Course: Information Sources for Medical and Non-Medical Branches

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Course title Information Sources for Medical and Non-Medical Branches
Course code FZS/IZMNO
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Zizienová Marta, Mgr.
Course content
Exercises: 1) Primary, secondary and tertiary information sources; professional database 2) Library services and catalogs 3) Searching information on the Internet, gray literature 4) Citation of information sources, citation styles 5) Copyright and licensing; quality of information sources, bibliometry, methods of scientific work 6) Presentation of expert studies

Learning activities and teaching methods
Practicum
Learning outcomes
The course introduces students how to use relevant information sources and how orientate in information sources. They will also learn to search for relevant sources using various search techniques and databases, and will learn to quote these sources.
Students obtain knowledge in given course in accordance with requirements and course programme.
Prerequisites
Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation of acquired knowledge via paper

Credit: - 80% participation in exercises, - activity in exercises, - seminar work (elaboration of a search for the thesis).
Recommended literature
  • ČSN ISO 690:2011 - Bibliografické citace.
  • KAPOUN, Pavel. Informační zdroje. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7464-400-9.
  • KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ. Metodika zpracování kvalifikačních prací 2016 (bakalářské a diplomové). Liberec: Technická univerzita v Liberci, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7494-317-1.
  • KRČÁL, Martin a Zuzana TEPLÍKOVÁ. Naučte (se) citovat. Blansko, 2015. ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1.
  • PTÁČEK, Jiří. Elektronické informační zdroje: open access, bibliometrie, autorské právo, citace. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014. ISBN 978-80-244-4109-2.
  • VYMĚTAL, Jan. Informační zdroje v odborné literatuře. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7357-520-5.
  • ZIZIENOVÁ, Marta a Martin KRAUSE. Metodika zpracování bibliografických citací a pravidla pro psaní citací. Liberec: Technická univerzita v Liberci, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7494-364-5.


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