INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES

Presented by Jen Eidelman

E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za

Telephone: 021 650 2773

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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/mcb-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/refworkshttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-referencing-guide

How to Write uphttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-writing-guide

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

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

MCB Library Guide

ALEPH – Library cataloguehttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za

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.

MCB Library guide:

Finding Books

How to find a book: See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-finding-books

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

ALEPH LOGIN:

Insert your student or staff number here

Your password is your year of birth in the following format:

YYYYMMDDe.g. 19801205

Exercise: Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this book:

Title: Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology.

What is the shelf number?

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

Lucky draw questions: Find this journal title in ALEPH

Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this journal title:

Journal title: Microbiology

1.What are the dates of the print holdings?2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?

MCB Library guide:

Finding Journals

Type NAME of journal

Finding e-journals

Exercise: Find this e-journal

Hutchinson, E.C. [et. al]. 2010.

Genome packaging in influenza A virus.

Journal of general virology .

91(2):313-328

NAME of journal

Volume(issue):page numbers

Author and Date of publication

Lucky Draw Question.Find this article using the e-journal portal:Noonan, J.P. 2009.

Regulatory DNA’s and the evolution of human development.

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development.

19(6):557-564

Name of journal

Volume(issue):page numbers

Is this journal also available in print at UCT Libraries?

Author and Date of publication

WorldCat – Search & Discover

INTERLIBRARY LOANShttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/interlibrary-loans

You can request items that are not available at UCT via UCT Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department.

Let’s have a break!

Photo by Jen Eidelman

SEARCHING DATABASES1. Write down your topic in its

simplest form

Then break it up into CONCEPTS.

The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3

2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :

CONCEPT 1

BACTERIA

FUNGI

CONCEPT 2

DAIRY

MEAT

VEGETABLES

CONCEPT 3

AGRICULTURE

The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

Concept 1 Concept 3Concept 2

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

Use AND to combine different concepts :

Bacteria AND Food

BACTERIA FOOD

Use OR to enter keywords for the same

(single) concept :

dairy OR meat OR vegetables

Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :

bacteria NOT E. coli

MicroorganismsOR

BacteriaOR

Fungi

Food

OR

Dairy

OR

Meat

OR

Vegetables

AgricultureAND

CONCEPT 1

Microorganisms

Bacteria

Fungi

CONCEPT 2

Food

Dairy

Meat

Vegetables

CONCEPT 3

Agriculture

AND

The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts

STRUCTURED SCREEN:

MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA OR FUNGI

FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT OR VEGETABLES

AGRICULTURE

(MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA ORFUNGI) AND (FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT OR VEGETABLES) AND AGRICULTURE

4. Type your search strategy into the database search screen

Useful databases: Africa-Wide

Biological & Agricultural Index

Environment Abstracts

Google Scholar

JSTOR (Journal archive)

PubMed

Science Direct / Scopus

Water & Oceans Worldwide - EBSCOHost

Web of Science

Wiley Online Library

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’.

Change drop down menu to topic

Change timespan to limit your search to specific years

Web of Science

Choose how to sort the results of your search

Refine results of search here

Web of Science

The SFX link will tell you if the full text of the article is available or not

Web of Science - SFX

The full text is available. Click on the link.

There is also a link here to the library catalogue (ALEPH) if you want to see if the print version of Renewable & sustainable energy reviews is available.

Tick the box next to the article. Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks or EndNote

Web of Science - Export to RefWorks

Organise your work and create a reference list in RefWorks

Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

Login to RefWorks

Organise your work and create a reference list in RefWorks

The information (bibliographic detail) is imported to RefWorks

Save Searches / Create Alerts

• Click on the ‘Search History’ tab• And then click on ‘Save History /Create Alerts’• Give your search a name• Click ‘Save’

Keep up to dateSave Searches / Create Alerts

Web of ScienceFind Saved Searches and Alerts

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

Web of ScienceRe-run Saved Searches - Alert Status

Scopus

Click on link to view articles

Scopus

Search for a journal article about the role of sugars in desiccation tolerance

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect

If you’re

off campus

you can still

access UCT

Libraries Catalogue, Databases, RefWorksand other resources

from the library page

http://ezproxy.uct.ac.za

Photo by Jen Eidelman

Summary: 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

Writing help : See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-writing-guide

Referencing help. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-referencing-guide

Keeping up to date : Current Awareness; Alerting services. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/sci-tech-uptodate

Off-campus access: Use the link on the library page

Thank you!