Duration
5h Th
Number of credits
| Doctoral training in veterinary sciences | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The management of bibliographic references is a time consuming step in a scientific research and writing process.
This course aims to offer an introduction to the basic features of Zotero, an open-source reference management software.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the training, researcher will be able to:
- retrieve and insert, into Mendeley or Zotero, bibliographic references from database searches... ;
- organize and manage these references ;
- cite in-text citations and automatically edit the bibliography at the end of the text, in a correct format (publishing style of scientific journals) ;
- share references and documents with other Mendeley or Zotero users.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
In-class course (duration : ± 2 hours). The training, in French, will be offered several times during the academic year. To know the date and place of the next training : please contact s.vandenput@uliege.be.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
see eCampus
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Out-of-session test(s)
Additional information:
The evaluation will take place on your personal computer (with some possible exceptions).
Date et assessment methods are to be fixed by email with Sandrine Vandenput (s.vandenput@uliege.be).
The objective of the evaluation is to check your ability to import references from databases useful for your cursus or from ULiège catalog (lib.uliege.be), to show your ability to attach a pdf to a reference, to manually import a reference, to insert references in a text, to create a bibliography at the end of the text according to a specific editorial style.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Each participant is asked
- to bring his/her own laptop computer to the training
- to install, before attenting the training, the software and the Zotero connector for the web browser usually used (see https://www.zotero.org/)
Contacts
Sandrina Vandenput, DVM, PhD
ULiège Library | Health Sciences
Email : S.Vandenput@uliege.be
Please always use your ULiège email address when sending emails and mention the course code (VDOC0072) in the email object field.