1. March 17, 2010 Marja Maclaine Pont, information specialist WUR INFORMATION LITERACY FOR ETE-20310

2. Agenda March 17: introduction lecture + practicals March 24: library exercises April 7: feedback lecture April 14: test/examination

3. Your starting point: our digital library http://library.wur.nl/desktop The starting point for all library links, e.g. portals, news, calender, user information and services, FAQs, etc.

4. 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

5. E-BOOKS Via the Digital Library, Portals, E-books e.g.: Springer: 2005-2010 and all available books from before 2005; over 16,000 titles, including 411 Protocols CAB: 1999-2008, approx. 182 titles Elsevier (Agric. and Biol. Sci + Biochem + Gen. and Mol. Biol.): 1995-2009, approx. 546 titles Etc.

6. 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. 11,850 titles

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 In WDA: library.wur.nl/wda

10. The IPCC report 2007 An example of literature quoting

11. IPCC= Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The 2007 report: http://www.ipcc.ch/ http://www.ipcc.ch/ consists of four volumes: the three IPCC Working Groups (WGs) Reports and a Synthesis Report (SYR)

12. Where are the references? The synthesis report does not mention the year 2035 at allsynthesis report It mentions Himalaya only once: as a major mountain, where “widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century”

13. Working Group Reports Himalaya statement: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/presentations/himalaya- statement-20january2010.pdf http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/presentations/himalaya- statement-20january2010.pdf Statement in WG II report, 10.6.2: Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005). Table 10.9

14. The WWF 2005 report WWF (World Wildlife Fund) WWF (World Wildlife Fund), 2005: An overview of glaciers, glacier retreat, and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China. World Wildlife Fund, Nepal Programme, 79 pp. See page 2: there is only a statement, no reference. Hasnain 1999, 2000, 2002 are in the list of references, not: Hasnain 1988 and 2004. Interview with Hasnain in New Scientist, 1999, june 5, page 18: … glaciers … will vanish by 2035.

15. CONCLUSION Check your references Read the text carefully Judge the quality of the data Do not depend on only 1 statement Data of Working Groups, or other grey literature are not to be discarded beforehand

16. HOW WOULD YOU HAVE PROCEEDED? IPCC 2007

17. 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 available) Study the Scopus tutorials: http://help.scopus.com/flare/Content/tutorials/sc_menu.ht ml http://help.scopus.com/flare/Content/tutorials/sc_menu.ht ml 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 14.