UCT Libraries PostGrad Workshop ACDI – African Climate and

Development Initiative 2017Presented by Jen Eidelman

Email: Jen.Eidelman@uct.ac.za Telephone: 021 650 2773Assisted by: Awot Gebregziabher

Email: Awot.Gebregziabher@uct.ac.zaTelephone: 021 6503774

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/environment/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://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/refworks - http://proquest.libguides.com/newrefworks

How to Write uphttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/referencing-writing

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Getting to know the library resources – navigate the library page http://www.lib.uct.ac.zaSearch & Find – Library Catalogue (ALEPH), Databases A-Z, Databases by Platform, eJournals, etc.

Research Help: Subject Guides & Research Guides:• Keeping up to date in science & engineering• EGS GuideResearch Help:• Referencing help• RefWorks• Endnote

Access library resources: Off campus login

Services: Interlibrary loans, Ask a Librarian

OpenUCT: UCT publications and theses

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.

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OFF CAMPUS LOGIN http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

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WHERE TO START? - Subject GuideOn the Library Web Page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

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LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment

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http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment

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

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How to find a book: See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findbooks

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

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ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

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ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

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ALEPH LOGIN:

Insert your student or staff number here

Your password is your date of birth in the following format:YYYYMMDD

e.g. 1980120513

Search for a specific book title in the library catalogue (ALEPH)

Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this book title:‘Dilemmas of poverty and development’

Edited by Michelle Pressend

What is the shelf number?

ALEPH – Library catalogue

Using the BROWSE function

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Request a book that is out on loan

Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find the title:

‘Sharing benefits from the coast’

What is the shelf number?Is the item available for loan?

Exercise: Find a book title in ALEPH(Online Library catalogue)

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ALEPH – Library catalogue - Using the BROWSE function

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Exercise: Find a book title in ALEPH (Online Library catalogue)

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

to find Journal Titles

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ALEPH – Library

catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

to find Journal Titles

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Exercise:

Find the Journal Title ‘Globalisation, societies & education’ in ALEPH

Use the BROWSE function.

Do we have electronic access?22

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Print Journals - Aleph

e-Journal Portal

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

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SUBJECT GUIDE: Find Journals http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findjournals

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Knüppe, K. 2016. Author and date of publication

Drivers and barriers towards sustainable water and land management in the Olifants-Doorn Water Management Area, South Africa.Title of article

Environmental development. 20:3-14Journal name. volume number: page numbers

Search the e-journal portal for a journal title

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Exercise: Find this e-journal

Esmail, B.A. 2017. Design and impact assessment of watershed investmentsEnvironmental impact assessment review 62:1-13

Is it available in print at UCT Libraries? Is it available online?

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INTERLIBRARY LOANShttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/interlibrary-loans

Request items that are not available at UCT via UCT Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department.

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Photo by Jen Eidelman

Learn how to search effectively

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SEARCHING DATABASES

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1

1. Write down your topic in its simplest form

Then break it up into CONCEPTS.

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The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1

2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :

CONCEPT 1POLLUTION

CONTAMINATIONSEWAGE

OIL

CONCEPT 2MARINEOCEAN

SEA

CONCEPT 3BIODIVERSITY

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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 NOT36

Use AND to combine different concepts :

pollution AND ocean

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Use OR to enter keywords for the same (single) concept :

ocean OR marine OR sea

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Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :

cetacea NOT dolphins

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POLLUTIONOR

CONTAMINATION OR

SEWAGEOROIL

MARINEOR

OCEANOR SEA

BIODIVERSITYAND

CONCEPT 1POLLUTION

CONTAMINATIONSEWAGE

OIL

CONCEPT 2MARINEOCEAN

SEA

CONCEPT 3BIODIVERSITY

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

AND

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ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts

STRUCTURED SCREEN:POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE

MARINE OR OCEAN OR SEA

BIODIVERSITY

(POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE) AND (OCEAN OR SEA OR MARINE) AND BIODIVERSITY

4. Type your search strategy into the database search screen

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EGS Library Guide: Databases

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EGS Library Guide: Some Useful Databases listed in the guide

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Databases by platformhttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/databases-platform

Citation databases – Scopus / Web of Science

Register an account

Savvy searching in databases

Add search boxes

Savvy searching in databases - REFINE

Savvy searching in databases – Refine

Savvy searching in databases – Sort on: ‘Cited by’

SFX – tells you if you can link to full text or not; shows related articles

Follow an author

Follow an author

Follow an author / Keep up to date in a field

When you set an author citation alert you will receive an e-mail alert each time a document of that author is cited in Scopus

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Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches and create alerts

NOTE - you will need to Register first before you can use this feature

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Once you have signed in, conduct your search

Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches and Create Alerts

Click SAVE to save your search

Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches

Give your search a name

Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches

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Click ‘Set alert’ to save an alert

Keeping up to date and saving time: create alerts

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Keeping up to date and saving time: create alerts

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Your saved searches and alerts will appear in your personal profile menu

Click the expand navigation bars to see your menu.

Then click ‘My Scopus’ to see your saved searches and alerts

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http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/Manage your references: Find RefWorks at UCT Libraries

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

• Create a RefWorks account or login to RefWorks

• RefWorks Help

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Sign in or Create an Account

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Get the ‘Save to RefWorks’ tab for your browser

Install ‘Save to RefWorks’ for your Browser

Click on your name and choose ‘Tools’

Important step: Click on the title of the article

How to Save to RefWorks

Click the ‘Save to RefWorks’ tab in your browser.

This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

Click ‘View in RefWorks’

For further RefWorks instructions go to: http://proquest.libguides.com/newrefworks

Class Exercise:From the library page http://www.lib.uct.ac.zaGo to ‘Search & Find’ Click on ‘Databases A-Z’Choose ‘W’ from the A-Z list & choose ‘Web of Science’

Class Exercise: Conduct the following search in Web of Science

Click the link to add more search boxes

Choose ‘Author’ from the drop down menu

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Class Exercise: Saving to RefWorks: Click on the title of the article

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Class Exercise:Click the ‘Save to RefWorks’ button in your browser.

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Class Exercise:Click the ‘Save to RefWorks’ button in the sidebar

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Class Exercise:Click the ‘View in RefWorks’ button in the sidebar

Thank you!This presentation is available at:

http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/workshops-2017

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