INFORMATION LITERACY For ETE March 21 st 2012, Marja Maclaine Pont

AGENDA  March 21: introduction lecture + practicals  March 28: library exercises  April 11: feedback lecture  April 18: test/examination

YOUR STARTING POINT: OUR DIGITAL LIBRARY   The starting point for all library links, e.g. catalog, portals, news, calender, user information and services, FAQs, etc.

WAGENINGEN CATALOGUE   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:

CATALOGUE SEARCHING  CLASSIC INTERFACE: ● 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) ● Categories: ● broad subjects  NEW INTERFACE: ● More Google-like searching ● facetting for: author, keywords, classification, medium, language, document type, and year

WAGENINGEN YIELD: 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: books, book series, protocols ● CAB: , approx. 588 titles ● Elsevier: , approx. 546 titles ● Etc.

E-JOURNALS  You can find them in two ways: ● Via the catalogue: document type: journal, electronic only ● Via the Digital Library, Search, e-journals A-Z  Approx. 13,150 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 alert  Via the publisher: e.g. www3.interscience.wiley.com: Acta Zoologica: as a 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 OPTICAL 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

“biogas and manure” in TI, 2009: 24 hits Google Scholar

Scopus WoS Bibliographic databases

“biogas and manure” in ti and py=2009 Found in 2010, 2011 and 2012 WoSScopusGS Total number 12,14,1616,19,1924,31,41 Unique hits (2010) 1 a) 4 b) 13 c) Unique hits (2012) a) from J. Anim. Veterin. Adv. b) 3 Conf. papers, 1 from Croatian article c) 2 double, 2 citations, thus: 9 relevant: 2 Chinese, 3 patents, 1 Hungarian, 1 from Scientific Commons, 1 thesis, 1 conf. proceedingsScientific Commons

MAIN FEATURES OF GS, WoS, SCOPUS GS WoS Scopus disciplines all type of work all articles+ ft if availablewithin WUR yes* updated search fac access + +* * Via My Library

HOW TO USE GS, WoS, SCOPUS Use GS for: -quick and dirty 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 Additional Different search platforms Use several databases

SCIFINDER ON THE WEB  A combination of Chemical Abstracts Plus and Medline  What are your search subjects?

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

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: menu.html 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 18.

ANY QUESTIONS?