Learning objectives
- Discerning between different types of scientific publications
- Being able to retrieve the most relevant and authoritative publications on a given topic
- Being able to collect publications in a biblioraphy
Prerequisites
- Possession of university credentials for Internet services
- Basic scientific English
Course unit content
- Basic research methodology to assess relevance and authoritative ness of scientific publications
- Principles of general bibliographic searches
- Use of Pubmed and Scopus for:
- Article searches
- Creation of bibliographies
Full programme
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Bibliography
Class handouts
Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Live tutorials
Assessment methods and criteria
Practical demonstration of the above skills at a computer workstation
Other information
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