All courses
By increasing your information literacy skills via these courses, you can search, select, manage and evaluate scholarly information more effectively.
| Get to know the University Library
This course provides the basic skills you need to search for and find books, journals and articles in the University Library and also: what to do when you can’t find it at the library. |
| The basics of scholarly publishing
'Not just for professors': the ins and outs of (new) ways of scholarly publishing. Also focus on Open Access and measuring research impact. |
e-Dingen: media en tools voor het Hoger Onderwijs ( In Dutch – has Google Site Translation option)
The e-Things course consists of 22 lessons about web 2.0 and (SURFnet) tools ranging from SURFmedia to YouTube, from blogs to Twitter and wikis to Google apps. The course is a mix of face-to-face and online learning and is designed for teachers, research assistants, ICTO staff and librarians of the EUR. The study material is also suitable for self-study. As a student you communicate with other students and the course supervisor through your own weblog that you set up in the very first e-Thing.
| Internet Research
On pitfalls of Internet use, the difference between Internet and library sources and the evaluation of the quality and usefulness of Internet sources. |
| Online scholarly collaboration
Online scholarly collaboration in a collaboratory or virtual research environment (VRE) is a relatively new way of working in the social sciences and humanities. How to create your own collaboratory? Identify failure and success factors, especially organizational and social factors.
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| RefWorks
Introduction to RefWorks, an online reference manager. |
| References and citations
'All that remains is the bibliography': everything about making proper reference to the sources used and citation styles for print and electronic publications. |
| Research impacts: Sources and metrics
This course introduces the three currently most used data sources to measure scholarly impact: Web of Knowledge, Scopus and Google Scholar, and the metrics available in these sources, like the H-index, the Journal Impact Factor and the SNIP. |
| Web of Science
How to search for literature on the basis of older publications with the cited reference method and learn how to get (statistical) data on citations. |
| What is a book?!
For philosophy students: after following this course you will be able to find your way in scholarly literature in order to make a good start in your studies. |
| Searching for scholarly information
Social Sciences
Management and economics
Everything's on the Internet, isn't it? How to select, retrieve and evaluate scholarly information. |
| Get started with financial data (EDSC)
Tutorials to independently work with financial databases like Datastream and Thomson One Banker. |
