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Ressources DEA-MAN 413
Information skills
 
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  • Oxlip is a major "portal" or "gateway" to resources in numerous fields, grouped according to subjects and subdivisions.
    • It has an evaluative comment by the Oxlip team: it is important, when listing Internet resources, to use portals which evaluate the websites listed.

  • Sosig is a gateway in social sciences.

    The European Studies Tutorial contains four sections:

    • "Tour key Internet sites for European Studies"

      The fist step is to know a list of useful sites in one's subject; portals and gateways are a help for this (=sites which list important websites in a subject, frequently with an evaluative comment -- the equivalent of bibliographies in printed documentation)

    • "Discover how to improve your Internet searching"

      Acquire search skills.
      The European studies tutorial distinguishes between different categories of search helps:

      • subject gateways (such as the present one), or "portals" -- see above
      • directories , lists of sites on the same principle, but of broader scope, covering numerous fields classified by subject
      • search engines , where you type keywords in a box so that the engine indexes all websites corresponding to your topic

        • The search engines have "advanced search" facilities which enable you to relate several terms with logical "Boolean operators" (named after the 19th c. logician Boole) ; e.g. searching for "Renaissance discoveries" means searching for "discoveries AND Renaissance": see special section of the course on the Boolean operators (on the homepage of the Ecole Doctorale, click on "Travaux de recherche").

    • "Review the critical thinking required when using the Internet"

      An important step is to evaluate and select information:

      • "clues from URLs" (Uniform Resource Locator, the web address) -- the domain name indicates the source, and thus the reliability, of the website; e.g. <----.ac.uk> indicates it is a British university website, and therefore a reliable academic source; see, among the sites we are studying today, <www.ox.ac.uk> the University of Oxford.

      • a means of evaluating a website is to find out if it is recommended by academic websites (this is called "citation"); this chapter of the tutorial indicates how to find out the references to a website. The search engine Google has an advanced search facility which enables you to find the sites which point to a given website you are evaluating.

        There is a dual process:

        A website points to other websites:

        Several websites point to the site under consideration:

    • "Reflect on how to use the Internet for studying, teaching or research"

      The tutorial has a "quiz" section where you can test what you have learnt It allows you to save references to other related websites in your "basket" for the duration of the session, e.g.

      http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/library/instruction/www/onlinecourse
      published by the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands

      The same sections are to be found in other tutorials in the same series, e.g. Geography.

 
 
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