Checking date: 01/09/2017


Course: 2017/2018

Information Skills
(14359)
Bachelor in Economics (Plan: 398 - Estudio: 202)


Coordinating teacher: CARIDAD SEBASTIAN, MERCEDES

Department assigned to the subject: Library and Information Sciences Department

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:

Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law



At the completion of this course, students will ¿ Understand the importance of resource-based learning and research. ¿ Recognize information problems and develop effective strategies to solve them. ¿ Become familiar with general and specialized information sources, and be able to determine their appropriateness for the task at hand. ¿ Determine the reliability and quality of information and its sources. ¿ Develop their information retrieval skills, improving the precision and efficiency of their searches. ¿ Use information ethically, avoiding plagiarism, and following academic conventions and professional requirements.
Description of contents: programme
UNIT 1: WHERE TO FIND RELIABLE INFORMATION: - Information Society and Knowledge Society - Data, information and knowledge - Competences in information. - Sources of information: typology and location UNIT 2: ETHICAL USE OF INFORMATION: CITATION AND REFERENCES: - Ethics and intellectual property - The academic work without plagiarism. - Create in text citations and bibliographic references - Present and organize references - Software products for generating and managing citations and bibliographies UNIT 3. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: GENERAL RESOURCES: - Basic concepts of Information Retrieval - Information search processes in electronic environments - Multidisciplinary databases - Internet search tools. - Evaluation of information resources. UNIT 4. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: THEMATIC AND SPECIALIZED RESOURCES - Gateway, Portals and specialized databases - Selection of online resources - New spaces of knowledge interaction
Learning activities and methodology
Acquisition of theoretical knowledge (1 ECTS), through lectures, teaching materials prepared by the teacher, online tutorials, specialized reading, and the students' personal study, related to theoretical competences. Acquisition of skills and abilities (2 ECTS), through case-studies oriented to information seeking in web sources, analysis of these sources, evaluation of the results, presentation and citation of content. Some of the student assignments will be done in the informatics classroom with direct supervision of the teacher. Others could be done on outside regular classes, with the support and control of the teacher. These are in particular oriented on the acquisition and development of practical skills. The tutorships schedule will be available on the respective space at Aula Global.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Basic Bibliography
  • - . Como elaborar un trabajo académico. Material de Autoformación biblioteca Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. . Disponible en: http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/biblioteca/aprende_usar/autoformacion.
  • - ABADAL FALGUERAS, Ernest y CODINA, Luís.. Bases de Datos documentales: Características, funciones y método. José López Yepes (coord.).. Madrid: Síntesis, 2005.
  • - ARGUDO, S. y PONS, A. . Mejorar las búsquedas de información. Barcelona: Editorial UOC. 2012
  • - BOTHMA, T.; COSIJN, E.; FOURIE, I. & PENZHORN, C.. Navigating Information Literacy: Your Information Society Survival Toolkit.. Cape Town: Pearson,. 2008
  • - CORDÓN GARCÍA, J.A. et al. . Las nuevas fuentes de información. Información y búsqueda documental en el contexto de la web 2.0. . Madrid: Pirámide, 2010..
  • - DÍEZ CARRERA, C.. "La biblioteca digital". Gijón: Trea. 2013
  • - HARVEY, G.. Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students.. Indianapolis: Hackett, . 1998
  • - JEANNENEY, J. N. . Google desafía a Europa: el mito del conocimiento universal. . Valencia : Universitat de València , D.L. 2007..
  • - MALDONADO MARTÍNEZ, A. y YUNTA, L. . La información especializada en Internet: directorio de recursos de interés académico y profesional. 2ª ed.. Madrid: CSIC, 2006..
  • - MATA Y MARTÍN, M. (dir.) . La propiedad intelectual en la Era Digital. Límites e infracciones a los derechos de autor en Internet.. Madrid: La Ley, 2011. .
  • - PINTO MOLINA, M. (coord.). . ¿Calidad y evaluación de los contenidos electrónicos¿. E-coms. Electronic Contents Management Skills (Fecha actualización 13/4/2011).. Disponible en: http://www.mariapinto.es/e-coms/eva_con_elec.htm#e6 .
  • ARGUDO, S. y PONS, A. . Mejorar las búsquedas de información. Barcelona: Editorial UOC. 2012
  • BOBISH, Greg y JACOBSON, Trudi (ed.) . The Information Literacy User¿s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook. Geneseo, NY: State University of New York at Geneseo, 2014. . Disponible en: http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks/catalog/book/170
  • PACIOS LOZANO, Ana R.. Técnicas de búsqueda y uso de la información. Madrid: Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces. 2013
Additional Bibliography
  • .-.-. This bibliography will be making available as the course progresses. -. -.

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.