This document provides an overview of library skills training, including how to find and access journal articles, track references, store and manage references using RefWorks, and create bibliographies. It discusses key databases for searching literature, techniques for building effective search strategies using keywords, boolean operators, and truncation. It also demonstrates how to import references into RefWorks from databases, search for references within RefWorks, insert citations, and create bibliographies that can be downloaded into documents. The training aims to equip students with skills for conducting literature reviews.

1. Library skills training
Adapted and Presented by Jen Eidelman
(jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za)
With grateful acknowledgment to Fiona Jones for her slides
CEM3005W
Literature Review Assignment: 2015
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NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

2.  What journals are
 How to track down articles from journal
references
 How to find journal articles on the topic you
have been given
 How to store and manage your references in
RefWorks
 How to create a bibliography with RefWorks

3. Your subject guide
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/chemistry
Your subject librarian

4. Published at regular
intervals e.g. monthly
(up-to-date info)
Scholarly, academic
type of magazine
Contain articles by
different authors
Used by researchers
to communicate their
findings
Peer-reviewed
… checked by
other experts

5. Print Journals - Aleph
eJournal Portal
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

6. The title of
the article
Authors
Title of the
journal that
contains the
article
Volume number and Issue number of
journal, and page numbers of article
Date when
published
Stereoselectivity in the alpha-benzylation of
camphor-derived carboxylic esters.
Kaye, P.T.; Ravindran, S.S.
South African Journal of Chemistry
Vol. 47, Iss 1, p.294-306, Mar, 1994.

7. Synthesis and characterisation of strontium
carboxylates formed at room temperature and under
hydrothermal conditions.
Christgau, Stephan; Ståhl, Kenny; Andersen, Jens E.
T. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, Dec 2006,
Vol. 59, Issue 18, p2023-2030.
Scarborough, RM (1999). Structure-activity
relationships of beta-amino acid-containing integrin
antagonists. CURRENT MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
6(10): 971-981.

8. Glinski, Marek (2011) Reaction of
iodine with metal oxides. Canadian
Journal of Chemistry. 89(11):1370-
1374.
Maślankiewicz, Andrzej(1996) X-ray
structure of 4-chloro-3′-methylthio-3,4′-
diquinolinyl sulfide. Journal of Chemical
Crystallography, volume 26, issue 11, pp
763-767.

9. o SciFinder
o Web of Science
o Scopus
o ScienceDirect
o General Science Abstracts
o Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
o Academic Search Premier
Search Databases
Scopus
Very large multidisciplinary database
with articles dating from 1823
 About 50 million records
 Indexes over 21,000 journal titles
 More than 5.5 million conference
papers
Huge organised collections
of article references …
indexed so that you can
find articles by topic, author,
etc. Some store the full text
of the articles.
Web of Science
1962 to the present
 Indexes more than 12,000
academic journals
 Indexes articles AND
citations
 Most highly-cited journals
 DHET accredited list
SciFinder – from 1907– Most
important database – Chemical Abstracts
– all branches of chemistry
 more than 38 million records for
articles, conference papers, reports,
patents
 79 million chemical substances
 57 million reactions
 Includes Medline (from NLM) with over
19 million references from 1946
ScienceDirect
 A sub-set of Scopus
 Indexes over 3,000 journal
titles and 20,000 books
 Full text from 1995

10.  Library’s home page
 Chemistry Subject Guide
Menu: Search & Find / Databases
Databases tab

11. Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater
Write down your topic.
CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.

12. 2. Think of KEY WORDS that
describe each of your concepts :
CONCEPT 1
•ANALYSIS
•DETERMINATION
•MEASUREMENT
CONCEPT 2
•HEAVY METALS
•COPPER
•NICKEL
•LEAD
CONCEPT 3
•WASTEWATER
•EFFLUENT
Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater

13. 3. Use Boolean operators to
structure your search query:
THERE ARE 3 BOOLEAN OPERATORS:
AND OR NOT

14. Use AND to combine differentconcepts
:heavy metals AND wastewater
AND
Articles on heavy metals in
waste waterUsing AND will make
your results smaller
The INTERSECTION of your
two sets will contain articles
dealing with BOTH concepts

15. Use OR to enter keywords for
the same concept :
heavy metals OR nickel OR copper
Using OR will
increase the number
of results
OR
OR
OR
The UNION of your three sets
will contain articles dealing
with ANY of your concepts

16. The NOT
operator reduces the
number of results
metals NOT lead
Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results
NOT
The COMPLEMENT
contains NO articles
on the unwanted topic

17. (ANALYSIS
OR
DETERMINATION
OR
MEASUREMENT)
( HEAVY METALS
OR COPPER
OR NICKEL
OR LEAD)
(WASTEWATER
OR
EFFLUENT)
AND
Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater
CONCEPT 1
•ANALYSIS
•DETERMINATION
•MEASUREMENT
CONCEPT 2
•HEAVY METALS
•COPPER
•NICKEL
•LEAD
CONCEPT 3
•WASTEWATER
•EFFLUENT
AND

18. (ANALYSIS OR DETERMINATION OR MEASUREMENT) AND
(HEAVY METALS OR NICKEL OR COPPER OR LEAD) AND
(WASTEWATER OR EFFLUENT)
In an unstructured search screen:
In a structured search screen:
ANALYSIS OR DETERMINATION OR MEASUREMENT
HEAVY METALS OR NICKEL OR COPPER OR LEAD
WASTEWATER OR EFFLUENT

19. Use TRUNCATION to search
for a word stem and therefore capture
different forms of the same word:
catal*
will capture : catalyst
catalysts
catalytic
catalysis

20. PHRASE SEARCHING: in most databases
search for phrases using inverted commas
Molecular sieve
“Molecular sieve”

21. Metal-containing polymers
Ian Manners
A. Abd-El-Aziz
Dietary interventions in the treatment of kidney
stones
R. Siener
R. Holmes

23. YOU NEED

24. “Reference Management Software”
“Bibliographic Management Software”
“Citation Management Software”
 Build up your OWN PERSONAL DATABASE of references
 FREE at UCT
 Store references SAFELY on the RefWorks server
 BACK UP your references on your PC
 ORGANISE your references in folders
 IMPORT REFERENCES from databases and the Web
 SEARCH your references with the RefWorks search engine
 SAVE the abstracts of articles
 Link to FULL TEXT
 Insert IN-TEXT REFERENCES into your documents
 CREATE BIBLIOGRAPHIES automatically

25.  Accessing RefWorks
 Registering your account
 Overview of RefWorks
 Customizing RefWorks
 Importing references into RefWorks
 Creating a bibliography
 Creating in-text citations

26. How to get your references into RefWorks:
 By Direct Export from a database
(Databases with Direct Export option)
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/RefWorks/refworks-direct-export
 By Importing your references as text files
(Databases no Direct Export option)
See: Following slides
 By manually entering the data into RefWorks
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/RefWorks/refworks-manual-entry

27. Accessing RefWorks
• Go to Library Web Page:
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
• Mouse over Research Help
• Click on RefWorks

28. Sign up for your account

29. Sign up for your account

30. RefWorks Overview – RefWorks Guide
Find out how to use RefWorks using the
RefWorks Guide at:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/RefWorks

31. Customising RefWorks

32. Customising RefWorks

33. Customising RefWorks

34. Importing references into RefWorks
From SciFinder
Conduct a
search in
SciFinder

35. Get
Reference
s

36. Export Article to RefWorks

37. Use Tagged Format / Export

38. Save the .txt file on your computer

39. Open your RefWorks account /
References / Import

40. Import using CAS SciFinder / CAPlus
Choose File

41. Open the saved file

42. Import
.txt
file
has
been
added

43. View

44. Article has been
Imported to RefWorks

45. Search for References in RefWorks

46. Create a bibliography from a list of
references

47. Create a bibliography from a list of
references

48. Create a bibliography from a list of
references

49. Bibliography in Microsoft Word from a list
of references in RefWorks

50. Create in text citations
Use Write-N-Cite
SEE:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/RefWorks/write-n-cite

51. Create in text citations Use Write-N-Cite
For a demonstration on how to use Write-n-Cite SEE:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/RefWorks/write-n-cite

55. View all articles that cite this one
View this record’s bibliography

56. Do a search in the database called SCOPUS
Use the search terms:
Catalytic conversion (article title, abstract, keywords)
AND
Biomass derived Carbohydrate* (article title, abstract, keywords)
AND
Fuel* (article title, abstract, keywords)
OR
Chemical* (article title, abstract, keywords)
AND
Dumesic (author)

60. Citation Indexing
 Used in Science Citation Index
(Web of Science)
 Used in SciFinder Scholar
(Chemical Abstracts)
 Links journal articles that are related in
terms of their subject matter
 Enables you to follow the progress of
research in a particular field

61. Journal article
by John Smith
2006
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In SCI:
“References”
In SCI:
“Times
cited”CITING
ARTICLES
More recent articles,
whose authors refer to
Smith’s 2006 article
CITED
ARTICLES
Older articles which
were referred to by
John Smith in his
2006 article

62. Thank you
This presentation is available at:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/chemistry/workshops2015