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1 How to Find Information for your Research Library Instruction to Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduates 12 August 2010 Sciences Librarian: Pavlinka Kovatcheva Tel:

2 Content Outline UJ Library Portal The UJ Sciences Librarian Portal Mathematics & Statistics Subject Portals Library Services to Postgraduates Getting started with your research Writing, Citing & Referencing Library Resources - Create Library PIN - UJLink, CASE: A-to-Z, Open Science Directory - Online Databases (Journals, Proceedings, etc) - Full-text Online Books Need Help? Ask a Librarian!

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4 UJ Sciences Librarian Portal

5 Applied Mathematics & Mathematics Subject Portal

6 Statistics Subject Portal

7 Library Support to Honours Students UJ Sciences Librarian Portal & Subject Portals 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

8 Library Services to Masters, PhD, Staff UJ Sciences Librarian Portal & Subject Portals Subject Librarian Help with Training, Queries & Searches - Library Orientation; Databases; RefWorks; How to get published, etc. Membership to other University Library (Letter of Introduction) Inter Library Loan Inter Campus Loan Course Reserve (via UJLink) My UJLink

9 Getting Started with Research Projects Access through the Subject Portals

10 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 arvard%20method%20and%20apa%20style.pdf VUMA Portal on Plagiarism, Writing, Citing & Referencing

11 Access this Glogsterposter for quick way to learn about Writing a Research Paper

12 Access to Library Resources (via Sciences Portal)

13 HOW TO CREATE LIBRARY PIN For access to Databases & MyUJLink

14 UJLink: Library Catalogue ( NEW Developments Multi- Search Search for Print & Online Journals & Books List of Databases

15 Case: A-to-Z Journals How to Find Online Journals/Books Result List Type the title

16 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 OR broadens your search You will retrieve results in which either word or both appear in the article 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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19 MathSciNet Database Based on Maths Reviews, Books, Journals, Proceedings, 1940+

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23 Zentralblatt Math: European Mathematical Society; Abstracts

24 Subset of Zentralblatt MATH in Statistics, freely available abstracts

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26 IOP SCIENCE Mathematical Physics; Statistical Physics and non-linear systems Results to Full-text; Abstracts; Arxive-prints;

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30 Statistics Related Databases Quantecis a consultancy providing economic and financial data, country intelligence and quantitative analytical software.

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