Watch the following 3 videos from your SUNLearn module Science in Context 178:
1) SiC library guide and valuable tips
2) The treasure of peer review articles
3) Searching ScienceDirect
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication R*501.4 ENC
Examples of HARVARD referencing style
How do I do my assignment? To find, access and use information effectively, use the Step-by-Step Guide.
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Contact the Science Librarian, Marié Theron
Search and find full text peer review articles on ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary database that includes a large range of journals relevant to all BSc subjects. ScienceDirect also includes several electronic books. and encyclopedias
Refine by "subscribed journals" for full text access
Building blocks of a search:
AND: both terms that you connect with AND must be somewhere in the bibliographic record for that record to be retrieved. AND narrows a search and retrieves fewer articles:
antibiotics AND probiotics will find both terms in the record
OR: only one of the search terms combined with OR is required for the bibliographic record to be retrieved. OR broadens a search and retrieves more articles. Applies also for related or synonym terms:
polymerase chain reaction OR PCR
corn OR maize
NOT: excludes or ignore a particular subset, category, or term. NOT requires the presence of one search term and the exclusion of another.
moths NOT butterflies
Phrase Searching: Adding quotation marks around a phrase, such as "bushy top syndrome" will tell the database to search for these words together, rather than separately:
"microbial ecology" versus microbial and ecology
Truncating (using the *) is a good strategy to use for some terms:
microb* will give the following results: microbe, microbial, microbiome, microbiology, microbolometer,etc. (Choose your * wisely)
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