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School of Natural Medicine

Senior Librarian: CHS Branch

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Vuyokazi Kiva-Johnson
Contact:
Community and Health Sciences (CHS) Branch Library,
First Floor, UWC CHS Faculty,
Bellville

021 959 2684
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Welcome

Welcome to the School of Natural Medicine Library Support Guide

This guide provides information and links to resources that are useful for Natural Medicine courses.

The library collects and subscribes to print and online resources to support your information needs. To access the list of key resources in Natural Medicine, as well as guidance on searching databases for journal articles and books, navigate through the tabs on your left hand side.

Please visit the Information Literacy tutorial to support you with each stage of the research process, including selecting a topic, identifying information needs, selecting sources, locating information, evaluating information, and citing sources.

 

How the Faculty Librarian can help you during your research journey

Do you need assistance finding relevant information for your research?

Are you a student or researcher struggling to develop search strategies?

Do you need help searching databases, conducting a grey literature search, or managing your citations?

The CHS Faculty Librarian is pleased to offer a variety of literature search services to students and researchers and consist of the following elements:

  • Assistance finding relevant information for your research.
  • Identify relevant databases and gray literature resources in which to conduct literature searches related to your topic.
  • Design and implement complex, comprehensive search strategies to maximize retrieval of relevant studies.
  • Create search alerts to ensure that new studies are found while the systematic review is in progress.
  • Use citation management software, such as Endnote and Mendeley to manage and organise your  research references.
  • Assistance with manual referencing using APA or Havard referencing styles.
  • Track down hard-to-find full text articles for screening and review.

Please contact or book an appointment with your Faculty Librarian at kerasmus@uwc.ac.za

Telephone no.: 021 959 2684

Library Login Credentials

 What credentials should I use in order to logon to my UWC library account, or to sign into EZproxy when trying to access online journals from off campus.

 New Students

 1st time and First Year UWC students, including students who have been assigned new student numbers when registering for the 2021 academic year.

  •  Username: student number e.g. 4112117
  •  Password (Should contain the prefix !St followed by your ID, or passport number if you’re an international student)

 What credentials should I use in order to logon to my UWC library account, or to sign into EZproxy when trying to access online journals from off campus.

Username: 4112117

Password: !St0201010062087

Returning Students

  • Username: student number e.g. 4112117
  • Password (ID number or passport number for international students)

Changing Password

 If your password doesn’t work or if you need to change it for whatever reason. You can do so at the following website.

 https://mypassword.uwc.ac.za

 Problems changing your Password

 If you experience problems resetting your password, you can contact the ICS service desk via email at servicedesk@uwc.ac.za (telephone number: 959 2000). Request that the call centre agent assist you in resetting your network password.

 NB: Changing your password will change your password for all of the following accounts that you may use; iKamva.uwc.ac.za, uKwazi library account, EZproxy, VPN, Intranet.

UWC LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES

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Tel: 021 959 2946