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uKwazi - UWC Catalogue
- 1. Introduction to uKwazi– The UWC Library Search Engine/Catalogue UWC Library GRACE VAN NIEKERK gvanniekerk@uwc.ac.za
- 2. Presentation Format • Introduction:What is a Search Engine? • Why do you need to learn how to use uKwazi? • How to access the uKwazi online tutorial • Off –campus access to the UWC Library : The rules • uKwazi functions and search options • Signing in • How to perform a basic search • Citation option
- 3. Important terminology • Catalogue:An alphabetical list of items • Database: A collection of information that is organized in a particular way so that it is easily accessed • Search Engine: A programme that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords specified by the user
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- 6. Access to theLibrary’s e-Resources from Off-Campus • The EZproxy system will ask you to identify yourself as a UWC student. • It will ask you for a username and password i.e. student number and ID number for South Africans. • Foreign students can use their date of birth as a password. • Date of birth starting with the year, then month and lastly day. • If your month or day is a single digit, you must add a 0 in front e.g. January = 01
- 7. What is a“peer- reviewed” journal?
- 8. Search the uKwaziDatabase - Enter your keywords/phrases in the search box and click on Search to obtain a list of books, journal articles, videos etc.
- 9. Sign in toget complete results and to request items.
- 10. Enter your Username:Student no. & Password: ID no.
- 11. The results listindicates what format the source is in. You can Tweak your Results on the left hand side. Choose Limiters to narrow down results
- 12. Scrolling down youcan refine by a Resource Type by selecting books, articles, reviews, newspaper articles, and more…
- 13. Ukwazi also allowsyou to further limit to Subject, Author/Creator, Databases, Journal title, location and more.
- 14. Click on theTitle of the book to display more information. Click Available at UWC Main Library to see if the item is available for check out.
- 15. Item availability onthe shelf Click on the X to take you back to the results list
- 16. Choose Reset filterto remove the previous limiters
- 17. Click on theTitle to display the details of the article OR Available Online to access the full text of the article
- 18. Choose one ofthe databases to view the full text of the article
- 19. Access the Fulltext of article
- 20. Selecting the Citationoption shows the citation of the item. Select your preferred Reference style and copy & paste the citation information directly into your reference page.
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- 22. Faculty Librarian Grace VanNiekerk gvanniekerk@uwc.ac.za Thank you