LIBRARY TRAINING: WHERE

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LIBRARY TRAINING WHERE HOW TO FIND
INFORMATION FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT Pavlinka
Kovatcheva, UJ Sciences Librarian,
APKpkovatcheva_at_uj.ac.za

• ZOOLOGY 2ND YEAR STUDENTS
• February 2011

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Zoology Subject Portal
• 3. Library orientation
• - Library Support to Students
• - Library Webpage
• - Library Catalogue (incl. NEW Dewey
  System for books)
• 4. Steps in online searching (Assignment
  Instructions)
• 5. Searching techniques
• 6. Electronic Databases Internet
• 7. Reference Techniques
• 8. Conclusion

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LIBRARY WEBSITE http//www.uj.ac.za/library
SCIENCES LIBRARIAN PORTAL http//ujsciencelibrar
ian.pbwork.com/
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UJ Sciences Librarian Portalhttp//ujsciencelibra
rian.pbworks.com/
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Zoology Subject Portal http//ujsciencelibrarian.
pbwiki.com/Zoology
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Library Support to Students

• Sciences Librarian Portal Geography Subject
  Portal
• Subject Librarian Help with Training, Queries
  Searches
• Course Reserves (books/articles on reserve)
• MyUJLink (your library account)
• Inter Campus Loan
• Getting started with your Research Assignment
• - How to search Online?
• - Plagiarism How to avoid it?
• - Citing and Referencing (Harvard method)
• Accessing Information Resources (Library
  Databases- REMOTE ACCESS)
• Accessing Information Resources requires a
  library PIN

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Access to Library Resources (via Zoology Portal)
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Log-in to the Library Resources PIN
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LIBRARY CATALOGUE UJLink
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New Classification System for Books Dewey590
Zoological Sciences
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New Classification System for Books Dewey570
Life Sciences
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Starting with your Assignment

• You have been given an Assignment and you need to
  start searching for information.
• Before you do that you need to think about your
  Assignment topic. Why?
• Analysing the topic will help you focus your
  search
• It will make you think about issues around the
  topic
• Develop several questions that you plan to
  answer, because your questions will become topic
  sentences for your outline

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Identify the Key Concepts and Keywords

• By determining the key concepts and keywords
  before searching on a topic, you save your time.
• For example Sacculina is your topic.
• You need to find
• Morphology Life cycle pathology it causes
• The distribution of the parasite
• Next decide on concepts and keywords for
  searching
• They will become basis of your search strategy

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Boolean Search Operators

• When searching the UJ Library Catalogue, the
  Databases or the Internet websites, using Boolean
  Operators helps you broaden or narrow your search
  and its results.
• AND narrows your search
• For example sacculina AND morphology will
  retrieve information in which both keywords are
  used
• OR broadens your search
• You will retrieve results in which either word or
  both appear in the article
• For example giardia intestinalis OR giardia
  lambia
• NOT excludes certain terms
• Your search results will exclude the term after
  NOT
• Phrase Search
• Use the quotation marks to search for results
  that contained those words together, rather than
  search for all instances of each separate word

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Finding the Information you need

• The information for your assignment can be found
  in
• Books (print electronic)
• Journals and journal article (print electronic)
• Dictionaries Encyclopedias, Handbooks
• Internet Resources , etc.
• Those resources can be access through the
  Sciences Librarian portal, Subject Specific
  Portals or the Main Library website

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Finding Information in Reference Works

• For background, basic information consider
• - UJ Library catalogue to search for print
  general and subject specific encyclopedias,
  handbooks, and other reference books.
• - Databases to search for Online Reference
  works, such as Oxford Reference Online, Oxford
  English Dictionary, AccessScience, Combined
  Chemical Dictionary, etc.

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Finding Information in Books(Print Electronic)

• Find books for overview retrospective
  information on the Assignment topic
• For Print Books search the UJ Library Catalogue.
  Recommended books are also placed on the Reserve
  Short Loan Collection (Library Foyer). Used
  only in the Library for 2h.
• For Online Books search the Databases.
• CRC ENVIROnetBASE Online Books on Ecology,
  Ecosystems, etc. (Remote Access, Multiple users)
• MyiLibrary

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HOW TO FIND SPECIFIC JOURNALS IN PRINT AND
ONLINE UJLink
Search for Print Electronic Journals per TITLE
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HOW TO FIND SPECIFIC JOURNALS IN PRINT AND
ONLINE A-to-Z LIST
Search for Online Print JOURNAL
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Journals search A-to-Z LIST
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Finding Current Information in Online
DatabasesJournal Articles Search

• You are required to search for Journal Articles
  References (current/ latest information on a
  subject, print or online)
• Consider the use of the Online Databases
  available in the library. For example
• Parasitology Databases (1 user abstracts with
  some full-text links)
• ISI Science Citation Index (Bibliographic)
• ScienceDirect (full-text articles from 1995)
• SpringerLink (full-text articles from vol.1)
• Wiley Online Library (full-text articles from
  1997)
• Cambridge Journals Online (full-text 1997, incl.
  Parasitology journal)
• EbscoHost (full-text abstracts only)
• More databases available on the Zoology Subject
  Portal http//ujsciencelibrarian.pbwiki.com/Zoolo
  gy

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Zoology Databases Search for Academic Articles
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How to Search the Online Databases for Journal
Articles

• Go to the Sciences Librarian Portal or to Zoology
  Subject Portal
• Click on Top Zoology Databases
• If you are off-campus your Surname Student
  number gives you an access
• Click on a relevant Database to get started with
  your search. (see the suggested databases)
• If the Database opens with a list of individual
  Databases, please choose the ones you would like
  to search-in and click on Search/Continue
• The databases have Basic and Advanced search
  screen options
• NOTE Each database can be searched with the help
  of THESAURES, TOPICS, INDEXES.

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How to Search the Online Databases for Journal
Articles

• In the Search/Find box, type the terms/keywords
  representing your topic (For South African
  information, please add South Africa as a
  keyword)
• You can combine your keywords with the Boolean
  operators (AND, OR, NOT) to narrow or broaden
  your search
• Additional limitations, which can narrow your
  search results are full-text articles only,
  years you want to search, type of documents you
  want to retrieve (scholarly journals magazines,
  books, dissertations, etc.).
• If no results are displayed, check your spelling,
  change your keywords, use less keywords, add a
  keyword or use a synonym for the keyword

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Parasitology Database (1user)
SEARCH BY USING VARIOUS KEYWORDS
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• Results list
• Search Terms Used
• Abstracts
• Ranking of results
• Links to UJLink

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Finding Evaluating Information on Internet

• You are asked to cite no more than 3 Internet
  Resources
• How to evaluate Internet Resources?
• - Author (person or organisation) Look at the
  URL for ac, edu, gov, org websites
• Content (reliable, accurate, objective, the user
  group)
• Layout (functional and practical, etc.)
• Date (how recent is the information)

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Organising Evaluating Your References/Informatio
n

• Information Overload? Not enough references for
  the Assignment?
• Plan your Search Strategy (keywords, Booleans,
  Databases)
• Make sure you keep track of your references
  (print, save full-text)
• Evaluate the sources you have found, paying
  attention to their relevance, purpose, value,
  accuracy, and authors credibility.
• Remember that Internet sources should also be
  evaluated for bias and inaccuracies, and you
  should pay attention to whether the sites present
  facts or opinions.
• As you start to create an outline of your project
  or paper, note areas where you need more
  information.
• Organise your information so you find what you
  need, when you need it

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Dont forget to Gather Citations for your
References(Reference instructions at the end of
the Presentation)

• As youre doing research, you should write down
  bibliographic information (author, title,
  publisher, date of publication, etc.). This will
  enable you to be prepared to create a
  References list.
• In books, youll find this information collected
  on a title page, one of the first few pages.
• Online journals print this information at the
  top/bottom of the page.
• Print journals usually have this information on
  their covers.
• Web pages are inconsistent about this
  information, so ask for help if you have trouble
  locating it.

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Practical assignment
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Image Google
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Scholar Google
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Parasitology Database
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Science Direct
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A-to-Z Journal List
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Access Science
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SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)1 user
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SEARCHING TECHNIQUES

• SEARCH STRATEGY
• Understand what is required
• Identify the concepts
• Translate the concepts into keywords
• BOOLEAN OPERATORS ( AND, OR , NOT)
• TRUNCATION ( )
• WILDCARD CHARACTER ( ? )
• PHRASE SEARCH ( )
• USE OF PARENTHESIS ( )

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BOOLEAN OPERATORSAND, OR , NOT

• DEFINITIONS OF BOOLEAN OPERATORS
• Boolean operators are the words used to group,
  combine, or intersect terms when searching
  databases. Boolean operators provide a way to
  tell a computer how to combine your keywords/
  terms. In other words, they refer to the logical
  relationship among search terms.
• The operators used more frequently are AND OR
  and not so frequently NOT. They are used to
  combine search terms to broaden or narrow the
  results of a search.
• OR is more, AND is less.

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BOOLEAN OPERATOR AND

• Using AND tells the database to look for all the
  words on either side of the AND. Thus, a search
  for "success AND adult learners AND distance
  education" would retrieve only records in which
  every one of the terms appears.
• The more words you connect with AND, the fewer
  records the database will retrieve.
• AND means "I want only documents that contain
  both words."

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BOOLEAN OPERATOR OR

• OR
• The more terms or concepts we combine in a
  search with OR logic, the more records we will
  retrieve.
• Using OR tells the database to look for any one
  of the words on either side of the OR.
• Thus, a search for "success OR achievement OR
  progress OR goals" would retrieve records in
  which any one of the terms appears.
• OR means "I want documents that contain either
  word I don't care which word."

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BOOLEAN OPERATOR NOT

• Although NOT is considered a connector, it
  probably should be called
• "The Eliminator." Use it very carefully, as it
  excludes any terms that follow it.
• You may end up losing valuable information when
  you use NOT.
• NOT logic is used to exclude a particular
  concept/term. We retrieve only records in which
  ONLY ONE of the terms is present.

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PHRASE SEARCHING ( )

• Phrase searching, use the quotation marks to
  search for results that contained those words
  together, rather than search for all instances of
  each separate word
• Exercise Search ISI Science Citation index,
  ScienceDirect for
• fish histology and then for fish histology
  (without quotation marks)
• aquatic pollution and then without the
  quotation marks

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REFERENCE TECHNIQUES

• To access full Reference Techniques document, go
  to the Library main page
• http//www.uj.ac.za/library
• Click on Reference Techniques
• OR
• Consult the reference techniques from
• African Zoology
• Online full-text access SA E-Publications

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REFERENCE TECHNIQUES TERMINOLOGY

• Citation recognizing resources in-text (to
  support an argument/conclusion)
• Reference list List of resources used
  bibliographic details
• Bibliography list of relevant documents used
  and additional reading material

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REFERENCE TECHNIQUES

• Avoid Plagiarism by
• Keeping a record of all the sources - books,
  e-mails, lectures (when, who, what?)
• Linking own ideas with that obtained from sources
• Collecting/using a wide range of sources
• Acknowledge, acknowledge, acknowledge!

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Basic in-text referencing (citing)

• In-text reference where the author of the source
  is known
• Simply use whatever you used as author in the
  reference, as well as the year of publication.
  Always insert the page number where possible.
• Examples
• the result of this is a technical super
  identity (Erikson, 196720).
• Azar and Martin (1999) found that (As part of
  the sentence)
• thus Cox (196652) refers to the modern
  urbanite as
• In-text reference to more than one source
• In-text reference to more than one author should
  be ordered alphabetically.
• Examples
• More recent studies (Bartlett, 1992 James,
  1998) show that
• The researchers (Bartlett, 199254 Brown,
  187656 James, 199845) refer to

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GENERAL FORMS FOR REFERENCE LISTS

• Non-periodical
• Author, A.A. (1994). Title of work. Location
  Publisher.
• Non-periodicals include items published
  separately books, reports,brochures, certain
  monographs, manuals, and audiovisual media.
• Part of a Non-periodical
• Author, A.A. Author, B.B. (1994). Title of
  chapter. In Title of book. Edited by Editor, A.,
  Editor, B. Editor, C. Location Publisher.
• Periodical
• Author, A.A., Author, B.B. Author, C.C.
  (1994). Title of article. Title of periodical,
  xxxxx-xxxx. (Volume/Issue number/Pages)
• Periodicals include items published on a regular
  basis journals, magazines, scholarly
  newsletters, etc.
• Online periodical
• Author, A.A., Author, B.B. Author, C.C.
  (2000). Title of article. Title of periodical,
  xxxxx-xxxx. (Volume/Issue number/Pages)
  Available from web address (Accessed day Month
  year).
• Online document
• Author, A.A. (2000). Title of work. Available
  from web address (Accessed day Month year).

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