Geological sciences Honours 2014

INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN
2014
E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za
Telephone: 021 650 2773

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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

WHERE TO START? - Subject Guide
On the Library Web Page:

This is where you will find a link to your Subject Guide:

LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDES

This is your subject guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology

GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES - Library Guide

New Library web
site coming soon
PREVIEW

ALEPH – Library catalogue

Geological
Sciences Library
guide:
Finding Books

Using the SEARCH function

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

Using the SEARCH function

ALEPH LOGIN:

Insert your student
or staff number here

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

YYYYMMDD
e.g. 19801205

Using the BROWSE function
Exercise: Find this book in ALEPH using the
BROWSE function

Title: Encyclopedia of geology.
What is the shelf number?

Using 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: Journal of the geological society
1.What are the dates of the print holdings?
2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?

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’.

ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

Geological
Sciences Library
guide:
Finding Journals

Finding e-journals

Type NAME of journal

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

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

WorldCat Local – Search & Discovery

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.

OFF CAMPUS LOGIN

It is possible to access library
resources off-campus. Use the
OFF CAMPUS LOGIN BUTTON
on the library webpage.

Let’s
have a
break!

Photo by Jen Eidelman

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

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

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 :
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

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

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

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

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

Databases for Geology

http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-databases

Useful databases:
 GeoRef

 SA Geolit
 ScienceDirect
 Scopus
 SpringerLink
 Web of Science
 Wiley Online Library

Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

Databases:

You can refine
your search here.

Databases:

Click on the
SFX button.
This tells you the availability of the article.

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.

Scroll down to find the article on page 377

Click on Download PDF to read the full text.

Save the article to
your computer

GEOREF – Export to RefWorks

Click on the title of the article to
open the full view

Select the ‘Direct export to
RefWorks’ button
Then click ‘Save’

This action will export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

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.

The My EBSCOhost banner shows that you are
signed in.

Click on ‘Create Alert’

Databases: ScienceDirect

Search for a
journal
article about
the Tohoku
earthquake
and tsunami
event.

Databases: ScienceDirect

Click on PDF to get full text

Databases: SCOPUS

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

Databases: SCOPUS

Click on the
SFX button.
This tells you the
availability of the
article.

Databases: SCOPUS

Click on link
to view
articles

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

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

Geological sciences Honours 2014

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