Library training for Social Work students

1. Library Training:
Social Work Honours
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LucindaRaath
Faculty Librarian: Social Work
lucindac@sun.ac.za

2. Social Work: Librarian
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Lucinda Raath
Desk 7, Lower Level
lucindac@sun.ac.za
021 -808 3997

3. In this session we’ll be looking at
Distinguishing between sources
Distinguishing between trustworthy & untrustworthy
information
Search techniques (Identify Keywords & use Boolean;
Quick& Easy Search Technique; Pearl Growing Search
Technique)
Finding credible academic sources
Plagiarism
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Distinguishing between sources
Book Journal Article Report

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Book
A published work on a specific topic,
usually contains chapters. Can be
hardcopy or electronic. Written by a
specific person (author), or under an
editor. It will have:
• Publisher
• Place of publication
• Year
• ISBN

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Academic Journal
A periodical or serial publication in
which information on a specific topic
is published in article format. It can
be electronic or hard copy. It will
have:
• Title
• Publisher
• Year
• Volume number
• Issue number
• ISSN

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Academic Article /Peer-reviewed
Topic specific information within an
academic discipline, published in a
Journal. It can be electronic or hard
copy. It will have:
• Source Title References
• Article title
• Abstract
• Year
• Volume number
• Issue number
• Page number

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Report
A document that presents
information in an organized format
for a specific audience and purpose,
reporting something that has been
observed, done or investigated. Can
be annual or once off. It will have
• Report title
• Author
• Corporate body/Company
• Year

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Databases – what is it?
A database is an electronic index (list) to journal or
magazine articles, containing citations, abstracts
and often either the full text of the articles, or links
to the full text.
It allows you to search for information using:
Keywords
Titles
Authors
Subjects

10. Snowball searching
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• Using a key document / good article on your
subject as a starting point.
• Consult the bibliography in the key document
(book or journal article) to find other relevant
titles on your subject.

11. Snowball searching
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• Advantage: Finding literature on subject
easily
• Disadvantage: you are searching
retrospectively, so each source you find will
be older than the previous one (especially in
the case of books).

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Searching for sources
How to search effectively…

13. Step 1: Identify your keywords
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Support services for low-income families having disabled
children.
Identify Main Concepts:
“Support services”
“low-income families”
“disabled children”

14. Step 2: Identify Synonyms
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Support services “Social welfare”
“social services”
Low-income families “Impoverished families”
“Poor households”
“Disadvantaged families”
Disabled children “Handicapped children”
“children with impaired
development”

15. Step 3: Combine Keywords
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Boolean Operators - AND / OR / NOT
AND – returns results with both keywords
OR – returns results with one or the other keyword
NOT – returns results excluding specific keywords

16. Step 3: Combine Keywords
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Boolean Operators - AND / OR / NOT

17. Step 3: Combine Keywords
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Boolean Operators - AND / OR / NOT
Quotation Marks “ ” – keep keywords together, for
exact phrase searching
Brackets ( ) – keep concepts together, used for
synonyms

18. Step 3: Combine Keywords
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Search phrase:
Support AND “low-income families”

19. Exercise
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Identify the keywords for the below topic:
The mental and physical effect of
homelessness on women

20. Exercise
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Identify your main concepts
Homelessness/ homeless
Women
Effects/impact

21. Exercise
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Write down your own topic
Identify your main concepts
Write down synonyms

22. Finding credible academic sources
Reliability:
From a reputable source/institution- publisher, University, Research Unit,
Company
Authority:
Creator is an expert in their field, and affiliated with a reputable institution
Validity :
The research was conducted in a manner that is commonly accepted in the
field, and is evident in the article
Accuracy:
The information can be verified
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23. Reliable internet sources
Any Website ending in: .org; .gov; .edu; .ac
Official News sites e.g. SA Statistics
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24. Good news!!
Using Academic Databases provided by the library will
assist you in finding relevant, credible information for your
assignments. Examples:
Google Scholar
Academic Search Premier
SUN Search (Library Catalogue)
Taylor & Francis
Use the Social Work Libguide to find relevant databases
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25. Library Guides
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Find appropriate databases
on your specific library guide

26. Library Guides
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Scroll down to Social Work Select Finding articles tab for list of
relevant Databases

27. Library Guides
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Direct links to key
databases.
If you don’t know
which databases to
consult, use this
list

28. Books

29. Books
Type title, subject
or author in
search box

30. Books
Use
ADVANCED
SEARCH for
more options

31. Books
Checked out, click on title to view due
date and request

32. e- Book Click on Online
access & sign in:
Username=
student number
Password- always
the same

33. e- Book
Select a
chapter

34. Academic Search Premier
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35. Academic Search Premier
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Select A from the A-Z list and click
Academic Search Premier

36. Academic Search Premier
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Refine your search by:
Full text
Academic journals
Date

37. Academic Search Premier: Results
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Click on Full text finder
Download pdf

38. Google Scholar
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• Improve your searching by learning tricks of the trade using advanced
features of Google and Google Scholar. Learn the benefits and limitations of
what Google Scholar can do for you. Also, learn about the Google Book
project and how to find online books. Use Google Scholar Libguide
• NB. Set up your Google Scholar to access off-campus resources!
Watch this video to display Full-text @ Stellenbosch links in Google
Scholar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxDpJJJPclo
OR
Follow the steps in this guide
http://libguides.sun.ac.za/ld.php?content_id=37401128

39. Google Scholar: change your settings for off-
campus access to full text
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40. Google Scholar
Click for
fulltext
Access Google Scholar
via the library website:
go to Databases A-Z.
Find “G” & click on
arrow

41. Google Scholar On your own
computer, click on
settings , Library links
type Stellenbosch Univ
search & add. Make
sure it is ticked off. It
will allow you to find
full text articles.

42. Google Scholar
Limit by year; click on related articles for
more
Click for full
text / click
on title of
article

43. Google Scholar
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44. SABINET Reference
• SA journal articles
• Current &
completed
research
• SA Media ( full
text SA newspaper
articles)
• SA Cat- Books in
SA Libraries

45. SABINET: Journal articles

46. SABINET African Journals: Journal
articles

47. Sabinet- Journals
Click for
fulltext

48. Sabinet- Journals
Click for
fulltext

49. SUNScholar: Social work
http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/62

50. SUNScholar
Click on
title for full
text
Download full text

51. National ETD Portal
South African theses and dissertations
Library homepage Databases N National ETD OR use link on Libguide

52. National ETD Portal
South African theses and dissertations

53. National ETD Portal
South African theses and dissertations
Click on handle and
download document

54. National ETD Portal
South African theses and dissertations

55. Journals/Magazines
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56. Journals/Magazines
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Search Journal title

57. Journals/Magazines
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Shows access details.
Means the title is available
in these different
databases
Latest is available in Wiley
(full text available from
2010 –present)
Select database
Take note of the years
available in full text

58. Journals/Magazines
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Search/browse within journal

59. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the theft and use of the ideas, material and
other intellectual property of others that are passed off as
one’s own
This can take multiple forms
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OBVIOUS FORMS:
Buying / borrowing a paper and
copying it
Hiring somebody to write for you
Cutting and pasting text
Direct translations
Citing sources you didn’t use
LESS OBVIOUS FORMS:
Not giving proper credit
Not referencing images, etc.
Improper paraphrasing
Failing to give a proper reference
Not acknowledging outsourcing (eg.
Data)

60. Plagiarism - Examples
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In 2016, Melania
Trump was accused of
using parts of a 2008
speech by Michelle
Obama at her
Republican National
Convention speech
From:
https://www.bbc.com/news/worl
d-us-canada-44038656

61. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Timmer asserts that the fundamental role of prices in
a market economy is to serve as signals for
allocating both consumption and investment
resources (Timmer, 2002: 1507). This is important,
because of the…

62. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Timmer asserts that the fundamental role of prices
in a market economy is to serve as signals for
allocating both consumption and investment
resources (Timmer, 2002: 1507). This is important,
because of the…
Different font, so copied and pasted
No quotation marks
Reference in wrong place

63. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Dorward comments that even the impoverished are not likely
to gain much directly as self-employed producers of trade
agricultural assets, with restricted access to land and capital
and relatively low farm earnings (2004: 4).
Even here the poor are unlikely to gain much directly as self-
employed producers of tradable agricultural commodities,
with limited access to land and capital and relatively low on-
farm incomes – original text

64. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Dorward comments that even the impoverished are not likely
to gain much directly as self-employed producers of trade
agricultural assets, with restricted access to land and capital
and relatively low farm earnings (2004: 4).
Even here the poor are unlikely to gain much directly as self-
employed producers of tradable agricultural commodities,
with limited access to land and capital and relatively low on-
farm incomes – original text

65. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
“In his 1991 review, Sherman Robinson highlights the
theoretical tension between the neoclassical paradigm and
AGE models with financial behaviour” (Hertel, 2002: 1376).

66. Turnitin
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• Plagiarism Detection Software that check originality
• Works through SUNLearn
• Documents are submitted and checked for similarity
• Report generated with percentage
• Sandbox version is available from librarian. It allows for
multiple uploads (not the formal version).

67. Referencing
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Know the Referencing Style that you are using
Make sure what you are referencing, different material types
are displayed differently in the bibliography
Makes sure that your in-text citations match your bibliography
Most importantly, be CONSISTENT

68. Referencing - Help
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69. Referencing - Help
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70. Referencing - Help
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Article - Example
Wade, R.H., 2004. Is globalization reducing
poverty and inequality?. International journal
of health services, 34(3): 381-414.
Authors Journal title
Year Volume and issue
Article title pages

72. Research help
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73. Individual Sessions
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• Send an e-mail to lucindac@sun.ac.za with details
• Book an appointment via e-mail /or telephone 021 808
3997
• Drop-in at desk 7
Thank you