Information Literacyfor MAKS

Hans Franseninformation specialists, Library Wageningen UR

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.

Information Literacy (why?)

Information explosion (overload) Electronic (Internet)

Internet growth

Internet growth

Information Literacy

Information explosion (overload) Electronic (Internet)

Scientific information Library info (Digital Library)

Information Literacy

Information explosion (overload) Electronic (Internet)

Scientific information Library info (Digital Library)

Problem with reliability• Brittanica <-> Wikipedia• Scopus <-> Google Scholar

Information Literacy

Why should you be information literate?

– Later as a professional– Now during your studies

Information sources

Know your information sources (BB)

Formats and quality of sources (primary sources)

• Books, scientific journals, professional journals, encyclopedia, proceedings, maps, reports, etc.

Databases specific for your research field (secondary sources)

• Search engines? Google, WoS, Google Scholar

Searching…… and finding ;-)

Knowing how to search

• efficiently• effectively• basic search strategies• special databases

The Library

How to use the Wageningen UR library

the physical library (Forum, Leeuwenborch) the virtual library (Digital Library)

Physical and Virtual Library

Physical Library

Library stacks

Library stacks

Journals in the library

The Library

How to use the Wageningen UR library

the physical library (Forum, Leeuwenborch) the virtual library (Digital Library)

• E-journals, e-books

Other skills

Referring, citing, quoting literature lists Plagiarism

No more cut/copy and paste!

Working in BlackBoard

Access problems? How does it look like? What can you do? What must you do?

Modules

Your own responsibility……….but quizzes & my signature

Search example

Government policies in Eastern Europe regarding wetland degradation

Aspect 1 wetlandsAspect 2 degradationAspect 3 policiesAspect 4 eastern europe

Keywords

1. wetland*, marsh*, bog*, swamp*2. degradation, contamination, pollution, 3. policy, policies, government, politics,

authorities4. eastern europe, central europe, poland,

etc.

Search profile

Within aspect: OR Between aspects: AND Make sets per aspect, or use

parentheses Adjust during search

Final search Scopus

1. Wetland* OR marsh* OR bog* OR swamp*

2. degradation OR contamination OR pollution

3. policy OR policies OR government* OR politics OR authorities

4. eastern europe OR central europe OR poland OR belarus OR slovakia OR hungary

1 AND 2 AND 3 AND 4

Managing the results

Selecting references Print, download, e-mail Export to database management

softwareEndnote (& MS Word)

Getting the paper: link, catalogue, request