The document is an introduction to UCT libraries by Jen Eidelman, outlining key resources and tools available to users. It covers how to effectively search the library catalog (Aleph), access off-campus resources, utilize databases for research, and organize references using RefWorks. Additional sections provide guidance on keeping current with academic research through alerts and interlibrary loans.

1. INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
Presented by Jen Eidelman
E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za
Telephone: 021 650 2773
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License.
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2. What you can expect 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/environment/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/environment/referencing
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/reference-maps
 How to Write up
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/writing 2

3. OFF CAMPUS LOGIN http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
It is possible
to access
library
resources if
you are not on
campus.
Use the OFF
CAMPUS
LOGIN
BUTTON on
the library
webpage.
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4. OFF CAMPUS LOGIN http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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5. WHERE TO START? - Subject Guide
On the Library Web Page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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6. LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment
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7. http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment
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8. ALEPH – Library catalogue
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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9. SUBJECT GUIDE: Find books
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findbooks
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10. How to find a book:
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findbooks
ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function
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11. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function
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12. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function
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13. Insert your student
or staff number here
Your password is your year of birth in the following format:
YYYYMMDD
e.g. 19801205
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14. Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find
this book:
Landscapes and landforms of South Africa
edited by Stefan Grab and Jasper Knight
What is the shelf number?
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15. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function
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17. Use the BROWSE function in
ALEPH to find
Climate variability, climate change and water resource
strategies for small municipalities
What is the shelf number?
Is the item available for loan?
Exercise: Find a book title in ALEPH
(Online Library catalogue)
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18. Exercise: Find a book title in ALEPH
(Online Library catalogue)
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19. Exercise: Find a book title in ALEPH
(Online Library catalogue) – ALL ITEMS
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20. Exercise: Find a book title in ALEPH
(Online Library catalogue) – ITEM STATUS
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21. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function
to find Journal Titles
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22. ALEPH –
Library
catalogue
Using the
BROWSE
function
to find
Journal
Titles
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23. Exercise:
Find the Journal Title
‘Climate dynamics’ in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function.
What are the dates of the print holdings?
Do we have electronic access?
From what date?
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Find MAPS

26. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps
More info see: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/maps
• Click on the Search
function
• Choose Multi-field
from the tool bar.
• In the subject field
type South Africa
• In the ‘limit search
to’ section from the
drop down menu in
the ‘format’ section
choose ‘Maps’.
South Africa
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27. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps
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28. Print Journals - Aleph
e-Journal Portal
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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29. SUBJECT GUIDE: Find Journals
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findjournals
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30. Liddle, E.S. (2016) Author and date of publication
The importance of community-based informal water
supply systems in the developing world and the need
for formal sector support. Title of article
The geographical journal. 182(1):85-96
Journal name. volume no (issue no.): page numbers
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34. Grenfell, S.E. 2014.
Fluvial connectivity and climate: a comparison of
channel pattern and process in two climatically
contrasting fluvial sedimentary systems in South
Africa.
Geomorphology 205:142-154.
Is it available in print at UCT Libraries?
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37. INTERLIBRARY LOANS
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/interlibrary-loans
You can request items that are not available at UCT via UCT
Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department. 37

38. Photo by Jen Eidelman
Learn how to
search
effectively
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39. o Web of Science
o Scopus
o ScienceDirect
o EIS: Digests of environmental impact
statements
o GeoRef
o Springerlink
oWiley Online Library
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
ScienceDirect
 A sub-set of Scopus
 Indexes over 3,000 journal titles
and 20,000 books
 Full text from 1995

40. SEARCHING DATABASES
The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1
1. Write down your topic in its
simplest form
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
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41. The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1
2. Think of KEY WORDS that
describe each of your concepts :
CONCEPT 1
POLLUTION
CONTAMINATION
SEWAGE
OIL
CONCEPT 2
MARINE
OCEAN
SEA
CONCEPT 3
BIODIVERSITY
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42. 3. Construct your search 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
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43. Use AND to combine different concepts :
pollution AND ocean
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44. Use OR to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
ocean OR marine OR sea
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45. Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
cetacea NOT dolphins
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46. POLLUTION
OR
CONTAMINATION
OR
SEWAGE
OR
OIL
MARINE
OR
OCEAN
OR
SEA
BIODIVERSITYAND
CONCEPT 1
POLLUTION
CONTAMINATION
SEWAGE
OIL
CONCEPT 2
MARINE
OCEAN
SEA
CONCEPT 3
BIODIVERSITY
The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
AND
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47. ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE
MARINE OR OCEAN OR SEA
BIODIVERSITY
(POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL
OR SEWAGE) AND (OCEAN OR SEA OR
MARINE) AND BIODIVERSITY
4. Type your search strategy into the
database search screen
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48. EGS Subject Guide: Databases
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/databases
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49. EGS Subject Guide:
Useful Databases
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How to use Web of Science for your research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptCNanrJ2g

50. From the dropdown menu you can choose ‘All Databases’ to search
across all the databases.
If you search in the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ you will be able to
create search alerts & RSS feeds.
Alerts are not enabled when you search in ‘All Databases’. 50

51. Change drop down
menu to topic
Change timespan to limit your search
to specific years
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52. Refine
results
of
search
here
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54. The SFX button
tells you if the
article is
available in full
text or not.
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55. The full text is available from
ScienceDirect
There is also a link here to
related articles
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56. Click on Download PDF
to get the full text.
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57. Save the article to
your computer
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58. Tick the box.
Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
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60. Login to RefWorks
Organise your work and create a reference list in RefWorks
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62. Get organised - Import article information to RefWorks
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64. • Click on the ‘Search History’ tab
• And then click on ‘Save History/ Create Alert’
Keep up to date
Save Searches / Create Alerts
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65. • Give your
search a
name
• Click ‘Save’
Keep up to date
Save Searches / Create Alerts
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66. Keep up to date
Save Searches / Create Alerts
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67. Click on ‘My Tools’ and then
‘Saved Searches and Alerts’ to
see all your saved searches
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Keep up to date

70. Exercise:
Do a search in the database SCOPUS
Using the following search terms
Mitigation (Title, Abstract, Keyword)
AND
Adaptation (Title, Abstract, Keyword)
AND
Moss (Author)
How many articles did you find?
Find the most highly cited article (Sort the
results by ‘Times Cited’)
How many times was the article cited?
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72. RESULTS OF SEARCH - SCOPUS
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73. Exercise:
1. Create an account in RefWorks
2. Do a keyword search of your choice in
ANY ONE of the database SCOPUS, WEB
of SCIENCE or GOOGLE SCHOLAR
3. Export one of the articles to RefWorks
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74. Summary: Finding material in UCT Libraries :
ALEPH (library catalogue), E-Journal portal, Subject Guides
Doing your literature search : DATABASES (Boolean searching)
Retrieving materials: OFF CAMPUS LOGIN; SFX; Interlibrary Loans
Organising your results : RefWorks.
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/refworks
Writing help :
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/writing
Referencing help.
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/referencing
Keeping up to date : Current Awareness; Alerting services.
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/sci-tech-uptodate
Off-campus access: Use the OFF CAMPUS LOGIN button on the library
page
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75. Thank you!
This presentation is available
at:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/senior-postgrad-2016
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