Name: Academic Information Seeking
Brand: University of Copenhagen
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.7 (213 reviews)

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About this course

This course will introduce you to the basic elements of academic information seeking - we will explore the search process from defining a strategy to evaluating and documenting your search results.

Attending the course will make you a proficient information seeker. You will learn how to carry out comprehensive literature searches based on your own research assignment. You will be guided through the various information seeking steps from selecting relevant search strategies and techniques to evaluating your search results, documenting your search process and citing your sources. Attending the course will enable you to: • Identify your information need • Evaluate databases and other information resources • Set up search strategies and use various search techniques • Formulate search strings based on your own research assignment • Identify relevant material types • Undertake critical evaluation of your sources • Search more efficiently on the internet • Avoid plagiarism • Cite correctly • Work with reference management • Document your search process The course is intended for undergraduate students but the lessons will be useful to anyone who is interested in becoming better at finding scientific information. There are no formal requirements for the course. The series consists of 21 lectures that are organized into three modules. The lectures include small assignments and quizzes (to check comprehension). The lectures will each touch upon a topic that is essential to the information seeking process. To get the most out of the lecture series, we recommend that you access the lectures while you are working on an academic paper. We also recommend that you watch the lectures in the order in which we have structured them. We recommend that you create and fill out a log book while attending the lectures. We have created a log book template that you can use during the course. The lecture series has been developed in collaboration between information specialists at University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark

Featured reviews

5.0Reviewed Nov 11, 2019

A very amazing and comprehensive course that leads you to how to carry out your search and document it the correct way.

4.0Reviewed Aug 14, 2020

It was a fast and educative course that brought a lot into perspective. Although, the links along the way contain 400 errors and some crashed. They should look into this.

4.0Reviewed Jul 18, 2017

Thank you so much for this great effort, It really helped me alot, i wish you more and more success , keep up the good work .

4.0Reviewed Oct 11, 2016

Objective. Very good material and good practices to help you better build a bibliography for research purpose. Sometimes the multiple answers quiz can be tricky.

5.0Reviewed Aug 11, 2020

Thank you very much for giving this opportunity to learn and get the certificate from coursera. I am very much satisfied with this course

5.0Reviewed Jan 26, 2020

Excellent course. I am starting my thesis in medical science, and this helped me a lot to give structure to my research work!

5.0Reviewed Jun 13, 2020

This course has taught me a lot of techniques in searching information for my academic researches. Thank you to all people behind this, especially to the professors in this course!

5.0Reviewed May 30, 2020

Extremely valuable for researching techniques. Teachers were outstanding. Lectures are to the point without drag-on. Many thanks for the quality of your efforts!

5.0Reviewed Feb 13, 2018

Great Course for people who are new to research. This course provides an overview of the various components of the journey called research.Thank you!

5.0Reviewed Nov 27, 2020

The course is very helpful especially for those in the academic profession or anyone with library access to literature and materials.

5.0Reviewed Oct 17, 2020

The course was very comprehensive and easy to understand. The instructors made sure that they are giving the information in a way that won't make me confused. Thank you so much for this great course!

5.0Reviewed Sep 10, 2017

A detailed review of one of the most important skills in academic research: information seeking. In particular, I enjoyed the tutorials on Mendeley and reference management tools. Highly recommended!

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celina orsoral

4.0

Reviewed Jan 20, 2016

Very interesting course, better done when in an academic context and with an ongoing project to carry out the exercices for. If you don't have access to a university library, you will be very limited, but the course presents some alternatives for us professionals who are still interested in researching and documenting our work with a more scientific approach.

Giorgio Zampirolo

5.0

Reviewed Sep 11, 2017

A detailed review of one of the most important skills in academic research: information seeking. In particular, I enjoyed the tutorials on Mendeley and reference management tools. Highly recommended!

KC M. Reyna

5.0

Reviewed Jun 13, 2020

This course has taught me a lot of techniques in searching information for my academic researches. Thank you to all people behind this, especially to the professors in this course!

Sarah Jessica S. Napoles

5.0

Reviewed Nov 28, 2020

The basic knowledge on doing academic research online covered in this course should truly be taught to every student. This course is worth taking and will have long-term benefits!

jeff

5.0

Reviewed May 31, 2020

Extremely valuable for researching techniques. Teachers were outstanding. Lectures are to the point without drag-on. Many thanks for the quality of your efforts!

İbrahim Niftiyev

4.0

Reviewed Jun 18, 2023

Although I knew much of the content of this course, I still found the review of this knowledge useful. I recommend this course for beginning academic writing and university students, but I think the content of this MOOC could have been richer and more practical.

hala

3.0

Reviewed Oct 3, 2017

too general, it might be more interesting if it is focused on specialties: for example seeking information for health professionals

Y.R. Solomon

3.0

Reviewed Aug 23, 2017

Nice course. However - it is too basic

3.0

Reviewed Jan 30, 2022

The accent was awful and boring!

Maha Amjad

1.0

Reviewed Dec 23, 2021

The course has become outdated because of technological advancement. Mendley no longer offers the features discussed in this course. This course needs to be updated/revised.

Nuryaman

5.0

Reviewed Jan 3, 2022

I adore everything in this course. Each explanation works for me and it loads of great knowledge and know-how across defining information needs, accessing online resources and upgrading my skills towards Mendeley since I have been using the application for years.

Mando

5.0

Reviewed Jun 4, 2018

I really liked this course - it was short, useful and to the point. Would love to see a follow up on how to take notes of lectures, books and journal articles so that they can be used to build an essay.

Lovely Mae Castillo Buenconsejo

5.0

Reviewed Oct 18, 2020

The course was very comprehensive and easy to understand. The instructors made sure that they are giving the information in a way that won't make me confused. Thank you so much for this great course!

Chau Ngoc Pham

5.0

Reviewed Aug 19, 2023

Very well-structured covering all key aspects of finding information for academic writing.

kami kaku

5.0

Reviewed Oct 25, 2023

Very useful. I like the work ducument and log book.

Sagar Nitturkar

5.0

Reviewed Dec 30, 2022

very confident after finishing this course

Sayidomar Yasin Sheikh

5.0

Reviewed Aug 10, 2022

covered the basics in persuasive manner

Moulay Ali Elmghari Tabib

5.0

Reviewed Oct 7, 2023

NANYONGA Birungi Naheed Kaawaase

4.0

Reviewed Aug 14, 2020

It was a fast and educative course that brought a lot into perspective. Although, the links along the way contain 400 errors and some crashed. They should look into this.

Marcello Victorino

4.0

Reviewed Oct 12, 2016

Objective. Very good material and good practices to help you better build a bibliography for research purpose. Sometimes the multiple answers quiz can be tricky.