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BOTANY & PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY SUBJECT PORTAL

  

Welcome to the Research Support Portal for Botany & Plant Biotechnology users

 

For help, contact Pavlinka Kovatcheva, Sciences Librarian, APK Campus, Level 1,

Tel: 011 559-2621, E-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za 

 

NEW Classification for BOOKS @ UJ Kingsway Library: 500 Natural Sciences & Mathematics

570 Life Sciences; 580 Botanical Sciences; 630 Agriculture

 

Search the Catalogue for Books with the new Shelf numbers: UJLink: Library Catalogue

Quick Links to Databases for Botany (click on the icon) 

                     

 

                 

          

 

         

 

            

 

          

 

 

Quick Links to the Full Text Online Books & Reference Works

 

Have a look at all available Online Books and Reference Works

 

 

 

  

Ecology; Environmental & Ecological Risk Assessment; 

Environmental Toxicology; Landscape Ecology; Resource Management & Sustainability

 

 

       

  1. LIBRARY SUPPORT TO BOTANY USERS
    1. LIBRARY SERVICES, FACILITIES AND RESOURCES
    2. RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS SUPPORT; CITING & REFERENCING; TEACHING SUPPORT; ETC.
    3. SUBJECT PORTALS, IMPACT FACTORS & ACCREDITED JOURNALS, GETTING PUBLISHED
    4. UJ SCIENCES LIBRARIAN , KINGSWAY CAMPUS (Traditional & Virtual services)         
  2. BOTANY & PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
    1. JOURNALS & JOURNALS ABBREVIATIONS; DATABASES & SEARCH ENGINES 
    2. SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINES & SEARCHABLE WEB RESOURCES 
    3. FULL-TEXT BOTANY JOURNALS
    4. FULL-TEXT SCIENCES JOURNALS
    5. ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS
  3. CONFERENCES LINKS
  4. SCIENCES RESEARCH LINKS (RANKING, IMPACT FACTOR, ETC.)
  5. DATABASES TUTORIALS/ VIDEOS
    1. CABIDIRECT DATABASE

  

           

LIBRARY SUPPORT TO BOTANY USERS

LIBRARY SERVICES, FACILITIES AND RESOURCES

 

 

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 the Internet: Before access, it requires a registration (UJ e-mail and a password)
  • ON Campus to Library Resources: Internet Log-in and Library PIN Log-in!

Do you know how to CREATE LIBRARY PIN?

Forgot your Password (PIN)? Contact the LENDING DESK staff for Assistance or Phone 011 559 2165 (APK)

About the UJ Library

Library Services & Forms

Books, Articles, Databases

Library Membership

 

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS SUPPORT; CITING & REFERENCING; TEACHING SUPPORT; ETC.

 

UJ Sciences Librarian Help

Important UJ Links

Research & Assignments Help

 

Writing, Citing & Referencing Research Projects

 

     

    

   

 

Searching & Borrowing Materials from UJ Library

 

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

Teaching Support

 

Teaching & Learning Tools 
Need Help? Ask your Science Librarian

Access to Theses & Dissertations (T & D)

 Access to Institutional Repositories (IR) 

Manage your References

                        

SUBJECT PORTALS, IMPACT FACTORS & ACCREDITED JOURNALS, GETTING PUBLISHED

 

Browse Resources per Subject and Course

 Sciences Librarian Portal

 

 Impact Journals

South African Accredited Journals

Internationally Accredited Journals

Getting Published: For Authors

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UJ SCIENCES LIBRARIAN , KINGSWAY CAMPUS (Traditional & Virtual services)         

 

                       

         

 

 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
  • Help with searches & problem solving 
  • 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
Facebook: UJ Sciences Librarian Hot Alert 

Follow me on UJLibScience Twitter

Selected articles on Delicious (Tags)

UJ Sciences Library News (blog) 
UJ Sciences Librarian Research News (blog)

UJ Librarians News (blog)

MindOmo (Mind Map, Sciences Resources)

Mind42 (Mind Map, APK Library, Sciences)
Flickr

Skype (pavlinka163)

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  

  

You can CHAT to me in real time by using MEEBO, Instant Messaging widget available on this portal

(right-top) during working hours.

 Chat to me! 

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BOTANY & PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

JOURNALS & JOURNALS ABBREVIATIONS; DATABASES & SEARCH ENGINES 

 

REMOTE ACCESS is available to all the databases. Just log-in with your SURNAME, STUDENT /STAFF NUMBER, PIN.

Don't have Library Password? Learn how to create PIN. 

 

Search for Full-text Print & Online Journals

Search these resources to find Full-text PRINT & ONLINE JOURNAL title. Links to Biochemistry full-text journals are available below.

 

Journals Abbreviations

Journal titles can be ABBREVIATED (in the references list). These links will help you find the FULL JOURNAL title.

Search Engines

Click HERE for more Sciences Search Engines

      

Open Access Journals

Top Botany Databases

 

 

        Aromatic and Medicinal Plants
          - Crop Physiology
          - Horticulture Science
          - Ornamental Horticulture
          - Plant Growth Regulations
          - Plant Pathology
          - Postharvest Research

       - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences

       - Life Sciences

 

 

 

Africa & South Africa Databases

Additional Multidisciplinary Databases

 

P.S. If you are still unsure, which database to use, go to the Databases Information sheet. 

 

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SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINES & SEARCHABLE WEB RESOURCES 

Botany Resources

 

  • Aluka: African Plants: The African Plants Collection comprises scientific data contributed by the African Plants Initiative (API), a collaboration among more than 50 institutions in Africa, Europe, and the United States (About)

  • Biology Browser: Thomson Reuters FREE database of Biology resources and web links. 

  • Botanicus Digital Library : freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library

  • Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding: CCDB

  • Consortium for the Barcode of Life

  • DNA Barcoding: Flora Kruger UJ: The flora of the Kruger National Park (KNP) Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants of the Kruger, which includes pictures, herbarium scans, GPS data, and a link to the matK barcode.

  • Entrez: Entrez is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others. Entrez is the Life Sciences Search Engine 

  • GenBank : is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences

  • NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information

  • Plant Collection: PlantCollections provides public access to information stored within plant record databases, thereby improving our understanding of plants and the natural world. Find a plant by scientific name, common name, genus or family name; Find images, documented true to name, of flowers, leaves, fruit, fall color, habits; Locate herbarium, DNA, Seed or Pickled plant specimens; Find a reference on flower color, leaves, fruit and fall color for a particular plant.

  • PAUP* 4.0 : Tools for inferring and interpreting Phylogenetic trees

  • Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW.

  • TreeBASE: Relational Database of Phylogenetic information

  • Tree of Life Web Project

 

 

Sciences Search Engine

 

Don't miss these useful resources for research. For more go to Search Engines & Web Resources portal 

   

Use Google Scholar to search for academic articles across multiple Publishers: Springer, Elsevier, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, JSTOR, Blackwell-Wiley, SAGE and many more. Scholar HELP!

 

You can EXPORT your references directly to RefWorks! Read MORE..

 

 

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FULL-TEXT BOTANY JOURNALS

Below are selected Botany journals from ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Wiley Interscience, etc.. For more journals, search the following resources:

 

 

For more relevant journals visit Biochemistry Subject portal.

 

* Full text delay due to publisher restrictions "embargo"  

 

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  • Cell (ScienceDirect, v.80, 1995 - Current; PRINT, Current Subscription)

  • Cell Proliferation (Wiley Online Library, v.30, 1997 +)

  • Cellular Microbiology (Wiley Online Library, v.1 , 1999 +)

  • Chemical Biology & Drug Design (Wiley Online Library, v. 49, 1997 +)

  • Cytometry: Part A (Wiley Online Library, v. 27, 1997 +)

  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection (Wiley Online Library, v. 3, 1997 +)

  • Current Protocols in Bioinformatics (PRINT; BCT CURR - Biochem Dep; Current Subscription)

  • Current Protocols in Cell Biology (PRINT; BCT CURR - Biochem Dep; Current Subscription)

  • Current Protocols in Cytometry (PRINT; BCT CURR - Biochem Dep; Current Subscription)

  • Current Protocols in Human Genetics (PRINT; BCT CURR - Biochem Dep; Current Subscription)

  • Current Protocols in Immunology (PRINT; BCT CURR - Biochem Dep; Current Subscription)

  • Current Protocols in Molecular Biology (PRINT; BCT CURR - Biochem Dep; Current Subscription)

  • Current Protocols in Protein Science (PRINT; BCT CURR - Biochem Dep; Current Subscription)

  • Differentiation (Wiley Online Library, v. 61, 1997 +) 

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FULL-TEXT SCIENCES JOURNALS

Full text delay due to publisher restrictions ("embargo")

 

REFERENCE WORKS

ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REMOTE ACCESS is available to all the databases. Just log-in with your SURNAME, STUDENT/STAFF NUMBER, PIN.

Don't have library Password? Learn how to create PIN. 

 

Online Books, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

View all Sciences Online Books and Reference Works

        Access Science

 

Online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Articles, Current news and Research updates, Study Center, Biographies of leading scientists, Image Galleries, Multimedia. Good to get you started with your Project or Assignment.   

 

      CRC Combine Chemical Dictionary

 

This dictionary is a structured database containing detailed information on chemical substances. It includes descriptive and numerical data on the chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. CCD online, contains all those compounds published in:

  

                           Oxford English Dictionary

 

      

Oxford Reference Online (Multidisciplinary, over 200 titles)

   

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CONFERENCES LINKS

SCIENCES RESEARCH LINKS (RANKING, IMPACT FACTOR, ETC.)

          - ScienceWatch RSS NEWS Feeds 

          - Sci-Bytes: What's New in Research

          - Fast Breaking Papers

          - New Hot Papers in Science (from Essential Science Indicators, Thomson Reuters)

          - Emerging Research Fronts

          - Fast Moving Fronts (Research Fronts that are growing most rapidly)

          - Research Front Maps (Clusters of highly cited papers and research front maps)

          - Country Profiles

          - What's Hot in... (Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics)

 

                        

 

  • SciTopics: Research Summaries by Topic: Agriculture & Biological Sciences (Elsevier)

          - About SciTopics

          - Author Index

          - HELP!  

          - Read MORE!

 

  • Academia.edu (Academia is a tree of academics around the world, displayed according to university/department affiliation)(About; Read MORE!)

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DATABASES TUTORIALS/ VIDEOS

 

CABIDIRECT DATABASE

 


 

 

Tutorial/Videos website

The following streaming video files have been designed to offer users of the CAB Direct search platform helpful tips on using the interface.  Each short, four to ten minute video, covers a specific aspect of searching, from the very basics through to advanced, multi-term searching and field searching.  Each clip includes an audio comentary.

 

This two minute video shows the basics required for performing a simple keyword search. It also introduces the display screen and a full CABI database record.

The Advanced Search Screen allows you to build a complex search strategy on multiple search lines.  This tutorial also introduces the idea of limiting search terms to specific data fields like the CABI Indexing terms, very useful for improving the quality or relevance of your search ressults.

Once you have run your initial search, this tutorial will show you how to refine the results with the addition of extra search terms.

This tutorial will show you how to build more complex, mulit-term searches and introduces the concept of Boolean Operators to specify the exact relationships between the search terms.

Once you have the search results you want, learn how to output the records in the most appropriate format.

The Search History Screen shows you a list of all the searches performed in the current search session.  It also allows you to combine the results of different searches and save your search profile to re-run at a later date.

A personal MyCABDirect account allows users to permanently save searches, BookMark interesting records and set up auto-email Alerts and RSS Feeds.  This tutorial shows you how to set up and use the MyCABDirect feature.

 

Access to CABDirect databases

 

CABIDIRECT Training Manuals in PDF format

 

 

 

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