Information Literacy support and research strategy skills Mary Joan Crowley DISG Library, Engineering Faculty, Sapienza, University of Rome * all images.

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1 Information Literacy support and research strategy skills Mary Joan Crowley DISG Library, Engineering Faculty, Sapienza, University of Rome * all images uploaded for educational purposes

2 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

3 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

4 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. PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

5 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) : I nformation Literacy Competence Standards for higher Education ACRL, 2000 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

6 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 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

7 League of European Research Universities At the forefront Informed Innovative Disseminate research in high ranked journals http://ec.europa.eu/res earch/innovation- union/ic2014/index_en. cfm?pg=about PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

8 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 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

9 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 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

10 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. PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

11 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 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

12 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/ PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

13 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

14 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 http://w3.uniroma1.i t/biblioteche/

15 BIXY – off campus access http://w3.uniroma1.it/biblioteche/proxy.htm PER DOCENTI E PERSONALE nome.cognome@uniroma1.it / password della posta elettronica PER STUDENTI matricola@studenti.uniroma1.it / password della posta elettronica. [ATTENZIONE: NON "COGNOME.MATRICOLA", MA SOLO "MATRICOLA"] PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

16 RIVISTE@SAPIENZA PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

17 https://nilde.bo.cnr.it/ NILDE is an online service that allows libraries to request and supply documents in a reciprocal manner. PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

18 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. PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

19 INSPEC : http://www.theiet.org/resources/inspec/ Extras http://tv.theiet.org/channel s/inspec/index.cfmhttp://tv.theiet.org/channel s/inspec/index.cfm http://www.theiet.org/reso urces/inspec/support/subj ect-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. PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

20 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/ PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

21 http://libguides.hsl.washington.edu/content.php?p id=439591&sid=3614877 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

22 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 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley

23 Boolean Operators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr7LscBEYC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Zei_azjX0 PhD DISG - mary joan crowley