Introducing UCT Libraries to Geological Science Honours students in 2014

1. INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN
2014
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
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-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/refworks
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-referencing
 How to Write up
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-writing-guide

3. WHERE TO START? - Subject Guide
On the Library Web Page:
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
This is where you will find a link to your Subject Guide:

4. LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDES
This is your subject guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology

5. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES - Library Guide

6. New Library web
site coming soon
PREVIEW

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

8. Geological
Sciences Library
guide:
Finding Books

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

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. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function
Exercise: Find this book in ALEPH using the
BROWSE function
Title: Encyclopedia of geology.
What is the shelf number?

14. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function

15. ALEPH – Library catalogue
Using the BROWSE function

16. Lucky draw questions:
Find this journal title in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this journal title:
Journal title: Journal of the geological society
1.What are the dates of the print holdings?
2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?

18. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/maps
• Choose Multi-field
from the tool bar.
• In the subject field
type geology south
africa
• In the ‘limit search
to’ section from the
drop down menu in
the ‘format’ section
choose ‘Maps’.

19. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

20. Geological
Sciences Library
guide:
Finding Journals

21. Finding e-journals
Type NAME of journal

22. Finding e-journals
Example:
Stimpson, Ian. 2011.
Author and Date of publication
Japan's Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
Geology today. 27(3):96-98
NAME of journal
Volume(issue):page numbers

25. Finding e-journals
Lucky draw question: Find this journal article
Styllas, M. 2014.
A simple approach to define Holocene
sequence stratigraphy using borehole
and cone penetration test data.
Sedimentology. 61(2):444-460
NAME of journal
Volume(issue):page numbers

27. WorldCat Local – Search & Discovery

28. INTERLIBRARY LOANS
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/services/interlibrary-loans/
You can
request items
that are not
available at
UCT via UCT
Libraries
Interlibrary
Loans
Department.

29. 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.

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

31. 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 &
Concept 1
Concept 2
sustainable
development
Concept 3

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

33. 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

34. 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

35. OR
Use
to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
Water OR Sea OR rivers OR Ocean
WATER
OCEAN
SEA
RIVERS
‘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

36. 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

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

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

39. Databases for Geology
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-databases

40. Useful databases:
 GeoRef
 SA Geolit
 ScienceDirect
 Scopus
 SpringerLink
 Web of Science
 Wiley Online Library

41. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

42. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

43. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST
You can refine
your search here.

44. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST
Click on the
SFX button.
This tells you the availability of the article.

45. GEOREF – SFX
SFX will tell you if the article is available in full text or not.
The full text is available from
SpringerLink
Click on the GO button.
There is also a link here to the library
catalogue (ALEPH) if you want to see if
the print version of ‘Natural Hazards’ is
available.

46. Scroll down to find the article on page 377

47. Click on Download PDF to read the full text.

48. Save the article to
your computer

49. GEOREF – Export to RefWorks
Click on the title of the article to
open the full view

50. GEOREF – Export to RefWorks

51. Select the ‘Direct export to
RefWorks’ button
Then click ‘Save’
This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

55. You do not have to sign in to use these
databases, but if you create a personalised
account, you can register your own
profile, save searches and create alerts.

57. The My EBSCOhost banner shows that you are
signed in.
Click on ‘Create Alert’

59. Databases: ScienceDirect
Search for a
journal
article about
the Tohoku
earthquake
and tsunami
event.

60. Databases: ScienceDirect
Click on PDF to get full text

61. Databases: SCOPUS
Search for
Earthquake OR
tsunami AND
Tohoku
From the
Document
Search tab.
You can add
as many
search boxes
as you like.

62. Databases: SCOPUS
Click on the
SFX button.
This tells you the
availability of the
article.

63. Databases: SCOPUS

64. Databases: SCOPUS
Click on link
to view
articles

65. If you’re
off campus
you can still
access UCT
Libraries Catalogue,
Databases, RefWorks
and other resources
from the library page
http://ezproxy.uct.ac.za
Photo by Jen Eidelman

66. 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/geology-writing-guide
Referencing help.
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-referencing
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 the library page

67. THANK YOU!