If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.
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The library offers a client-focused service to the lecturers of the UJ Faculty of Science! This portal is specifically develop to your needs for information and library support!
Please contact theSubject Librarianat your Campus for personal assistance and help with any queries, literature searches and library instructions/ trainings!
Pavlinka Kovatcheva, the Sciences Librarian at APK Campus is the developer of this portal.
UJ Staffand students have access to all UJ Campus Libraries. Membership is valid for the duration of their affiliation with the University.
Prospective postgraduates, Visiting Researchers, Students from other SA Universities, Students from Foreign Universities, Alumni Members, Honorary Membership and Former Employees of the UJ,must complete theUJ LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP FORMand submit to the Library Lending Desk staff.
According to an agreement between Libraries at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa, UJ Library Membership to other University Librariesis granted to staff, Masters & PhD'sstudents.
The reasons for that membership could be:
Library near place of residence;
Library, which provide resources not available at the UJ Library.
The application for Library Membership to other University Libraries EXPIRE at the end of each academic year and need to be RENEWED annually.
Steps in applying for access to other University Libraries:
Borrowing from other UJ Campus Library: Inter Campus Loan
Inter Campus Loan (ICL) Service is available to ALL registered users of the University. An Inter Campus Loan is a transaction in whichbooksandjournalarticles are made available by one UJ Campus Library to another upon a request.The purpose is to provide good and speedily delivery service to UJ Library clients.
Where to start?
The need for this service will arise when you search theUJLink(Library Catalogue) and find a book or a journal available at other Library Campus. Search also A-to-Z Journals to ensure that the journal is not available in electronic format.
Once you establish that the book or journal you need is not available at your Campus Library or that all copies are already in use by other users, you can:
Only books that are on open shelves can be loaned;
Write down the details of the title, including the campus and shelf number;
Approach your Library Campus Inter Library Loan (ILL) office;
Complete the cards which are available at the ILL office;
There are two different cards: yellow for books and orange for journals; make sure that you complete the right card.Once the card is filled, just put it in the allocated “post” box
You MUST come to the ILL office and inquire if the material is received within 3 working days.
ORDERING MATERIALS FROM OTHER LIBRARIES:INTER LIBRARY LOAN
Inter Library Loan (ILL) is a method of obtaining and supplying materials, which are not available in the UJ Library. This service is on National and International level.
Who qualifies for ILL service?
This service isavailable to UJ staff, Masters & Doctoral students.
Why use ILL service?
If the material is not available on the UJLink (Library Catalogue) or through the A-to-Z Journals, you can place a request through Inter Library Loanservices. The item will be requested from a library on National or International level (only with the concensus of the requester).
Cost
South African requests are FREE of charge.For international requests, FEE charges are applied.
How to get started?
If you are first time user, you need to register as an Inter Lending member by completing ILL registration form.You can scan, fax or e-mail after completion. The ILL form is available at the ILL office.
Once the ILL form is submitted to the ILL office you can start using the service.
You can place ILL requests in two ways:In personby completing the available cards at the ILL office orElectronically– by placing your request directly through the Inter Library Loanweb page. To place electronic request you will need to login with your SURNAME, STAFF/STUDENTS number and PIN. PIN is easy to create, just followthese instructions.
Once the request is fulfilled by ILL, you will receive an e-mail notification to collect the item or a reason why the request is not fulfilled.
If an item is not available in South Africa, you will be asked to request it Internationally.
For more ILL information OR to place an electronic Inter Library Request, visit theInter Library Loanwebsite.
MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT (CURRENT LOANS; RENEWALS, ITEMS ON HOLD)
MyUJLink is your Library Account record.
Access is available either through the UJLink (Library Catalogue) or directly through the MyUJLink website.
You will be required to login with your SURNAME, STAFF/STUDENT NUMBER and PIN. Don't have a PIN, learn how to create. Don't remember your old PIN number, ask Lending Desk staff for assistance.
Through MyUJLink you can:
Yourcurrently checked-out books. Note the DUE date for returning the book to the Library, to avoid fines for late return.
You can RENEW your books. You can renew either all of your books or only those you would like to use more. Need HELP?
Place books on HOLD. If you would like to place a hold on a book that is currently OUT of the library, click on "
Preferred Searches option. If you have a favourite author or subject for which you often search when using UJLink, you can save the search with the click of a button. This will prevent you from having to key in the search each time and let you place reserves on new materials quicker. Need HELP?
You can Search the Library Catalogue for books, journals, print Theses & Dissertations, etc. Need HELP with some searching TIPS?
UJ Library Reserve Collection consists of Electronic Course Reserve (ECR) and Printed Course Reservematerials.
Usually these are library materials with high expected usage.
How to place materials on Reserve, how to search for course reserve materials, what is ECR and ECR copyright clearence, learnMORE.....
Complete the available Print &Electronic materials application forms.
STUDY COLLECTION
The Study Collection contains books with a higher frequency of use than the books in the Open Collection. Request for books to be placed on the Study Collection may be submitted by:
Lecturers
Subject Librarians
Head of the Lending Services
The loan period for the study collection is 5 days. Two items may be borrowed at the time. These items CANNOT be renewed. Each year the Study Collection can be reviewed.
SUBMIT & SEARCH FOR UJ THESES & DISSERTATIONS IN THE LIBRARY
Once the UJ Masters & Doctoral students complete their Theses & Dissertations, they must submit copies to the library in both PRINT and ELECTRONIC format (PDF on CD-Rom).
The Departments & students need to consult the submission guidelines forElectronic Theses & Dissertations Procedure
To search for available UJ Electronic Theses & Dissertations go to UJDigispace. The new UJ Institutional Repository portal can give you full-text access to Theses & Dissertations from 2002 - current.
To search for print Theses & Dissertations go to UJLink.
How to submit Theses & Dissertations in the Library (in print & electronic format), how to search for already available , find out MORE....
To search for South African and International Theses & Dissertations and Open Access Institutional Repositories click HERE!
It is the University’s policy to comply with the Copyright Act and Regulations and in so doing to respect the rights of the authors and publishers and to pay reasonable license fees where required by law.
Infringement of copyright by the Universities, Heads of Departments or lecturers and students could result in legal action and possible awards of damages. Read theCopyright websitefor more information.
Access directly theDalro Blanket Licenseform,which needs to be used for all copyright permission requests.
Contact the UJ Copyright officer Thapelo Mashishi on:thapelom@uj.ac.za or Tel: 011 559 2182 & Fax: 011 726 7723.
Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work, or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense:
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means:
to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
to use (another's production) without crediting the source
to commit literary theft
to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.
For more resources (books, tutorials, useful links) on Plagiarism, go to the Sciences LibrarianPlagiarism portal.
Make use of Turnitin@ UJ: A tool for online plagiarism prevention that is integrated with Edulink. Lecturers may choose to have learners submit their assignments, thesis, etc. electronically via turnitin for plagiarism detection (to prevent learners from submitting copies of other learners' assignments or copying and pasting from the Internet and/or journals, etc.)
By citing and referencing we are acknowledge the works of the authors, which references we consulted or directly quoted in our research paper, theses or dissertation, or article for publication.
Every Department from the Faculty of Science uses it's own method (usually Harvard method) of referencing. The referencing usually follows a specific journal publication method.
Students and Researchers are given specific guidelines by the Departments, which they need to follow to complete a literature review or a research paper.
When you are busy preparing article for publication, you should find what are the citing and referencing requirements for that specific journal (publisher)
In the Library we have available Reference Techniques document (PDF) for both Harvard & APA methods.
Additional citing and reference tool is RefWorks. You have use RefWorks to import and manage your references, you can directly "write-and-cite" into your research paper and export your reference list according to the required reference method needs.
Learn more by visiting RefWorks support website or contact your subject librarian for training and assistance.
The subject librarians work with an academic Departments and Faculty members to ensure that the library-related needs of the faculty and the departments are addressed.
The main functions of a subject librarian are the following:
Liaising with the academic departments
Providing information retrieval and reference services
Training & User Education of students and staff
Collection Development & Maintenance of the subject specific collections
Promote and market Library services & products
Contact the subject librarians when you need any help.
VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (VLE): EDULINK SUPPORT
The subject librarians make use of EduLink to support the UJ’s integrated approach to learning, teaching and assessment.
The rationale is that WebCT courses with online access to recommended or prescribed articles via course customized pages, will improve students’ use of licensed database content while at the same time minimize the effort and confusion of using a variety of databases or points of entry.
Objectives:
To integrate the various stand alone information resources onto one platform
To engage learners in an environment that they feel comfortable in
Encourage learners to use the available information resources more efficiently.
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators
Find out how to requests books for the Library, how to create "new books alerts" through Blackwell's Collection Manager, find the best Publishers websites to view the latest book publications, access journals titles through their publishers/databases, find newly acquired books in the UJ Library.
Bibliographic & Publishers information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles.
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