Information Literacy ESS

Marja Duizendstraal

Hans Fransen

Bart Kruijt

25 – 28 March 2008

Programme

Days 1 and 2: Focus on literature

Day 3: Focus on data(sets)

Day 4: Integration, writing review

Tuesday March 25th

13.30 - 14.00 h Introduction

14.00 - 16.00 h Blackboard modules

16.00 – 17.15 h Search example,Assignment

Information (over)load

Some figures:Electronic journals WUR

circa 10.000Articles on climate change in 2007

circa 1000Google scholar hits on climate change

circa 750.000

Which skills do you need to manage?

www.foundationnews.org

Skills:

Define your need

Search effectively

Evaluate/ Select

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

Modules 1, 2, 3.1, 3.2, 4a3, 4a4

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

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?

Climate change in TI and 2008

Google Scholar 3.440

Scopus 235

Web of Science 178

Google Scholar: often not in title or year, mix of materials

March 22nd, 2008

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?

http://library.wur.nl/desktop/portals

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 toolsi.e. truncation, field/ phrase searching• different per database

• Search strategy

the logic of the search

• standard

Search strategy

• Finding the focus• Limitation: period, language, region• Identifying key concepts • Finding search terms (keywords)

Search example

Uncertainties in measuring soil respiration

Concept 1 soil respirationConcept 2 measurementConcept 3 uncertainty

Search Words

Soil respiration Soil Respiration, Rs

Measurement Measur*, monitor*, determin*, observ*

Uncertainty Uncertain*, certain*,

inaccur*, accur*

unreliabl*, reliabl*

Imprecis*, precis*, error?

Search profile

• Within concept: OR

• Between concepts: AND

• Make sets per concept, or use parentheses

• Adjust during search

Search CAB

1. Soil respiration

2. (measur* or observ* or monitor* or determin*) in ti,ab,su

3. (uncertain* or certain* or precis* or imprecis* or error? or accur* or inaccur* or reliabl* or unreliab*) in ti,ab,su

1 NEAR 2 NEAR 3

Search Scopus

(TITLE-ABS-KEY(uncertain* OR precis* OR certain* OR imprecis* OR accur* OR reliab* OR unreliab* OR error))

AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY("soil respiration" W/5 measur*))

Books

Journals

Maps

Reports, theses, etc.

WoS

Scopus

CAB

BA

ASFA

LSW

SocIndex

PsycInfoPsycInfo

Google Scholar

Get the documents

What and Where in the Digital Library: Examples

Type of information• Articles• Books• Research projects• Encyclopedias• Wageningen pubs.• Course material

Where to search• Bibliographies • Catalogues• Research databases• Catalogue/ VRD• WaY• Textbooks and lect.notes

The Physical Library

Assignment

Topic: exercise 1Mail to Bart and Marja: approval

Part 1: focus on literaturePart 2: focus on datasetsPart 3: integration into review

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