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March 16, 2011Marja Maclaine Pont, information specialist WUR
INFORMATION LITERACYFOR ETE-20310
Agenda
March 16: introduction lecture + practicals March 23: library exercises April 6: feedback lecture April 13: 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 search examples
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) Keywords, including broader terms, or narrower terms or
related terms (spices) Categories: broad subjects “Our ecological footprint”: click on author
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: 2003-2011, over 17,310
titles, including 411 ProtocolsCAB: 1999-2011, approx. 510 titlesElsevier 1995-2011, approx. 1235 titlesEtc.
E-JOURNALS
You can find them in two ways:Via the catalogue: document type:
journal, electronic onlyVia the Digital Library, Search, e-journals
A-Z Approx. 12,540 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 optimal 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 hits
Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Scopus
WoS
Bibliographic
databases
“biogas and manure” in ti and py=2009
Found in 2010 and in 2011 (between brackets)WoS Scopus GS
Total number 12 (14) 16 (19) 24 (31)Unique hits 1a) 4b) 13c)
a) from J. Anim. Veterin. Adv.b) 3 Conf. papers, 1 from Croatian articlec) 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 Scopusdisciplines all all alltype 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 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
Books
Journals
Maps
Reports, theses, etc.
WoS
Scopus
CAB
BA
ASFA
LSW
SocIndex
PsycInfo
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.© Wageningen UR
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 knowledge Visit 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 13.