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Applied marine science 2014 University of Cape Town Library Workshop
This document provides an introduction and overview of resources available through UCT Libraries presented by Jen Eidelman. It outlines how students can save time and work efficiently by learning to use library resources like the catalog and databases, subject guides, and RefWorks citation manager. It also discusses how to stay updated, organize searches, write papers, and access resources on or off campus. The presentation covers finding and retrieving materials, performing literature searches through databases, writing and referencing help, and current awareness tools.
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- 1. INTRODUCTION TO UCTLIBRARIES PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN 2014 E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za Telephone: 021 650 2773 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License .
- 2. What you canexpect 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 effectively http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-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://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/refworks http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-referencing How to Write up http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-writing
- 3. LIBRARY WEB PAGE:http://www.lib.uct.ac.za This is where you will find a link to your Subject Guide
- 4. LINK TO SUBJECTGUIDE These are your subject guides: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/oceanography
- 6. ALEPH – Librarycatalogue http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
- 7. New Library web sitecoming soon PREVIEW
- 8. ALEPH – Librarycatalogue How to find a book: See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-findbooks
- 9. Insert your studentor staff number here Your password is your year of birth in the following format: YYYYMMDD e.g. 19801205
- 10. Use the BROWSEfunction in ALEPH to find this book: Encyclopedia of ocean sciences. What is the shelf number?
- 13. Pezza, A.B. (2012)Author and date of publication Severe heat waves in southern Australia: synoptic climatology and large scale connections. Title of article Climate Dynamics 38:209-224 Journal name volume no:pages
- 14. Griffiths, C.L. 2009. Abrief history of marine bio-invasions in South Africa. African zoology 44(2):241-247. Is it available in print at UCT Libraries? Is it available online?
- 17. SEARCHING DATABASES 1. Writedown your topic in its simplest form Then break it up into CONCEPTS. The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity CONCEPT 1 CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3
- 18. 2. Think ofKEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts : The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 1 CONCEPT 1 CONCEPT 2 POLLUTION MARINE CONTAMINATION OCEAN SEWAGE SEA OIL CONCEPT 3 CONCEPT 3 BIODIVERSITY
- 19. 3. Construct yoursearch 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 NOT
- 20. Use AND to combine differentconcepts : pollution AND ocean
- 21. OR Use to enter keywordsfor the same (single) concept : ocean OR marine OR sea
- 22. Use NOT to get ridof unwanted results : cetacea NOT dolphins
- 23. The effect ofpollution on marine biodiversity CONCEPT 1 CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3 POLLUTION CONTAMINATION SEWAGE OIL MARINE OCEAN SEA BIODIVERSITY POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR SEWAGE OR OIL MARINE AND OR OCEAN OR SEA AND BIODIVERSITY
- 24. 4. Type yoursearch strategy into the database search screen ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts (POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE) AND (OCEAN OR SEA OR MARINE) AND BIODIVERSITY STRUCTURED SCREEN: POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE MARINE OR OCEAN OR SEA BIODIVERSITY
- 25. Change drop down menuto topic Change timespan to limit your search to specific years
- 26. Choose how tosort your results Refine results here
- 27. Click on FULLTEXT and then SFX
- 28. SFX will tellyou if the article is available in full text or not. The full text is available from ScienceDirect Click on the GO button. There is also a link here to the library catalogue (ALEPH) if you want to see if the print version is available.
- 29. Click on Download PDFto get the full text.
- 30. Save the articleto your computer
- 31. Tick the box. Exportthe information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
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- 37. Useful databases: ScienceDirect Scopus Web ofScience Waters and Oceans Worldwide Biological Abstracts Zoological Record Biol & Agric Index Africa-Wide: NiPad Environment Abstracts JSTOR (Journal archive)
- 38. If you’re off campus youcan still access UCT Libraries Catalogue, Databases, RefWorks and other resources from the library page http://ezproxy.uct.ac.za Photo by Jen Eidelman
- 39. Finding material inUCT Libraries : ALEPH (library catalogue), E-Journal portal, Subject Guides Doing your literature search : DATABASES (Boolean searching) Retrieving materials: SFX; ALEPH, SABINET; Interlibrary Loans Organising your results : RefWorks. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/refworks Writing help : See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-writing Referencing help. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/biological-science-referencing Keeping up to date : Current Awareness; Alerting services. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/sci-tech-uptodate Off-campus access: Use the . button on the library page
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Editor's Notes
- #18 Browsing allows you to search the database under ONE subject, author name, title, etc. KEYWORD SEARCHING: allows you to do more complex searches involving more than one subject or concept. We need to learn some techniques before we can do keyword searching. Let’s go through the steps you should follow in a keyword search What does RURAL mean ?…in the country (not cities or towns), agricultural or farming area
- #19 Browsing allows you to search the database under ONE subject, author name, title, etc. KEYWORD SEARCHING: allows you to do more complex searches involving more than one subject or concept. We need to learn some techniques before we can do keyword searching. Let’s go through the steps you should follow in a keyword search What does RURAL mean ?…in the country (not cities or towns), agricultural or farming area
- #20 Browsing allows you to search the database under ONE subject, author name, title, etc. KEYWORD SEARCHING: allows you to do more complex searches involving more than one subject or concept. We need to learn some techniques before we can do keyword searching. Let’s go through the steps you should follow in a keyword search What does RURAL mean ?…in the country (not cities or towns), agricultural or farming area
- #23 Browsing allows you to search the database under ONE subject, author name, title, etc. KEYWORD SEARCHING: allows you to do more complex searches involving more than one subject or concept. We need to learn some techniques before we can do keyword searching. Let’s go through the steps you should follow in a keyword search What does RURAL mean ?…in the country (not cities or towns), agricultural or farming area
- #24 Now let’s translate our table of keywords into the language of Boolean logic : Use OR when putting in words in the SAME CONCEPT Use brackets to keep words in the same concept together Use AND to tell the computer to COMBINE the different concepts