Date April 25th, 26th, 28th & 29th 2016
Time 9.30-14.30 (lunch break: 12-13)
Location KADK library. Meeting room, 2nd floor
Language English
Daniel Gunnarsson – KADK Library
Gitte Lunde Jørgensen – KADK Library
Inge Henningsen – KADK Research Administration
Sidse Schelde – Roskilde University Library
Guests Anne Beim, Professor KADK
Arne Redsted Rasmussen, Associate professor KADK
Martin Søberg, Lecturer KADK
Form Lectures and workshops Assignment Articles, continuous exercises
Limit of attendees 12
Deadline for registration Monday, April 11th 2016
ECTS 2 point
The course will provide you with skills to conduct more efficient information searches and knowledge on how you easily can retrieve access to the literature and material you have verified. You will obtain an overview of important elements that will give your research authority. You will establish a direct contact to the KADK library research team.
You will get knowledge of the best resources within information science, publication, citation and reference management. You will get analytical skills in how to search and select the publications that are of highest relevance and use within your line of study, practice and need.
You will get introduced to questions relating to your own research value and availability, and none the least which considerations you should focus on in relation to communicating your research.
Introduction to course
- Presentation of instructors and attendees
- The structure of the course
- The library services towards PhD students
Instructor: Gitte Lunde Jørgensen
Information literacy
- Search methods, search strategies, search tools
- Source criticism and evaluate sources and material
- Introduction to library databases, structure and content
- Introduction to subject specific databases, their structure and content. Science Direct, Google Scholar, JStor, Infomedia, Material Connexion
- Access on and off campus, VPN, Scopus
- Order litterature and articles
Instructor: Daniel Gunnarsson
Guest of the day: Anne Beim: “From scholar to researcher”
Impact factors and publication strategy
- Peer review
- Journal impact factors
- Citation databases
- National research indicators and bibliometrics (BFI)
- Open Access (OA) and Sherpa/RoMEO
Instructors: Sidse Schelde and Gitte Lunde Jørgensen
Guest of the day: Arne Redsted Rasmussen
Citation and reference management
- Introduction to reference management and citations
- Choose reference management tools; Refworks, Endnote, Zotero
- How to use a reference management tools, import, edit, bibliography
- Citation styles, citation guides, citation tools
Instructor: Daniel Gunnarsson
Make your research visible
- Researcher ID’s; ORCID, ResearchGate, SCOPUS, ResearcherID
- Danish National Research Database
- Research.kadk.dk
- Research communication and presentation
Instructors: Inge Henningsen og Gitte Lunde Jørgensen
Guest of the day: Martin Søberg
In order to establish proper academic skills and habits as early on as possible in your studies we recommend that you attend this course as early on in your ph.d. term as possible.
Register by sending an e-mail to Karen Margrethe Laursen: klau@kadk.dk. Please enclose the following documents to enable us to modify the course to best suit your level and area:
- Research proposal and CV.
- Information on which form you plan to use for your dissertation.
- A couple of sentences about your expectations to the course.