Online Course: Literature Searching

The online self-study course provides essential tools to make academic research for presentations, term papers, and final theses easier and more efficient. Through illustrative case studies and integrative tests, students learn about the various steps in the literature-searching process. They practice using various search tools and strategies, learn more about the functionality and use of suitable search operators and gain profound insights into the content evaluation of sources, the scheduling of literature searching and literature management.
All teaching and exercise texts are licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0, allowing educators and advisors to incorporate them into their own formats. Upon request, the course can be provided as an ILIAS or Moodle export file to integrate it into ILIAS or Moodle course environments. Contact: info@helpBW.de

Access:
Members of KIT can access the online course via the ILIAS learning platform. See External relations.

The online course is part of the e-learning portfolio “helpBW”, which includes several standalone online courses aimed at developing academic information and writing skills and covers the entire academic journey. ... mehr“helpBW” was developed at KIT by KIT-Library and the Schreiblabor (HoC) in collaboration with other universities in Baden-Württemberg and funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg. For more information visit https://helpbw.de/