cem3005w library training
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In this session you will learn:
• What a journal is• How to find a journal article (known & unknown item
searching)• Making the most of your databases (Google Scholar,
Science direct, Scopus & SciFinder)• How to use RefWorks
Where to get library help?
Subject guides: Your subject Librarian
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/subject-guides
What is a journal?
A journal is a scholarly publication that contains articles on a specific topic or discipline, usually written by industry experts such as researchers and academics.
What makes it different from other academic publications?
• Peer reviewed• Original research• Focusses on current development (often most
up-to-date research)• Published periodically (weekly, monthly,
annually)
Finding journal articles:
Known searching:
Looking for a specific title, knowing exactly in which
journal was published along with the volume, issue and
pages numbers.
Example:
Mullholland, AJ. 2005. Modelling enzyme reaction
mechanisms, specificity and catalysis. Drug Discovery
Today. 10(20): 1393 – 1402.
Unknown searching:
Looking for articles on a specific topic or subject across various journals.
Usually done by searching databases.
Example:
Molecular Modelling of Enzymatic Reaction
Finding known items:
When looking for known
items, you can use UCT
libraries’ e-journal portal
which can be found under
search and find from the UCT
libraries home page.
Simply search for the Journal
you are looking for.
Always look for the
availability of the full text
item, in this case, it is
available Elsevier
Science Direct from 1999
onwards
Google Scholar
• You can also search for
known items using
Google Scholar,
• Always remember to
sign in using the off-
campus login to
enhance your results
and access.
• If you cannot access the article from Google Scholar, use
the SFX@UCT link to gain access to journal articles
through UCT libraries’ e-journal portal
UCT Libraries Catalogue (ALEPH) • For results that we do not have access to through the e-journal portal, have a look at the library catalogue to check for a hardcopy of the journal
• You can also request a journal from the Inter Library Loans department from the UCT libraries home page. Simply hover over services and click on Inter Library Loans
Inter Library Loans:
Unknown item searching:When searching for articles in a specific discipline and on a specific
topic, using database to find the information you are looking for
Google Scholar:
Stand on the shoulders of giants.Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines
and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions,
from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find
relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Science Direct:
ScienceDirect delivers over 13 million publications from nearly 2,500
journals and more than 33,000 books from Elsevier, their imprints and
their society partners.
Scopus:
More than 60 million records in Scopus, which includes:Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals, of which more than 4,200 are full open access. Over 360 trade publications
Articles-in-press (i.e., articles that have been accepted for publication) from more than 5,000 international publishers, including Cambridge University Press, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and, of course, Elsevier
SciFinder:
• from 1907– Most important database – Chemical Abstracts – all branches of chemistry
• more than 38 million records for articles, conference papers, reports, patents
• 79 million chemical substances• 57 million reactions• Includes Medline (from NLM) with over 19 million references from
1946
Web of Science:
• Indexes more than 12,000 academic journals• Indexes articles AND citations • Most highly-cited journals• DHET accredited list
Write down your topic.
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
Boolean Searching
Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater
Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your concepts :
CONCEPT 1• ANALYSIS• DETERMINATION• MEASUREMENT
CONCEPT 2• HEAVY METALS• COPPER• NICKEL• LEAD
CONCEPT 3• WASTEWATER• EFFLUENT
Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater
Use Boolean operators to structure your search query:
THERE ARE 3 BOOLEAN OPERATORS:
AND
OR NOT
Use AND to combine different concepts :
heavy metals AND wastewater
Using AND will make your results smaller
Google Scholar Results“heavy metals” 1,720,000
“waste water” 1,300,000
“heavy metals” AND “waste water” 102,000
Use OR to enter keywords for the SAME concept (can usually be regarded as synonyms)
heavy metals OR nickel OR copper
Using OR will increase the number of results
Google Scholar Results“heavy metals” 1,720,000
nickel 2,960,000
copper 3,100,000
“heavy metals” OR nickel OR copper 3,520,000
The NOT operator reduces the number of results
metals NOT lead
Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results
Google Scholar Resultsmetals 3,400,000
lead 5,700,000
Metals NOT lead 2,300,000
Searching Continued…
“” Quotation marks keep search phrases together Eg, “heavy metals”
() Brackets keep concepts together Eg, (“waste water” OR effluent)
Search statement will look something like this:
“heavy metals” AND (“waste water” OR effluent)
Google Scholar:
Google Scholar example searches:
Find articles on the following topic using search terms and Boolean Operators :
• The role of fluid ingestion in kidney stone disease
Find the full text (PDF) of the following article:
Noori, N., Honarkar, E., Goldfarb, D.S., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Taheri, M., Shakhssalim, N., Parvin, M. & Basiri, A. 2014. Urinary Lithogenic Risk Profile in Recurrent Stone Formers With Hyperoxaluria: A Randomized
Controlled Trial Comparing DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension)-Style and Low-Oxalate Diets. American Journal of Kidney
Diseases. 63(3):456-463.
Science Direct
Science Direct search examples:
Search for articles on the following topic:
Chemical delivery systems (CDSs) in drug design and optimisation
Scopus
Scopus example search:
Search for articles on the following topic:
Mixed metal clusters of Platinum and Ruthenium
SciFinder
SciFinder search examples
Search for articles on the following topic:
Metal-organic nanocapsules
Web of Science
Web of Science example search:
Search for articles on the following topic:
Metal-containing polymers
Expanding your references:
Research is a continuous cycle built on earlier research, an ongoing network of references that relate and refer to other research.
Important to look at reference lists of articles read and used to expand your literature search.
• Build up your OWN PERSONAL DATABASE of references • FREE at UCT• Store references SAFELY on the RefWorks server• BACK UP your references on your PC• ORGANISE your references in folders• IMPORT REFERENCES from databases and the Web• SEARCH your references with the RefWorks search engine• SAVE the abstracts of articles• Link to FULL TEXT • CREATE BIBLIOGRAPHIES automatically
RefWorks:
RefWorks:
To access RefWorks, go to the library home page: www.lib.uct.ac.za
Under Research Help, you will see the RefWorks tab.
Further Assistance:
Please feel free to email me:
Pepler Head - [email protected]
Remember the Chemistry Library Guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/chemistry
Also have a look at UCT Libraries’ YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UCTLibraries
Thank you, any questions?