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Information Literacy
AMC-YES 60406
Programme
• Introduction lecture
• Practicals
• Feedback lecture
• Blackboard modules
Marja Duizendstraal
Hans Fransen
Marco van Veller
Corrie van Zeist
Information Explosion
http://informationr.net/
WUR: http://library.wur.nl/desktop/catalog/
Information Explosion
Which skills do you need to manage?
www.foundationnews.org
Skills:
Define your need
Search effectively
Evaluate/ Select
Use
Information Literacy
Definition:
Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.
Blackboard Modules: http://edu2.web.wur.nl
Information sources
Blackboard: Information sources
Two functionalities:
• Complete (digital) text
• Search facilities
Climate change
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Climatic change
Kyoto
Research:
Publication of results
Greenhouse gases
Climate change
Global warming Climatic
change
Kyoto
Greenhouse effect
Articles in Journals:
Global Change Biology
Journal of Climate
Environ. Management
Other publications
?
Greenhouse gases
review
The optimal database:
• contains all relevant publications
• gives access to the full text
• is updated frequently
• has good search facilities
• can be searched from anywhere
• ………………………………
Google Scholar
Scopus
WoS
Bibliographic
databases
Is there an optimal database?
GS, WoS,Scopus-1
GS WoS Scopus
disciplines all all all
type of work “all” articles+ articles+
ft if available within WUR yes* yes*
updated + + +
search facil. - + +
access + +* +*
* Via My Library
GS, WoS,Scopus-2Use Google Scholar for:- looking up known references (within WUR)- quick searches
Use WoS/ Scopus for:- detailed searches- citation information- finding recent articles
But there are more databases…….
WoS
Scopus
CAB
BA
ASFA
LSW
SocIndex
PsycInfoPsycInfo
Google Scholar
Portals
MetaSearch
Which databases?
Blackboard Module 3
Bibliographic databases
All disciplines• Scopus• Web of Science• Google Scholar
Specific topics• CAB-Abstracts• Biological Abstracts• FSTA• Medline/ PubMed• ……………..Overlap
AdditionalDifferent search platforms
Use several databases
How to search
• Search strategythe logic of the search• StandardBlackboard module 4a3
• Search toolsi.e. truncation, field/ phrase searching• different per databaseEx: forest products - “forest products”Blackboard module 4a4
Search strategy
• Finding the focus• Limitation: period, language, region• Identifying key concepts • Finding search terms (keywords)
Finding the focus
Effects of climatic change on forests
Questions: Which effects?
Only recent climatic change?
Which forests?
Background: Encyclopedias, books, reviews
Limitation
• years of publication
• geographic region
• language
Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of forest trees in the tropics
Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia rainforests: A Late-Holocene perspective
Changes in the status of Lophura pheasants in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand: A response to warming climate?
Effects of twenty-first-century climatic change on the Amazon rain forest
Mitigation needs adaptation: Tropical forestry and climate change
Search Words
Climate change
Climate change, climatic change, warming climate, global warming, rising temperatures OR
Forests Forest(s), rainforest(s),
Forestry forest* OR
Tropical Tropical, tropic(s), Amazon(ia),
South East Asia,.. Thesaurus OR
Biodiversity Biodiversity, fauna, flora OR
climate change
forests
tropic
Operators
Boolean: AND OR NOT
Proximity: NEARx, WITH, W/x, SAME….
Assignment
Blackboard: assignments
Exercise 1: prepare for practicals
For next week (practicals)
Before May 6th : Assessment, M1, M2, M3, M4a.1, M4a.3
• Assessment See what you (don’t) know• M1: general introduction• M2: information sources, quiz• M3: Wageningen UR library sources, quiz• M4a Searching, quiz
Topic for your assignment, preferably in groups of 2. We like to discuss this with you during the practicals.
Evaluation
• Assignment:
mail at May 27th 2008 the latest
• Exam: May 20th