Informationssökning

Information Searching for international students, course LI1041.

This course has been replaced by LI1012.

KTH Social is not used in this course.

This is a classroom course for mainly English speaking students.

To apply for the course: Get in touch with your international coordinator or your student counsellor to apply for the course. (Your name has to be connected to our course in the student performance system in KTH, if we are to be able to report your credits when you have finished the course. The Library (KTHB) is not permitted to fix this.)

The course consists of three classroom sessions when we meet for three hours in each session. These sessions are introductions to different parts of the course. It starts with one lecture and then two labb sessions follows where the students are to be more active than in the lecture:

Lecture:

• Introduction to searching for scientific info i bibliographic science databases. This includes a thourough demonstration of how a good search interface works. Until lab session 1 a homework is given where this interface is to be used. This homework is an excercise in how to search for answers to a given question, equal for all students. The students are also asked to do read most of the course literature (which is available freely on the Internet).

Lab sessions:

1. This session starts with a check on how the students have solved the homework excercise. For any given search task there are almost always numerous different good ways to solve the task. This session also includes specifics that you should consider when you search for professionally important or scientific information.
2. This session deals primarily with how to use free Internet search tools (such as search services (search engines and directories)) and how to obtain in a readable format documents that you have found during searching. That is:
   1. We discuss the pros and cons with the use of different mostly free search services.
   2. When you have a search result (like a link list from e.g. Bing or Yahoo or Web of Science) you only know that there has been published somewhere a document, you do not always know how to get a copy (in print or electronically). We discuss different ways to obtain the actual documents. Such as how to navigate i library catalogues and order loans or copies from different libraries.