Information literacy ESS-20306 November 2011, Wouter Gerritsma
& Hugo Besemer
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Information Literate? Finding Managing Using Keeping upto date
Searching Selecting EndNote Referencing Publishing Alerts
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Searching: sources Use the right source To start your
(re)search
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Orientation Course materials (references?)
Encyclopedias/handbooks Books Journal articles Reviews Authorative
websites (IPCC, EGU/AGU, IGBP, Earth Ref Org
etc.)IPCCEGUAGUIGBPEarth Ref Org Hands on: How many entries are
there on modeling in the " Encyclopedia of global warming and
climate change"
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Scholarly journals trade journals Scientic journals Research
Peer reviewed Trade journals Practice Editorial review Hands on:
What are some top journals in the ESS field?
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Test yourself Where is the following book located: Jacobson,
M.C., 2000. Earth system science : from biogeochemical cycles to
global change. Amsterdam, Academic Press. 527p. What is the title
of the following article: Dunlap, R. et al. 2008. Earth Sci. Infor.
1(3/4):131 How many review articles are there in Scopus on
["Biogeochemical cycl*" model*]
Coverage Bibliographies Scopus / Web of Science All sciences,
better at physical sciences the A&H CAB abstracts Agriculture,
forestry, nature, ecology, soil science SciFinder Scholar Chemistry
Use the portal environmental sciencesportal environmental sciences
Check the Geology pagesGeology
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Differences in databases Sensitivity of models on leaching of
pesticides to groundwater WoSScopusCABSciFinder 144157115145 After
dedup. 734859 Use more than one database for exhaustive
searches
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Search strategy Find efficiently the information your are
looking for Good Search strategy
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Concepts What are the effects of disturbed peat land areas on
methane emissions and the greenhouse effect
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Concepts What are the effects of disturbed peat land areas on
methane emissions and the greenhouse effect
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Search terms Disturbed OR disturbance OR degradation OR
drainage OR removal Peatland(s) OR bog(s) OR mire(s) Methane OR CH4
Greenhouse effect OR global warming OR Climatic change OR climate
change OR greenhouse gases
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Final result
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Searching for a topic Analysis of the concepts Determine search
terms Use wild cards and/or "phrase searching" Combine with Boolean
operators Check results; refine search
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Snowballing Follow the references in your article You only find
older articles Follow the citations to your article You find newer
articles WoS, Scopus & GS Perform related searches On authors
On references (co-citation analysis)
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Searching for data sets To find suitable data sets there are no
general discovery tools available yet You should search for the
metadata describing the data, rather than the data itself A listing
of metadata repositories are available http://esdata.pbworks.com
http://esdata.pbworks.com Add an additional concept to your
searches with terms as data, dataset(s), "data set(s)"
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Selecting and judging the results Scan titles Look at
publication years Look for document types Read wider Read abstracts
Read introductions/ discussions Read complete articles Blackboard
module 5
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Manage references and PDF articles Use EndNote/Mendeley
Download references from databases Scan PDF files Use
EndNote/Mendeley to format reference lists in reports/articles
