PhD Course Information Literacy, part : Digital Library, Catalogue, WaY : Break : Bibliographic databases : Finishing touch

Information overload

Information Explosion –Written

Information Explosion –Electronic

Information overload From:

Searching What: Type of information, subject definition Where: Library & the Web How:Search strategy

What and Where: Examples Type of information Articles Books News Institute information Encyclopedias Where to look Bibliographies Catalogues WWW Catalogue/ WWW

Articles Newspapers Professional Scientific journals Search in (bibliographic) databases

The Library and The Web Library Selection Organized Permanent Access free Comprehensive Web No selection Less organized Not permanent Access ??? Not comprehensive

The Library & The Web 2 Quality versus quantity From:

Library on the Web Access: full text, databases Licenses: restriction Wageningen UR Digital Library

Wageningen UR Catalogue Entrance to all resources: books, reports, journal titles, databases, websites, theses encyclopedias No articles, chapters, papers thesaurus

Wageningen Yield: WaY Publications WUR Information on publishing and copyright Up to date list of publications on the Web

Exercises Desktop library 1. Blackboard: Module = Introduction 2. Selection of own resources 2.1Catalogue 3.1WaY

Searching What: Type of information Where: Library & the Web How:Search strategy

Module 4.b.1: Search Strategy finding the focus defining type and amount of material: limitation selection of information sources: where to look doing a good search

Search example Socio-economic relevance of non- timber forest products in South East Asia Aspect 1 NTFP’s Aspect 2 South East Asia Aspect 3 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 if possible Socio-economic relevance: socio-economic*, socioeconomic*, economic*

Search profile Within aspect: OR Between aspects: AND Make sets per aspect, or use parentheses (NTFP* OR non-timber forest product* OR medicinal plant? OR cork OR bark OR wood extract*) AND (explode South East Asia) AND (socio-economic* OR socioeconomic* OR economic*)

Final search CAB (explode non-wood forest products) AND (explode South East Asia) AND (socio-economic* OR socioeconomic* OR economic*) in ti,ab,su

Exercises Blackboard Module 4b1, or manual: 4 Exercise page 24: –Search analysis own topic –Search in CAB abstracts

What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is using someone else's words and ideas in a paper and acting as though they were your own Or simply said: plagiarism is intellectual theft

Some famous examples Martin Luther King Renee Diekstra Britney Spears George Harrison

This is obvious copying someone else's paper. taking short or long quotations from a source without identifying the source. turning in a paper you bought over the Internet.

Less obvious changing a few words and pretending they are your own. rearranging the order of ideas in a list and making the reader think you produced the list. borrowing ideas from a source and not giving proper credit to the source. turning in a paper from another class. Whether this is plagiarism or not depends on your instructor—ask first! using information from an interview or an online chat or , etc., without properly citing the source of the information. using words that were quoted in one source and acting and citing the original source as though you read it yourself.

How to avoid it? give credit to a source whenever you use information that is not your own unless it is common knowledge Cite correctly

Common knowledge Common knowledge (something that is widely known and accepted) does not have to be cited For example, historical dates, mathematical formulae, and (some) scientific principles and theories

Detection Software Wageningen UR bought a detection programme for plagiarism, Ephorus.

Blackboard Module 8 on Publishing and Citing