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1 How to find information for your Research Project @ your “virtual library”
Library Training To Information Technology 3rd Year 9 February 2011 Pavlinka Kovatcheva, Sciences Librarian

2 Content Outline UJ Library Portal The UJ Sciences Librarian Portal
Information Technology Subject Portal UJLink (Library Catalogue & A-to-Z Journals) Full-text Online Books Online Databases (Journals, Proceedings, etc) Finding information on Writing, Plagiarism, Citing & Referencing Need Help?

3 Library Support to Students
Information Technology Subject Portal Subject Librarian Help with Training, Queries & Searches Course Reserves (books/articles on reserve) MyUJLink (your library account) Inter Campus Loan (request books from other Campus Library) Accessing Information Resources: REMOTE ACCESS Accessing Information Resources requires a Library PIN Databases: Online Journals Online Books

4 UJ Library Portal (http://www.uj.ac.za/library)
Subject Collections >>>> Science

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

6 Information Technology Subject Portal http://ujsciencelibrarian

7 Information Technology Subject Portal Support Information

8 Log-in to the Library Resources: PIN

9 UJLink: Library Catalogue (http://ujlink.uj.ac.za/)
Search for Print & Online Journals & Books

10 New Classification System for Books: Dewey 000 Generalities & Computer science

11 A-to-Z Journals How to Find Online Journals/Books

12 Online Books Full-text: Remote Access http://ujsciencelibrarian

13 Online Books Full-text: http://ujsciencelibrarian. pbworks

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15 Read Online (Remote Access) Reference it as a print book (consult your lecturer)

16 Over 200 online books are available on TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE
The following Subject Areas: Antennas and Mobile Sensor Networks; Broadband and DSL Technology; Communication Networking and Infrastructure; Electrical Engineering; Multimedia Networks and Systems; Optical Signal Processing and Communications; Signal and Image Processing; Wireless and Mobile Communications Over 200 online books are available on TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE 

17 Emerald Online Book Series

18 Referex Online Books (via Engineering Village)

19 Online databases Search for Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, etc.

20 ACM: Association of Computing Machinery

21 Article from Conference Proceeding Ensure that you have the full reference information

22 IEEE Xplore: Full-text to Articles, Proceedings & Standards

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25 Getting Started with Research Projects Access through the Information Technology Subject Portal

26 Access this Glogster poster for quick way to learn about “Writing a Research Paper”

27 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…

28 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).

29 Writing, Plagiarism, Citing & Referencing
Getting Started with Your Research Project Access the Plagiarism Portal to find Videos, Interactive Tutorials, Library Books, Web Resources, etc. UJ Harvard Reference Techniques VUMA Portal on Plagiarism, Writing, Citing & Referencing

30 Need Help? Ask me!!!!!


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