Transcript ESS 20306 - Library

Information literacy
ESS-20306
November 2012, Wouter Gerritsma & Hugo Besemer
Information Literate?
 Finding
 Searching
 Selecting
 Managing
 EndNote
 Mendeley
 Using
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 Keeping upto date
Referencing
Publishing
 Alerts
Searching: sources
 Use the right
source
To start your
(re)search
Orientation
 Course materials (references?)
 Encyclopedias/handbooks
 Books
 Journal articles
● Reviews
 Authorative websites (IPCC, EGU/AGU, IGBP, Earth Ref
Org etc.)
Hands on:
How many entries are there on modeling in the
"Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change"
Scholarly journals – trade journals
 Trade journals
 Scientic journals
● Research
● Peer reviewed
● Practice
● Editorial review
Hands on:
What are some top journals in the ESS field?
Test yourself
 Where is the following book located:
Jacobson, M.C., 2000. Earth system science : from
biogeochemical cycles to global change. Amsterdam,
Academic Press. 527p.
 What is the title, and who are the co-authors of the
following article:
Dunlap, R. et al. 2008. Earth Sci. Infor. 1(3/4):131
 How many review articles are there in Scopus on
["Biogeochemical cycl*" model*]
Discovery tools
 Books, reports
 Catalogues
 Websites of institutes
 Journal articles
 Bibliographies
 Scholarly search engines
Coverage Bibliographies
 Scopus / Web of Science
● All sciences, better at physical sciences then A&H
 CAB abstracts
● Agriculture, forestry, nature, ecology, soil science
 SciFinder Scholar
● Chemistry
 Use the portal environmental sciences
● Check the Geology pages
Differences in databases
Sensitivity of models on leaching of pesticides to groundwater
WoS
Scopus
CAB
SciFinder
144
157
115
145
After
dedup.
73
48
59
Use more than one database for exhaustive searches
Search strategy
 Find efficiently the
information your are
looking for
 Good Search strategy
Concepts
What are the effects of disturbed peat land areas on
methane emissions and the greenhouse effect
Concepts
What are the effects of disturbed peat land areas on
methane emissions and the greenhouse effect
Search terms
 Disturbed OR disturbance OR degradation OR drainage
OR removal
 Peatland(s) OR bog(s) OR mire(s)
 Methane OR CH4
 Greenhouse effect OR global warming OR Climatic
change OR climate change OR greenhouse gases
Final result
Searching for a topic
 Analysis of the concepts
 Determine search terms
 Use wild cards and/or "phrase searching"
 Combine with Boolean operators
 Check results; refine search
Snowballing
 Follow the references in your article
● You only find older articles
 Follow the citations to your article
● You find newer articles
● WoS, Scopus & GS
 Perform related searches
● On authors
● On references (co-citation analysis)
Selecting and judging the results
 Scan titles
 Look at publication years
 Look for document types
 Read wider
● Read abstracts
● Read introductions/
discussions
● Read complete articles
 Blackboard module 5
Manage references and PDF articles
 Use EndNote/Mendeley
 Download references from databases
● Scan PDF files
 Use EndNote/Mendeley to format reference lists in
reports/articles
Searching for data
 To find suitable data sets there are no general discovery
tools available yet
 Use the metadata to find data
 You can search (Google, Google Scholar etc,) by adding
an additional concept to your searches with terms like
data, dataset(s), "data set(s)"
 Better: search for "data repositories" or directories of
data repositories
Browse or search in directories of data
repositories
 http://databib.org
 http://datacite.org/repolist
 http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories
Directory of Research Data Repositories
Research Data Repositories - discipline
http://www.climatexchange.nl/
Questions?
Start working!
Tomorrow: BB,
Friday 30th nov.: Test
Friday 7th dec: Assignment
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