INFORMATION LITERACY ACTIVITIES

WHAT ABOUT...? Topics Types of courses Main goals of courses Structure of lessons Statistics

TOPICS What sources are suitable How to search in the university catalogue How to recognize a quality website How to search in databases (Boolean, wildcards etc.) How to search fulltexts (WoS, Scopus, SFX) Basic rules of scientific writing (theses, articles) Publication and citation ethics How to cite Journal citation reports (IF, h-index, SNIP, SJR)

NEW TOPICS SINCE 2013 How to learn more effectively How to avoid information overload Safe behavior on the Internet Searching in deep (invisible) web Basic rules of argumentation Basic rules of preparing a survey GNU licences and freeware Open Access

ELECTIVE COURSES Acquisition of scientific information course for Ph.D. medical students – 5 credits face-to-face lessons (3 x 2,5 hours) each semester conditions – attend lessons Lesson 1: searching in databases + Zotero Lesson 2: EndNoteWeb + searching + JCR Lesson 3: Publication and citation ethics, writing a scientific paper

ELECTIVE COURSES Information literacy three e-learning courses for Czech and Slovak medical students – 4 credits for foreign medical students – 3 credits for sport students – 2 credits each semester conditions – completing all tasks More about the first course in the afternoon

ELECTIVE COURSES A course of working with information sources and tools e-learning course for medical students – 4 credits each semester conditions – completing all tasks (self evaluation tests, preparing a survey etc.) new topics (information overload, open access, argumentation etc.)

SHORT TERM COURSES MUCL COURSES a set of lessons for users each semester Lessons Searching in databases (5-7 x) Journal Citation Reports (2 x) Publication and citation ethics, writing a scientific paper (1 x) EndNoteWeb (1 x) Zotero (3 x) MS Word (2 x)

SHORT TERM COURSES INFOLESSONS one hour presentation of library services each autumn content orientation in the library system of shelf numbers printing, copying, scanning using the library catalogue basic information about EIR

SHORT TERM COURSES COURSES ON DEMAND lessons on a requested topic usually about searching in databases and Zotero

MAIN GOALS OF COURSES Place emphasis on practical skills Explain a benefit of topics Sort the topics as a story Motivate students with simple, but practical tasks

STRUCTURE OF LESSONS SEARCHING IN DATABASES Types of databases and licence terms theory - 5 mins How to define keywords, use wildcards and Boolean operators theory - 15 mins Assisted searching in Metalib and using SFX training - 20 mins Searching in databases individually practice - 40 mins

STRUCTURE OF LESSONS IMPACT FACTOR, SNIP, SJR, H-INDEX Calculation formula and searching impact factor theory + training – 15 mins Searching impact factor individually practice – 15 mins Calculation formula and searching SNIP + SJR theory + training – 20 mins Searching SNIP + SJR individually practice – 5 mins Evaluating scientific quality of journals practice – 10 mins Calculation formula and Searching h-index in Web of Science theory + training – 10 mins Searching h-index in Web of Science individually Assested and individually searching h-index in Scopus training + practice – 40 mins

STRUCTURE OF LESSONS PUBLICATION AND CITATION ETHICS, SCIENTIFIC WRITING Avoiding plagiarism theory - 15 mins Detecting signs of plagiarism individually practice - 5 mins Citation ethics, how to cite theory - 25 mins Searching documents in the list of bibliographic references Scientific writing theory – 35 mins

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