che1004w design project 2011

LIBRARY SKILLS

CHE1004W Design Project

CHE1004W Design Project

LIBRARY SKILLSREFERENCE BOOKS

(Encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.)

BOOKS … Finding books in the Library

JOURNAL ARTICLES … Searching for articles on your topic

INTERNET … Evaluating information on the Web

CHE1004W Design Project

LIBRARY SKILLSREFERENCE BOOKS

(Encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.)

BOOKS … Finding books in the Library

JOURNAL ARTICLES … Searching for articles on your topic

INTERNET … Evaluating information on the Web

LIBRARY ENTRANCE

REFERENCE BOOKS

REFERENCE BOOKS

DSR 660 RULE

DSR 660.0212 HAND

DSR 660.2842 HAND

(ONLINE) and in print at DSR 660.03 KIRK

DSR 660.283 CHER

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

DSR 669 META

DSR 669 HAND

DSR 503 MACG

http://www.lib.uct.ac.za

To access:

• The library guide for this project

•Electronic resources … online reference books, databases, electronic journals

CHE1004W Design Project

LIBRARY SKILLSREFERENCE BOOKS

(Encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.)

BOOKS … Finding books in the Library

JOURNAL ARTICLES … Searching for articles on your topic

INTERNET … Evaluating information on the Web

BOOKS

FINDING BOOKS …

Search ALEPH

Get SHELF NUMBER

Find book on shelf

SEARCH for books on these topics :

search 1. extractive metallurgy

search 2. hydrometallurgy OR pyrometallurgy

Write down the SHELF NUMBERS

Are the books on the shelf, or out on loan?

HANDS-ON EXERCISE: Find books using ALEPH http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/

Use BROWSE to find books on metallurgy

CHE1004W Design Project

LIBRARY SKILLSREFERENCE BOOKS

(Encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.)

BOOKS … Finding books in the Library

JOURNAL ARTICLES … Searching for articles on your topic

INTERNET … Evaluating information on the Web

WHAT ARE ACADEMIC JOURNALS?

Published regularly (up to date)

Collections of articles by researchers and practicing engineers

Communicate research findings / report on case studies

Peer reviewed

JOURNALS

More than 63,000 of these are electronic journals on the Web

UCT Libraries subscribe to over 91,000 journals

Where to find the print journals …

Latest volumes of journals

Latest journals (2011) Research Wing

For older print journals … go past the Loans Desk

Go past Short Loans

past the zebra couch

Down spiral stairs to Lower Level

On Lower Level …

take stairs to basement

Older Chem Eng journals

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Search DATABASES

Choose relevant articles

GET ARTICLES

e-Journals… on the Web

Print Journals… on the shelves

BOOLEAN SEARCHING

AND … to combine DIFFERENT concepts

Boolean operators: AND OR NOT

ZINC AND EXTRACTION

OR … to search using several terms for the SAME concept

MILLING OR GRINDING OR CRUSHING

NOT … to get rid of concepts you don’t want in your search

METALS NOT COPPER

Demo of database searching :

Ei Compendex …

Hands-on exercise: search for journal articles

Ei Compendex / Web of Science

CSA Technology Research Database / ScienceDirectExample search strings:

zinc ore AND extraction OR recovery OR processing

zinc ore AND pretreatment OR milling OR crushing

zinc ore

AND extraction OR leaching OR concentration

zinc ore

AND electrowinning OR recovery

zinc carbonate ore OR hydrozincite OR smithsonitezinc oxide ore OR hemimorphite OR willemite