information literacy for mos ecs-65100 3 november 2010

Information Literacy for MOS

ECS-651003 November 2010

Programme Teachers:

Introduction lecture Practicals Feedback lecture Blackboard modules

Marja Maclaine PontIrene Veerman

Agenda

November 3, 15:30 – 17:15 hrs room C321: Classroom lecture

November 10 15:30 – 18:00 hrs PC rooms 421 and 425, Practical training – working on your

assignment(enter Blackboard and check if you have access to ECS 65100_2010_0)

November 17, 15:30 – 17:15 hrs room C321: Classroom lecture + feedback and questions

December 22, 14:00-15:30 hrs room PC 713/717, Exam

Course contents

Self Study – Blackboard modules at http://edu2.web.wur.nl/ Before practicals: 1, 2, 3, 4.a.1 and 4.a.2 Later: 4.a.3, 4b1, 4b2, 4b4, 4b9, 5, 7 and 8

Quizzes in Blacboard to test your knowledge Practical training

Write an assignment on the subject of your choice, together with one or two fellow students;

The information on how to write it can be found in BB -> Assignments

Define your subject before the practical training Information specialists will be available to assist you Upload the document via Blackboard -> Assignments

Exam on December 22, 2010.

The role of scientific literature

Scholarly communication

The role of scientific literature

Claiming (intellectual or commercial) ownership

The role of scientific literature

A record of science

And there is more information.....

Newspapers

Wikipedia

Blogs

Web sites

Information literacyAn information literate individual is able to:

1.Determine the extent of information needed

2.Access the needed information effectively and efficiently

3.Evaluate information and its sources critically

4.Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base

5.Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose

6.Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally

Why should you be information literate?

Now during your study Courses Thesis

Later as a professional Basis for research Input for decisions

Skill 1: Define your need Purpose

factual data, orientation, in-depth search Topic

research question Level scientific, professional, news Type

data, news, books, research article, laws, company information, government information

Use of research resourcesResources Identified as Most Important by Researchers Research Resources % Ranking in Top 3Journal articles 71.1%Monographs 32.0%Chapters in books with many authors 21.8%Expertise of individuals 19.4%Organizations web sites 15.3%Original text sources, e.g. newspapers, historical records 12.5%Conference proceedings 11.6%Datasets . published or unpublished 8.1%Other sources (specified by interviewee) 6.8%Preprints 5.1%Non-text sources, e.g. images, audio, artifacts 2.9%

Researchers and discovery services. Behaviour, perceptions and needs.A study commisioned by the Research Information Network, 2006.

Information flow

Skills 2: Access the needed information

WHERE??

Use the right finding aids

HOW??

Search effectively

Resources and finding aidsResourcesJournal articles scientific

professional

Monographs books

reports dissertations proceedings

EncyclopediasWebsitesBlogsDatasetsNews

Finding aidsBibliographiesLibrary cataloguesInternet search enginesGateways/ portals

Library catalogues

Are always linked to a library collection Show you where to locate books and journals Don’t contain journal articles Don’t contain book chapters

Bibliographies - bibliographic databases

Bibliographic databases

Consist of structured references with abstract, keywords, link to full-text (if WUR has subscription)in some also: cited by, related records

Mainly refer to scientific articles but may also include books, theses, conference papers etc.

Searching based on metadata, not full text

Different search platforms

Bibliographic references Represent the publication Consist of metadata -> data about a

publication Title Author Source Abstract Classification/keywords/subject identifiers

Appear in both primary publications and bibliographic databases

Can have many puzzling formats and styles

Tracking down a reference

Paste the title into Google Scholar

Tracking down a reference

Look up the journal in Journals A-Z Use wildcards for the journal title

Bibliographic databases

Multidisciplinary• Scopus• Web of Science• Google Scholar

Specific topics• CAB-Abstracts• Biological Abstracts• FSTA• Medline/ PubMed• ……………..

Overlap Additional Use several databases

Example search

Sensitivity of models on leaching of pesticides to groundwater

WoS Scopus CAB SciFinder

144 157 115 145

After deduplication

73 48 59

Google Scholar

Bibliographic database Multidisciplinary with very broad coverage

journal articles, books, theses, patents Simple + advanced search interface Index based on full text Relevance ranking Locate the complete document through your library

or on the web WUR-library when logged in or from within WUR-net

Choosing a bibliographic database Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar

Use links on Library home page http://library.wur.nl/

Specialized subject oriented databases Use the Portals on the Library web site Choose a bibliography or start a metasearch from

there

From off-campus: Log in first Read the FAQ item on off-campus access if you

have problems connecting

Getting the articles

Access to licensed resources only when logged in!

Use our link resolver SFX

Skills 2: Search effectively

Find the focus Identify key concepts Find search terms (keywords) Combine with Boolean operators Limite to: period, language, region

Finding the focus

Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Questions: Which effects?How can wind energy be collected?What does the marine environment exist of?

Background: Wikipedia, Google, books, reviews

Combining with Boolean operators

Within concept: OR (any word) Between concepts: AND (all words) (Exclude concepts: NOT) Make sets per concept, or use

parentheses Adjust during search

Limiting

years of publication geographic region language additional concept(s)

Identifying key concepts

Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Identifying key concepts

Effect of windmills on the marine environment

Finding search terms

windmills OR wind power OR wind energy OR windfarm

marine OR sea OR oceanenvironment OR fishes OR fauna OR

macrobenthos OR seals OR …….effect OR impact OR influence OR

disturbance OR ……..

Truncation and phrase searching

windmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind energy” OR windfarm*

marine OR sea OR ocean*environment* OR fish* OR fauna OR

macrobenthos OR seals OR …….effect* OR impact OR influence OR

disturbance OR ……..

Combining sets

Use parentheses around concepts

WRONGwindmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind

energy” OR windfarm* AND marine OR sea OR ocean

RIGHT(windmill* OR “wind power” OR “wind

energy” OR windfarm*) AND (marine OR sea OR ocean)

Search history

Selected articles

Importance of using multiple sampling methodologies for estimating of fish community composition in offshore wind power construction areas of the Baltic Sea

Spatial planning of offshore wind farms: A windfall to marine environmental protection? abstract: … no-take zones for fish, with possible

spill-over effects… Underwater noise from three types of offshore wind

turbines: Estimation of impact zones for harbor porpoises and harbor seals keywords: … seal; oceans; seas; power plants …

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)

Other skills (next lecture)

Know how to evaluate Bibliographic references Internet resources

Know how to apply search results Referring, citing, quoting

• Reference lists• Plagiarism

Reference management• EndNote

Publishing

Evaluation

Assignment ExamSee also course information

Contact:Marja.maclainepont@wur.nl