Transcript TUlib

TUlib
How to find and use scientific information
Nicoleta Nastase [email protected]
Information specialist, TU Delft Library
Masterminded by
Karin Clavel ([email protected] )
Cora Bijsterveld
Jorden Esser
Nicoleta Nastase
Nicole Potters
Marion van Putten
Ellen Verbakel
Picture by Iliana Kudus
Programme
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What is TUlib?
Demonstration
Tag cloud search
Questions, discussion
TUlib is…
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Reference website about information skills
Modular
3 level expertise:
• Getting started
• Learn more about…
• Links to external websites using delicious
Content:
• Tutorials (exercises and simulations in Flash)
• Interactive tutorials (Quiz)
• Extra information
• Active search boxes
• Download section
• See also
• Links to Delicious
Online tests (custom)
Teachers’ corner
Demonstration
Visual, dynamic search interface
• Tag cloud based on a custom-made thesaurus
• External hosting, no need for hardware, maintenance
Tag cloud search
Made popular in web 2.0 services like:
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Flickr (pictures)
LibraryThing (books)
delicious (bookmarks)
Newzingo (Google news)
Technorati (blogs)
last.fm (music)
Tag cloud test
SurveyMonkey, 20 testers (students and teachers)
• 70% Tag Cloud is useful
• 65% Tag Cloud is fun to use
• 85% found what he/she was looking for
This year…
Modules developed:
• Citation analysis
• Open Access Publishing
• Standards
• Social bookmarking
• Reading for research
• Scientific method
Modules to come? The list is open for new ideas.
• Using wiki’s to collaborate
• LaTeX
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Questions, discussion
• What do you think?
• How would you use:
• Social Bookmarking / delicious
• Flash instructions
• Tag Clouds
• Online surveys