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INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS,
RESEARCH STRATEGIES
AND SHARING YOUR FINDINGS
(2 CFU)
Dr. Mary Joan Crowley
maryjoan.crowley@uniroma1.it
5 lezioni da 2 ore, h 11.00-13.00
nei seguenti giorni: 22 - 23 - 29 - 30 Gennaio e 5 Febbraio 2018
At this stage of your academic career you will need to do research. You will need to be able to
find, evaluate and use academic literature correctly.
The scope of this module is to introduce postgraduate students to the principles and practice
of Information Literacy as applied to PhD research, develop those skills which will enhance
the quality of their research output, expand their career opportunities in a knowledge-based
society and create awareness of both quantitative and qualitative measurement tools.
This training module will be in English.
Information literacy (http://www.ala.org/acrl/ )
- Determine the nature and extent of information needed
- Find needed information effectively and efficiently by articulating the right question
- Evaluate information and its sources critically and manage findings
- Understand the economic, legal and social issues of the use of information and access
- Ethics and responsibility of use
- Communicate and share your findings*
The 5-week programme consists of five 2-hour ‘hands on’ workshops, which enable Ph.D.
students to build their research skills, research methods, academic writing and
communication:
- Articulate the right question to perform effective and efficient literature searching and find
materials from Sapienza’s extensive online library using such databases as Scopus, Web of

2. Science, and further subject specific resources, such as IEEE, ASCE, etc. Keep up to date by
setting up alerts, RSS feeds. TOCs
- Manage information and use bibliographic management software to manage and share
information, e.g. EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero. Use these tools to cite references, compose a
bibliography focusing on breadth, depth and how updated references are.
- Scholarly communication and peer review process, citation analysis and impact, identifying
highly ranked national and international journals using Scimago and JCR. Keep pace with
new forms of quantitative measurements and staying visible, the so-called Altmetrics or your
Impact Story.
- Open Access issues covering green and gold access, Author’s choice, funders’ requirements,
Data Management Plans, copyright questions.
- Next steps, keeping up to date by setting up alerts, RSS feeds. TOCs, sharing research,
building an online network to extend impact and a suitable web presence to support future
work.
- Getting the most out of the Internet for research, contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of
these searches and comparing the advanced features of search engines such as Google
Scholar, as well as specialist search engines. Finding conferences, dissertations, theses, e-
theses, research and specialist publications, using EThOs , etc.
*Communicate and share your findings
Publication is vital to advance your scientific career. As a young researcher your hard work
should result in a published manuscript. A further seminar will show how to create a logical
structure to describe your research appropriate for the intended audience and situation. Learn
how the publishing and reviewing process works as well as tips for journal selection.
Mary Joan Crowley (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)