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6 hours

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Highlights

  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Approx. 6 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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  • This course will introduce you to the basic elements of academic information seeking - we will explore the search process from defining a strategy to evaluating and documenting your search results.
  • Attending the course will make you a proficient information seeker. You will learn how to carry out comprehensive literature searches based on your own research assignment. You will be guided through the various information seeking steps from selecting relevant search strategies and techniques to evaluating your search results, documenting your search process and citing your sources.
  • Attending the course will enable you to:
  • ? Identify your information need
  • ? Evaluate databases and other information resources
  • ? Set up search strategies and use various search techniques
  • ? Formulate search strings based on your own research assignment
  • ? Identify relevant material types
  • ? Undertake critical evaluation of your sources
  • ? Search more efficiently on the internet
  • ? Avoid plagiarism
  • ? Cite correctly
  • ? Work with reference management
  • ? Document your search process
  • The course is intended for undergraduate students but the lessons will be useful to anyone who is interested in becoming better at finding scientific information. There are no formal requirements for the course.
  • The series consists of 21 lectures that are organized into three modules. The lectures include small assignments and quizzes (to check comprehension).
  • The lectures will each touch upon a topic that is essential to the information seeking process. To get the most out of the lecture series, we recommend that you access the lectures while you are working on an academic paper. We also recommend that you watch the lectures in the order in which we have structured them.
  • We recommend that you create and fill out a log book while attending the lectures. We have created a log book template that you can use during the course.
  • The lecture series has been developed in collaboration between information specialists at University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark
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Curriculum

Preparing your search process

1.1 Introduction to the Course - Maria Ravnkilde Christensen

1.2 Logging your Searches - Rune Kurdahl

1.3 Generating Search Terms - Peter Hald

1.4 Identifying Different Types of Material and Literature - Torben Jørgensen

1.5 Identifying Information Sources - Torben Jørgensen

1.6 Taking Advantage of Reference Management Tools - Thomas Skov Jensen

1.7 Creating a Mendeley Account - Pernille Seier

1.8 Adding documents and References to Mendeley - Pernille Seier

Identify the learning targets in your curriculum

Recommended Reading Materials

Suggested Readings

Dictionary

Download Work document and Log book

Fill out the Work document

Identify databases

Create a Mendeley account

Get full-text access to electronic resources via your academic library

Set up a folder

End of Module 1 Quiz

Performing your searches

2.1 Setting up a Search Strategy - Thomas Skov Jensen

2.2 Doing a Random Search - Maria Ravnkilde Christensen

2.3 Making a Cited Reference Search - Peter Hald

2.4 Using Search Techniques - Birgitte Munk Kjærgaard

2.5 Performing a Building Blocks Search - Rune Kurdahl

2.6 Accessing the Full Text - Thomas Skov Jensen

Define literature types

Performing a cited reference search

Perform a building blocks search

End of Module 2 Quiz

Evaluating your search results

3.1 Critically Analyzing Information Sources - Birgitte Munk Kjærsgaard

3.2 Respecting Copyright - Peter Hald

3.3 Organising and Sharing in Mendeley - Pernille Seier

3.4 Write and Cite in Mendeley - Pernille Seier

3.5 Avoiding Plagiarism - Thomas Skov Jensen

3.6 Documenting your Search - Rune Kurdahl

3.7 Wrapping Up - Thomas Skov Jensen

Respecting the copyright of others

Mendeley - Write ?n? cite

Stop Plagiarism quiz

Create an overview of your literature

Special thanks

End of Module 3 Quiz

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Admission Process

    Important Dates

    May 25, 2024
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    Learning Experience: This course is veru useful for a Naive Researcher, it will help him/her throughout his/her journey. For a new student, reserach field appears to be complex, but this course will help the students making it appear simple. Give some tips and tricks.
    Faculty: The faculty was good, he tried explaining everything to the simplest as far as possible. Overall the course was good, but for me it was not so much satisfactory. I expected something more from this course.
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