Introduction to UCT Libraries Workshop and orientation

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/stats-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/stats-referencing
 How to Write up
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats-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 GUIDE
This is your library guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats

5. Statistical Sciences Library Guide
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats

6. New Library web
site coming soon
PREVIEW

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

8. Statistical 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/stats-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. Exercise: Find this book in ALEPH
Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this
book:
Title: Encyclopedia of statistical
sciences.
What is the shelf number?

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 multivariate analysis
1.What are the dates of the print holdings?
2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?
From what date?

18. Statistical Sciences
Library guide:
Finding Journals

19. Exercise: Find this e-journal
Marra, Giampiero. 2011.
Date of publication
A flexible instrumental variable approach.
Statistical modelling.
NAME of journal
11(6):581-603.
Volume(issue):page numbers

20. Finding e-journals
Type NAME of journal

21. Finding e-journals

22. Finding e-journals

23. Finding e-journals

24. Lucky Draw Question.
Find this article using the e-Journal portal:
Herwartz, H. 2011. Date of publication
Keep it simple: on specific-to-general predictor selection
for time series forecasting in the short, medium and
long run.
Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation
Name of journal
81(8):931-943.
Volume(issue):page numbers
Is this journal available in print at UCT Libraries?

25. WorldCat Local – Search & Discovery

26. 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.

27. 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.

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

29. SEARCHING DATABASES
1. Write down your topic in its
simplest form
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 3

30. 2. Think of KEY WORDS that
describe each of your concepts :
The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
POLLUTION
MARINE
CONTAMINATION
OCEAN
SEWAGE
SEA
OIL
CONCEPT 3
CONCEPT 3
BIODIVERSITY

31. 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

32. Use
AND
to combine different concepts :
pollution AND ocean

33. OR
Use
to enter keywords for the same
(single) concept :
ocean OR marine OR sea

34. Use
NOT
to get rid of unwanted results :
cetacea NOT dolphins

35. The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity
CONCEPT 1
CONCEPT 2
CONCEPT 3
POLLUTION
CONTAMINATION
SEWAGE
OIL
MARINE
OCEAN
SEA
BIODIVERSITY
POLLUTION
OR
CONTAMINATION
OR
SEWAGE
OR
OIL
MARINE
AND
OR
OCEAN
OR
SEA
AND
BIODIVERSITY

36. 4. Type your search strategy into the
database search screen
ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts
(POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL
OR SEWAGE) AND (OCEAN OR SEA OR
MARINE) AND BIODIVERSITY
STRUCTURED SCREEN:
POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE
MARINE OR OCEAN OR SEA
BIODIVERSITY

37. Useful databases:
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Current Index to Statistics
General Science Abstracts
MathSciNet
ScienceDirect / Scopus
Web of Science

38. Statistical Sciences
Library guide:
Databases

39. Change drop down
menu to topic
Change timespan to limit your search
to specific years

40. Choose how to
sort the results
of your search
Refine results
of search
here

41. Click on FULL TEXT
and then SFX

42. SFX will tell you if the article is available in full text or
not.
The full text is available from
ScienceDirect
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 is available.

43. Click on Download
PDF to get the full
text.

44. Save the article to
your computer

45. Tick the box.
Export the information (bibliographic details) to RefWorks

50. • Click on the
‘Search History’ tab
• And then click on
‘Save History’
• Give your search a
name
• Click ‘Save’

51. • Click on ‘My Tools’
• Click on ‘Saved Searches and Alerts’ to
see all your saved searches

53. Keeping up to date Library Guide
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/sci-tech-uptodate

54. 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/stats-writing-guide
Referencing help.
See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats-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

55. THANK YOU!