PhD Course Information Literacy, part 1

9.15 - 10.15: Digital Library, Catalogue, WaY

10.15 - 10.30: Break 10.30 - 12.15: Bibliographic databases

12.15 - 12.30: Finishing touch

Information overload

www.foundationnews.org

Information Explosion– Written http://informationr.net/

Information Explosion– Electronic http://www.isc.org

Information overload

From: www.uky.edu/

Searching

What: Type of information,subject definition

Where: Library & the Web

How: Search strategy

What and Where: Examples

Type of information• Articles• Books• News• Institute information• Encyclopedias

Where to look• Bibliographies• Catalogues• WWW• WWW• Catalogue/ WWW

ArticlesNewspapers Professional Scientific

journals journals

Search in (bibliographic) databases

The Library and The Web

Library• Selection• Organized• Permanent• Access free• Comprehensive

Web• No selection• Less organized• Not permanent• Access ???• Not comprehensive

The Library & The Web 2

Quality versus quantity

From: www.uky.edu

Library on the Web

• Access: full text, databases

• Licenses: restriction

Wageningen UR Digital Library

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

Wageningen UR Catalogue

• Entrance to all resources:books, reports, journal titles, databases, websites, thesesencyclopedias

• No articles, chapters, papers• thesaurus

Wageningen Yield: WaY

• Publications WUR

• Information on publishing and copyright

• Up to date list of publications on the Web

Exercises

1.2.5 Desktop library

1. Blackboard: http://edu2.web.wur.nl

Module 3.2.1 = Introduction

2. Selection of own resources

2.1 Catalogue

3.1 WaY

Searching

What: Type of information

Where: Library & the Web

How: Search strategy

Module 4.b.1: Search Strategy

• finding the focus

• defining type and amount of material: limitation

• selection of information sources: where to look

• doing a good search

Search example

Socio-economic relevance of non-timber forest products in South East Asia

Aspect 1 NTFP’s

Aspect 2 South East Asia

Aspect 3 socio-economic relevance

Keywords• NTFP’s: NTFP*, non-timber forest

product*, medicinal plant?, cork, bark, wood extract*

• South East Asia: South East Asia and countries with Explode if possible

• Socio-economic relevance:

socio-economic*, socioeconomic*, economic*

Search profile• Within aspect: OR• Between aspects: AND• Make sets per aspect, or use parentheses

(NTFP* OR non-timber forest product* OR medicinal plant? OR cork OR bark OR wood extract*) AND

(explode South East Asia) AND

(socio-economic* OR socioeconomic* OR economic*)

Final search CAB

(explode non-wood forest products) AND

(explode South East Asia) AND

(socio-economic* OR socioeconomic* OR economic*) in ti,ab,su

Exercises

• Blackboard Module 4b1, or manual: 4

• Exercise page 24:– Search analysis own topic– Search in CAB abstracts

What is Plagiarism?Plagiarism is using someone

else's words and ideas in a paper and acting as though they were

your own

Or simply said:plagiarism is intellectual theft

Some famous examples

• Martin Luther King

• Renee Diekstra

• Britney Spears

• George Harrison

This is obvious

• copying someone else's paper.

• taking short or long quotations from a source without identifying the source.

• turning in a paper you bought over the Internet.

Less obvious

• changing a few words and pretending they are your own. • rearranging the order of ideas in a list and making the

reader think you produced the list. • borrowing ideas from a source and not giving proper credit

to the source. • turning in a paper from another class. Whether this is

plagiarism or not depends on your instructor—ask first! • using information from an interview or an online chat or

email, etc., without properly citing the source of the information.

• using words that were quoted in one source and acting and citing the original source as though you read it yourself.

How to avoid it?

• give credit to a source whenever you use information that is not your own unless it is common knowledge

• Cite correctly

Common knowledge

• Common knowledge (something that is widely known and accepted) does not have to be cited

• For example, historical dates, mathematical formulae, and (some) scientific principles and theories

Detection Software

• Wageningen UR bought a detection programme for plagiarism, Ephorus.

Blackboard

• http://edu2.web.wur.nl

• Module 8 on Publishing and Citing