Seminars in the Information Centre of Library Resources
пятница 22 ноября 2024, 15:27
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Are you preparing your course work, master’s thesis or PhD dissertation? Any problems with information search? Where? How? Definitely, the world web is overloaded with information sources, various browsers assure you that they know everything and surfing the Internet you can find everything. However, the question is whether you can trust this information. Because writing an academic paper needs academic information, that must be authentic, reliable, relevant, up-to-date, peer-reviewed. And the Internet can not guarantee all these requirements. Specific academic information is compiled in special academic resources – various databases. For the purpose to facilitate your educational and research activity UrFU purchased a considerable number of the world leading databases. What are these? How can I access them? Can I download full texts of documents? How should I choose a journal for publication? The answers to these and many other questions you can find in the Library information centres. Moreover, Library Resources Information Centre located in 19 Mira St., room Б-202 provides group seminars in English for bachelors, master students and postgraduates. Seminars are held offline and online. At a seminar you will learn: • about the scientific resources (Russian and international databases) purchased or generated by the university useful for a young researcher; • how to select the sources subject related with your forthcoming paper’s topic; • about the authoritative journal rankings; • about bibliometric indicators analyzing, estimating and comparing journals and authors’ publication activity; • about the interlibrary loan service; • some life hacks on compiling information retrieval and will train them in practice. You can request such a seminar online just filling in the request form: • in the section “Seminars” on the English version of the Library site • in the section “Seminar request” in VK “Accessible science” («Доступная наука») group. You can also request the seminar in person in Information Centre of Library Resources (19 Mira St., room Б-202). If, for any reason, you have no possibility to request a group seminar, you can visit information centre for an individual consultation, and the library specialist will overview all the issues you are interested in. If you have any questions, you can ask them in this Telegram channel and in VK “Accessible science” («Доступная наука») group. Author and translator: Natalia Krasnogor
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