March 17, 2010Marja Maclaine Pont, information specialist WUR

INFORMATION LITERACYFOR ETE-20310

Agenda

March 17: introduction lecture + practicals March 24: library exercises April 7: feedback lecture April 14: test/examination

Your starting point: our 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.

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: 2005-2010 and all available

books from before 2005; over 16,000 titles, including 411 Protocols

CAB: 1999-2008, approx. 182 titlesElsevier (Agric. and Biol. Sci + Biochem

+ Gen. and Mol. Biol.): 1995-2009, approx. 546 titles

Etc.

E-JOURNALS

You can find them in two ways:Via the catalogue: document type:

journal, electronic onlyVia the Digital Library, Search, e-journals

A-ZApprox. 11,850 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 (from January 2010: Food & Biobased Research) and RIKILT: library.wur.nl/desktop/portals/afs

In WaY: library.wur.nl/way In WDA: library.wur.nl/wda

The IPCC report 2007

An example of literature quoting

IPCC= Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The 2007 report: http://www.ipcc.ch/ consists of four volumes: the three IPCC

Working Groups (WGs) Reports and a Synthesis Report (SYR)

Where are the references?

The synthesis report does not mention the year 2035 at all

It mentions Himalaya only once: as a major mountain, where “widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century”

Working Group Reports

Himalaya statement: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/presentations/himalaya-statement-20january2010.pdf

Statement in WG II report, 10.6.2: Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005).

The WWF 2005 report

WWF (World Wildlife Fund) , 2005: An overview of glaciers, glacier retreat, and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China. World Wildlife Fund, Nepal Programme, 79 pp.

See page 2: there is only a statement, no reference.

Hasnain 1999, 2000, 2002 are in the list of references, not: Hasnain 1988 and 2004.

Interview with Hasnain in New Scientist, 1999, june 5, page 18: … glaciers … will vanish by 2035.

CONCLUSION

Check your references Read the text carefully Judge the quality of the data Do not depend on only 1 statement Data of Working Groups, or other grey

literature are not to be discarded beforehand

HOW WOULD YOU HAVE PROCEEDED?

IPCC 2007

What you have to do

Study the Blackboard modules, see: edu2.web.wur.nl

You can study most of the modules also via: library.wur.nl/desktop/services/infolit (the quizzes are not available)

Study the Scopus tutorials: http://help.scopus.com/flare/Content/tutorials/sc_menu.html

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

Test on Wednesday April 14.