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University of Copenhagen

Academic Information Seeking

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

Status: Document Management
Status: Record Keeping
Course6 hours

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NK

4.0Reviewed Aug 15, 2020

It was a fast and educative course that brought a lot into perspective. Although, the links along the way contain 400 errors and some crashed. They should look into this.

BB

5.0Reviewed Sep 11, 2024

This course was very informative and precise. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is new to research field and is looking for an easy course to guide them properly.

TR

5.0Reviewed Aug 12, 2020

Thank you very much for giving this opportunity to learn and get the certificate from coursera. I am very much satisfied with this course

MW

4.0Reviewed Jul 19, 2017

Thank you so much for this great effort, It really helped me alot, i wish you more and more success , keep up the good work .

MV

4.0Reviewed Oct 12, 2016

Objective. Very good material and good practices to help you better build a bibliography for research purpose. Sometimes the multiple answers quiz can be tricky.

JW

5.0Reviewed Jan 27, 2020

Excellent course. I am starting my thesis in medical science, and this helped me a lot to give structure to my research work!

KR

5.0Reviewed Jun 14, 2020

This course has taught me a lot of techniques in searching information for my academic researches. Thank you to all people behind this, especially to the professors in this course!

KN

5.0Reviewed Sep 2, 2020

This course was very useful and entertaining for me, I've learned a lot from it and i highly recommend it for any student or learner.

PD

5.0Reviewed Feb 14, 2018

Great Course for people who are new to research. This course provides an overview of the various components of the journey called research.Thank you!

CC

5.0Reviewed Nov 28, 2020

The course is very helpful especially for those in the academic profession or anyone with library access to literature and materials.

JJ

5.0Reviewed May 31, 2020

Extremely valuable for researching techniques. Teachers were outstanding. Lectures are to the point without drag-on. Many thanks for the quality of your efforts!

PD

5.0Reviewed Jul 9, 2020

Great course for academicians who are aspiring to write research papers and articles.This course gives the very basic foundational idea of the process.

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