Access to Library Resources (Databases; MyUJLink; Exam Papers, Ask-A-Librarian, etc.)

• OFF Campus Access:  Most of the Library Electronic Resources can be accessed REMOTELY. Log-in with the Library PIN.
• ON Campus Access to Internet: Before access, it requires a registration (UJ e-mail and a password)
• ON Campus Access to Library Resources: Internet Log-in and Library PIN Log-in!

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About the UJ Library

• UJ Library
• Library Hours
• Campus Libraries 
• Library Staff
• Library Regulations 

Library Services & Forms

• Library Forms & Documents
• Study Cubicles (APK)
• Online Exam Papers
• Course Reserves
• My Library Account (MyUJLink)

Books, Articles, Databases

• UJLink: Library Catalogue
• CASE: A-to-Z Journals
• Databases (Alphabetical list) 
• Databases (per Subject)
• Trial Databases

Library Membership 

• Library Membership to UJ Library
• Library Membership to Other University Libraries (Letter of Introduction to MSc; PhD’s and staff)

UJ Sciences Librarian Help

• Research Support Portal

• Teaching Support Portal

• Undergraduates Support Portal

• Sciences Subject Portals

Important UJ Links

• UJ Library & University of Johannesburg

• UJ Faculty of Science

• UJ Research & Innovation

• UJ NRF Rated Researchers 

Research & Assignments Help

• New Students
• Getting Started with a Research Assignment
• Research it Right! (Learn with fun) 
• Engaged in Research
• The Research process (step-by-step)
• Virtual Learning Environment Help
• EduLink (Student Portal) 

Writing, Citing & Referencing Research Projects

• Plagiarism: What it is? How to avoid it!
• Acknowledging Sources
• Harvard Reference Technique (UJ)
• Copyright
• Vuma Portal: Handling exams, Study skills, Writing skills, Research skills, Life skills, Grammar and Spelling, Work, Thinking and Learning, Technology, Business writing, more

Searching & Borrowing Materials from UJ Library

• UJLink: Library Catalogue
• MyUJLink (My library account)
• Lending Desk Services: How to Borrow, Renew & Return books, Library Membership, etc.
• How to Self Check-out books
• Inter Campus Loan (from UJ Campuses) 
• Report Books not on Shelf  (Online form)

Borrowing Materials from Other Libraries (MSc; PhD's, Staff) 

• Inter Library Loan (First time users “How to…)
• Inter Library Loan Online Requests (Books; Journals; Theses & Dissertations; Proceeding; Chapter, etc.

Teaching Support

• Course Reserves
• How to Place Items on Reserve?
• Online Exam Papers 
• How To Submit Exam Paper to the Library 
• How To Submit & Search for Theses & Dissertations
• Virtual Learning Environment 
• EduLink (Student Portal)

Teaching & Learning Tools 

• Course Reserves
• Van Schaik Prescribed Books
• Kalahari.net UJ Students Textbooks
• Online Book & Journal Publishers
• New Books in the Library (Acquisitions)

• Library Training Timetable for 2010

• Library Training for First Year Students

• Library Training for Undergraduates

• Library Training for Researchers

• Need Help? Ask-a-Librarian!

• Library Training Guides & Tutorials

• Subject Librarian Responsibilities

• Subject Portals & Course Help

Access to Theses & Dissertations (T & D)

• Theses & Dissertations Portal (inc. IR)
• UJLink: Library Catalogue (Print T & D)     
• UJDigiSpace (Online UJ T & D)
• Open Access Science Portal 
• ProQuest Full text Theses & Dissertations (New!)
• Nexus (SA Current & Completed Research, password is required)

Access to Institutional Repositories (IR) 

• Institutional Repositories Portal (incl. T & D)
• UJDigiSpace (Online UJ T & D; UJ Repositories)
• Open Access Science Portal 
• IRSpace (Search SA Research Repositories)
• Directory of Open Access Repositories(Worldwide)

Manage your References

• RefWorks & RefShare Help Portal
• Access to RefWorks
• Access to RefShare 

Browse Resources per Subject and Course

• Applied Mathematics & Mathematics 
• Astronomy & Astrophysics 
• Biochemistry
• Biology   
• Botany & Plant Biotechnology 
• Chemistry  
• Energy 
• Environmental Management 
• Geography (Geo-Informatics; Soil Science)
• Geology  
• Human Anatomy & Physiology
• Information Technology
• Microbiology
• Physics 
• Statistics
• Zoology   

 Sciences Librarian Portal 

 Impact Journals

• ISI Journal Citation Report (JCR) 
• SCImago Journal & Country Rank 

• H-index (How to measure your scientific productivity) (Definition)

South African Accredited Journals

• South African Accredited Journals (DoE) 
• South African Journals on ISI and IBSS 

Internationally Accredited Journals

• ISI Accredited Journals 

• International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS) Accredited journals 

Getting Published: For Authors

• How to Get Published: Step-by-Step instructions

• Publish in Accredited Open Access Journals (Alphabetical list of journals, Publication fees; UP initiative)

• Open Access (OA) Portal: UJ Sciences Librarian

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 ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

UJLink: Library Catalogue      CASE: A-to-Z Journals    Databases (Alphabetical)     Databases (Per Subject)

Trial Databases   UJDigiSpace   Open Access Portal  Open Science Journals  

HighWire Free Journals  IngentaConnect Journals

Do you know how to CREATE LIBRARY PIN?

 Journals Abbreviations

Science & Engineering Abbreviations     ISI Journals Titles Abbreviations

 Multidisciplinary Databases

Multidisciplinary Databases Brochure 2010 (PDF) 

• Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)

• Academic OneFile (Infotrac) 

• Cambridge Journals Online (New!)

• Dialog (password is required)

• FS Article First (SabinetOnline)

• Google Scholar (Search for Academic Articles)

• ISI Current Content Connect

• ISI Science Citation index

• ISI Journal Citation Report

• JSTOR (3-5 years backfile)

• MasterFile Premier (EbscoHost)
• JSTOR (3-5 years backfile) (Full text,New)
• ScienceDirect (Full text starts from 1995+)  
• Scirus (Sciences Search Engine) 
• SpringerLink  (Archive & Current, Full text) 
• SpringerLink Images (Open Access)
• Wiley Interscience (Full text starts from 1997+)

 South African Databases

• Africa-Wide: Nipad (EbscoHost)
• EasyData (Password is required) 
• Government Gazette (Sabinet Online)
• Provincial Gazette (Sabinet Online)
• SA E-Publications     

• SA Media (SabinetOnline, Newspapers)
• SabinetOnline 
• South African Institute of Race Relations  
• South African Survey Online
• Who Owns Whom (on Campus only)

Online Reference Works                         

    Access Science

• Oxford English Dictionary 
• Oxford Reference Online (Subject References) 

Online Books Collections

• Books 24x7 (IT & Engineering Collections) (New) 
• Access Engineering
• Referex (Engineering Village 2; Full text)    
• EnvironNetBase (New)

More Online Books

BIOSCIENCES (Biochemistry, Botany & Zoology)

• Aluka: African Plants

• Biological & Agricultural Index EbscoHost,1983+

• BioMed Central (Open Access Journal, Full text)

• BioOne  (BioSciences journals) (Abstracts)

• BIOSIS Preview (Dialog, Abst., 1926+) (Password is required. Contact: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)

• CABI Databases: Aromatic and Medicinal plants; Crop Physiology; Horticulture Science; Plant Growth Regulators, Ornamental Horticulture;  Plant Pathology; Postharvest Research (Abstract)

• EMBASE (Dialog)(Biomed. & Pharmacological)(Password, Contact: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)  

• ISI Current Contents Connect: Agriculture, Life Sciences; Biology & Environmental Sciences; Clinical Medicine

• MEDLINE (EbscoHost,1950+)

• Parasitology Database (1 user)

• PubMed Central

• Water Resources Worldwide (EbscoHost)

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Find more resources on the Subject portals:

Biochemistry, Biology, Botany & Plant Biotechnology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology & Zoology

CHEMISTRY (incl. Biochemistry)

• Analytical Abstracts 

• American Chemical Society: ACS

• Chemical Abstracts Online (SciFinder, 1 user) (Click HERE for first time registration) 

• ChemSpider (Chemistry Search Engine)

• Combined Chemical Dictionary (6 dictionaries)

• CSD: Chemistry Structural Database (CD-Rom

• CrossFire & Reactions: Beilstein & Gmelin (CD-R)

• Golonka: E-Chemistry for Africa

• Handbook of Chemistry & Physics (CD-Rom)

• ICSD: Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (CD)

• International Table of Crystallography 

• ISI Current Contents Connect: Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

• PubChem (NCBI) (Substances, Compounds, Structure search)

• Royal Society of Chemistry RSC

• Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (CD-Rom, APK Library)

Find more resources on the Subject portals:

• Biochemistry
• Chemistry

GEOLOGY

• Creamer Media's Research Channel (Password is required)

• Data Metallogenica (Password is required)

• Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism & Paleomagnetism

• GeoRef/GeoScienceWorld (Bibl. + Full text)

• GreenFile (EbscoHost)

• ICE Geotechnique Archive (1848-2002) (New)

• ISI Current Contents Connect: Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

• SAGEOLIT (SabinetOnline, SA Geology + World)

• SA Legislation (Engineering & Mining) 

• Water Resources Worldwide (EbscoHost)

Find more resources on the:

• Geology Subject Portal 

GEOGRAPHY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

• Biological & Agricultural Index (EbscoHost)
• CABI Databases (Agriculture; Plants Crop, etc.)
• Encyclopedia of Energy 
• Energy Citation Database 
• GeoRef/GeoScienceWorld
• GreenFile (EbscoHost)
• IEEE Xplore (Full text, 1913 +, Energy) (New) 
• ISI Current Contents Connect: Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• SA Legislation (Health, Safety & Environment)
• Water Resources Worldwide (EbscoHost)

Find more resources on: Geography Subject Portal; Environmental Management & Energy Subjects Portal

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Books 24x7 (IT Collection, > 5000 E-books)
• ACM: Association of Computing Machinery
• Academic OneFile (Infotrac) 
• ArXiv.org (Pre- prints; Open Access)
• CoRR: Computing Research Repository 

• TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE (E-books)

• Emerald (incl. IT & Business journals)

• Engineering Village 2 (EV2)
• IEEE Xplore (Full text, 1913 +)
• ISI Current Contents Connect: Engineering, Computing & Technology

Find more resources on the Subject Portal

• Information Technology

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

• ArXiv.org (Open Access, Pre-Print)
• Engineering Village 2 (EV2)
• IEEE Xplore (Full text, 1913 +) (New)
• MathSciNet (Based on Maths Reviews, Books, Journals, Proceedings, 1940+)  
• PhyMath Central   

Find more resources on the Subject Portals:

• Applied Mathematics & Mathematics
• Statistics        

PHYSICS

• ArXiv.org   (Pre-Prints, Open Access)
• APS Prola  (Archive up to 2006)
• Astrophysics Data System (SAO/NASA) 
• CERN Document Server
• Energy Citation Database
• E-Physics for Africa
• Handbook of Chemistry & Physics (CD-Rom, Library)
• Inspec (via EV2)(Physics Abstracts)
• Institute of Physics (IoP)
• ISI Current Contents Connect: Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• MathSciNet
• PhyMath Central (Open Access)
• Physical Review B: Condensed Matter & Materials Physics  (Current Subscription) 
• Physical Review Letters (Current Subscription)
• Reviews of Modern Physics (Current subscription)
• SPIRES-HEP Search: High-Energy Physics Literature database

Find more resources on the Subject Portals:

• Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Physics            

 ENGINEERING, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DATABASES 

Journals, Proceeding, Standards, etc.

• ASCE: American Society of Civil Engineering

• Compendex (EV2)

• Creamer Media's Research Channel  (password is required)

• Emerald Engineering Journals (Full-text) (New)

• Engineering Village2: EV2(incl. Compendex, Inspec and Referex)

• IEEE Xplore (Full text, 1913 +) (New)

• IHS Standards (Engineering Village 2)

• Inspec (EV2)

• ISI Current Contents Connect: Engineering, Computing & Technology

• ESP@ceNet: Patents (EV2, full-text)

• US Patents

Online Book Collections

• Books 24x7 (IT & Engineering Collections) (New)

• Access Engineering

• CRCnetBASE Book Collections:

         - CivilEngineeringnetBASE

         - ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE

         - ENGnetBASE

         - EnvironNetBase (New)

         - INDUSTRIALnetBASE (New)

         - MATERIALSnetBASE

         - MechanicalEngineeringnetBASE

         - TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE

• Referex (Engineering Village 2; Full text)

• Science Dissemination Using Open Access 

More Online Books

Health & Medical Sciences

• AMED (Alternative Medicine)
• CINAHL (EbscoHost)
• Health & Wellness Resource Center (Infotrac)
• MANTIS (Health Index, Alternative Medicine)  
• MEDLINE (EbscoHost)
• Sport Discus Complete (EbscoHost)

Find more resources on the Subject Portal:

• Health Sciences  

Business, Economics & Management

• Business Source Premier (EbscoHost)

• EconLit (on EbscoHost)

• Emerald

• EasyData (Password is required)

• Hospitality & Tourism Complete (EbscoHost)

• MarketLine (Companies, Countries & Industry Information)

• RDS: Business & Management Practices(Company profiles & International Industries Reports; International indicators)

• Who Owns Whom (on Campus only)(SA Industry reports & Company profiles) 

• World Advertising Research Center

• World Competitiveness Online (password is required)

• Yearbook of International Associations (Statistics, Human Development, etc.) 
  

Humanities & Education

• Biography Resource Center (Infotrac)
• Education Full-text (Wilson)
• ERIC (EbscoHost) 
• Historical Abstracts (EbscoHost, Abstracts)
• History Study Centre (ProQuest; Full text)
• Political Sciences Complete (EbscoHost)(New)
• Project Muse full-text journals (New)

Law

• JutaStat (Full text on Campus Only)
• LexisNexis (Full text on Campus Only)
• HeinOnline (full-text)
• Sabinet Legal Products (South Africa) 

Find more resources on the:

• Law Subject Portal

 Sciences Librarian @ APK

Pavlinka is responsible for the 11 Faculty of Science Departments:

Applied Mathematics; Academy of Information Technology; Biochemistry;

Botany & Plant Biotechnology; Chemistry; Geography, Environmental Management and Energy; Geology;

Mathematics; Physics; Statistics & Zoology

Need Help?           

Contact: Pavlinka Kovatcheva, 

Sciences Librarian, APK, Level 1,

E-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za;

Tel.:     011 559 2621            

Daily: 8.00 - 16.30h 

Website:

http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com/

Consultation Hours for Researchers & Academics

• Subject Related queries;  
• Help with Research Proposals & Research
• How to search for Literature Review
• How to find relevant academic information
• Databases Training & Use of Library Resources
• How to get Published and MORE....

You can come and see me during working hours 

Make an appointment  if possible

E-mail me for help or any query you have 

Virtual Sciences Librarian

LinkedIn: Pavlinka Kovatcheva
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Consultation Hours for Undergraduates 

• Subject Related queries;
• Help with Assignments (groups or individually)
• Databases Training & Use of Library Resources
• Help through the Sciences Portal & EduLink 

Monday:   10.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h 

Tuesday:  10.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h

Thursday:  10.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h  

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