Courses in Information Literacy
The ability to search for academic literature, to be critical when evaluating what you find and to refer to the texts correctly, are necessary competencies for any university student.
The University Library offers courses in literature search, source criticism, reference management, and much more for both BA and MA students.
We teach topics such as:
- Basic use of the library
- Literature search
- Reference managing
- Source criticism
- How to avoid plagiarism
We design each course according to the specific needs of each course/group of students, so depending on your preferences, we can incorporate all of the topics mentioned above or just a few in your course.
Listed below are some examples of courses that we teach regularly.
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Book courses
- Learn how to order physical as well as digital books and articles through soeg.kb.dk
- Learn how to use the subject guides with relevant handbooks and databases.
- Learn how to borrow books at the library and how to use the facilities the library offers.
- Learn about the different types of library materials, and how to use them.
- Learn how to find the right search words in order to find relevant literature for your paper.
- Learn different search strategies to enable you to create exact searches.
- Learn how to use your research question to create better searches.
- Learn how to search different academic databases.
- Learn how to perform a systematic search and how to document your search process.
- Learn how to evaluate a source’s academic credibility.
- Learn to perform lateral reading.
- Learn to perform the CRAAP test.
- Learn how to write references and bibliographies manually.
- Learn how to use the reference management tool Zotero to keep track of your references and your bibliography
- Learn how to avoid plagiarism.