INTRODUCTION TO UCT LIBRARIES

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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 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/refworkshttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats-referencing

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

WHERE TO START? - Subject GuideOn the Library Web Page: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

LINK TO SUBJECT GUIDE: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats

Statistical Sciences Library Guidehttp://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats

ALEPH – Library cataloguehttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za

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.

Statistical Sciences Library guide: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats/stats-finding-books

Finding Books

How to find a book: See: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats/stats-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: Find this book in ALEPHUse the BROWSE function in ALEPH to find this

book:

Title: Encyclopedia of statistical sciences.

What is the shelf number?

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?

Statistical Sciences Library guide: http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/stats/stats-finding-journals

Finding Journals

Exercise: Find this e-journal

Marra, Giampiero. 2011.

A flexible instrumental variable approach.

Statistical modelling.

11(6):581-603.

NAME of journal

Volume(issue):page numbers

Date of publication

Type NAME of journal

Finding e-journals

Finding e-journals

Finding e-journals

Finding e-journals

Lucky Draw Question.Find this article using the e-Journal portal:Herwartz, H. 2011.

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

81(8):931-943.

Name of journal

Volume(issue):page numbers

Is this journal available in print at UCT Libraries?

Date of publication

WorldCat – Search & Discover

INTERLIBRARY LOANShttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/interlibrary-loans

You can request items that are not available at UCT via UCT Libraries Interlibrary Loans Department.

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SEARCHING DATABASES

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1

1. Write down your topic in its simplest form

Then break it up into CONCEPTS.

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

CONCEPT 2 CONCEPT 3CONCEPT 1

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

CONCEPT 1

POLLUTION

CONTAMINATION

SEWAGE

OIL

CONCEPT 2

MARINE

OCEAN

SEA

CONCEPT 3

BIODIVERSITY

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 :

pollution AND ocean

Use OR to enter keywords for the same

(single) concept :

ocean OR marine OR sea

Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results :

cetacea NOT dolphins

POLLUTIONOR

CONTAMINATIONOR

SEWAGEOROIL

MARINE

OR

OCEAN

OR

SEA

BIODIVERSITYAND

CONCEPT 1

POLLUTIONCONTAMINATION

SEWAGEOIL

CONCEPT 2

MARINEOCEANSEA

CONCEPT 3

BIODIVERSITY

The effect of pollution on marine biodiversity

AND

ONE SEARCH BOX: Use brackets to separate your concepts

STRUCTURED SCREEN:

POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE

MARINE OR OCEAN OR SEA

BIODIVERSITY

(POLLUTION OR CONTAMINATION OR OIL OR SEWAGE) AND (OCEAN OR SEA OR MARINE) AND BIODIVERSITY

4. Type your search strategy into the database search screen

Statistical Sciences Library guide:

Databases

From the dropdown menu you can choose ‘All Databases’ to search across all the databases.

If you search in the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ you will be able to create search alerts & RSS feeds.

Alerts are not enabled when you search in ‘All Databases’.

Change drop down menu to topic

Change timespan to limit your search to specific years

Refine results of search here

Choose how to sort the results of your search

The SFX button will tell you if the full text of the article is available or not.

The full text is available from 3 databases e.g. Wiley Online

Click on the Link

Click on Get PDF to get the full text.

Hover your mouse at the bottom of the page to see all the icons. Click on the save icon to save the article to your computer

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

Web of Science - Export to RefWorksOrganise your work and create a reference list in

RefWorks

Web of Science – Export to RefWorks

Login to RefWorksOrganise your work and create a reference list in RefWorks

The information (bibliographic detail) is imported to RefWorks

• Click on the ‘Search History’ tab• And then click on ‘Save History / Create Alert’

Keep up to dateSave Searches / Create Alerts

• Give your search a name

• Click ‘Save’

Keep up to dateSave Searches / Create Alerts

• Click on ‘My Tools’ • Click on ‘Saved Searches and Alerts’ to

see all your saved searches

Exercise: Search in the database‘Scopus’

1. Find an article in Scopus using the search terms ‘population genetics’ AND inference by the author M. Lacerda

What is the date of the article? Is the full text available?

Search in the database‘Scopus’

• Hover mouse over icon in search history to save your search query

Useful databases:http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/electronic-databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete

Current Index to Statistics

General Science Abstracts

MathSciNet

ScienceDirect / Scopus

Web of Science

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

Summary: 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

THANK YOU!