1. March 16, 2011 Marja Maclaine Pont, information specialist WUR INFORMATION LITERACY FOR ETE-20310

2. Agenda March 16: introduction lecture + practicals March 23: library exercises April 6: feedback lecture April 13: test/examination

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

4. Wageningen Catalogue http://library.wur.nl/desktop/catalog 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: http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/clchttp://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/clc

5. 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

6. 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

7. E-BOOKS Via the Digital Library, Portals, E-books e.g.: Springer: 2003-2011, over 17,310 titles, including 411 Protocols CAB: 1999-2011, approx. 510 titles Elsevier 1995-2011, approx. 1235 titles Etc.

8. 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. 12,540 titles

9. 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

10. 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, choose: Browse In WDA: library.wur.nl/wda

11. 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

12. Climate change Global warming Greenhouse effect Climatic change Kyoto Research: Publication of results

13. The optimal 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 ………………………………

14. Example of a search strategy Biogas and manure

15. http://scholar.google.com/ “biogas and manure” in TI, 2009: 24 hits Google Scholar

16. Scopus WoS Bibliographic databases

17. “biogas and manure” in ti and py=2009 Found in 2010 and in 2011 (between brackets) WoSScopusGS Total number 12 (14)16 (19)24 (31) Unique hits 1 a) 4 b) 13 c) 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

18. 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

19. 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)

20. 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

21. Books Journals Maps Reports, theses, etc. WoS Scopus CAB BA ASFA LSW SocIndex PsycInfo Google Scholar

22. 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)

23. The ultimate goal: find relevant results, without irrelevant ones. © Wageningen UR

24. 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: 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 13.