Information Literacy AMC-YES 60406

Programme Introduction lecture Practicals Feedback lecture Blackboard modules Marja Duizendstraal Hans Fransen Marco van Veller Corrie van Zeist

Information Explosion WUR:

Information Explosion

Which skills do you need to manage? Skills: Define your need Search effectively Evaluate/ Select Use

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:

Information sources Blackboard: Information sourcesInformation sources Two functionalities: Complete (digital) text Search facilities

Climate change Global warming Greenhouse effect Climatic change Kyoto Research: Publication of results Greenhouse gases

Climate change Global warming Climatic change Kyoto Greenhouse effect Articles in Journals: Global Change Biology Journal of Climate Environ. Management Other publications ? Greenhouse gases review

The optimal database: contains all relevant publications gives access to the full text is updated frequently has good search facilities can be searched from anywhere ………………………………

Google Scholar Scopus WoS Bibliographic databases Is there an optimal database?

GS, WoS,Scopus-1 GS WoS Scopus disciplines all type of work “all” articles+ ft if availablewithin WUR yes* updated search facil access + +* * Via My Library

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 databasesBut there are more databases…….

WoS Scopus CAB BA ASFA LSW SocIndex PsycInfo Google Scholar Portals MetaSearch Which databases? Blackboard Module 3

Bibliographic databases All disciplines Scopus Web of Science Google Scholar Specific topics CAB-Abstracts Biological Abstracts FSTA Medline/ PubMed …………….. Overlap Additional Different search platforms 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 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 Climate change, climatic change, warming climate, global warming, rising temperatures OR ForestsForest(s), rainforest(s), Forestry forest* OR TropicalTropical, tropic(s), Amazon(ia), South East Asia,.. Thesaurus OR BiodiversityBiodiversity, fauna, flora OR

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