March 16, 2011Marja Maclaine Pont, information specialist WUR

INFORMATION LITERACYFOR ETE-20310

Agenda

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

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.

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/clc

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

http://library.wur.nl/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: 2003-2011, over 17,310

titles, including 411 ProtocolsCAB: 1999-2011, approx. 510 titlesElsevier 1995-2011, approx. 1235 titlesEtc.

E-JOURNALS

You can find them in two ways:Via the catalogue: document type:

journal, electronic onlyVia the Digital Library, Search, e-journals

A-Z Approx. 12,540 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 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

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 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

http://scholar.google.com/

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

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Scopus

WoS

Bibliographic

databases

“biogas and manure” in ti and py=2009

Found in 2010 and in 2011 (between brackets)WoS Scopus GS

Total number 12 (14) 16 (19) 24 (31)Unique hits 1a) 4b) 13c)

a) from J. Anim. Veterin. Adv.b) 3 Conf. papers, 1 from Croatian articlec) 2 double, 2 citations, thus: 9 relevant: 2 Chinese,

3 patents, 1 Hungarian, 1 from Scientific Commons, 1 thesis, 1 conf. proceedings

Main features of GS, WoS, Scopus

GS WoS Scopusdisciplines all all alltype of work all articles+ articles+ft if available within WUR yes* 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• Web of Science• Google Scholar

Specific topics• CAB-Abstracts• Biological Abstracts• FSTA• Medline/ PubMed• SciFinder on the Web• ……………..

Overlap AdditionalDifferent 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)

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

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.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 13.