Information Literacy AEW Marine Systems Annemie Kersten September 3, 2008

Wageningen UR Library / Forum

Programme: Wednesday, September – 14.15Introductory lecture – 14.30Break – 15.15Modules in BB

Programme: Wednesday, September – 14.15Lecture: search strategy – 14.30Break – 15.15Modules BB and help in setting up search strategies

Programme: Wednesday, September – 14.15Modules in BB – 14.30Break – 15.15Modules BB and help in searching

Information Literacy "To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (ALA, 1989) Why should you be information literate? –Later as a professional –Now during your studies

Information Explosion - Electronic

Information overload

The Library and the Web

Information Literacy Reliability of sources Brittanica Wikipedia Google Scholar Scopus

What will you learn? How to search for scientific information How to use the Wageningen UR Digital Library How to use bibliographic databases on different platforms How to set up a search strategy How to evaluate search results

Wageningen UR Digital Library

Wageningen Digital Library - Introduction Portals: a guide to information resources by subject area and general reference Search: frequently used information resources User info and services: information and support Log in: My Library a.o. off-campus access (staff and students WUR) URL after off-campus log in

Where do I find ? books and journals in the library → Library Catalogue Wageningen UR publications → Wageningen Yield (WaY) the last issue of a journal → Electronic journals journal articles → bibliographies citations of articles → Web of Science / Scopus electronic reference sources → Virtual Reference Desk

How can I ? Find important resources in my field → Subject Portals Find a list of all main resources → Databases A-Z or Databases by type CrossSearch databases → MetaLib Find information on services → User info and services use my personal Desktop Library a.o. off-campus access→ Log in (My Library) URL after off- campus log in

Library Catalogue To search titles of books, journals, reports in the library → Library Catalogue NOT TO SEARCH ARTICLES Default: phrase searching All fields= words in author, title, publisher, place of publication, series title, notes, keywords, abstract etc. Search specific fields: title, author, keyword, category Wildcards: use an * to replace a string of characters or a ? to replace a single character Keywords: use the Keyword lookup (thesaurus)

Bibliographic databases To search journal articles, book chapters → bibliographies General/multidisciplinary Web of Science (since 1945) Scopus (since 1960) Google Scholar

Bibliographic databases Subject specific Health: PubMed, Medline (incl. Veterinary Science) Agriculture: CAB Abstracts, Agris, Agricola Biology: Biological Abstracts Zoology: ZooRecod Aquaculture and Fisheries: ASFA Marine and brackish water environments: Oceanic Abstracts Chemistry: SciFinder Scholar

MetaLib MetaLib: Search multiple databases (bibliographies, catalogues, gateways) in one search QuickSearch (10 databases) MetaSearch (select databases by subject) or

BlackBoard course After this introductory lecture, you start: Blackboard course ECS52901_2008_1: A selection of modules / learning units Practical and self study

How to login to the BlackBoard Course? WUR account and enrolled in BB: Login using your WUR account Go to Click on User Login button Enter Username and Password and click on Login button Select ECS52901_2008_1

How to login to the BlackBoard Course? WUR account, not enrolled in BB: Login using a guest account Go to Click on User Login button Enter Username user01 and password user01 Select ECS52901_2008_1 Guest accounts user01 through user16

Blackboard: Course Information Select Course information and open AEW Marine Systems to see which modules and learning units you have to study

Where to get help? User info and services: a.o. Courses and self instruction Or ask for help in the Library

Where to get help? or (4) or (4)83654