Introducing UCT Libraries 2014

1. INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN
2014
E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za
Telephone: 021 650 2773
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2. 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/mcb-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/mcb-referencing-guide
 How to Write up
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-writing-guide

3. WHERE TO START? - Subject Guide
On the Library Web Page:
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
This is where you will find a link to your Subject Guide:

4. LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE
This is your subject guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/molecular_cell_biology

5. MCB Library Guide

6. New Library web
site coming soon
PREVIEW

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

8. MCB Library
guide:
Finding Books

9. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function
How to find a book:
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-finding-books

10. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function

11. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function

12. ALEPH LOGIN:
Insert your student
or staff number here
Your password is your year of birth in the following format:
YYYYMMDD
e.g. 19801205

13. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function
Exercise: Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to
find this book:
Title: Oxford dictionary of
biochemistry and molecular biology.
What is the shelf number?

14. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function

15. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function

16. Lucky draw questions:
Find this journal title in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this journal title:
Journal title: Microbiology
1.What are the dates of the print holdings?
2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?

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18. MCB Library
guide:
Finding Journals

19. Finding e-journals
Type NAME of journal

21. Exercise: Find this e-journal
Hutchinson, E.C. [et. al]. 2010.
Author and Date of
publication
Genome packaging in influenza A virus.
Journal of general virology .
91(2):313-328
Volume(issue):page numbers
NAME of journal

24. Lucky Draw Question.
Find this article using the e-journal portal:
Noonan, J.P. 2009.
Author and Date of
publication
Regulatory DNA’s and the evolution of human
development.
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development.
Name of journal
19(6):557-564
Volume(issue):page numbers
Is this journal also available in print at UCT Libraries?

26. WorldCat Local – Search & Discovery

27. INTERLIBRARY LOANS
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/services/interlibrary-loans/
You can
request items
that are not
available at
UCT via UCT
Libraries
Interlibrary
Loans
Department.

28. 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.

29. Let’s
have a
break!
Photo by Jen Eidelman

30. SEARCHING DATABASES
1. Write down your topic in its
simplest form
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
The use of MICROORGANISMS in the
Concept 1
FOOD
Concept 2
&
AGRICULTURAL
INDUSTRY
Concept 3

31. 2. Think of KEY WORDS that
describe each of your concepts :
The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
Concept 1
Concept 2
Concept 3
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 3
BACTERIA
DAIRY
AGRICULTURE
FUNGI
MEAT
VEGETABLES

32. 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

33. Use
AND to combine different concepts :
Bacteria AND Food
BACTERIA
FOOD

34. OR
Use
to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
dairy OR meat OR vegetables

35. Use
NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
bacteria NOT E. coli

36. The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 1
Food
Bacteria
CONCEPT 3
Dairy
Microorganisms
Agriculture
Meat
Fungi
Microorganisms
OR
Bacteria
OR
Fungi
& AGRICULTURAL
INDUSTRY
Vegetables
Food
AND
OR
Dairy
OR
Meat
OR
Vegetables
AND
Agriculture

37. 4. Type your search strategy into the
database search screen
ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
(MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA OR
FUNGI) AND (FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT
OR VEGETABLES) AND AGRICULTURE
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA OR FUNGI
FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT OR VEGETABLES
AGRICULTURE

38. Useful databases:
 Africa-Wide
 Biological & Agricultural Index
 Environment Abstracts
 JSTOR (Journal archive)
 PubMed
 Science Direct / Scopus
 Water & Oceans Worldwide - EBSCOHost
 Web of Science includes Biological
Abstracts, SCI (Science Citation Index).
 Wiley Online Library

39. Web of Science
Change drop down
menu to topic
Change timespan to limit your search
to specific years

40. Choose how to sort the
results of your search
Refine results of search here

41. Web of Science - SFX
Click on FULL TEXT
and then SFX

42. SFX will tell you if the article is available in full text or not.
The full text is available from
Wiley Online
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 Journal of Food
Science is available.

43. Save the article to
your computer

44. Web of Science – Export to RefWorks
Tick the box.
Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

45. Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

46. Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

48. Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

50. Web of Science
Sign in to create a personal account

51. Click on the ‘Search History’ tab
And then click on ‘Save History’
Give your search a name
Click ‘Save’

52. Web of Science
Saved Searches and Alerts
Click on ‘My Tools’ and then
‘Saved Searches and Alerts’ to
see all your saved searches

53. ScienceDirect
Search for
a journal
article
about the
role of
sugars in
desiccation
tolerance

54. ScienceDirect

55. Scopus

56. Scopus
Click on link
to view
articles

57. If you’re
off campus
you can still
access UCT
Libraries Catalogue,
Databases, RefWorks
and other resources
from the library page
http://ezproxy.uct.ac.za
Photo by Jen Eidelman

58. 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/mcb-writing-guide
Referencing help.
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-referencing-guide
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

59. Thank you!