Information Literacy

ECS-65100

Teachers

Marja Duizendstraal

Corrie van Zeist

Teachers

Marja Duizendstraal

Marja Maclaine Pont

Hans Fransen

Marco van Veller

Corrie van Zeist

Agenda

January 5 15:30 – 17:30 hrsPC512: Introduction

January 12 15:30 – 17:30 hrsPC512, Practical training

– working on assignment and modules January 19, 15:30 – 17:15 hrs

C321: lecture + feedback and questions January 26, 14:00-15:30 hrs

PC602/606, Exam

Course contents ECS 65100_2010_0

Self Study – Blackboard modules at http://edu2.web.wur.nl/ Before practicals: 1, 2, 3, 4a Later: 4b1, 4b2, 4b4, 4b9, 5, 7 and 8

Quizzes in Blackboard to test your knowledge

Practical training Write an assignment on the subject of your choice, alone or together

with a fellow student; The information on how to write it can be found in BB ->

Assignments Define your subject before the practical training Information specialists will be available to assist you Upload the document via Blackboard -> Assignments

Exam on January 26.

The role of scientific literature

Scholarly communication

The role of scientific literature

Claiming (intellectual or commercial) ownership

The role of scientific literature

A record of science

And there is more information.....

Newspapers

Wikipedia

Blogs

Web sites

Information literacyAn information literate individual is able to:

1.Determine the extent of information needed

2.Access the needed information effectively and efficiently

3.Evaluate information and its sources critically

4.Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base

5.Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose

6.Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally

Why should you be information literate?

Now during your study Courses Thesis

Later as a professional Basis for research Input for decisions

Skill 1: Define your need Purpose

locate a known item, orientation, in-depth search Topic

research question Level scientific, professional, news Type

data, news, books, research article, laws, company information, government information

Use of research resourcesResources Identified as Most Important by Researchers Research Resources % Ranking in Top 3Journal articles 71.1%Monographs 32.0%Chapters in books with many authors 21.8%Expertise of individuals 19.4%Organizations web sites 15.3%Original text sources, e.g. newspapers, historical records 12.5%Conference proceedings 11.6%Datasets . published or unpublished 8.1%Other sources (specified by interviewee) 6.8%Preprints 5.1%Non-text sources, e.g. images, audio, artifacts 2.9%

Researchers and discovery services. Behaviour, perceptions and needs.A study commisioned by the Research Information Network, 2006.

Skills 2: Access the needed information

WHERE??

Use the right finding aids

HOW??

Search effectively

Examples access-1

Look up fulltext Wang, R.,2010. Shaping urban transport policies in China: Will copying foreign policies work? Transport policy 17(3) 147-152. Paste into Google ScholarLook up journal in Journals A-ZLook up article in a database like Scopus

Getting the articles

Access to licensed resources only when logged in!

Use our link resolver SFX

Examples access-2

Find Van Dale dictionary English – Dutch

Start – WUR – DictionariesLibrary.wur.nl – Portals – Virtual Reference DeskLibrary.wur.nl – Catalogue – Dictionary

Examples access-2

Get the book D.B. McGilvray and Gamburd, M.R. 2010 Tsunami recovery in Sri Lanka : ethnic and regional dimensions  

Library.wur.nl – CatalogueGoogle Scholar

Examples access-3

Find more books on tsunamis  

Library.wur.nl – Catalogue – tsunami*WorldcatBooks.google.com, amazon.com etc.

Examples access-4

Find scientific articles on tsunamis  

Google ScholarScopus, Web of ScienceOther bibliographic databases

Resources and finding aidsResourcesJournal articles scientific

professional

Monographs books

reports dissertations proceedings

EncyclopediasWebsitesBlogsDatasetsNews

Finding aidsBibliographic databasesLibrary cataloguesInternet search enginesGateways/ portals

Library catalogues

Are always linked to a library collection Show you where to locate books and journals Don’t contain journal articles Don’t contain book chapters

Bibliographies - bibliographic databases

Bibliographic references Represent the publication Consist of metadata -> data about a

publication Title Author Source Abstract Classification/keywords/subject identifiers

Appear in both primary publications and bibliographic databases

Can have many puzzling formats and styles

Accary, F., & Roger, J. (2010). Tsunami catalog and vulnerability of martinique (lesser antilles, france). Science of Tsunami Hazards, 29(3), 148-174

Bibliographic databases

Consist of structured references with abstract, keywords, link to full-text (if WUR has subscription)in some also: cited by, related records

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

Searching based on metadata, not full text

Different search platforms

Bibliographic databases: one or more?

All disciplines• Scopus• Web of Science• Google Scholar

Specific topics• CAB-Abstracts• Biological Abstracts• FSTA• Medline/ PubMed• ……………..

Overlap Additional

Use several databases

Example search

Sensitivity of models on leaching of pesticides to groundwater

WoS Scopus CAB SciFinder

144 157 115 145

After deduplication

73 48 59

Choosing a bibliographic database Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar

Use links on Library home page http://library.wur.nl/

Specialized subject oriented databases Use the Portals on the Library web site Choose a bibliography or start a metasearch from

there

From off-campus: Log in first Read the FAQ item on off-campus access if you

have problems connecting

Skills 2: Search effectively

Find the focus Identify key concepts Find search terms (keywords) Combine with Boolean operators Limite to: period, language, region

Finding the focus

Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Questions: Which effects?What kind of windmills do exist?What does the marine environment

exist of?

Background: Encyclopedia, books, reviews

Adapted: Effect of windmills on marine organisms

Search in Scopus

Effect of windmills on marine organisms

Exact sentence?Synonyms, e.g. wind power, sea, fish?Search history?

Selected articles

Importance of using multiple sampling methodologies for estimating changes 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: … seal; oceans; seas; power plants …

Identifying key concepts

Effect of windmills on marine organisms

Finding search terms

Windmills OR wind power OR wind energy OR windfarm

marine OR sea OR oceanfishes OR fauna OR macrobenthos OR

seals OR …….Effect OR impact OR influence OR

disturbance OR ……..

What will you learn?

Windmills

organisms

marine

Search history

Use parentheses around concepts

WRONGwindmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind

energy” OR windfarm* AND marine OR sea OR ocean

RIGHT(windmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind

energy” OR windfarm*) AND (marine OR sea OR ocean)

Improving your search

To narrow: more specific terms, less truncation, more concepts….

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

Build on what you have found:• More or better terms (thesaurus!)• Key authors/ groups• References (citation search)

Other skills (next lecture)

Know how to evaluate Bibliographic references Internet resources

Know how to apply search results Referring, citing, quoting

• Reference lists• Plagiarism

Reference management• EndNote

Publishing

For next week

Blackboard modules 1, 2, 3, 4a

Assignment: exercise 1

Start with EndNote 15.30 – 15.45 hr

Contact: Marja.Duizendstraal@wur.nlDiscussion board