information competences in science and engineering to...

Information Competences in Science and Engineering

to Support the E-Research and Learning Process at

the Warsaw University

of Technology

Anna Tonakiewicz-Kołosowska, Iwona Socik,

Monika Gajewska

Prague, 2015

Presentation plan

1. The WUT Base of Knowledge

2. The WUT Digital Library

3. Library training:

For faculty staff

For students

For librarians

4. Library services for supporting e-research and learning:

Tools for online services

Bibliometric services

Subject librarians

5. Future plans2

WUT Base of Knowledge

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The WUT Base of Knowledge disseminates research outputs of the University

staff. The main objective is to presents the research outputs of the WUT staff

to the wider academic and scientific community both in Poland and abroad by

depositing publications, reports, doctoral dissertations, as well as information

on the current research

Legal and organizational foundation

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2012

WUT Senat Resolution of November 21, 2012 (text in Polish)

The Resolution concerns the creation of a central system of

registration and archiving of the WUT scientific output for the WUT

organizational units and for the WUT Repository

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Rector of the WUT Decree No. 3/2014 of January 29, 2014

(text in Polish)

This regulation defines the policy for creating the system

of depositing and archiving the scientific output and the Repository.

The WUT Base of Knowledge stores the publications written by the

WUT researchers after January 1, 2013

Organizational assumptions

Faculty of Electronics

is responsible for the technical design and implementation of the ITsystem to manage the WUT Base of Knowledge

The WUT IT Center

is responsible for maintaining the continuity of activities ofthe Knowledge Base on the hardware and the system platform

The WUT Main Library

training for faculty’s editors, creating lists of the editors andother people responsible for data edition

the current accuracy control of data

update of common data (subject authority classification)- the WUT structure, journal titles

inference in terms of the Database and its development needs

issuing permissions to edit the data in the Baseand supervises substantive and functional correctness

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Basic functions and features

of the Base of Knowledge

Full-text search in the repository resources

repository archives metadata and digitized full text materials, such as:

monographs, journal articles, book chapters, reports and also papers (theses and

dissertations) necessary for awarding university degrees and academic titles

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Provision of information to WUT researchers

database of journals, including the ministry lists of journals, database on

conferences together with Web of Science

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Searching experts on particular subject

generating the researchers’ scientific outputs, including their publications,

list of works promoted by them, list of projects

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Mapping the research of the university organizational units

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The WUT Digital Library

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Selection of digitized materials from the WUT Main Library collections,

textbooks and learning materials and WUT research output, as well as

materials of historical and cultural significance

Training as a support method

for building users’ competences

in information retrieval process

Traditional lectures

Subject workshops

E-learning

Blended learning

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The Warsaw University of

Technology: facts & figures

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Regular lectures implemented

at the WUT faculties

Undergraduate students

Faculty of Automotive and

Construction Machinery

Engineering

Faculty of Chemistry

Faculty of Chemical and

Process Engineering

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Faculty of Materials Science

Engineering

Faculty of Physics

Faculty of Power and

Aeronautical Engineering

Graduate Students

Faculty of Environmental Engineering

Postgraduate Students

WUT Teacher TrainingDepartment (PhD students)

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Cooperation with the faculty lecturer - Information Literacy

as a part of the regular faculty lecture „Designing Technological

Processes”

Course Type: Obligatory

Hours during semester: 2

Semester: VI

Course form: lecture, e-learning

Language: Polish

The programme includes the following topics:

review of bibliographic databases for chemists

review of chemical information sources on the Internet

building a search strategy for literature in databases

evaluating search results and gathering data

creating one’s own bibliographic database (using selected programme, e.g. EndNote,

RefWorks, Mendelay)

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Faculty of Physics

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Cooperation with the faculty lecturer - Information Literacy

as a part of the Diploma Seminar

Course Type: obligatory


Semester VII

Course form: workshops

Language: Polish


acquainting students with the WUT Main Library holdings, including printed, electronic

e-sources and the Internet resources

review of bibliographical databases for physicians

Faculty of Automotive

and Construction Machinery Engineering

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Subject title: Intellectual Property Rights

Course Type: Obligatory

Semester I


Course form: lectures

ECTS Points: 1

Language: Polish


information about the faculty library resources and services

introduction to the Intellectual Property Rights

what are Copyright and Related Rights

Industrial Property

patents for inventions,

trademarks, industrial designs

geographical indication

intellectual property organisations - Polish and foreign

Faculty of Chemical and Process

Engineering

Subject title: Scientific and Patent Information

Course Type: elective (cooperation with the faculty lecturer)


ECTS Points: 2

Semester V and VII

Course form: lectures, workshops, e-learning

Language: Polish


review of bibliographic databases for chemists




creating one’s own bibliographic database (using programme, e.g. EndNote,

RefWorks, Mendelay)

reviewing patent databases

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Faculty of Materials Science

Engineering


Course Type: elective


ECTS Points: 2

Semester VI


Language: Polish


review of bibliographical databases for chemists




RefWorks- managing downloaded information and attachments, creating ones’ own

bibliographical database

referencing - introducing the principles of preparing footnotes, citations and

references

introducing the regulations concerning intellectual and industrial property

and review of patents’ databases

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Faculty of Power and Aeronautical

Engineering

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Course Type: elective

Hours during semester: 30h

semester VII

ECTS Points: 2


Language: Polish, English


review of bibliographical databases for engineers

review of information sources on the Internet



referencing - introducing the principles of preparing footnotes, citations and references

introducing the regulations concerning intellectual and industrial property and review

of patents’ databases

Faculty of Civil Engineering



Hours during semesters: 25h

semester I - 2h + e-learning

semester V – 6h + e-learning

semester VII – 2h + e-learning

ECTS Points: 1

Course form: lectures, e-learning



review of bibliographic databases for engineers

review of information sources on the Internet



referencing - introducing the principles of preparing footnotes, citations

and references

introducing the regulations concerning intellectual and industrial property

and reviewing patents’ databases 20

Faculty of Environmental

Engineering

Subject title: Searching and Sharing of Knowledge

Course Type: obligatory (cooperation with the faculty lecturer)

Hours during semester: 5 from 15

Semester : I

ECTS Points: 2


Language: English


acquainting students with the WUT Main Library holdings, including printed, electronic

e-sources and the Internet resources


managing scientific information from various sources

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WUT Teacher Training Department

(Phd students)

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Subject title: Scientific and Technical Information for Doctoral

Students”


Hours during semester: 6h


Language: Polish


acquainting students with the WUT Main Library holdings, including both printed

and electronic e-sources and the Internet resources


managing scientific information from various sources

introducing the principles of preparing footnotes, citations and references, introducing

the regulations concerning intellectual and industrial property and review of patents

databases

acquainting students with databases and tools like Web of Science, Scopus, Publish

or Perish, and other possibilities for citations of scientific literature

introducing the principles of making a proper assessment and selection of search results

and applying them in a scientific work

Other training

Library training for librarians

Indicators for evaluating research output and journals

Individual library training

Tailored to the needs of individual users

Library training for the WUT staff

Tailored to the needs of individual WUT departments(in the field of electronic information sources, literaturesearch strategy, Web of Science and other databases forcitations of the scientific literature)

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The ML E-learning Platform

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Operation system:

Moodle

Types of materials:

PDF presentations

Movies

Interactive materials

Tolls:

Flash

Adobe Captivate

Camtasia


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Open courses - open learning materials on using databases and additional tools owned by the library:

First Steps in the Main LibraryLanguage: Polish and English

Indicators for research output evaluation and for journals evaluation

Language: Polish

RefWorks - an online research management toolLanguage: Polish and English

SciFinder – the most comprehensive chemical informationLanguage: Polish

Open Access Language: Polish

Intellectual property law for librariansLanguage: Polish

About WUT Main Library for librariansLanguage: Polish

Ebrary – ebook platformLanguage: Polish and English 26


Closed courses – tailored to the specific faculty:

Warsaw University of Technology Library Guide

Language: Polish, English*

All faculties

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E-chemistry

Language: Polish


Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering

Faculty of Materials Science Engineering

*Under construction

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Closed courses – tailored to the specific faculty:

Information Literacy


Faculty of Civil Engineering – semester V

Patent Information


Faculty of Civil Engineering – semester VII*

Indicators for research output evaluation and for

journals evaluation

Language: Polish

WUT Teacher Training Department (Phd students)

*Under construction

Other services for supporting

E-research and learning

Tools for online services:

PRIMO - multi search engine

SFX – link resolver

A-Z e-journal and e-book list

Database List

HAN system

access to e-resources and online-databases from the computers

outside the WUT network

integration with PRIMO, so that users who are logged into the Primo

are also logged into the HAN at the same time

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The Main Library bibliometric services

The Library offers bibliometric services that are intended

primarily for employees of the University, but can be used by all

interested scientific institutes and organizations

The ML Reference Department provides in particular:

determination of h-index and other bibliometric parameters

order analyses based on Journal Citation Report or other databases

which the library has access to

citation analyses based on WoS, Scopus, Google Citations, Publish or

Perish

Training on Bibliometrics and Research Output Analysis

E-courses (open and closed)

Help with publishing rights, particularly regarding open access and

bibliometrics

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Ebook Library Services

Dawsonera

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Online ebook catalogues with extra possibilities, including lending

and suggesting purchase:

EBL

Standards Library Service

IHS Standards Expert:

offers direct access to the bibliographic description of over 1.6

million standards, specifications, codes regulations and related

government documents

full text available through ML Purchase Department

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Other services for supporting

E-research and learningSubject librarians:

thematic blocks and bookmarks on the ML homepagefor scientists and students

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Future Plans

Developing cooperation with faculties in supportinge-research competences

E-learning development

improving the courses programme by conducting surveysamong various types of users

Extending patent information in the trainingprogramme

planned cooperation with the WUT new unit CZITT (TheCentre for Innovation and Technology Transfer Managementof the WUT) in supporting patent and standard information

Improving librarians’ (coaches) skills in the areaof information retrieval

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