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88386 Information Retrieval - Mechanical Engineering
Danish title: Søgning efter teknisk information - Maskinteknik

Type: Å, Language: DDD
Credit points: 2,5 point
Previous course: C8886
Offered by: Other Courses, M.sc.
No credit points with: C8881/C8883/C8884/C8885/C8886
Prerequisite: Maskin-, Energi- eller Informatik-fagpakke eller tilsvarende studiestart
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Limitation: Max. 15
Scope and form: 7 1/2 days with lectures and exercises.
Examination: Approval of exercises. ( pass/fail )
Contact person: Jørgen Holm Jørgensen, DTV, Building 101, Tel. +45 4525 7228
Aim: To give the students necessary knowledge of technical subjects¿literary tools and literature search techniques to enable them to perform literature search, and to communicate with the technical scientific library or documentation centre about more complicated searching.
Contents: Publication types of the technical literature. The public library service system. Library catalogue as search tool. Searching in the ALIS-system. General, general-technical and multidisciplinary encyclopedia, handbooks and other works of reference. Index of scientific magazines and abstract journals. Preparing bibliographies. Patent protection and licences. Patents and patterns as source of information. Computer based literature search. Preparing search profiles and potentially trial runs. Literary tools of the subject.