Slides from the February CEM3005W library practical

1. CEM3005W
Library Skills Training
February 2016
Pepler Head
pv.head@uct.ac.za

2. In this session you will learn:
• What a journal is
• How to find a journal article (known & unknown item
searching)
• Making the most of your databases (Google Scholar,
Science direct, Scopus & SciFinder)
• Exporting a reference to RefWorks

3. Where to get library help?
Subject guides: Your subject Librarian
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/subject-guides

5. What is a journal?
A journal is a scholarly publication that contains articles on a specific topic
or discipline, usually written by industry experts
such as researchers and academics.
What makes it different from other academic
publications?
• Peer reviewed
• Original research
• Focusses on current development (often most
up-to-date research)
• Published periodically (weekly, monthly,
annually)

6. Finding journal articles:
Known searching:
Looking for a specific title,
knowing exactly in which
journal was published along
with the volume, issue and
pages numbers.
Example:
Mullholland, AJ. 2005.
Modelling enzyme reaction
mechanisms, specificity
and catalysis. Drug
Discovery Today. 10(20):
1393 – 1402.
Unknown searching:
Looking for articles on a
specific topic or subject
across various journals.
Usually done by searching
databases.
Example:
Molecular Modelling of
Enzymatic Reaction

7. Finding known items:
When looking for known
items, you can use UCT
libraries’ e-journal portal
which can be found under
search and find from the UCT
libraries home page.
Simply search for the Journal
you are looking for.

8. Always look for the
availability of the full text
item, in this case, it is
available Elsevier
Science Direct from 1999
onwards

9. Google Scholar
• You can also search for
known items using
Google Scholar,
• Always remember to
sign in using the off-
campus login to
enhance your results
and access.

10. • If you cannot access the article from Google Scholar, use
the SFX@UCT link to gain access to journal articles
through UCT libraries’ e-journal portal

11. UCT Libraries Catalogue (ALEPH) • For results that we do
not have access to
through the e-journal
portal, have a look at
the library catalogue to
check for a hardcopy of
the journal
• You can also request a
journal from the Inter
Library Loans
department from the
UCT libraries home
page. Simply hover over
services and click on
Inter Library Loans
Inter Library Loans:

12. Unknown item searching:
When searching for articles in a specific discipline and on a specific
topic, using database to find the information you are looking for
Google Scholar:
Stand on the shoulders of giants.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines
and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions,
from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find
relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Science Direct:
ScienceDirect delivers over 13 million publications from nearly 2,500
journals and more than 33,000 books from Elsevier, their imprints and
their society partners.
Scopus:
More than 60 million records in Scopus, which includes:
Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals, of which more than 4,200 are full
open access. Over 360 trade publications
Articles-in-press (i.e., articles that have been accepted for publication)
from more than 5,000 international publishers, including Cambridge
University Press, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and, of
course, Elsevier
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
Web of Science:
• Indexes more than 12,000 academic journals
• Indexes articles AND citations
• Most highly-cited journals
• DHET accredited list

13. Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater
Write down your topic.
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
Boolean Searching

14. 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

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

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

17. Use OR to enter keywords for the SAME concept (can
usually be regarded as synonyms)
heavy metals OR nickel OR copper
Using OR will increase
the number of results

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

19. Searching Continued…
“” Quotation marks keep search phrases together
Eg, “heavy metals”
() Brackets keep concepts together
Eg, (“waste water” OR effluent)
Search statement will look something like this:
“heavy metals” AND (“waste water” OR effluent)

20. Google Scholar:

21. Google Scholar example searches:
Find articles on the following topic using search terms and Boolean
Operators :
• Thermal analysis and its application to pharmaceuticals
Find a PDF of the following article:
Monnier, A., Schuth, F., Huo, Q., Kumar, D., Margolese, D., Maxwell, R.S.,
Stucky, G.D., Krishnamurty, M. et al. 1993. Cooperative formation of
inorganic-organic interfaces in the synthesis of silicate
mesostructures. Science (New York, N.Y.). 261(5126):1299-1303.

22. Science Direct

23. Science Direct search examples:
Search for articles on the following topic:
Chemical delivery systems (CDSs) in drug design
and optimisation

24. Scopus

25. Scopus example search:
Search for articles on the following topic:
Mixed metal clusters of Platinum and Ruthenium

26. SciFinder

27. SciFinder search examples
Search for articles on the following topic:
Supramolecular gels – preparation, properties and
applications

28. Web of Science

29. Web of Science example search:
Search for articles on the following topic:
Metal-containing polymers

30. Expanding your references:
Research is a continuous cycle
built on earlier research, an
ongoing network of references
that relate and refer to other
research.
Important to look at reference lists
of articles read and used to
expand your literature search.

31. RefWorks:
• RefWorks is a reference
management tool that
enables you to store and organise
your references in your own
personal database.

32. • 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
• CREATE BIBLIOGRAPHIES automatically
RefWorks:

33. RefWorks:
To access RefWorks, go to
the library home page:
www.lib.uct.ac.za
Under Research Help, you
will see the RefWorks tab.

34. RefWorks:

35. RefWorks:

36. Customising RefWorks:

37. Customising RefWorks:

38. Referencing help:
See the Chemistry Library guide and check
out the referencing tab for help:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/c.php?g=182272
&p=1200739
Or see the library home page under
Research Help – Referencing Help.
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/referencing-help

39. Further Assistance:
Please feel free to email me:
Pepler Head - pv.head@uct.ac.za
Remember the Chemistry Library Guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/chemistry
Also have a look at UCT Libraries’ YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UCTLibraries

40. Thank you,
any questions?