INFORMATION LITERACY

For ETE-20310

March 21st 2012, Marja Maclaine Pont

AGENDA

March 21: introduction lecture + practicals

March 28: library exercises

April 11: feedback lecture

April 18: test/examination

YOUR STARTING POINT: OUR DIGITAL LIBRARY

http://library.wur.nl/desktop

The starting point for all library links, e.g. catalog, portals, news, calender, user information and services, FAQs, etc.

WAGENINGEN CATALOGUE

http://library.wur.nl/desktop/catalog

All we possess or subscribe to

●Monographs, PhD theses, reports, maps, conference proceedings, (bibliographic) databases, etc.

●Subscriptions to journals, NOT the journal articles

●No book chapters or contributions to proceedings

Also a limited number of websites and other free sources are added

Better disclosure by means of a thesaurus

New interface: http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/clc

CATALOGUE SEARCHING

CLASSIC INTERFACE:

●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)

●Categories:

●broad subjects

NEW INTERFACE:

●More Google-like searching

● facetting for: author, keywords, classification, medium, language, document type, and year

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: books, book series, protocols

●CAB: 1999-2012, approx. 588 titles

●Elsevier: 1995-2009, approx. 546 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. 13,150 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

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, choose: Browse

In WDA: library.wur.nl/wda

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 OPTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC 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

………………………………

EXAMPLE OF A SEARCH STRATEGY

Biogas and manure

http://scholar.google.com/

“biogas and manure” in TI, 2009: 24 hitsGoogle

Scholar

Google Scholar

Scopus

WoS

Bibliographicdatabases

“biogas and manure” in ti and py=2009

Found in 2010, 2011 and 2012

WoS Scopus GS

Total number 12,14,16 16,19,19 24,31,41

Unique hits (2010) 1a) 4b) 13c)

Unique hits (2012) 2 3 25

a) from J. Anim. Veterin. Adv.

b) 3 Conf. papers, 1 from Croatian article

c) 2 double, 2 citations, thus: 9 relevant: 2 Chinese, 3 patents, 1 Hungarian, 1 from Scientific Commons, 1 thesis, 1 conf. proceedings

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 and dirty searches

Use WoS/Scopus for:

- detailed searches

- citation information

- finding recent articles (articles in press)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES

All disciplines

• Scopus• 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

SCIFINDER ON THE WEB

A combination of Chemical Abstracts Plus and Medline

What are your search subjects?

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)

THE ULTIMATE GOAL

Find relevant results, without irrelevant ones

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 included)

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

Do the quizzes to test your knowledgeVisit 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 18.

ANY QUESTIONS?