Bibliographic Software: Use the Reference Manager with Hands-on

Course objectives

To enable the participants to handle references on the computer via the Reference Manager and to import bibliographic information from on-line databases. The course will emphasise preparation of literature lists for articles.

General contents and topics

The course will provide an introduction to the building of a reference catalogue, to manual and electronic creation of different reference collections, to the searching and editing of references and the printing of literature lists in the formats required by scientific journals. Different downloaded formats of databases will be shown.

General information

The teaching methods will be lectures and "hands on". The number of hours is 3.5.

Duration

28 January 2002.

Course weight

0.012 STÅ (STÅ = student full-time equivalent) = 0.72 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System).

Course director

Alice Nørhede, Head of Library Services at The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy.

Course fee

Total: DKK 400,
of which operating costs amount to: DKK 100.

Closing date for application

1 January 2002.

Course capacity

15 participants.

N.B.

The course addresses PhD students from The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy. No formal evaluation will take place. Participants are welcome to bring their own downloaded references on a diskette.