This presentation will help you to effectively search for resources in Primo and how to manage ones data.

1. Introduction to UCT Libraries
Andiswa Mfengu
7 February 2018

2. Learning outcomes
• Be able to search for books, journals, articles in Primo
• Smart searching
• Keeping up to date with research
• Off-campus login
• Other – Referencing & Reference Tools, Databases, Interlibrary loans

3. Smart searching – why & how
 Saves you time
 Get relevant resource
 Go beyond retrieving everything and anything
 Phrase searching
 Boolean operators, Wildcard

4. Smart searching
 Phrase searching
“Brand engagement” “Social media”
 Boolean operators
AND / OR / NOT
• Wildcard (* or ?)
Wom?n or Cultur*

5. Smart searching …
 Grouping terms
“consumer behaviour”
AND “brand preference”
AND (youth OR teenagers OR young people)

6. Primo – discovery tool
To search for
Books, DVDs,
articles etc.

7. Enter your
search then
enter

8. Primo
Primo will be
launched with
your result and
will “search
everything”

9. Search profiles
allows you to
select what you
want to search i.e.
search everything
or articles and
other e-resources

10. Boolean Operators
Smart searching:
Boolean operators –
AND, OR & NOT

11. Books and other physical resources

12. Phrase search

13. Wildcard
Use wildcard
symbol to
broaden the set of
matching requests
i.e. cultur* =
cultural, culture,
culturally

14. Advanced search

15. Tweak your results
Tweak results to
get most relevant
resources – by
publication date,
resource type,
subject etc.

16. Filter by Publication date
Filter by
Publication date to
get most current
resources

17. Filter - Resource types and availability
E-books –
available online
Print Books – in
the library

18. Journal articles
To access full text
article or eBook –
select publisher
link i.e. Elsevier
ScienceDirect.

19. How to access Journal Articles
NB: Check full
text availability
statement to see
which link the
article you are
looking for is falls
under

20. Filter by Subject
Helps focus
the search to
a discipline

21. Print Books – check availability status
Book
might be
On order
or Out on
loan
Some books may
have multiple
versions and others
might not be
available when
status says check
availability

22. Print Books – with more than one
version

23. Print Books – virtual browse
Helps you see what other
books are available on the
shelf related to the book
you are looking at. NB: no
virtual browse option for
eBooks

24. Favourites
View your saved records
Saved searches
Search history – have to
save this per session to
keep the history

25. My library card – renew books
Manage your
loans, requests
and contact
details

26. Off-campus login
• Helps you to get access to resources when off-campus
• Sign-in to Primo to access articles, eBooks etc.
• Use Off-campus login to search individual databases like
EBSCOhost or Science Direct.
• We discourage logging to Primo and Off-campus login at
the same time.

27. Off-campus login

28. Primo login & FAQs

29. Keeping up-to-date with research
• Creating alerts
• Citation alert
• Author Alert
• RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication)

30. Creating alerts in databases

31. EBSCOhost

32. EBSCOhost

33. Web of Science – Citation Alert

34. Web of Science – Citation Alert

35. Click Citation Alert

36. You will have to have an account with WoS
in order to create the citation alert
Can also set up an RSS feed for this

37. Scopus – Author Citation Alert
From the Scopus homepage, select Authors, note
that you have to be logged into your account to
receive author citation alerts

38. Complete Author last name, First
name and Affiliation and search

40. Select the how often you would like to
be alerted, and when

41. Once set up, alerts can be edited or
deleted by going to your alerts page

42. Set an RSS feed, edit or delete
your alert

43. Alerts on Primo

44. Alerts on Primo

45. RSS reader - Feedly

46. Can’t find full text article or book?
• Interlibrary loans – helps source materials that
UCT does not have from other universities
• However at times we might have an article in a
different databases so must use link resolver -
Findit

47. Interlibrary loans
To request an
article, chapter or
book not
available at UCT

48. Findit – link resolver

49. Databases, platforms, etc.

50. Each database
gives a summary
of what the
database covers
and can filter by
faculty

51. Database
platforms allow
you to search
multiple databases
To get access to full-text
to e-Resources

52. Relevant Databases OR Platforms
• EBSCOhost - Academic Search Premier, Business Source
Premier;
• JSTOR; Lexis Nexis Academic; Emerging Markets Information
Service; Marketline Advantage; MSI (Marketing Science
Institute) Online Library;
• Emerald; Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies; AMPS;
SAMM (South African Marketer's Map)

53. Referencing
• Reference guides
• Reference managers – Refworks & EndNote
• Need to register online to start using these
• Install EndNote software (from ICTS website)

55. RefWorks
Sign up for a
RefWorks account
and learn how to use
RefWorks

56. EndNote
Install and sign
up for an
EndNote account

57. Subjects Guides

60. Research Data Management (RDM)
• RDM - organising, managing, curating and sharing
research data
• Facilitate its preservation and access for present and
future use.

61. Data Management Plan

62. DMPOnline

63. Summary
• PRIMO is your one-stop shop for scholarly content
• Smart searching – AND/OR/NOT & Phrase searching
& Truncation
• Marketing library guide

64. Need further assistance –
check out Marketing Library Guide or
Andiswa.Mfengu@uct.ac.za