UCT Libraries PostGrad Workshop ACDI – African Climate and Development Initiative 2017 Presented by Jen Eidelman Email: [email protected]Telephone: 021 650 2773 Assisted by: Awot Gebregziabher Email: [email protected]Telephone: 021 6503774 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAl ike 3.0 Unported License .
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UCT Libraries PostGrad Workshop ACDI – African Climate and
Development Initiative 2017Presented by Jen Eidelman
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 effectivelyhttp://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 uphttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment/referencing-writing
Getting to know the library resources – navigate the library page http://www.lib.uct.ac.zaSearch & 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 GuideResearch Help:• Referencing help• RefWorks• Endnote
Access library resources: Off campus login
Services: Interlibrary loans, Ask a Librarian
OpenUCT: UCT publications and theses
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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OFF CAMPUS LOGIN http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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WHERE TO START? - Subject GuideOn the Library Web Page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
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LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/environment
Request items that are not available at UCT via UCT Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department.
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Photo by Jen Eidelman
Learn how to search effectively
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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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The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1
2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :
CONCEPT 1POLLUTION
CONTAMINATIONSEWAGE
OIL
CONCEPT 2MARINEOCEAN
SEA
CONCEPT 3BIODIVERSITY
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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 NOT36
Use AND to combine different concepts :
pollution AND ocean
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Use OR to enter keywords for the same (single) concept :
ocean OR marine OR sea
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Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :
cetacea NOT dolphins
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POLLUTIONOR
CONTAMINATION OR
SEWAGEOROIL
MARINEOR
OCEANOR SEA
BIODIVERSITYAND
CONCEPT 1POLLUTION
CONTAMINATIONSEWAGE
OIL
CONCEPT 2MARINEOCEAN
SEA
CONCEPT 3BIODIVERSITY
The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
AND
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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 platformhttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/databases-platform
Citation databases – Scopus / Web of Science
Register an account
Savvy searching in databases
Add search boxes
Savvy searching in databases - REFINE
Savvy searching in databases – Refine
Savvy searching in databases – Sort on: ‘Cited by’
SFX – tells you if you can link to full text or not; shows related articles
Follow an author
Follow an author
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
Click SAVE to save your search
Keeping up to date and saving time: Save Searches
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’
Important step: Click on the title of the article
How to Save to RefWorks
Click the ‘Save to RefWorks’ tab in your browser.
This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks
Click ‘View in RefWorks’
For further RefWorks instructions go to: http://proquest.libguides.com/newrefworks
Class Exercise:From the library page http://www.lib.uct.ac.zaGo to ‘Search & Find’ Click on ‘Databases A-Z’Choose ‘W’ from the A-Z list & choose ‘Web of Science’
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