Searching & Managing Scientific Information : Erasmus Mundus Master Degree on Nuclear Physics

Content:

1. Introduction to databases: main features and current trends. The selection of the information sources.

2. Designing the searching strategy: choice of subject, use of keywords or descriptors, the Boolean operators, limiters and facets.

3. The first results: how to improve and redesign our bibliographic search. Saving and exporting records. The searching history, alerts and other advanced options.

4. Practicing in the databases: Scopus, IEEE Xplorer, arXiv.org, IOP.

5. Managing the references and formatting a manuscript or academic work with Mendeley Reference Manager (MRM).

Dentro del Marco de Competencia Digital (DIGCOMP) trabajaremos el Área 1 - Información y tratamiento de datos y el Área 3 - Creación de contenidos digitales.