Information Literacy

AMC-YES 60406

Programme

• Introduction lecture

• Practicals

• Feedback lecture

• Blackboard modules

Marja Duizendstraal

Hans Fransen

Marco van Veller

Corrie van Zeist

Information Explosion

http://informationr.net/

WUR: http://library.wur.nl/desktop/catalog/

Information Explosion

Which skills do you need to manage?

www.foundationnews.org

Skills:

Define your need

Search effectively

Evaluate/ Select

Use

Information Literacy

Definition:

Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.

Blackboard Modules: http://edu2.web.wur.nl

Information sources

Blackboard: Information sources

Two functionalities:

• Complete (digital) text

• Search facilities

Climate change

Global warming

Greenhouse effect

Climatic change

Kyoto

Research:

Publication of results

Greenhouse gases

Climate change

Global warming Climatic

change

Kyoto

Greenhouse effect

Articles in Journals:

Global Change Biology

Journal of Climate

Environ. Management

Other publications

?

Greenhouse gases

review

The optimal database:

• contains all relevant publications

• gives access to the full text

• is updated frequently

• has good search facilities

• can be searched from anywhere

• ………………………………

Google Scholar

Scopus

WoS

Bibliographic

databases

Is there an optimal database?

GS, WoS,Scopus-1

GS WoS Scopus

disciplines all all all

type of work “all” articles+ articles+

ft if available within WUR yes* yes*

updated + + +

search facil. - + +

access + +* +*

* Via My Library

GS, WoS,Scopus-2Use Google Scholar for:- looking up known references (within WUR)- quick searches

Use WoS/ Scopus for:- detailed searches- citation information- finding recent articles

But there are more databases…….

WoS

Scopus

CAB

BA

ASFA

LSW

SocIndex

PsycInfoPsycInfo

Google Scholar

Portals

MetaSearch

Which databases?

Blackboard Module 3

Bibliographic databases

All disciplines• Scopus• Web of Science• Google Scholar

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

AdditionalDifferent search platforms

Use several databases

How to search

• Search strategythe logic of the search• StandardBlackboard module 4a3

• Search toolsi.e. truncation, field/ phrase searching• different per databaseEx: forest products - “forest products”Blackboard module 4a4

Search strategy

• Finding the focus• Limitation: period, language, region• Identifying key concepts • Finding search terms (keywords)

Finding the focus

Effects of climatic change on forests

Questions: Which effects?

Only recent climatic change?

Which forests?

Background: Encyclopedias, books, reviews

Limitation

• years of publication

• geographic region

• language

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of forest trees in the tropics

Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia rainforests: A Late-Holocene perspective 

Changes in the status of Lophura pheasants in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand: A response to warming climate? 

Effects of twenty-first-century climatic change on the Amazon rain forest 

Mitigation needs adaptation: Tropical forestry and climate change 

Search Words

Climate change

Climate change, climatic change, warming climate, global warming, rising temperatures OR

Forests Forest(s), rainforest(s),

Forestry forest* OR

Tropical Tropical, tropic(s), Amazon(ia),

South East Asia,.. Thesaurus OR

Biodiversity Biodiversity, fauna, flora OR

climate change

forests

tropic

Operators

Boolean: AND OR NOT

Proximity: NEARx, WITH, W/x, SAME….

Assignment

Blackboard: assignments

Exercise 1: prepare for practicals

For next week (practicals)

Before May 6th : Assessment, M1, M2, M3, M4a.1, M4a.3

• Assessment See what you (don’t) know• M1: general introduction• M2: information sources, quiz• M3: Wageningen UR library sources, quiz• M4a Searching, quiz

Topic for your assignment, preferably in groups of 2. We like to discuss this with you during the practicals.

Evaluation

• Assignment:

mail at May 27th 2008 the latest

• Exam: May 20th