Information Literacy for MOS ECS November 2010

Programme Teachers: Introduction lecture Practicals Feedback lecture Blackboard modules Marja Maclaine PontIrene Veerman

Agenda November 3, 15:30 – 17:15 hrs room C321: Classroom lecture November 10 15:30 – 18:00 hrs PC rooms 421 and 425, Practical training – working on your assignment (enter Blackboard and check if you have access to ECS 65100_2010_0) November 17, 15:30 – 17:15 hrs room C321: Classroom lecture + feedback and questions December 22, 14:00-15:30 hrs room PC 713/717, Exam

Course contents Self Study – Blackboard modules at Before practicals: 1, 2, 3, 4.a.1 and 4.a.2 Later: 4.a.3, 4b1, 4b2, 4b4, 4b9, 5, 7 and 8 Quizzes in Blacboard to test your knowledge Practical training Write an assignment on the subject of your choice, together with one or two fellow students; The information on how to write it can be found in BB -> Assignments Define your subject before the practical training Information specialists will be available to assist you Upload the document via Blackboard -> Assignments Exam on December 22, 2010.

The role of scientific literature Scholarly communication

The role of scientific literature Claiming (intellectual or commercial) ownership

The role of scientific literature A record of science

And there is more information..... Newspapers Wikipedia Blogs Web sites

Information literacy An information literate individual is able to: 1.Determine the extent of information needed 2.Access the needed information effectively and efficiently 3.Evaluate information and its sources critically 4.Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base 5.Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose 6.Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally

Why should you be information literate? Now during your study Courses Thesis Later as a professional Basis for research Input for decisions

Skill 1: Define your need Purpose factual data, orientation, in-depth search Topic research question Level scientific, professional, news Type data, news, books, research article, laws, company information, government information

Use of research resources Resources Identified as Most Important by Researchers Research Resources % Ranking in Top 3 Journal articles 71.1% Monographs 32.0% Chapters in books with many authors 21.8% Expertise of individuals 19.4% Organizations web sites 15.3% Original text sources, e.g. newspapers, historical records 12.5% Conference proceedings 11.6% Datasets. published or unpublished 8.1% Other sources (specified by interviewee) 6.8% Preprints 5.1% Non-text sources, e.g. images, audio, artifacts 2.9% Researchers and discovery services. Behaviour, perceptions and needs. A study commisioned by the Research Information Network, 2006.

Information flow

Skills 2: Access the needed information WHERE?? Use the right finding aids HOW?? Search effectively

Resources and finding aids Resources Journal articles scientific professional Monographs books reports dissertations proceedings Encyclopedias Websites Blogs Datasets News Finding aids Bibliographies Library catalogues Internet search engines Gateways/ portals

Library catalogues Are always linked to a library collection Show you where to locate books and journals Don’t contain journal articles Don’t contain book chapters

Bibliographies - bibliographic databases

Bibliographic databases Consist of structured references with abstract, keywords, link to full-text (if WUR has subscription) in some also: cited by, related records Mainly refer to scientific articles but may also include books, theses, conference papers etc. Searching based on metadata, not full text Different search platforms

Bibliographic references Represent the publication Consist of metadata -> data about a publication Title Author Source Abstract Classification/keywords/subject identifiers Appear in both primary publications and bibliographic databases Can have many puzzling formats and styles

Tracking down a reference Paste the title into Google Scholar

Tracking down a reference Look up the journal in Journals A-Z Use wildcards for the journal title

Bibliographic databases Multidisciplinary Scopus Web of Science Google Scholar Specific topics CAB-Abstracts Biological Abstracts FSTA Medline/ PubMed …………….. Overlap Additional Use several databases

Example search Sensitivity of models on leaching of pesticides to groundwater WoSScopusCABSciFinder After deduplication

Google Scholar Bibliographic database Multidisciplinary with very broad coverage journal articles, books, theses, patents Simple + advanced search interface Index based on full text Relevance ranking Locate the complete document through your library or on the web WUR-library when logged in or from within WUR-net

Choosing a bibliographic database Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar Use links on Library home page Specialized subject oriented databases Use the Portals on the Library web sitePortals Choose a bibliography or start a metasearch from there From off-campus: Log in first Read the FAQ item on off-campus access if you have problems connecting

Getting the articles Access to licensed resources only when logged in! Use our link resolver SFX

Skills 2: Search effectively Find the focus Identify key concepts Find search terms (keywords) Combine with Boolean operators Limite to: period, language, region

Finding the focus Effect of windmills on the marine environment Questions: Which effects? How can wind energy be collected? What does the marine environment exist of? Background: Wikipedia, Google, books, reviews

Combining with Boolean operators Within concept: OR (any word) Between concepts: AND (all words) (Exclude concepts: NOT) Make sets per concept, or use parentheses Adjust during search

Limiting years of publication geographic region language additional concept(s)

Identifying key concepts Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Identifying key concepts Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Finding search terms windmills OR wind power OR wind energy OR windfarm marine OR sea OR ocean environment OR fishes OR fauna OR macrobenthos OR seals OR ……. effect OR impact OR influence OR disturbance OR ……..

Truncation and phrase searching windmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind energy” OR windfarm* marine OR sea OR ocean* environment* OR fish* OR fauna OR macrobenthos OR seals OR ……. effect* OR impact OR influence OR disturbance OR ……..

Combining sets

Use parentheses around concepts WRONG windmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind energy” OR windfarm* AND marine OR sea OR ocean RIGHT (windmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind energy” OR windfarm*) AND (marine OR sea OR ocean)

Search history

Selected articles Importance of using multiple sampling methodologies for estimating of fish community composition in offshore wind power construction areas of the Baltic Sea Spatial planning of offshore wind farms: A windfall to marine environmental protection? abstract: … no-take zones for fish, with possible spill- over effects… Underwater noise from three types of offshore wind turbines: Estimation of impact zones for harbor porpoises and harbor seals keywords: … seal; oceans; seas; power plants …

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)

Other skills (next lecture) Know how to evaluate Bibliographic references Internet resources Know how to apply search results Referring, citing, quoting Reference lists Plagiarism Reference management EndNote Publishing

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