Larmo, Katri & Heino, Tiina Conference presentation: (EAHIL) 12 – 16 June 2017 / Dublin, Ireland

1. Medical Faculty’s and Information
Professionals’ Successful Cooperation
Managing Scientific Information Course for Doctoral Students
Tiina Heino and Katri Larmo
Terkko Medical Campus Library
Helsinki University Library
tiina.m.heino@helsinki.fi, katri.larmo@helsinki.fi

2. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
• In 2014 the doctoral education was renewed
• A good point to set up a new kind of course
– A change is an opportunity (worth to utilise)
• Managing Scientific Information for the students of
Doctoral School in Health Sciences (1 ECTS)
• terkko.helsinki.fi/terkko2mdphd

3. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
Goals:
• Practical tools and skills for one’s own research
• Time and space for hands-on working, with expert help
available
• To get motivated and see the benefits of open science and
managing research data
• Meeting other PhD students tackling with the same kind of
issues; peer experiences and solutions
• Finding out where to get help also in the future

4. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
Contents:
• 4 sessions (and pre tasks)
• Introduction (library's e-resources and new tools)
• Systematic information retrieval
• Metrics, Publishing, Open Science & Reference management
• Research data management and Plagiarism recognition tool
• All sessions are hands-on working
• Questions, discussion and peer communication encouraged
• Materials & “inspirational extras” in the Moodle learning environment
• in English

5. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
Contents:
What the course materials actually look like:
Managing Scientific Information Course in Moodle
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6. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
Cooperation:
• mutual trust, efficient and low threshold communication with the faculty
coordinator
• the themes developed together
• on the course calendar right from the start, marketed efficiently through the Doctoral
School's network and on own courses, customer meetings and networks
• “co-teaching”, continuous updating, flexibility
• course administration by the Doctoral School course coordinator Eeva Sievi and Tiina.
Tiina also coordinates Terkko’s other user education
• interaction with the students
• further questions concerning other than library things => connecting with other
parties (we also learn) (e.g. helping with open access publishing
http://surgicalneurologyint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1001-e-book-1.pdf )

7. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
Feedback: courses held 10 times, feedback from 9
The overall grade for the whole course 4,4
scale 1-5 (1 poor… 5 excellent), 70 respondents*
*108 course participants,
i.e. response rate 64 %
8.96%
38.81%
52.24%
3 4 5

8. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
Pickings from the feedback:
“All in all, it was one of the most useful
courses I have participated”
“I’ll recommend this course for all PhD
students at HUS!”
“The lecturers' willingness to answer all our questions
and help us with practicalities promoted my learning
process”
It was very well organized and neither
short nor long.

9. Managing Scientific Information
Course for Doctoral Students
Take home message:
• work closely together with the faculty
• learn to know their needs and let them know our
services/solutions
• information world today is developing fast and has
become very complicated; the course is one way to
help the users to navigate and find efficient tools and
ways to work

10. Thank you!
tiina.m.heino@helsinki.fi
katri.larmo@helsinki.fi