Professional Internet Research (online video classes)
In times of Information Overload it is very important to be able to ‘filter’. This is especially true for information specialists who deal with supporting research. The secret of effective and efficient searching for information lies in the skill to formulate a clear research question, a structured approach and the right search strategy. Only when these 3 aspects of search are taken care of it is possible to change your search output form 10 million irrelevant hits tot 500 hits with high relevance.
Target Audience
This course is aimed at information specialists, whose role is to support professors and students with their research.
Structure
During this 3 x 3 hours online workshop our lecturer will guide you through the course material in an interactive and practical way to ensure that you not only get the needed knowledge and insight but develop your skills as well.
To get the best result out of the course we strongly recommend to bring your own device to the course.
Result
At the end of the course you will be able to support research in the most effective and efficient way.
Content
The Information Retrieval course covers the following topics:
Part 1:
- analysing research questions
- identifying concepts
- application of thesauri and thesaurusterms
- internet search
- basic principles of searching literature
- building search strategies
Part 2:
- special applications of the NOT-operator
- application of internet search engines, like Google Scholar, for scientific purposes
- translating search strategies from one database to another database (e.g. from PubMed to Embase or Web of Science)
- managing references and helpful tools, like Zotero, Mendeley and Endnote
- judging search results
- ranking and selecting search results
Part 3:
- presenting self build search strategies
- future of systematic searching
11, 18 & 25 June 2024 (3 Online video classes of 3 hours)
4, 11 & 18 November 2024 (3 Online video classes of 3 hours)
$ 205,00 (VAT exempt)
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