Library Tour and Seminar

The Catalogue

To use the Catalogue left click once on the Catalogue tab at the top of the Library home.

Alternatively you can click on the underlined text in Use the Catalogue.

The Catalogue will help you to find books, journals, and other items in the Library Collections.
Before you can use the Catalogue you need to be able to tell the difference between books, chapters in books, and journal articles.
This is because these different sorts of citations are found on The Catalogue using different methods.

Here is an example of a reading list.

Steenberghe, D. van 2004. Breath malodor : a step by step approach. Copenhagen : Quintessence
Roberson, T.M., H. Heyman, & E.J. Swift (eds) 2002. Sturdevant's Art & science of operative dentistry. St Louis Mosby
Crawford,J.J., & R.H. Leonard 2002. Infection control (In) Roberson, T.M. et al. Sturdevant's Art & science of operative dentistry. pp 345-385
Jha, D. et al. 2006 Inability of laser and rotary instrumentation to eliminate root canal infection. Journal of the American Dental Association 137: 67-70.

Identifying Books

The first item in the reading list is a book

You can identify a citation to a book by the presence of:

          author(s) or editor(s), date,  book title,
          publisher, and place of publication.

Identifying Chapters in a Book

You can identify a citation to a chapter in a book by the presence of:

the word 'in'
before the title of the book
also
the chapter author(s), chapter title
and details of the book itself

When you search for a chapter in the Catalogue, you need to search for
the book containing the chapter,
not the chapter itself.

Sometimes lecturers have permission to copy chapters or other parts of books.
These are made available to students on MyUni.

Identifying Journal Articles

You can identify a citation to a journal article by the presence of:

author(s) of the article, publication date, title of the article (usually),
title of the journal, journal volume number (and sometimes the issue number), pages of the article

and the absence of

publisher and place of publication

 

Citing References
When you use information from books and journal articles in your essays and other assignments, you must acknowledge this.
You must give credit to the authors you quote by citing them in a bibliography (list of citations) at the end of your assignment. If you don't do this you commit plagiarism.

Avoiding Plagiarism by Helene Hipp & Ursula McGowan from the Uni of Adelaide Language and Learning Service

Citation Styles
There are many citation styles that can be used for bibliographies.
You should always follow the citation style recommended by your University School or Discipline.
If there is no recommended style you should choose an internationally accepted style.

Here are some links to styles
Right click on the link below and open in a new window to view the instructions for writing manuscripts (journal articles, books etc) using the
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts style.
From International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

On the link below right click and open in a new window to see how to cite references under the Uniform Requirements.
This is known as the Vancouver style.
From Monash University Library

B Davis Schwartz Memorial Library has links to other citation styles

University of Leeds version of Harvard style bibliographies and references
University of South Australia's Referencing using the Harvard author-date system
There isn't a single standard version of the Harvard system.

The Library has some books on the topic of citation styles

The Chicago manual of style.
808.02 U58.15
1 copy in Reference, 1 copy in Main Collection

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
808.06615 A512p.5
Copies in Reference, Reserve, and Main Collections

Other Resources on Scientific Writing for Medicine
Catalogue search for items on this topic

Uni of Adelaide's Writing Centre

 

Finding Books in the Catalogue By Title

Using Title search is usually the best method of searching for books in the Catalogue.

 

Enter the title in the Search for: box

enter the title in full

breath malodor a step by step approach

or truncate the title

breath malodor a step by

but don't leave out words

breath malodor step by step

Do leave out the word A, An, or The if it is the first word of the title.
The Catalogue isn't case sensitive so it doesn't matter if you use capital letters.
The Catalogue ignores punctuation including foreign language diacritics.

Click on the Search button.

The result appears.

If only one title appears, check that is the book you are looking for.
Scroll down the screen to find the Location, Call Number and Status.

If more that one book has the same title The Catalogue will show you a screen of all of the items with that title.
You'll need to find the one you want.
Searching the Catalogue for the book Pathways of the pulp finds 7 editions.
The imprint column on the right of the screen shows the publication date.

You can sort the order of the titles on the Catalogue using the Sort by drop down menu.

 

Click on the highlighted text of the edition you want.

Scroll down the screen to find the location, call number and status.

Searching by Author Names

In the Search for box, enter the author's last name, a space and first initial.
Click on the triangle at the end of the by: box

Click on Author-last name first.

Click on the Search button or press Enter.

If the library has items by that author then the Author's name will appear in an alphabetical list.
The Catalogue will also indicate how many items it holds by the author.
Click on the author's name to see the list of items.

Click on the title of any item you want to see in more detail.

Finding a Chapter in a Book

Always begin by searching for the title or editor of the book in which the chapter or essay appears.
To find the chapter

Crawford J.J. & R.H. Leonard 2002. Infection control (In) Roberson, T.M. et al. Sturtevant's Art & science of operative dentistry p345-385.

You can use title search, or author search as above to find the book.

Once you have found the book scroll down to find the location and call number of the book.

you can locate the book and turn to page 345 to find the chapter.

The library has access to some electronic books.
Again search for the book title and when the electronic book appears search the contents to click on the chapter you want.

 

 

 

Journal Title Searches

Electronic Journals

Finding the article

Yael Houri-Haddad, Amal Halabi, Wilfred Aubrey Soskolne 2008. Inflammatory response to chlorhexidine, minocycline HCl and doxycycline HCl in an in vivo mouse model. Journal of Clinical Periodontology Vol. 35(9) 783-788.

You can search for the titles of journals (not the titles of articles) using the Catalogue.
Type the full title or truncated title of the journal into the Search for: box.
Click on the triangle at the end of the by box, or click within the box.
Click on Journal or Newspaper Title.

Don't use abbreviated titles such as j clin perio
use the full title journal of clinical periodontology,
or the truncated title such as journal of clinical perio

Most recent journals held by the Library are often in electronic format.
Click on the highlighted text

Click on the highlighted Link to e-Resource.

You might have to enter your student number and password before you can proceed.
From here you'll have to find the volume and issue you need.

And then the particular article.

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Printed Journals

Many older volumes of journals and a few recent journal titles are still collected by the library in print format.
Search for the title using Journal or Newspaper Title in the by: box

You'll need to find location, call number, and check the Library Has section in the Catalogue to find out which volumes of the print journal is held.

 

Guided Keywords Searching

Finding books using Guided Keyword

Guided Keywords is useful when you know some details of a book but not enough to use title search, or author search.

Perhaps you know about a book that includes the word hazardous in the title and you think the author's name is Miller but you don't know the author's initial.

Guided Keyword search will help find the book quickly.
Click on the Guided Keyword Search button.
If the screen has returned to the Library home you will have to click on the Catalogue tab again.

Enter the terms you want to search (in this example hazardous and miller)
Click on the Search button.

Searching for Topics Using Guided Keyword

Guided Keyword search is also useful for finding items on a particular topic such as oral diagnosis.
You can type these words into the Search for box, or you can truncate words using the ? symbol.
This ? at the end of a word stem such as diagnos, will cause the Catalogue to search for all words that begin with the letters
d-i-a-g-n-o-s.
This is equivalent to searching diagnose OR diagnoses OR diagnosis OR diagnostic OR diagnostically etc

The two terms oral and diagnos? will be combined by the Catalogue using AND logic.
This means that the Catalogue will find only those items that have both of these terms within their records.

You can search for these terms as a phrase so that you restrict the search to phrases such as
oral diagnosis OR oral diagnoses etc.

Click on the box to the right of the Search for box, that shows all of these as a default.

Click on as a phrase.

Click on the Search button.

Logic Grids

To make sure that you get your search logic right before beginning to search it's very useful to use a logic grid.
Write down the main concepts that you want to search.
Under each concept write down any synonyms or alternative terms.

A search on oral diagnosis might be placed in a grid like the one below.
You can use any piece of paper to sort out your logic.

This will give you columns of words that can be combined using OR logic.

Logic Grid

oral	diagnos?
endodont?	symptom?
orthodont?	sign?
periodont?
prosthodont?

OR logic means that any one of several terms can be included in the search results.
Your search will be

(oral OR endodont? OR orthodont? OR periodont? OR prosthodont?) AND (diagnos? OR symptom? OR sign?)

To do this search using Guided Keywords enter all the terms from the first column in one of the Search for: boxes.
This is a keyword search so don't include the ORs but change all of these to any of these.

Now put the words from the second column of the logic grid into the second Search for box.
Remember to change all of these to any of these.

You can make your searches more specific by limiting searches to particular elements of Catalogue records.

Now you should know

Where to find books and printed journals in the Barr Smith Library
How to identify books, book chapters, and journal articles in reading lists
How to use the Library Catalogue to find known items
How to use Guided Keywords to find items on a particular topic