information literacy for mos ecs-65100 3 november 2010
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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
