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88383 Information Retrieval
Danish title: Søgning efter teknisk information
Language: Danish Credit points: 2,5
Type: Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: 88384/85/86
No credit points with: C8883/C8884/88384/C8885/88385/C8886/88386/C8881
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Examination: Approval of exercises. (Pass/fail)
Participant limitation: max. 60

Contact person: Jeannette Ekstrøm, Building 101, Tel. +45 4525 7416, email je@dtv.dk, http://www.dtv.dk/staff/je_d.htm

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.