The document provides information about a library workshop on information literacy for forensic science students. It discusses finding and evaluating scientific literature, using databases like Web of Science and reference management tools like RefWorks. It also covers ethical research practices such as avoiding plagiarism and properly citing sources. The workshop aims to help students search for relevant information and incorporate it into their work in an ethical manner.

1. Information Literacy
Forensic Science - Between Crime Scene and Research
Kasper M. Abcouwer
k.m.abcouwer@uva.nl
Master Forensic Science
September 18th & 19th 2013

2. Introduction
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What do we do:
Provide students and staff with
scientific literature
Give courses and help with searching
and evaluating
Bibliometric analysis
Manage library / student space
Opening hours:
Mon - Fri 7.30 - 22.00
Sat 10.00 - 18.00

3. Student Facilities of the Library
 Student Collaboration Spaces (Groepswerkplekken)
 Study room locations
 Inter Library Loan
 RefWorks
 Help (UBAcoach)
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Stand on the shoulders of Giants
“If I have seen a little further it is by
ing “
Isaac Newton 1676
Letter to Robert Hook

5. Why should you read literature?
 Avoid repeating research
 A persuasive approach to your problem realized by:
* Avoiding beginner mistakes
* Using standard terminology
* Compare your contribution with related research
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Why you shouldn’t:
Why you should:
 By reading literature you may follow familiar paths and
directions and unconsciously shut paths you might
otherwise have had followed.

6. You can’t read everything
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“It is estimated that the
scientific literature
increases by 2000
pages every minute and
that it would take five
years for anyone to read
the new scientific
literature produced each
day.”
From: Arthur M. Lesk
Introduction to Bioinformatics,
2008

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FROM: Buringh, Eltjo; van Zanden, Jan Luiten: "Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe,
A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 69, No. 2 (2009), pp. 409–445

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Scientific output of UvA, VU and together

9. Forensic Science, Information Literacy 9From:http://sadrnezhaad.ir/sk/index.php/en/scientific-paper-trail

10. From
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The peer review process
From:http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/howscienceworks_16

11. Other ways of Science evaluation
 Citing
 Impact Factor
 H-index
 Altmetrics
 Other bibliometric methods
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12. 2011
2009 2008 2010 2005 1998
20122012 2012 2012 2012
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Initial article
Cited articles
References
Citing articles
Citing and cited references

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impact factor 2012
Citations in 2012 to articles published 2010 en 2011
IF = ---------------------------------------------------------
Articles published in 2010 en 2011
Impact factor is not a measure of quality
Discipline specific
IF = journal impact
Database specific

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Hirsch -index
H-index: "career-impact" author
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

15. Network analysis of publication @ UvA -IBED
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Sources: peer-reviewed
Monographs / text books
For study and background
Complete treatment of subject
Scientific publishing ensures quality
Cite a textbook? Indicate chapter and / or page (s)
Journal article
A higher level, more detailed and more solid than conference report
Sometimes old news at the time of publication (delay)
Paper in book by editors
Several papers, state-of-the-art overview
Individual papers are cited
Paper in conference proceedings
recent results
Quality conference, publisher of the proceedings?
Not always peer-reviewed 16

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Sources: not peer-reviewd
Working papers, preprints
Up-to-date, dissemination of ideas
“Open access”
http://arxiv.org
Websites
Very useful to blatant nonsense
Evaluate reliability
When citing mention when visited
Personal communication
Cite as „personal communication‟
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Deep Web
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Visible web
Invisible Web
Deep Web
Publications available through
Internet Search engines
Publications available
Through Reference
databases
Taken from:
Literaturrecherche im Biologiestudium
Technische Universtität Darmstadt

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Is this article scientific reliable ?

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How to evaluate found information
 What ideas, techniques and quotes can you use from the article?
 Is it clear who the author is and what do you know about his reputation?
 Can the article make a direct and meaningful contribution to your paper?
 How important is the article in its field?
 Is the article up to date, still relevant in the field?
 Adds the article something new to your paper?
 Are the references in the article good used and is it presented logically?
 Is the article based on facts, logical reasoning, speculation or opinion?
 Are the conclusions in accordance with the facts and arguments?
 Is the article biased or balanced?
bron: Author's experience, Dawson (2000)

23. Books, Journals & Databases
 Uba.uva.nl
 Catalogue for books
 E-journals
 ILL
 Databases
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Forensic science
Andrew R.W. Jackson and
Julie M. Jackson.
ForensicNetBase

25. Thousands of electronic journals
 The UvA provides access to the main FS journals
 If not digital available than in print or by ILL
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26. Hundreds of (reference) Databases
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www.uva.nl

27. Krantenbank / Newspapers
 LexisNexis
 National / international
 Multi language
 All main newspapers
 Search for: “Lucy de B”
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28. Wide scope of main (reference) databases
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Web of Science
Online web-based reference and citation databases

30. Web of Science & Google Scholar
 Scientific articles
 Multidisciplinary
 Web based
 Known item & subject search
 Related articles
 Citations
 Export References
 UvA-linker

31. Web of Science  Google Scholar
 Far back in time
 content known
 JCR
 Humanities
 Search options
 Sorting and processing
 number of items
 Multi country and language
 Many document types
 available for free
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32. Web of Science  Google Scholar
 limited coverage
 paid access
 Search funct. limited
 Sort limited
 Non scientific sources
 labor-intensive
 contents unclear
 Ranking unclear
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33. Known item search:
auteur
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34. objective color classification xtc tablets
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3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine
objective color classification xtc tablets

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Subject search in Web of Science:
objective color classification xtc tablets

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39. INSPEC thesaurus
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40. Refworks and Scientific misconduct
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 Make life easier: use reference software
 Different forms of scientific misconduct
 What is plagiarism ?
 Plagiarism game, win the chocolate bar!

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Save your data in the cloud
URL: http://www.refworks.com/refworks
 Online reference manager
 Registration:
 Within UvA domain: automatic recognition
 Outside ip-range: Groep Code
 Import references
 Cite while you write
 Create bibliography
 Export references (i.e. BibTex)

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Different forms of scientific misconduct
 Fabrication
 Falsification
 Plagiarism
 Self-plagiarism
 Violation of ethical standards
 Ghostwriting

43. There are three basic forms of plagiarism:
1 Quoting
(Quoting someone else word for word but not crediting them as the source.)
2 Paraphrasing
(if you do not quote the person verbatim but instead just change a few words and
do not give credit, you have committed plagiarism. )
3 stealing ideas
(Using the ideas of another without acknowledging their source)
Source: http://www.usm.maine.edu/~kuzma/Ideologies/Plagerism.html

44. Letterdieverij
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plagiarism_vs_Copyright_Infringement.png

45. A Forensic Science student uses in his thesis a section in which he changes all
sentences a little, without sources. Is this allowed?
A student uses in his essay a paragraph from Google which says just what he was
trying to say. He provides no references and submits it as his own work. Is this
allowed?
A student tries to include as many scholarly books and journals as he can find. He
puts them in quotation marks but forgot where they came from. He decides not to
include a reference list. Allowed?
A PhD student copies from a conference poster a method to calculate the statistics
of his experiments. In his thesis he describes the method completely in his own
words without acknowledging the source, because the method has not been
published yet. Allowed?
Is it allowed to republish the work of Jan Slauerhoff without permission?
(Slauerhoff is a Dutch poet and novelist and lived from 1898 - 1936)

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A student uses a picture from a site of a large crime laboratory for here report on
fingerprinting, with acknowledgment of sources, but without permission. Is this
allowed?
A student uses for his third year bachelor thesis 5 lines of text from a book,
literally, with acknowledgment of sources and without permission. Is this allowed?
A group of students works on a very difficult programming assignment. They agree
on an algorithm to accomplish the programming task, and each submits this
algorithm as his/her own work. Is this allowed?
A first-year student finds essay-writing difficult and has developed a style in which
she quotes from a text (using proper referencing) and then rewrites the quotation
in her own words in the next paragraph as a kind of summary. Is this allowed?
A student turns in an old report from a friend (with his permission) under her own
name, without mentioning the source. Is this allowed?

47. Literature Search Strategy
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The literature review process
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Source:
Saunders, et al.
(2009)

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Understand the
question
Organise your
thoughts
Identify
perspective
Identify suitable
databases
Search
Refine & review
your Search
Limit and
combine
keywords
Access full text
Keep records
Produce
bibliography
Write up
findings
Present findings
Source: Literature search tips
University of Central Lancashire

50. Organise your thoughts
 Identify keywords and search terms from your essay
question or assignment topic. Use books or articles
and other reference sources in the subject area to
refine and increase your keywords. Identify key
areas or phrases.
 Mindmap
 Facet table
 Example Question - How may complementary
therapies be used to combat pain?
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Source: Literature search tips
University of Central Lancashire

51. Mind Map
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Source: Literature search tips
University of Central Lancashire

52. Facet table
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Source: Literature search tips
University of Central Lancashire

53. Best Practice
Record for each article a few words about:
 Problem
 hypothesis
 Theory and assumptions
 research methods
 Collection of data, tools / procedures
 Interpretation of the data
 Conclusions / suggestions for further research
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Thank You
Kasper Abcouwer
k.m.abcouwer@uva.nl