Information Literacy for MOS

ECS-65100

January 2013

Schedule and Teacher:

Teacher: Marco van Veller and Annemie Kersten

Schedule:

See course information in Blackboard

session date time

1, lecture Wednesday, week 18 15.30 – 17.15 h

2, practicals Wednesday, week 19 15.30 – 18.00 h

3, lecture Wednesday, week 20 15.30 – 17.15 h

Exam Wednesday, exam week 21

14.00 – 15.30 h

Learning outcomes

After this course you will be able to:

Identify and understand various information sources

Construct strategies for locating information and data

Locate and access the information and data you need

Review the research process and compare and evaluate information and data

Organise and use information professionally and ethically

Select appropriate publication and dissemination outlets.

Modules in Blackboard

1. Introduction

2. Information sources

3. Finding your way in the Wageningen UR library

4. a. Searching b. Databases

5. Evaluating search results

6. Setting up alerts

7. Citing and referencing

8. Publishing

URL: https://edu6.wur.nl/

Session 1, lecture: Introduction to setting up a search strategy

Keywords: When are you information literate?; defining your information need; variety of information sources; locating known publications; simple search; following a thread; structured search; search assignment; EndNote

After the session:

Study Blackboard modules 1, 2, 3.1, 3.2, 4a, and 7

Do corresponding quizzes and exercises in Blackboard

Check with whom you would like to do the search assignment

Define the information (source) you need

Purpose

●orientation, in-depth search

Topic

●research question

Level

●scientific, professional, news

Type

●data, news, books, research article, laws

●company information, government information

see: Blackboard module 2

Internet

Everybody can publish on internet

●No quality control on websites

Search engines

●Google finds a lot, but does it find everything?

Wikipedia

●Open, editable, collaborative encyclopedia

http://www.google.com/logos/sesamestreet.html

Deep web or invisible web

Information sources in library WUR

Wageningen UR Digital Library

Search strategies: overview

Locating known publications

Following a thread

Simple searches on a topic:

●Quick and dirty: some information

Complicated searches on a topic:

●Time consuming and systematic: much information

●Search assignment

See Blackboard module 4a

Where to start to find a (known) article?

Peeters, P. and Dubois, G. (2010). Tourism travel under climate change mitigation constraints. Journal of Transport Geography, 18 (3), 447-457

Where to start to find a (known) article?

Peeters, P. and Dubois, G. (2010). Tourism travel under climate change mitigation constraints. Journal of Transport Geography, 18 (3), 447-457

Google but no off-campus access

Google Scholar off-campus: via library.wur.nl, login

Catalogue journals A-Z: title of journal

Scopus, other off-campus: via library.wur.nl, login

bibliographic

database

Off-campus access

Login at library.wur.nl!!

Google:

Google Scholar via library.wur.nl:

Bibliographic databases

Mainly refer to scientific articles but may also include books, theses, conference papers etc.

Consist of structured references with abstract, keywords, link to full-text (if WUR has subscription):

In some also: cited by, related records

Searching mostly based on metadata, not on full text

Different search platforms

Multidisciplinary or specific topics

Examples: Scopus, Web of Science,

PubMed, CAB…..

Example of a bibliographic record

Google Scholar

Bibliographic database

Multidisciplinary with very broad coverage

●journal articles, books, theses, patents

Simple + advanced search interface

Index based on full text rather than bibliographic metadata

Relevance ranking

Following a thread

Start with a relevant publication

Search citations:

●In references (older)

●Cited by (more recent)

Search related articles based on:

●Authors

●Keywords

●Shared references

Illustration © Loet van Moll 2009

Simple search

When:

●Only some records needed

●Orientation

●To find search terms

●Straightforward topic (e.g. species, product)

Where:

● Google (Scholar), other search engines

● Global Search at Wageningen UR Digital Library

What do you type:

● Some terms or phrase

Complicated search: example

Scientific information about:

Effects of windmills on marine wildlife

http://www.bmt.org/?/51/37/2www.duurzameenergiethuis.nl

Consequences of choice of search terms

Effects of windmills on marine wildlife 0 records

Windmills marine wildlife 1 record

Wind turbines marine wildlife 2 (new) records

Wind turbines marine fishes 11 records

And there are more nice terms in the found records …….

Additional search terms

Windmills: wind turbine, wind turbines, wind farm, wind farms, wind power, windpower, wind plant

Marine: North Sea, Adriatic Sea, Baltic Sea, offshore, off-shore, nearshore, ocean

Wildlife: fish, fishes, pouting, Triopterus luscus, mammals, bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, other fishes, dolphins, whales, seals

Questions:

1. Do you need to include these terms in the search? Why?

2. Yes: How to set up a search while using all these terms?

No: What do you advise for the search?

Identifying key concepts

Effect of windmills on marine wildlife

Windmills

marine

wildlife

Combining with Boolean operators

Within concept: OR (any word)

Between concepts: AND (all words)

(Exclude concepts: NOT)

Make sets per concept, or use parentheses

Example search -1

(Windmills OR wind turbine OR wind turbines OR wind farm OR wind farms OR wind power OR windpower OR wind plant)

AND

(Marine OR North Sea OR Adriatic Sea OR Baltic Sea OR offshore OR off-shore OR nearshore OR ocean)

AND

(Wildlife OR fish OR fishes OR pouting OR Triopterus luscus OR mammals OR bluefin tuna OR thunnus thynnus OR dolphins OR whales OR seals)

Applying database tools

Will the search engine find singular/ plural forms ?

yes: use 1 form (in Scopus for example)

no: use both forms

Will the search engine find Adriatic Sea when I type Sea?

yes, always!!

Will the search engine find spelling or word variations?

mostly not, so type them or use wildcards

Do you have to indicate phrases?

fore example to prevent salmon farms instead of wind farms, search for “wind farms”

Check Search Tips or Help!

Selection of search terms

Which terms do you like to include?

●Use background material

Example: windmills in Wikipedia

●Look at found records

●Check database thesaurus if available

●Which terms will add something?

In records on tuna the word fish will probably be there.

●(Re)define your focus

Example search after applying database tools for Scopus

(windmills OR "wind turbine" OR "wind farm*" OR "wind power" OR windpower OR "wind plant")

AND

(marine OR sea OR offshore OR "off-shore" OR nearshore OR ocean)

AND

(wildlife OR fish OR mammals OR dolphins OR whales OR seals)

90 records

Retrieved articles

Importance of using multiple sampling methodologies for estimating of fish community composition in offshore wind power construction areas of the Baltic Sea

Spatial planning of offshore wind farms: A windfall to marine environmental protection?

●abstract: … no-take zones for fish, with possible spill-over effects…

Underwater noise from three types of offshore wind turbines: Estimation of impact zones for harbor porpoises and harbor seals

●keywords: … seals; oceans; seas; power plants …

Improving your search

To narrow: more specific terms, less truncation, more concepts, add limits like year, ….

To broaden: more (general) terms, more truncation, less concepts …………

Build on what you have found:

●More or better terms (thesaurus!)

●Key authors/ groups

●References (following a thread)

Complicated search: summary

Identify key concepts (split your subject into main themes)

Formulate search terms per concept

Apply database tools and combine search terms with Boolean operators

Improve your search (evaluate and select)

Illustrations © Loet van Moll 2009

Practical training

●Write an assignment together with one or two fellow students

●Information on how to write it can be found in BB -> Assignments

●The subject is: Coping with natural disasters in farming practice

●Read the description of this subject -> Assignments

●Upload the document via Blackboard Monday 21 January 9.00 h-> Assignments

Session 1, lecture: Introduction to setting up a search strategy

Keywords: When are you information literate?; defining your information need; variety of information sources; locating known publications; simple search; following a thread; structured search; search assignment; EndNote

After the session:

Study Blackboard modules 1, 2, 3.1, 3.2, 4a, and 7

Do corresponding quizzes and exercises in Blackboard

Check with whom you would like to do the search assignment

EndNote

Software to store references in a database and to make reference lists in Word

Blackboard module 7.2

Optionally

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