Transcript No Slide Title - Library

Information
Literacy
AMC-YES 60406
Programme
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Marja
Duizendstraal
Introduction lecture
Practicals
Feedback lecture
Blackboard modules
Corrie van
Zeist
Marco van
Veller
Hans
Fransen
Information Explosion
http://informationr.net/
WUR: http://library.wur.nl/desktop/catalog/
Information Explosion
Which skills do you need to manage?
Skills:
Define your need
Search effectively
Evaluate/ Select
Use
www.foundationnews.org
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.
Blackboard Modules: http://edu2.web.wur.nl
Information sources
Blackboard: Information sources
Two functionalities:
• Complete (digital) text
• Search facilities
Research:
Publication of
results
Kyoto
Greenhouse
gases
Global
warming
Climate change
Greenhouse
effect
Climatic
change
review
Articles in Journals:
Global Change Biology
Kyoto
Journal of Climate
Environ. Management
Greenhouse
gases
Global
warming
Climatic
change
Climate change
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Greenhouse
effect
Other
publications
The optimal database:
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contains all relevant publications
gives access to the full text
is updated frequently
has good search facilities
can be searched from anywhere
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Is there an optimal database?
WoS
Google
Scholar
Scopus
Bibliographic
databases
GS, WoS,Scopus-1
GS
disciplines
all
type of work
“all”
ft if available within WUR
updated
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search facil.
access
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WoS
all
articles+
yes*
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* Via My Library
Scopus
all
articles+
yes*
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GS, WoS,Scopus-2
Use 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…….
PsycInfo
Which databases?
BA
WoS
CAB
Scopus
ASFA
MetaSearch
LSW
Google
Scholar
SocIndex
Portals
Blackboard Module 3
Bibliographic databases
All disciplines
• Scopus
• Web of Science
• Google Scholar
Overlap
Additional
Different search
platforms
Specific topics
• CAB-Abstracts
• Biological Abstracts
• FSTA
• Medline/ PubMed
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Use several databases
How to search
• Search strategy
the logic of the search
• Standard
Blackboard module 4a3
• Search tools
i.e. truncation, field/ phrase searching
• different per database
Ex: forest products - “forest products”
Blackboard module 4a4
Search strategy
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Finding the focus
Limitation: period, language, region
Identifying key concepts
Finding search terms (keywords)
Finding the focus
Effects of climatic change on forests
Questions: Which effects?
Only recent climatic change?
Which forests?
Background: Encyclopedias, books, reviews
Limitation
• years of publication
• geographic region
• language
Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology
of forest trees in the tropics
Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia
rainforests: A Late-Holocene perspective
Changes in the status of Lophura pheasants in Khao Yai
National Park, Thailand: A response to warming climate?
Effects of twenty-first-century climatic change on the
Amazon rain forest
Mitigation needs adaptation: Tropical forestry and
climate change
Search Words
Climate
change
Forests
Tropical
Climate change, climatic change,
warming climate, global warming,
rising temperatures
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Forest(s), rainforest(s),
Forestry forest*
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Tropical, tropic(s), Amazon(ia),
South East Asia,.. Thesaurus OR
Biodiversity Biodiversity, fauna, flora
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climate
change
forests
tropic
Operators
Boolean: AND OR NOT
Proximity: NEARx, WITH, W/x, SAME….
Assignment
Blackboard: assignments
Exercise 1: prepare for practicals
For next week (practicals)
Before May 6th : Assessment, M1, M2, M3, M4a.1,
M4a.3
• Assessment See what you (don’t) know
• M1:
general introduction
• M2:
information sources, quiz
• M3:
Wageningen UR library sources, quiz
• M4a
Searching, quiz
Topic for your assignment, preferably in groups of 2.
We like to discuss this with you during the practicals.
Evaluation
• Assignment:
mail at May 27th 2008 the latest
• Exam: May 20th