PhD Information Literacy, Open Access & Copyright Workshop - english edition

Purpose The workshop provides the essential knowledge to be competent, aware and autonomous in managing information through a practical guidance on the resources, services and tools made available by the University. The goal is to develop in PhD students the essential skills to know how to self-guided research and to produce new knowledge by disseminating the results of research in open access according to institutional, national and European policies, in compliance with copyright, improving the quality of their research and expanding their career opportunities in an evolving information landscape.

Learning objectives. At the end of the workshop, PhD students will be able to:

- Prove the ability to critically analyze and evaluate the information researched, collected, selected and organized thanks to the specific tools and paths learned
-Show ability to manage research information using reference software, platforms and institutional services
-Interact with research information in an ethical and responsible way, in compliance with copyright legislation
-Demonstrate the ability to choose editorial companies for the open access dissemination of research results, according to European, national and institutional policies, aware of their rights in relationships with publishers.

Workshop Syllabus:

The workshop includes four meetings; each meeting lasts 3 hours and includes a different training module whose contents are:

1. Strategies, services and tools aimed at planning a bibliographic research work and undertaking a literature review using documentary resources.
2. Critical evaluation and ethical and responsible management of information; software for the construction and reference management software (Zotero), citation styles.
3. Research performance evaluation; citational databases (Scopus, Web of Science), JCR, bibliometric indexes; author identity management (ORCID); University repositories (Iris-IR, AMSDottorato, AMSActa, AMS Historica) and generalist repositories (Zenodo).
4. Open Access of research results: national, institutional and European policies; elements of copyright and the ethical reuse of information; the publication of research results in Open Access and the services for Open Access at the University.

Final exam: Questionnaire on Virtuale

Delivery: online
Duration: 12 hours
Places available:  100 for each edition
Schedule for the Teams meeting:
 - ed 1 in English: April 2025, 1/3/8/10 - 10:00/13:00
- ed 2 in English: May 2025, 20/22/27/29 - 10:00/13:00
Language:english
Trainers: IL Team & AlmaDL Staff
Doctoral Credits: 1 doctoral credit.