Training in the exploitation of documentary resources

Duration

8h Th, 12h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Ninfa Greco

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The main purpose of this course is to develop autonomous and critical view dealing with acquisition and up-dating of scientific knowledge.
Putting the future researchers on the perspectives of the scientific publication is also implicit in this course (business and Open Access; bibliometrics; artificial intelligence development).

STRUCTURE:

• Introduction to scientific information: uses, quality and relevance
• Document e-Space in the University of Liège: ULiège Library and Collections ULiège
• Forming a computerized documentary query
• Database: Scopus
• Database: PubMed
• Database: Proquest Environmental Science Collection
• Search engines: Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic
• Scientific documents and bibliographic references (the idea of plagiarism)
• Program for managing bibliographic references: Mendeley

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of the course, the student is able to:

• do computerized bibliographic researches;
• locate the documentation in libraries or on the Net;
• decode and write standardized bibliographic references;
• sort and manage bibliographic references.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Basic scientific English.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

• Theoretical information
• Formative QCM
• Some group activities
• Practical activities of computerized bibliographic researches
• Practical activities of importing and managing bibliographic references in Mendeley

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face-to-face course.

Recommended or required readings

Notes, tutorials about bibliographic tools and self-assessment tests are available on e-Campus.
More suggested references :

• Antonia Maria, Baschwitz Bertrand. 2010. Comment me documenter? Bruxelles: De Boeck. 185p. (Guides pratiques: former et se former).
• Pochet Bernard, 2015. Comprendre et maitriser la littérature scientifique. Gembloux : Presses agronomiques de Gembloux. Online. Version du 2 août 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2268/186181
• University of Liege. 2017. Plagiarism? Not for me! A short guide for University of Liege Students. https://www.enseignement.uliege.be/upload/docs/application/pdf/2017-07/plagiarism_-_not_for_me.pdf

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral presentation (10-15 min.) of the student written synthesis about the practice which may be used as a support by the student during the evaluation. The professor will keep the written support.

The oral presentation has to be the structure (introduction, methods, results, interpretation, conclusions) of the project initiated during the practical activities and finalized for the evaluation. The oral presentation has to demonstrate the student's theoretical and practical acquisitions.
The project itself is the critical comparison of two bibliographic research tools, following the points:

• Choosing the bibliographical research subject on the basis of a scientific article and applying a bibliographical request,
• Introducing the same bibliographical request in two bibliographical databases and/or specialized search engines (choosed by the student),
• Critical comparison of the obtained references following the two research tools already choosed.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The course is presented wednesday and friday from week 10 to week 14, from 13:00 to 17:00, in the B7a computer room ( https://www.campus.uliege.be/cms/c_1804841/en/b7a-grands-amphitheatres ). Groups and schedule should be determined.
Students' username and password are required to acceed the set of electronic tools.

Contacts

• GRECO Ninfa
• 04/366 50 41
• n.greco@uliege.be

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