This document provides an overview of a postgraduate workshop presented by Jen Eidelman on using UCT Libraries resources. The workshop covers how to efficiently search and organize references using databases, RefWorks, and other tools. It provides guidance on navigating the library website to access ejournals, subject guides, databases by subject, and more. Participants learn to search databases effectively using keywords and Boolean operators. The workshop also demonstrates how to set up article alerts, save searches, and save references to RefWorks for paper organization.

1. UCT Libraries PostGrad Workshop
ACDI – African Climate and Development
Initiative 2017
Presented by Jen Eidelman
Email: Jen.Eidelman@uct.ac.za Telephone: 021 650 2773
Assisted by: Awot Gebregziabher
Email: Awot.Gebregziabher@uct.ac.za
Telephone: 021 6503774
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/refworks
- http://proquest.libguides.com/newrefworks
 How to Write up
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/referencing-writing
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3. Getting to know the library resources – navigate the library page
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
Search & Find – Library Catalogue (ALEPH),
Databases A-Z, Databases by Platform, eJournals, etc.
Research Help: Subject Guides & Research Guides:
• Keeping up to date in science & engineering
• EGS Guide
Research Help:
• Referencing help
• RefWorks
• Endnote
Access library resources: Off campus login
Services: Interlibrary loans, Ask a Librarian
OpenUCT: UCT publications and theses
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4. 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.
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5. OFF CAMPUS LOGIN http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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6. WHERE TO START? - Subject Guide
On the Library Web Page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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7. LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment
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8. http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment

9. ALEPH – Library catalogue
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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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. ALEPH LOGIN:
Insert your student
or staff number here
Your password is your date of birth in the following format:
YYYYMMDD
e.g. 19801205 13

14. Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this book title:
‘Dilemmas of poverty and development’
Edited by Michelle Pressend
What is the shelf number?

15. ALEPH – Library
catalogue
Using the BROWSE
function
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Request a book that is out on loan

17. Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find the title:
‘Sharing benefits from the coast’
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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ALEPH – Library catalogue - Using the BROWSE function

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Exercise: Find a book title in ALEPH (Online Library catalogue)

20. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function
to find Journal Titles
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21. ALEPH –
Library
catalogue
Using the
BROWSE
function
to find
Journal
Titles
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22. Exercise:
Find the Journal Title
‘Globalisation, societies & education’ in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function.
Do we have electronic access?
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24. Print Journals - Aleph
e-Journal Portal
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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25. SUBJECT GUIDE: Find Journals
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/findjournals
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26. Knüppe, K. 2016. Author and date of publication
Drivers and barriers towards sustainable water and land management in the
Olifants-Doorn Water Management Area, South Africa.
Title of article
Environmental development. 20:3-14
Journal name. volume number: page numbers

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29. Esmail, B.A. 2017.
Design and impact assessment of watershed investments
Environmental impact assessment review 62:1-13
Is it available in print at UCT Libraries?
Is it available online?

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32. INTERLIBRARY LOANS
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/interlibrary-loans
Request items that are not available at UCT via UCT
Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department.
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33. Photo by Jen Eidelman
Learn how to
search effectively
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34. 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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35. 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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36. 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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37. Use AND to combine different concepts :
pollution AND ocean
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38. Use OR to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
ocean OR marine OR sea
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39. Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
cetacea NOT dolphins
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40. 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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41. 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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EGS Library
Guide:
Databases

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EGS Library Guide:
Some Useful Databases listed in the guide

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Databases by platform
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/databases-platform

45. Citation databases – Scopus / Web of Science
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46. Register an account
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47. Savvy searching in databases
Add search boxes
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48. Savvy searching in databases - REFINE
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49. Savvy searching in databases – Refine
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50. Savvy searching in databases – Sort on: ‘Cited by’
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51. SFX – tells you if you can link to full text or not; shows related articles
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52. Follow an author
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53. Follow an author
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54. Follow an author / Keep up to date in a field
When you set an author citation
alert you will receive an e-mail
alert each time a document of
that author is cited in Scopus
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Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches and create alerts
NOTE - you will need to Register first before you can use this feature

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Once you have signed in, conduct
your search
Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches and Create Alerts

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Click SAVE to save your search
Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches

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Give your search a name
Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches

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Click ‘Set alert’ to save an alert
Keeping up to date and saving time: create alerts

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Keeping up to date and saving time: create alerts

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Your saved searches and alerts will appear in your personal profile menu
Click the expand navigation bars to see
your menu.
Then click ‘My Scopus’ to see your saved
searches and alerts

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http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/
Manage your references: Find RefWorks at UCT Libraries

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http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/refworks
• Create a RefWorks account or login
to RefWorks
• RefWorks Help

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Sign in or
Create an Account

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Get the ‘Save to RefWorks’ tab for your browser
Install ‘Save to RefWorks’ for your Browser
Click on your name and
choose ‘Tools’

66. Important step:
Click on the title
of the article
How to Save to RefWorks
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67. Click the ‘Save to RefWorks’ tab in your browser.
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68. This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
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69. Click ‘View in RefWorks’
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70. For further RefWorks instructions go to:
http://proquest.libguides.com/newrefworks
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Class Exercise:
From the library page
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
Go to ‘Search & Find’
Click on ‘Databases A-Z’
Choose ‘W’ from the A-Z list &
choose ‘Web of Science’

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Class Exercise: Conduct the following search in Web of Science
Click the link to add
more search boxes
Choose ‘Author’ from the
drop down menu

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Class Exercise: Saving to RefWorks: Click on the title of the article

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Class Exercise:
Click the ‘Save
to RefWorks’
button in your
browser.

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Class Exercise:
Click the ‘Save to
RefWorks’ button
in the sidebar

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Class Exercise:
Click the ‘View in
RefWorks’ button
in the sidebar

77. Thank you!
This presentation is available at:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/workshops-2017
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