXERCISE

Ei Compendex / Web of Science

CSA Materials Research Database / ScienceDirect

zinc ore AND (extraction OR recovery OR processing OR treatment)

zinc ore AND (pretreatment OR milling OR crushing OR grinding)

zinc ore AND (extraction OR leaching OR concentration)

zinc AND (electrowinning OR recovery)

zinc carbonate ore OR hydrozincite OR smithsonite

zinc oxide ore OR hemimorphite OR willemite