Information Literacy for MOS ECS-65100 March 2012.

Information Literacy for MOS

ECS-65100

March 2012

Programme and Teachers:

Teachers

Lecture 1

Practical training

Lecture 2

Blackboard modules

Marco van Veller Annemie Kersten

Agenda

14 March 15:30 – 17:15 h

●room C435: Classroom lecture

21 March 15:30 – 18:00 h

●room PC 717: Practical training – working on your assignment(enter Blackboard and check if you have access to ECS65100_2011_0)

28 March 15:30 – 17:15 h

●room C435: Classroom lecture

3 May 14:00-15:30 h

●rooms PC 512: Exam. Note: the time for the exam is 90 minutes.

Course contents

Self Study – Blackboard modules at http://edu6.wur.nl/

●Before practicals: 1, 2, 3.1, 3.2, 4a, 7

●Later: 4b1, 4b2, 4b4, 4b9, 5, and 8

Quizzes in Blackboard to test your knowledge

Practical training

Exam on 3 May 2012.

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: Influence of climatic change on food security

●Read the description of this subject -> Assignments

●Information specialists will be available to assist you

●Upload the document via Blackboard before 18.00 h on 26 March 2012 -> Assignments

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When are you information literate?

Define the information you need

Understand the variety of information sources

Search efficiently

●fast, comprehensive and accurate

Search effectively

●get information that suits your request

Evaluate and select appropriate information

Manage selected information (e.g. EndNote)

Use selected information and avoid plagiarism

Why should you be information literate?

Now during your study

●Courses

●Thesis

Later as a professional

●Keep knowledge up to date

●Basis for research

●Input for decisions

●Publishing as part of the scientific process

Define the information you need

Purpose

●factual data, orientation, in-depth search

Topic

●research question

Level

●scientific, professional, news

Type

●data, news, books, research article, laws,

●company information, government information

What: use of research resources

Resources Identified as Most Important by Researchers

Research Resources % Ranking in Top 3

Journal articles 71.1%

Monographs 32.0%

Chapters in books with many authors 21.8%

Expertise of individuals 19.4%

Organization's web sites 15.3%

Original text sources, e.g. newspapers, historical records 12.5%

Conference proceedings 11.6%

What: use of research resources (cont.)

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 commissioned by the Research Information Network, 2006.

Access the needed information

WHERE??

Use the right finding aids

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Resources and finding aids

Resources

Journal articles scientific

professional

Monographs books

reports

dissertations

proceedings

Encyclopedias

Datasets

Websites, Blogs, News

Finding aids

Bibliographies

Library catalogues

Internet search engines

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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

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Bibliographies - bibliographic databases

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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

Example of a bibliographic record

Bibliographic databases

Multidisciplinary• Scopus• Web of Science• Google Scholar

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

Overlap Additional Use several databases

Overlap and unique records

Web of Science Scopus CAB Abstracts SciFinder

144 157 115 145

After deduplication 73 48 59

Sensitivity of models on leaching of pesticides to groundwater

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

Getting the articles

Use our link resolver SFX

Access to licensed resources only when logged in!

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

Locate the complete document through your library or on the web

●WUR-library when logged in or from within WUR-net

Search strategies

Known item search

Following a thread

Concept or structured search

Known item search

Paste the title into Google Scholar

Known items search 2

Look up the journal in Journals A-Z

●Use wildcards for the journal title

Following a thread

Find one or more relevant publications

Search citations:●In references (older)●Cited by (more recent)

Search related articles based on:

●Authors●Keywords●Shared references

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Concept or structured search

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)

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Finding the focus

Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Questions:

●Which effects?

●How can wind energy be collected?

●What does the marine environment exist of?

Background: Wikipedia, Google, books, reviews

Combining with Boolean operators

Within concept: OR (any word)

Between concepts: AND (all words)

(Exclude concepts: NOT)

Make sets per concept, or use parentheses

Adjust during search

Limiting

years of publication

geographic region

language

additional concept(s)

Identifying key concepts

Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Identifying key concepts

Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Finding search terms

windmills OR wind power OR wind energy OR windfarms

marine OR sea OR ocean

environment OR fishes OR fauna OR macrobenthos OR seals OR …….

effect OR impact OR influence OR disturbance OR ……..

Truncation and phrase searching

windmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind energy” OR windfarm*

marine OR sea OR ocean*

environment* OR fish* OR fauna OR macrobenthos OR seals OR …….

effect* OR impact OR influence OR disturbance OR ……..

Combining sets

Use parentheses around concepts

WRONG

windmill* 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)

Search history

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….

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)

Evaluation

Assignment

●Upload assignment before 18.00 hrs on 26 March 2012

●Assignment needs to be submitted in order to get a grade for this course

Exam

●PC exam on 3 May 2012

●Final grade is based upon this exam (minimum 5.5)

●Note: the time for the exam is 90 minutes

Contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

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