Molecular & Cell Biology 2014HONOURS

INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES

PRESENTED BY JEN EIDELMAN

2014E-mail: jen.eidelman@uct.ac.za

Telephone: 021 650 2773

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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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/mcb-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/mcb-referencing-guide

How to Write uphttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-writing-guide

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

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

WHERE TO START? - Subject GuideOn the Library Web Page:

LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE

This is your subject guide:http://

libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/molecular_cell_biology

MCB Library Guide

New Library web site coming soon PREVIEW

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

MCB Library guide:

Finding Books

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

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the SEARCH function

ALEPH LOGIN:

Insert your student or staff number here

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

YYYYMMDDe.g. 19801205

Exercise: Use the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this book:

Title: Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology.

What is the shelf number?

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing the BROWSE function

ALEPH – Library catalogueUsing 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: Microbiology

1.What are the dates of the print holdings?2. Do we have electronic access to this journal?

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MCB Library guide:

Finding Journals

Type NAME of journal

Finding e-journals

Exercise: Find this e-journalHutchinson, E.C. [et. al]. 2010.

Genome packaging in influenza A virus.

Journal of general virology .

91(2):313-328

NAME of journal

Volume(issue):page numbers

Author and Date of publication

Lucky Draw Question.Find this article using the e-journal portal:Noonan, J.P. 2009.

Regulatory DNA’s and the evolution of human development.

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development.

19(6):557-564

Name of journal

Volume(issue):page numbers

Is this journal also available in print at UCT Libraries?

Author and Date of publication

WorldCat Local – Search & Discovery

INTERLIBRARY LOANShttp://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

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.

Let’s have a break!

Photo by Jen Eidelman

SEARCHING DATABASES1. Write down your topic in its

simplest form

Then break it up into CONCEPTS.

The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3

2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :

CONCEPT 1

BACTERIA

FUNGI

CONCEPT 2

DAIRY

MEAT

VEGETABLES

CONCEPT 3

AGRICULTURE

The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

Concept 1 Concept 3Concept 2

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 :

Bacteria AND Food

BACTERIA FOOD

Use OR to enter keywords for the same (single) concept :

dairy OR meat OR vegetables

Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :

bacteria NOT E. coli

Microorganisms OR

BacteriaOR

Fungi

Food

OR

Dairy

OR

Meat

OR

Vegetables

AgricultureAND

CONCEPT 1

Microorganisms

Bacteria

Fungi

CONCEPT 2

Food

Dairy

Meat

Vegetables

CONCEPT 3

Agriculture

AND

The use of MICROORGANISMS in the FOOD & AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts

STRUCTURED SCREEN:

MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA OR FUNGI

FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT OR VEGETABLES

AGRICULTURE

(MICROORGANISMS OR BACTERIA OR FUNGI) AND (FOOD OR DAIRY OR MEAT OR VEGETABLES) AND AGRICULTURE

4. Type your search strategy into the database search screen

Useful databases:Africa-WideBiological & Agricultural IndexEnvironment AbstractsJSTOR (Journal archive)PubMedScience Direct / ScopusWater & Oceans Worldwide -

EBSCOHostWeb of Science includes Biological

Abstracts, SCI (Science Citation Index).Wiley Online Library

Change drop down menu to topic

Change timespan to limit your search to specific years

Web of Science

Choose how to sort the results of your search

Refine results of search here

Click on FULL TEXT and then SFX

Web of Science - SFX

The full text is available from Wiley Online

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 Journal of Food Science is available.

Web of Science - SFX

SFX will tell you if the article is available in full text or not.

Save the article to your computer

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

Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

Web of ScienceSign in to create a personal account

Web of ScienceSign in to create a personal account

Click on the ‘Search History’ tabAnd then click on ‘Save History’Give your search a nameClick ‘Save’

Web of ScienceSaved Searches and Alerts

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

Search for a journal article about the role of sugars in desiccation tolerance

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect

Scopus

Click on link to view articles

Scopus

If you’re

off campus

you can still

access UCT

Libraries Catalogue, Databases, RefWorks and other resourcesfrom 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/mcb-writing-guide Referencing help. See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/mcb-referencing-guide

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

Thank you!