Goals of the Information Literacy Course

Information Literacy Course presents the fundamentals of information literacy, provides a common level of understanding basics and prepares students to master more advanced and complex skills appropriate to academic disciplines.

Information literacy course is offered to the students to help them in information searching in addition of chemistry studies.

The Aims of the Information Literacy Courses are that after the course the students would have:

• the ability to apply the principles of scientific communication to problems of information handling;
• the ability to locate, select and use appropriate information retrieval tools in order to obtain useful information in connection with studies or work, and when required;
• confidence in using, and satisfaction in carrying out, information searching.

The Objectives of the course in Information Literacy are that the students would:

• be able to develop a systematic method of searching for information in connection with their chemistry studies;
• be aware of the wide range of sources available for finding information and select the sources which will best meet students needs;
• be aware of appropriate indexing and abstracting services and databases and understand the principles of their use;
• develop database searching techniques for accessing both on-line and CD-ROM databases;
• be able to use current awareness methods to keep up to date with the published literature after your initial search;
• be able to use citation indexes to find information;
• be able to use international academic networks for getting information;
• be able to compare and critically evaluate information obtained from various sources;
• be able to cite bibliographic references in your project reports or theses;
• be able to construct a personal bibliographic system.

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