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Datasets : published or unpublished 8.1%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.
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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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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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
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
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
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
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 ……..
Use parentheses around concepts
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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)
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
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