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ZOOLOGY 2 ND YEAR STUDENTS February 2011

Learn how to effectively find information for your assignment through the library's resources and online databases. Get tips on searching techniques and reference techniques.

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ZOOLOGY 2 ND YEAR STUDENTS February 2011

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  1. LIBRARY TRAINING: WHERE & HOW TO FIND INFORMATION FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT Pavlinka Kovatcheva, UJ Sciences Librarian, APKpkovatcheva@uj.ac.za ZOOLOGY 2ND YEAR STUDENTS February 2011

  2. 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

  3. LIBRARY WEBSITE: http://www.uj.ac.za/librarySCIENCES LIBRARIAN PORTAL: http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbwork.com/

  4. UJ Sciences Librarian Portalhttp://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com/

  5. Zoology Subject Portalhttp://ujsciencelibrarian.pbwiki.com/Zoology

  6. 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

  7. Access to Library Resources (via Zoology Portal)

  8. Log-in to the Library Resources: PIN

  9. LIBRARY CATALOGUE: UJLink

  10. New Classification System for Books: Dewey590 Zoological Sciences

  11. New Classification System for Books: Dewey570 Life Sciences

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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. ANDnarrows your search For example: sacculina AND morphology will retrieve information in which both keywords are used ORbroadens your search You will retrieve results in which either word or both appear in the article For example: giardia intestinalis OR giardia lambia NOTexcludes 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

  15. 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

  16. 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.

  17. 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

  18. HOW TO FIND SPECIFIC JOURNALS IN PRINT AND ONLINE: : UJLink Search for Print & Electronic Journals per TITLE

  19. HOW TO FIND SPECIFIC JOURNALS IN PRINT AND ONLINE: A-to-Z LIST Search for Online & Print JOURNAL

  20. Journals search: A-to-Z LIST

  21. 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/Zoology

  22. Zoology Databases: Search for Academic Articles

  23. 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.

  24. 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;

  25. Parasitology Database (1user) SEARCH BY USING VARIOUS KEYWORDS

  26. Results list • Search Terms Used • Abstracts • Ranking of results • Links to UJLink

  27. 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)

  28. Organising & Evaluating Your References/Information 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

  29. Don’t forget to Gather Citations for your References(Reference instructions at the end of the Presentation) • As you’re 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, you’ll 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.

  30. Practical assignment

  31. Image Google

  32. Scholar Google

  33. Parasitology Database

  34. Science Direct

  35. A-to-Z Journal List

  36. Access Science

  37. SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)1 user

  38. 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 ( )

  39. BOOLEAN OPERATORS:AND, 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.

  40. 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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