information literacy ess marja duizendstraal hans fransen bart kruijt 25 – 28 march 2008
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Information Literacy ESS
Marja Duizendstraal
Hans Fransen
Bart Kruijt
25 – 28 March 2008
Programme
Days 1 and 2: Focus on literature
Day 3: Focus on data(sets)
Day 4: Integration, writing review
Tuesday March 25th
13.30 - 14.00 h Introduction
14.00 - 16.00 h Blackboard modules
16.00 – 17.15 h Search example,Assignment
Information (over)load
Some figures:Electronic journals WUR
circa 10.000Articles on climate change in 2007
circa 1000Google scholar hits on climate change
circa 750.000
Which skills do you need to manage?
www.foundationnews.org
Skills:
Define your need
Search effectively
Evaluate/ Select
Information Literacy
Definition:
Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.
Climate change
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Climatic change
Kyoto
Research:
Publication of results
Greenhouse gases
Climate change
Global warming Climatic
change
Kyoto
Greenhouse effect
Articles in Journals:
Global Change Biology
Journal of Climate
Environ. Management
Other publications
?
Greenhouse gases
The optimal database:
• contains all relevant publications
• gives access to the full text
• is updated frequently
• has good search facilities
• can be searched from anywhere
• ………………………………
Google Scholar
Scopus
WoS
Bibliographic
databases
Is there an optimal database?
Climate change in TI and 2008
Google Scholar 3.440
Scopus 235
Web of Science 178
Google Scholar: often not in title or year, mix of materials
March 22nd, 2008
GS, WoS,Scopus-1
GS WoS Scopus
disciplines all all all
type of work “all” articles+ articles+
ft if available within WUR yes* yes*
updated + + +
search facil. - + +
access + +* +*
* Via My Library
GS, WoS,Scopus-2Use Google Scholar for:- looking up known references within WUR- quick searches
Use WoS/ Scopus for:- detailed searches- citation information- finding recent articles
But there are more databases…….
WoS
Scopus
CAB
BA
ASFA
LSW
SocIndex
PsycInfoPsycInfo
Google Scholar
Portals
MetaSearch
Which databases?
http://library.wur.nl/desktop/portals
Bibliographic databases
All disciplines• Scopus• Web of Science• Google Scholar
Specific topics• CAB-Abstracts• Biological Abstracts• FSTA• Medline/ PubMed• ……………..Overlap
AdditionalDifferent search platforms
Use several databases
How to search
• Search toolsi.e. truncation, field/ phrase searching• different per database
• Search strategy
the logic of the search
• standard
Search strategy
• Finding the focus• Limitation: period, language, region• Identifying key concepts • Finding search terms (keywords)
Search example
Uncertainties in measuring soil respiration
Concept 1 soil respirationConcept 2 measurementConcept 3 uncertainty
Search Words
Soil respiration Soil Respiration, Rs
Measurement Measur*, monitor*, determin*, observ*
Uncertainty Uncertain*, certain*,
inaccur*, accur*
unreliabl*, reliabl*
Imprecis*, precis*, error?
Search profile
• Within concept: OR
• Between concepts: AND
• Make sets per concept, or use parentheses
• Adjust during search
Search CAB
1. Soil respiration
2. (measur* or observ* or monitor* or determin*) in ti,ab,su
3. (uncertain* or certain* or precis* or imprecis* or error? or accur* or inaccur* or reliabl* or unreliab*) in ti,ab,su
1 NEAR 2 NEAR 3
Search Scopus
(TITLE-ABS-KEY(uncertain* OR precis* OR certain* OR imprecis* OR accur* OR reliab* OR unreliab* OR error))
AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY("soil respiration" W/5 measur*))
Books
Journals
Maps
Reports, theses, etc.
WoS
Scopus
CAB
BA
ASFA
LSW
SocIndex
PsycInfoPsycInfo
Google Scholar
Get the documents
What and Where in the Digital Library: Examples
Type of information• Articles• Books• Research projects• Encyclopedias• Wageningen pubs.• Course material
Where to search• Bibliographies • Catalogues• Research databases• Catalogue/ VRD• WaY• Textbooks and lect.notes
The Physical Library
Assignment
Topic: exercise 1Mail to Bart and Marja: approval
Part 1: focus on literaturePart 2: focus on datasetsPart 3: integration into review
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