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Visit the Generic training library calendar, #SmartResearcher and #SmartStudent for more information on our workshops: copyright issues in theses and dissertation writing, how to conduct a literature review, Mendeley for reference management and more!
Do you want to improve your writing? Are you looking for writing support? The Writing Lab is there for you! Book a free writing consultation or attend the Writing skills workshops.
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Off-campus E-access For off-campus access details, see our Library guide: Off-campus Access for Stellenbosch Registered Users. |
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Interlibrary loans Interlibrary loans is a service available to registered students to request books and articles, not available at the libraries of the Stellenbosch University Library. Documents are requested from South African libraries as well as international libraries. Use the online ILL request form to submit a request. |
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SAGE Research Methods Online:
A useful one stop database for all things Methodology. Need help with your literature review? Need more information on Data Collection? Doing Mixed Methods Research? SAGE Research Methods Online is essential for any researcher.
"Plagiarism is the theft and use of the ideas, material and other intellectual property of others that are passed off as one’s own." SU Senate. 1 Dec 2016. Stellenbosch University policy on academic integrity: the prevention and handling of plagiarism [Internet]. Stellenbosch University. Available: Policy document. [2017, 1 February].
Turnitin is a tool to check the originality of your written work and it will provide guidelines where necessary to you regarding where and how you can improve it. Consult the Turnitin Libray Guide for more detail.
TURNITIN is available via http://learn.sun.ac.za; be sure to use Mozilla Firefox.
TURNITIN login problems & Help:
How does TURNITIN work:
See video on how Turnitin works and an explanation for the colour-coding in the feedback report.
Some helpful tools:
Feedly:
Feedly is a useful RSS feed reader which allows you to embed search and various other alerts into the platform, and find all your information on one place. Have a look at our Creating alerts guide for more information on alerts.
SAGE Research Methods Online:
A useful one stop database for all things Methodology. Need help with your literature review? Need more information on Data Collection? Doing Mixed Methods Research? SAGE Research Methods Online is essential for any researcher. Resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions
Theses:
Need to find other dissertations on your topic? Have a look at SUNScholar for Stellenbosch University Theses, IR Space for South African Theses, and CORE for international Theses.
See our list of useful tools for research for more.
Prospective postgraduate students (E-access) Guide
In order to obtain off-campus access to the library's e-resources, prospective postgraduate students need to apply online to be enrolled as a network registered prospective postgraduate student at Stellenbosch University. After network registration, you will have off-campus e-access to the Library's e-resources with your SU network username and password. See detailed information and Follow the 3 steps in the guide.
AND – returns results with both keywords. AND usually limits the search results
OR – returns results with one or the other keyword.It broadens your results by connecting two or more synonyms.
NOT – returns results excluding specific keywords
Use the Boolean Machine for visualizing the effects of Boolean operators .
More tips:
Quotation Marks “ ” – keep keywords together, for exact phrase searching
Brackets ( ) – keep concepts together, used for synonyms
Example:
("green energy" OR "sustainable energy" OR "renewable energy") AND (logistics OR "supply chain")
What is a Library Links preference on Google Scholar and how can I do it from home?
A Library Links preference allows you set your preferred Library Choice in Google Scholar. It will then automatically detect when an article is freely available via any of the electronic platforms that Stellenbosch University Library subscribes to. Use the guide below to change your Google Scholar settings on your own computer.
*Google puts an AND between spaces
*Case does not matter - except for operators (AND/OR/NOT)▪Can use + (AND) or - (NOT)
*Word order matters, Google ranks results according to the order you search in
*Google ignores punctuation
filetype:
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a web address for a page or document on the World Wide Web. We can make some educated guesses about the reliability of a web site if we know a little about URLs.
Each URL (for example http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/internships), consists of an access protocol (http), a domain name (www.whitehouse.gov), and an optional path to a file or resource residing on that server (about/internships).
The domain name indicates the organization responsible for the site (www.whitehouse.gov in the example above). The top-level domain indicates the type of site (gov in the example above).
The most common top-level domains and the type of site they indicate are:
In general, .gov and .edu web sites are more reliable than .com web sites.
SU ENDNOTE subscription starts January 2024.
From 2024, the library will offer support and training in how to migrate from Mendeley or Zotero to EndNote, if you wish to do so. In the meantime, have a look at this video to see some of the new features of EndNote 21, and the EndNote Library Guide for more information
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