INFORMATION LITERACY FOR MOS STUDENTS March 4, 2009 Marja Maclaine Pont, information specialist WUR

Agenda March 4 : room C313:introduction PC rooms 421 and 425, enter Blackboard and check if you have access to ECS 65100_2008_4 March 11: discuss your search strategy with an information specialist For the rest of the schedule: see Blackboard

Digital Library The starting point for all library links, e.g. portals, news, calender, user information and services, FAQs, etc.

What and Where: Examples Looking for: Journal articles Books, reports, etc. News Institute information Encyclopedias, dictionaries Search in: Bibliographies Catalogues Newspapers, WWW WWW Catalogue/ WWW

The Library vs. The Web Library Selection Organized Permanent Free access Comprehensive Web No selection Less organized Not permanent Access ??? Not comprehensive

Wageningen UR Catalogue Entrance to all resources we possess or subscribe to: books, reports, journals, (bibliographic) databases, encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, etc. Also a limited number of websites and other free sources are added No journal articles, book chapters, papers Better disclosure by means of a thesaurus

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 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: and all available books from before 2005; nearly 12,000 titles CAB: , approx. 182 titles Elsevier (Agric. and Biol. Sci + Biochem + Gen. and Mol. Biol.): , approx. 544 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. 10,100 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

METASEARCH Search in several bibliographies in one go Several options in each subject-oriented portal Not possible to use specific command language, truncation signs, field names

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 and RIKILT: library.wur.nl/desktop/portals/afs In WaY: library.wur.nl/way In WDA: library.wur.nl/wda

More alerts RSS feeds for subject categories in our catalogue: library.wur.nl/WebQuery/catalog/rss?selectie= (fill in a subject category) In Web of Science (WoS) (first: register): select: WoS, perform your search, go to: Search History, create an alert In Scopus (first register): as an alert or as an RSS feed Via OvidSP (first register): as an alert or as an RSS feed; in 1 or more databases, perform your search, go to: Search History, login in Saved searches/alerts, choose: Save Search history

What you have to do Study the Blackboard modules, see: edu2.web.wur.nl, if you have not yet a WUR account, please work together with a colleague You can study most of the modules also via: library.wur.nl/desktop/services/infolit (the quizzes are not available) 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 Write an assignment on the subject of your choice, together with one or two colleagues; the information on how to write it can be found in BB; upload the document via Assignments, Assignment Literature Search Exam on Thursday April 23, 2009.

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 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 ………………………………

“biogas and manure” in TI, 2008: 12 hits Google Scholar

Scopus WoS Bibliographic databases

“biogas and manure” in ti and py=2008 WoSScopusGS Total number Unique hits 0 2 a) 6 b) a) 1 from Austr.J.Exper.Agric.; 1 from Transact. Chin.Soc.Agric.Engin. b) 3 citations, 1 FAO/Agris report, 1 thesis, 1 article from 2009

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 searches Use WoS/ Scopus for: - detailed searches - citation information - finding recent articles (articles in press)

Bibliographic databases All disciplines Scopus CC, CCC 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

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)

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

The conclusion: find relevant results, without irrelevant ones. © Wageningen UR