1. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES HONOURS 2013
LIBRARY & INFORMATION SKILLS
INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES
PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN
UCT LIBRARIES
2013
E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za
Telephone: 021 650 2773
Please contact me for individual and/or group
research consultations or for any library queries.

2. GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES HONOURS 2013
LIBRARY & INFORMATION SKILLS
 Finding material in UCT Libraries : ALEPH, e-journals, Primo, Subject
Guide
 Doing your literature search : DATABASES (Boolean searching)
 Retrieving materials: SFX; e-Journals, ALEPH, SABINET; Interlibrary
Loans
 Organising your results : RefWorks
 Writing help : Style Guides; Information Fluency Website; Referencing
help
 Keeping up to date : Current Awareness; Alerting services
 Off-campus access: EZProxy

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 SUBJECT GUIDE

6. Important Websites :
 Library web page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
 Subject guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology
 RefWorks guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/refworks
 Interlibrary loans:
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/services/interlibrary-
loans
 Off campus login (EZProxy):
https://ezproxy.uct.ac.za/login

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

8. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding 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.

9. ALEPH – Library catalogue – Finding Maps

10. ALEPH LOGIN:
Insert your student
or staff number here
Your password is your year of birth in the following format:
YYYYMMDD
e.g. 19801205

11. Exercise: Find this book in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this
book:
Title: Encyclopedia of geology.
What is the shelf number?

13. 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?

15. Finding e-journals
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za
Choose
Search &
Find, then
e-Journals

16. Finding e-journals
Type NAME of journal

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

18. Finding e-journals
Lucky draw question: Find this journal article
Xia, Shaohong. (2012).
Three-dimensional tomographic model
of the crust beneath the Hong Kong
region.
Geology. 40(1):59-62 Volume(issue):page numbers
NAME of journal

19. SA CAT on
WorldCat.org
If you cannot find a journal title at
UCT Libraries or if UCT Libraries does
not have the date of the journal
article that you need, you can search
SA CAT on WorldCat to find out
whether that journal is available at
any other Southern African libraries.

20. 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. The request can be
done online once you have
registered with the Interlibrary
Loans Department. Alternatively,
you can visit the Department in
the library and make the request
in person. You will then be
notified by e-mail when the
article arrives in the library.

21. 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.

22. If you’re
off campus
you can still
access UCT
Libraries Catalogue,
Databases
and other resources
USING the off campus login
button on the library web page
https://ezproxy.uct.ac.za/login
Photo by Jen Eidelman

23. Primo – Books and More
Selecting: UCT Libraries’ Books, DVDs etc.
Always Sign in first
Login using your student
number and your network
password

24. Primo – Books and More
Selecting: UCT Libraries’ Books, DVDs etc.
3
1. Choose the ‘Books and more’ tab and type your
search term(s)
2. From the drop-down menu select
‘UCT Libraries’ Books, DVDs, etc.’
This is the equivalent of searching in UCT Libraries
catalogue (ALEPH).
3. Click Search.

25. Primo – Save and Alert – Books and More
Selecting: All UCT Materials + Articles.
3
1. Choose the ‘Books and more’ tab and type your
search term(s)
2. From the drop-down menu select
‘All UCT materials + Articles ’
This selection searches UCT Libraries catalogue
(ALEPH) and the PRIMO central database.
3. Click Search.

26. Click on Save Query to save
your search

27. Primo – Save and Alert – Books and More
Selecting: All UCT Materials + Articles.
Give your query a name.
You can save the query and
create an alert.
The results of the search alert
can be directed to your
e-mail.
Choose Save
This service alerts you to
items that have been added to
the UCT Libraries physical
collections and also articles
that have been added to the
resources in PRIMO Central.

28. Primo – Save and Alert – Books and More
Selecting: All UCT Materials + Articles.
To retrieve your saved search,
go to eShelf

29. Primo – Save and Alert – Books and More
Selecting: All UCT Materials + Articles.
Choose the ‘Queries’ tab and click on the
query name to re-run your saved search

30. Primo Lucky draw exercise
Conduct a search in Primo, using the
ARTICLES tab
Search for a journal article using the
search terms:
Seamount subduction AND
Tohoku earthquake
What is the name of the journal in
which the article with all these
keywords appears?

31. Primo – Search results

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

33. Databases
for
Geology

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

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

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

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

38. Databases: SCOPUS

39. Databases: SCOPUS
Click on link
to view
articles

40. Databases:
GEOREF – via EBSCOHOST

41. Databases:

42. You do not have to sign in to
use these databases, but if
you register you can create
your own profile, save
searches and create alerts.
Click on the
You can refine
SFX button.
your search here.
This tells you the
availability of the
article.

43. The SFX screen will tell
you if the article is
available in full text or
not.
It also tells you in which
database the article is
indexed.
In this case it is available
from ScienceDirect.
Click on the GO button to
get the full text.

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

45. OK - Let’s
have
another
break!
Photo by Jen Eidelman

46. Retrieving materials
• SFX button
• Electronic Journals
• ALEPH … for print availability at UCT
• PRIMO… search and discovery tool
• SABINET … availability in SA (SA Cat)
• Interlibrary Loans http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/services/interlibrary-loans

47. Organising your results:
RefWorks:
www.refworks.com/Refworks
RefWorks Guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/refworks

48. Writing up …
 Writing guide: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-writing-guide
 Writing Help: UCT’s Writing centre
http://www.ched.uct.ac.za/adp/writing/
 Referencing Help at UCT Libraries.
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/research-help/referencing-help/
 Style guides:
Books at shelf numbers: 808.42 / 808.0665 / 808.0666
 Referencing Guide
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/geology-referencing
 Information literacy:
http://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/Training/Infolit/infolit/InfoLit.html

49. Keeping up to date:
 Current Awareness:
 Regularly run saved searches in latest updates of
databases
 Alerting services :
 Journal Table Of Contents Alerts (Swetswise,
EbscoHost, ScienceDirect)
 Search/Subject Alerts (Science Direct, Ebsco
Host etc.)
 Citation Alerts (ScienceDirect)

50. THANK YOU!