2. Learning outcomes
• Be able to search for books, journals, articles in Primo
• Smart searching
• Keeping up to date with research
• Off-campus login
• Other – Referencing & Reference Tools, Databases, Interlibrary loans
3. Smart searching – why & how
Saves you time
Get relevant resource
Go beyond retrieving everything and anything
Phrase searching
Boolean operators, Wildcard
4. Smart searching
Phrase searching
“Brand engagement” “Social media”
Boolean operators
AND / OR / NOT
• Wildcard (* or ?)
Wom?n or Cultur*
5. Smart searching …
Grouping terms
“consumer behaviour”
AND “brand preference”
AND (youth OR teenagers OR young people)
21. Print Books – check availability status
Book
might be
On order
or Out on
loan
Some books may
have multiple
versions and others
might not be
available when
status says check
availability
23. Print Books – virtual browse
Helps you see what other
books are available on the
shelf related to the book
you are looking at. NB: no
virtual browse option for
eBooks
24. Favourites
View your saved records
Saved searches
Search history – have to
save this per session to
keep the history
25. My library card – renew books
Manage your
loans, requests
and contact
details
26. Off-campus login
• Helps you to get access to resources when off-campus
• Sign-in to Primo to access articles, eBooks etc.
• Use Off-campus login to search individual databases like
EBSCOhost or Science Direct.
• We discourage logging to Primo and Off-campus login at
the same time.
36. You will have to have an account with WoS
in order to create the citation alert
Can also set up an RSS feed for this
37. Scopus – Author Citation Alert
From the Scopus homepage, select Authors, note
that you have to be logged into your account to
receive author citation alerts
46. Can’t find full text article or book?
• Interlibrary loans – helps source materials that
UCT does not have from other universities
• However at times we might have an article in a
different databases so must use link resolver -
Findit
60. Research Data Management (RDM)
• RDM - organising, managing, curating and sharing
research data
• Facilitate its preservation and access for present and
future use.
Brand engagement social media – Primo treats the entire query as a phrase and returns results in which all of the words may be closer together.
Brand engagement AND social media – Primo treats Brand engagement and social media as separate phrases and returns results in which both phrases may not be as close together.
Brand engagement social media – Primo treats the entire query as a phrase and returns results in which all of the words may be closer together.
Brand engagement AND social media – Primo treats Brand engagement and social media as separate phrases and returns results in which both phrases may not be as close together.
( ) – Parentheses allow you to group search terms and alter the order of precedence
Primo – to find books, DVDs, journals, journal articles, theses and many more
Primo
Primo – Libraries Search Tool for all scholarly content
Search profiles: search everything or articles and other e-resources, UCT library catalogue etc.
Specific search
UCT Library Catalogue – physical resources only
Specific search
Filtering by publication date helps you to not only focus on relevant resources to your topic but also current resources
Resource type: Book, Other (UCT Theses and digital collections), Article, Magazine article, conference proceedings etc.
Availability status – Library or online
Please note – full text availability statement to see if the article you are looking for is within that range
Check availability – need to click to see if the book is on order or on loan (sign-in to request when on loan)
Databases A-Z
Off campus login -
Databases A-Z
Off campus login -
Add your RSS feeds to Feedly to access everything in one place.
Findit tries to find where the article might be available within the databases that UCT subscribes to