This document provides an introduction and overview of resources available through UCT Libraries presented by Jen Eidelman. It outlines how students can save time and work efficiently by learning to use library resources like the catalog and databases, subject guides, and RefWorks citation manager. It also discusses how to stay updated, organize searches, write papers, and access resources on or off campus. The presentation covers finding and retrieving materials, performing literature searches through databases, writing and referencing help, and current awareness tools.

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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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
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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/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 up
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-writing

3. 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
These are your subject guides:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/oceanography

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

7. New Library web
site coming soon
PREVIEW

8. ALEPH – Library catalogue
How to find a book:
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-findbooks

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

10. Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this
book:
Encyclopedia of ocean sciences.
What is the shelf number?

13. 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

14. 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?

17. SEARCHING DATABASES
1. Write down your topic in its
simplest form
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 3

18. 2. Think of KEY WORDS that
describe each of your concepts :
The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
POLLUTION
MARINE
CONTAMINATION
OCEAN
SEWAGE
SEA
OIL
CONCEPT 3
CONCEPT 3
BIODIVERSITY

19. 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

20. Use
AND
to combine different concepts :
pollution AND ocean

21. OR
Use
to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
ocean OR marine OR sea

22. Use
NOT
to get rid of unwanted results :
cetacea NOT dolphins

23. The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 3
POLLUTION
CONTAMINATION
SEWAGE
OIL
MARINE
OCEAN
SEA
BIODIVERSITY
POLLUTION
OR
CONTAMINATION
OR
SEWAGE
OR
OIL
MARINE
AND
OR
OCEAN
OR
SEA
AND
BIODIVERSITY

24. 4. Type your search strategy into the
database search screen
ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
(POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL
OR SEWAGE) AND (OCEAN OR SEA OR
MARINE) AND BIODIVERSITY
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE
MARINE OR OCEAN OR SEA
BIODIVERSITY

25. Change drop down
menu to topic
Change timespan to limit your search
to specific years

26. Choose how to sort your
results
Refine results here

27. Click on FULL TEXT
and then SFX

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

29. Click on Download
PDF to get the full
text.

30. Save the article to
your computer

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

36. ARE
YOU
STILL
WITH
ME?
Photo by Jen Eidelman

37. Useful databases:
ScienceDirect
Scopus
Web of Science
Waters and Oceans Worldwide
Biological Abstracts
Zoological Record
Biol & Agric Index
Africa-Wide: NiPad
Environment Abstracts
JSTOR (Journal archive)

38. 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

39. 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

40. Thank you!