1. Energy Honours Library Training February 2011
Pavlinka Kovatcheva
Sciences Librarian

2. Library Support to Honours 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 & Inter Library Loan (via Pavlinka)
Getting started with your Research Assignment
- Managing your Literature References (RefWorks)
- Plagiarism: How to avoid it?
- Citing and Referencing (Harvard method)
Accessing Information Resources (Library Databases- REMOTE ACCESS)
Accessing Information Resources requires a library PIN

3. Engaged in Research
Direct access to Engaged in Research (Research web for Biosciences) (
 Where to look for information
Sciences Librarian Portal ( or
Energy Subject Portal (

4. UJ Library Portal (http://www.uj.ac.za/library)

5. UJ Sciences Librarian Portal http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com/

6. Energy Subject Portal http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbwiki.com/Energy

8. New Classification System for Books: Dewey http://bpeck

12. Additional Databases

16. RefWorks An online research management, writing and collaboration tool --  to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies

17. 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 ( )

18. AND means "I want only documents that contain both words."
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."

19. 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."

20. REFERENCE TECHNIQUES
To access full Reference Techniques document, go to the Library main page:
Click on: Reference Techniques OR
Consult the reference techniques from
“South African Geographical Journal”
Shelf number: AA6 SUID – Level 2
Online full-text access: SA E-Publications, 2003+

21. 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, 1967:20).
Azar and Martin (1999) found that… (As part of the sentence)
…thus Cox (1966:52) 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.
More recent studies (Bartlett, 1992; James, 1998) show that…
The researchers (Bartlett, 1992:54; Brown, 1876:56; James, 1998:45) refer to…

22. 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, xx:xxx-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, xx:xxx-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).