1. INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN
2014
E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za
Telephone: 021 650 2773
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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/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 up
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-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 GUIDES
This is your subject guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology
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: Find this book in ALEPH using the
BROWSE function
Title: Encyclopedia of geology.
What is the shelf number?
16. 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?
17.
18. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps
http://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’.
22. Finding e-journals
Example:
Stimpson, Ian. 2011.
Author and Date of publication
Japan's Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
Geology today. 27(3):96-98
NAME of journal
Volume(issue):page numbers
23.
24.
25. Finding e-journals
Lucky draw question: Find this journal article
Styllas, M. 2014.
A simple approach to define Holocene
sequence stratigraphy using borehole
and cone penetration test data.
Sedimentology. 61(2):444-460
NAME of journal
Volume(issue):page numbers
31. 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 &
Concept 1
Concept 2
sustainable
development
Concept 3
32. 2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe
each of your concepts :
The impact of climate change on natural resources
Concept 1
Concept 2
&
sustainable
development
Concept 3
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 3
Environmental
change
Water
Sustainable
development
Global warming
ocean
sea
river
33. 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
34. 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
35. OR
Use
to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
Water OR Sea OR rivers OR Ocean
WATER
OCEAN
SEA
RIVERS
‘OR’ finds any one of the concepts
OR’ increases the number of results in a search
‘The green coloured area represents the results of your search
36. Use
NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
water NOT rivers
Water
Rivers
‘NOT’ gets rid of unwanted concepts
The purple coloured area represents the results of your search
37. The impact of climate change on natural resources
&
sustainable
development
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 3
Environmental
Change
Water
Sustainable
development
Sea
Global warming
Ocean
Rivers
Environmental
Change
OR
Global warming
Water
AND
OR
Sea
OR
Ocean
OR
Rivers
AND
Sustainable
Development
38. 4. Type your search strategy into the
database search screen
ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
(Environmental Change OR global warming) AND
(water OR ocean OR sea OR rivers) AND
Sustainable Development
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
Environmental Change OR global warming
Water OR ocean OR sea OR rivers
Sustainable Development
44. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST
Click on the
SFX button.
This tells you the availability of the article.
45. GEOREF – SFX
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.
51. Select the ‘Direct export to
RefWorks’ button
Then click ‘Save’
This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
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54.
55. 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.
56.
57. The My EBSCOhost banner shows that you are
signed in.
Click on ‘Create Alert’
65. 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
66. 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