Information Literacy Wageningen Graduate Schools 11 and 12 October 2005
Programme Tuesday 11October morning: Setting up a search strategy and searching literature lunch: make an appointment with your information specialist afternoon: Web of Science and Scopus citing and plagiarism
Programme 12 October morning: managing your references with Endnote
Programme Make an appointment with your information specialist to discuss your search strategy –During the lunch on Tuesday or via:
Programme 11 October h Modules 3.1, 3.2, 4b.1 and hAssignment 1Describe your subject hCoffee break h Module 4a.3 Catalog h Module 4b.2 Bibliographic databases hAssignment 2 Bibliographic Databases h Module 6.1 en 6.2 Alerts hFinishing: remarks or questions
Search strategy Search strategy: summary Example of a search
Search strategy Summary module 4b1 Where to look A good search
Search Production and socio-economic relevance of non-timber forest products in South East Asia Aspect 1 NTFP’s Aspect 2 South East Asia Aspect 3 production/ socio-economic relevance
Keywords NTFP’s: NTFP*, non-timber forest product*, medicinal plant?, cork, bark, wood extract* South East Asia: South East Asia and countries with Explode Production, socio-economic relevance: production, yield?, harvest*, socio- economic*, socioeconomic*
Search profile Within aspect: OR Between aspects: AND Make sets per aspect, or use parentheses Adjust during search (NTFP* OR non-timber forest product* OR medicinal plant? OR cork OR bark OR wood extract*) AND (explode South East Asia) AND (production OR yield? OR harvest*OR socio-economic* OR socioeconomic*)
Choice of information source Scientific articles: bibliographic databases portal: CAB, AGRIS, Tropag & Rural for recent literature: WoS/ Scopus Scientific books/ reports: catalogue Websites, institutes: WWW Latest news: Alerts, WWW, professional journals/ newsletters
Final search (explode non-wood forest products) AND (explode South East Asia) AND (production OR yield? OR harvest*OR socio-economic* OR socioeconomic*) AND (forest economics OR forest policy OR forest management)
Managing the results Selecting references Print, download, Export to database management software –Endnote Getting the paper: link, catalogue, request
Using the results Citing, avoid plagiarism Writing Publishing –Journal selection, impact factors –Dissertations: WaY –Open access journals: BioMed Central PLoS Biology