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Information Literacy support and research strategy skills Mary Joan Crowley DISG Library, Engineering Faculty, Sapienza, University of Rome * all images uploaded for educational purposes. Sapienza University of Rome libraries serving:. 103,000 students 3,071 PhD students 4000+ Faculty - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Information Literacy support and research strategy skillsMary Joan Crowley
DISG Library, Engineering Faculty, Sapienza, University of Rome* all images uploaded for educational purposes
Sapienza University of Rome libraries serving:
• 103,000 students• 3,071 PhD students• 4000+ Faculty• 4300+ Admin, technical
and hospital staff• 11 Faculties, 63
departments, 2 university hospitals
PhD DISG - mary joan crowley
Sapienza’s library system
•59+ Faculty and Department libraries• 1.7million print monographs and thousands of print journals
• 20000+ full-text, 24/7 online journals, e-books, data bases, etc.
• 25.000+ rare books
• Sapienza Digital Library• PADIS – Online PhD thesis archive
14/04/2011
http://www.zoonar.com/829789
Information Literacy support and skills for PhD research students
• Good IT skills alone are insufficient for constructing good searches.
• The scope of this module is to give postgraduate students an introduction to Information Literacy as applied to PhD research and to develop the relevant skills that will enhance the quality of their research as well as their career opportunities in a knowledge and innovation based economy.
• This training module will be in English.• This six week programme conisists of six 2 hour ‘hands on’
workshops which enable students to build their research skills, research methods, academic writing in English and web communication.
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Information literacy
• Information literacy is knowing when and why you need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner
(source) : Information Literacy Competence Standards for higher Education ACRL, 2000
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CILIP : http://www.cilip.org.uk (accessed 20-02-2014)
• A need for information • • The resources available • • How to find information • • The need to evaluate results • • How to work with or exploit results • • Ethics and responsibility of use • • How to communicate or share your
findings • • How to manage your findings
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League of European Research Universities
• At the forefront
• Informed
• Innovative
• Disseminate research in high ranked journals
• http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/ic2014/index_en.cfm?pg=about
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PhD candidates at Sapienza
la presenza di una pagina web, nel sito del Dipartimento cui afferisce il Corso di dottorato, indicante chiaramente l’attività scientifica e didattica dell’ultimo anno, le pubblicazioni dei dottorandi ed una breve relazione annuale sull’attività svolta da ciascun dottorando;
http://www.disg.uniroma1.it/didattica/offerta-formativa/dottorato
•Source: http://www.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/regolamenti/DR_regolamento_modificato_0.pdf
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• la disponibilità di specifiche e qualificate strutture operative e scientifiche per l'attività di studio e di ricerca dei dottorandi, ivi inclusi, relativamente alla tipologia del corso, laboratori scientifici, un adeguato patrimonio librario, banche dati e risorse per il calcolo elettronico;
• http://www.uniroma1.it/strutture/biblioteche
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• la previsione di attività, anche in comune tra più dottorati, di formazione disciplinare e interdisciplinare e di perfezionamento linguistico e informatico nonché nel campo della gestione della ricerca e della conoscenza dei sistemi di ricerca europei ed internazionali, della valorizzazione dei risultati della ricerca e della proprietà intellettuale.
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Language learning support
• The Boaga and DISG libraries have access (10) to CapturatOr – an online English language learning platform
• Self-paced
• B1 & B2
• 50-hour module
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• Ogni studente di dottorato dispone di un proprio indirizzo mail messo gratuitamente a disposizione da “Sapienza”.
• Rappresentanza dei Dottorandi, elezioni 7 marzo, 2014 - http://www.disg.uniroma1.it/
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http://padis.uniroma1.it/
• Dopo la discussione della tesi, il dottore di ricerca ha l’obbligo di depositare copia della stessa, in formato elettronico, nella banca dati d’Ateneo che ne cura la trasmissione presso le Biblioteche nazionali di Roma e di Firenze.
PhD DISG - mary joan crowley
Sapienza University of Rome libraries serving:
• 103,000 students• 3,071 PhD students• 4000+ Faculty• 4300+ Admin, technical
and hospital staff• 11 Faculties, 63
departments, 2 university hospitals
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• http://w3.uniroma1.it/biblioteche/
BIXY – off campus access
• http://w3.uniroma1.it/biblioteche/proxy.htm
• PER DOCENTI E PERSONALE [email protected] / password della posta elettronicaPER STUDENTI [email protected] / password della posta elettronica. [ATTENZIONE: NON "COGNOME.MATRICOLA", MA SOLO "MATRICOLA"]
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RIVISTE@SAPIENZA
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https://nilde.bo.cnr.it/
• NILDE is an online service that allows libraries to request and supply documents in a reciprocal manner.
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IEEE - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp?tag=1
IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.
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INSPEC : http://www.theiet.org/resources/inspec/
Extras
• http://tv.theiet.org/channels/inspec/index.cfm
• http://www.theiet.org/resources/inspec/support/subject-guides/tde.cfm
• The Inspec database is an invaluable information resource for all scientists and engineers, that contains 14 million abstracts and specialised indexing to the world's quality research literature in the fields of physics and engineering.
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Web of Science & Scopus & Google Scholar
• Database of (peer-reviewed) literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research
• http://scholar.google.it/
• http://www.scopus.com/
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http://libguides.hsl.washington.edu/content.php?pid=439591&sid=3614877
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TUTORIALS – Scopus - Search tips
• Field codes• Searching affiliations and references• Choosing search terms• Finding plurals• Using Boolean operators• Finding phrases• Using proximity operators• Finding variations of a word (wildcards)• Searching with stop words• Finding accented and special characters
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Boolean Operators
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr7LscBEYC8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Zei_azjX0
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