Stellenbosch university library access for off-campus students

Stellenbosch University

Library Access

A snapshot guide for off-campus

students in the Faculty of Military

Science

You have just landed on the

University home page

Scroll down…..Now click on

library!

If you’re searching for articles - then

choose databases…

Academic Search Premier is always a good starting point

so choose “A”

Now click on Academic Search

Premier…

You’re about to access the gateway…

This is exciting…

Use your student number and

password (exactly as you do for SUNLEARN)

Choose ASP

Search for key words, journals

or authors

Choose and enter your search term

Click on PDF full text

Download and save the PDF

How to align Google Scholar

with the Stellenbosch

Library Services

On the Google Scholar home page click on settings……

First - choose the tab on the side

which reads “Library links”

Second type in :Stellenbosch

University

Finally click on save

Now when you search on Google Scholar –

the search results will indicate whether this article is available for free from the library

Of course some titles are also freely

available as PDFs directly thanks to

Open Access –happiness…

Congratulations… you have

just completed another step on

the journey to becoming a

research guru….

Noëlle Cowling

Educational Technology

http://www.slideshare.net/noellecowling