information literacy for mos students march 4, 2009 marja maclaine pont, information specialist wur
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INFORMATION LITERACY
FOR MOS STUDENTS
March 4, 2009Marja Maclaine Pont, information specialist WUR
Agenda
March 4: room C313:introduction PC rooms 421 and 425, enter Blackboard and
check if you have access to ECS 65100_2008_4
March 11: discuss your search strategy with an information
specialist
For the rest of the schedule: see Blackboard
Digital Library
http://library.wur.nl/desktop The starting point for all library links, e.g.
portals, news, calender, user information and services, FAQs, etc.
What and Where: Examples
Looking for: Journal articles Books, reports, etc. News Institute information Encyclopedias,
dictionaries
Search in: Bibliographies Catalogues Newspapers, WWW WWW Catalogue/ WWW
The Library vs. The Web
Library Selection Organized Permanent Free access Comprehensive
Web No selection Less organized Not permanent Access ??? Not comprehensive
Wageningen UR Catalogue
Entrance to all resources we possess or subscribe to: books, reports, journals, (bibliographic) databases, encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, etc.
Also a limited number of websites and other free sources are added
No journal articles, book chapters, papers Better disclosure by means of a thesaurus
Catalogue search examples
Boolean operators: apples AND/OR/NOT pears Truncation: * for zero to infinite characters, ? for 1 character Comma’s represent Boolean OR, e.g. apples, pears Searching for keyword pepper or peper (bilinguality) Keywords, including broader terms, or narrower terms or
related terms (spices) Categories: broad subjects “Our ecological footprint”: click on author
Wageningen Yield: WaY
http://library.wur.nl/way Publications by WUR staff Information on publishing and copyright Up-to-date list of publications, using a list
wizard
E-BOOKS
Via the Digital Library, Portals, E-books e.g.: Springer: 2005-2008 and all available books from
before 2005; nearly 12,000 titles CAB: 1999-2008, approx. 182 titles Elsevier (Agric. and Biol. Sci + Biochem + Gen. and
Mol. Biol.): 1995-2006, approx. 544 titles Etc.
E-JOURNALS
You can find them in two ways: Via the catalogue: document type: journal,
electronic only Via the Digital Library, Search, e-journals A-Z Approx. 10,100 titles
PORTALS
Starting pages for scientific literature in the research fields of WUR
Made by the information specialists of WUR One portal for each subject (WU Department)
and one general portal They list the main bibliographies, textbooks,
core journals, and reference works You can find them via the Digital Library, Portals
METASEARCH
Search in several bibliographies in one go
Several options in each subject-oriented portal
Not possible to use specific command language, truncation signs, field names
Alerts
In our catalogue: (first: register in My Library): for subject searches or for ToC alerts (e.g. Current Issues in Tourism), as an email alert
Via the publisher: e.g. www3.interscience.wiley.com: Acta Zoologica: as a email alert, or as an RSS feed
In our portals: for new publications from VLAG, A&F and RIKILT: library.wur.nl/desktop/portals/afs
In WaY: library.wur.nl/way In WDA: library.wur.nl/wda
More alerts
RSS feeds for subject categories in our catalogue: library.wur.nl/WebQuery/catalog/rss?selectie= (fill in a subject category)
In Web of Science (WoS) (first: register): select: WoS, perform your search, go to: Search History, create an email alert
In Scopus (first register): as an email alert or as an RSS feed
Via OvidSP (first register): as an email alert or as an RSS feed; in 1 or more databases, perform your search, go to: Search History, login in Saved searches/alerts, choose: Save Search history
What you have to do
Study the Blackboard modules, see: edu2.web.wur.nl, if you have not yet a WUR account, please work together with a colleague
You can study most of the modules also via: library.wur.nl/desktop/services/infolit (the quizzes are not available)
Do the quizzes to test your knowledge Visit a real library, and make the exercises (they are
available at the Desk of the Forum Library, both in Dutch and in English), hand the exercises over to the Library personnel
Write an assignment on the subject of your choice, together with one or two colleagues; the information on how to write it can be found in BB; upload the document via Assignments, Assignment Literature Search
Exam on Thursday April 23, 2009.
Blackboard Module 4a: Search Strategy
finding the focus defining type and amount of material:
limitation selection of information sources: where
to look doing a good search
Climate change
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Climatic change
Kyoto
Research:
Publication of results
The optimal database:
contains all relevant publications links to the full text, if WUR has a subscription is updated frequently has good search facilities can be searched from anywhere ………………………………
http://scholar.google.com/
“biogas and manure” in TI, 2008: 12 hits
Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Scopus
WoS
Bibliographic
databases
“biogas and manure” in ti and py=2008
WoS Scopus GSTotal number 6 9 12Unique hits 0 2a)
6b)
a) 1 from Austr.J.Exper.Agric.; 1 from Transact. Chin.Soc.Agric.Engin.
b) 3 citations, 1 FAO/Agris report, 1 thesis, 1 article from 2009
Main features of GS, WoS, Scopus
GS WoS Scopus
disciplines all all all
type of work all articles+ articles+
ft if available within WUR yes* yes*
updated + + +
search fac. - + +
access + +* +*
* Via My Library
How to use GS, WoS, Scopus
Use GS for:- quick searches
Use WoS/ Scopus for:- detailed searches- citation information- finding recent articles (articles in press)
Bibliographic databases
All disciplines• Scopus• CC, CCC• Web of Science• Google Scholar
Specific topics• CAB-Abstracts• Biological Abstracts• FSTA• Medline/ PubMed• SciFinder on the Web• ……………..
Overlap AdditionalDifferent search platforms
Use several databases
Books
Journals
Maps
Reports, theses, etc.
WoS
Scopus
CAB
BA
ASFA
LSW
SocIndex
PsycInfoPsycInfo
Google Scholar
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)
WoS
Scopus
CAB
BA
ASFA
LSW
SocIndex
PsycInfoPsycInfo
Google Scholar
Portals
MetaSearch
Which databases?
The conclusion: find relevant
results, without irrelevant ones.
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