This presentation introduces UCT Libraries resources. It explains how to use the subject guides, library catalog, and databases to find materials and literature on environmental topics. It demonstrates how to search databases effectively using Boolean logic and keywords. It also shows how to organize search results using RefWorks, set up alerts to stay current, and access resources remotely. The goal is to help students and researchers efficiently find and manage information through all stages of their work.

1. INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
Presented by Jen Eidelman
E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za
Telephone: 021 650 2773
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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
 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
 How to Write up

3. WHERE TO START? - Subject Guide
On the Library Web Page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

4. LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment

5. EGS - Subject Guide
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment

6. ALEPH – Library catalogue
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

7. OFF CAMPUS LOGIN http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
It is possible to access
library resources off-
campus.
Use the OFF CAMPUS
LOGIN BUTTON on
the library webpage.

8. EGS Library
guide:
Finding Books

9. How to find a book:
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findbooks
ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function

10. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function

11. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the SEARCH function

12. ALEPH LOGIN:
Insert your student
or staff number here
Your password is your year of birth in the following format:
YYYYMMDD
e.g. 19801205

13. Exercise: Find this book in ALEPH using the
BROWSE function
Title: Managing climate risk in water
supply systems
What is the shelf number?
ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function

14. ALEPH – Library catalogue Using the BROWSE
function

15. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function

16. Hands on exercise:
Find this journal title in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this journal title:
Journal title: Journal of biogeography
1.What are the dates of the print holdings?
2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?

18. Library Guide – Finding Maps
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findmaps

19. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

20. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

21. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

22. EGS Library
guide:
Finding
Journals
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findjournals

23. Print Journals - Aleph
e-Journal Portal
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

24. Type NAME of journal
Finding e-journals

25. Example:
Sutherland, C. 2014.
Water and sanitation provision in eThekwini
Municipality: a spatially differentiated approach
Environment and Urbanization
26:469-488.
Finding e-journals
NAME of journal
Volume(issue):page numbers
Author and Date of publication

28. Moyo, B.H.Z. 2014.
Indigenous knowledge perceptions and
development practice in northern
Malawi.
The Geographical Journal. 180(4):392–401
Hands on exercise: Find this journal article
Finding e-journals
NAME of journal Volume(issue):page numbers

30. WorldCat – Search & Discover

31. 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.

32. Let’s
have a
break!
Photo by Jen Eidelman

33. 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

34.  Library’s home page
 EGS Subject Guide
Menu: Search & Find / Databases
Databases – finding articles in journals
tab

35. Databases for EGS
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/databases

36. SEARCHING DATABASES
1. Write down your topic in its
simplest form
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
The impact of climate change on natural resources & sustainable
development
Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3

37. 2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe
each of your concepts :
CONCEPT 1
Environmental
change
Global warming
CONCEPT 2
Water
ocean
sea
river
CONCEPT 3
Sustainable
development
The impact of climate change on natural resources & sustainable
development
Concept 1 Concept 3Concept 2

38. 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

39. Use AND to combine different concepts :
Climate change AND Water
Climate
change
Water
• ‘AND’ finds all of the search terms
• ‘AND’ limits and narrows down your search results
• The purple coloured area represents the results of your search

40. Use OR to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
Water OR Sea OR rivers OR Ocean
WATER
RIVERS
SEA
OCEAN
‘OR’ finds any one of the concepts
OR’ increases the number of results in a search
‘The green coloured area represents the results of your search

41. Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
water NOT rivers
Water Rivers
‘NOT’ gets rid of unwanted concepts
The purple coloured area represents the results of your search

42. Environmental
Change
OR
Global warming
Water
OR
Sea
OR
Ocean
OR
Rivers
Sustainable
Development
AND
CONCEPT 1
Environmental
Change
Global warming
CONCEPT 2
Water
Sea
Ocean
Rivers
CONCEPT 3
Sustainable
development
AND
The impact of climate change on natural resources & sustainable
development

43. ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
(Environmental Change OR global warming) AND
(water OR ocean OR sea OR rivers) AND
Sustainable Development
4. Type your search strategy into the
database search screen
Environmental Change OR global warming
Water OR ocean OR sea OR rivers
Sustainable Development

44. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

45. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

46. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST
You can refine
your search here.
Choose how to
sort the results of
your search.

47. Click on the SFX button.
This tells you if the article is available in full
text or not.
Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

48. The full text is available from
ScienceDirect
There is also a link here to the library
catalogue (ALEPH) if you want to see if
the print version is available.
GEOREF – SFX

49. Download PDF to read
the full text

50. Save the article to
your computer

51. GEOREF – Export to RefWorks
Organise your work
Create a reference list in RefWorks
Click on the title of
the article

52. GEOREF – Export to RefWorks
Organise your work - Create a reference list in RefWorks
Select the ‘Export’ button

53. Select the ‘Direct export to
RefWorks’ button
Then click ‘Save’
This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
GEOREF – Export to RefWorks
Organise your work - Create a reference list in RefWorks

54. RefWorks Login / sign up for a new account
Organise your work - Create a reference list in RefWorks

56. The information (bibliographic detail) is imported
to RefWorks

57. You do not have to sign in to use these
databases, but if you create a personalised
account, you can register your own profile,
review your previous searches and create
alerts.
Sign In - Keep up to date – Save Searches / Create Alerts

58. Keep up to date – Keep a Search History / Create Alerts

59. The My EBSCOhost banner shows that you are
signed in.
Click on ‘Create Alert’
Keep up to date – Create Alerts

60. Keep up to date – Create Alerts

61. Keep up to date
Retrieve searches / Retrieve Alerts / Save searches

62. Keep up to date - Save searches
Give your search a name.
Click Save

63. Keep up to date - Retrieve Saved searches
Go to ‘Folder’ to find
saved searches

64. Databases: SCOPUS

65. Exercise
Find an article in SCOPUS using the search terms
Peninsula shale renosterveld
AND
restoration
AND
Anderson (author name)
QUESTIONS:
What is the date of the article?
Is the full text available online?

66. Databases: SCOPUS

67. Keep up to date - Create a profile - Save searches

68. Scopus – Author search

69. Databases: SCOPUS
Click on link
to view
articles

70. 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’.

71. Change drop down
menu to topic
Change timespan to limit your search
to specific years

72. Refine
results of
search
here
Choose how to
sort the results
of your search

73. The SFX button
will tell you if the
full text of the
article is available
or not.

74. Tick the box.
Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
Web of Science - Export to RefWorks
Organise your work and create a reference list in
RefWorks

76. • Click on the ‘Search History’ tab
• And then click on ‘Save History / Create Alert’
Keep up to date
Save Searches / Create Alerts

77. • Give your search a
name
• Click ‘Save’
Keep up to date
Save Searches / Create Alerts

78. • Click on ‘My Tools’
• Click on ‘Saved Searches and Alerts’ to
see all your saved searches

80. Keeping up to date Library Guide
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/uptodate

81. Finding material in UCT Libraries :
Subject Guide, ALEPH (library catalogue), E-Journal portal
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
Referencing & Writing help.
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/referencing-writing
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 thelibrary page

82. THANK YOU!
This presentation is available at:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/workshop-msc&phd