Training Sessions

2019 / 2020 Course

We offer you initial training courses and specific courses aimed at new students, advanced students, enrolled in the TFG or the TFM and researchers.

Initial Training

  • Basic use of the catalog
  • Recommended bibliography´s access.
  • Loan regulations. Book location in the library
  • My account basic functions
  • How to reserve the Group Workroom
  • How to access from outside the UDC

Library Catalog

  • Design a search strategy
  • How to use the Boolean operators
  • How to limit your search-results
  • My account functions
  • How to renew your loans
  • How to reserve not available books
  • How to save and export your search-results

 

Dialnet

  • Logging
  • Simple & advanced searchs
  • How to limit your search-results
  • Setting alerts

Scopus, Web of Science & Refworks

  • Design search strategies in DDBBs
  • How to export your search-results
  • How to import form different sources to the bibliographic reference manager
  • How to create bibliographies and insert cites

Bachelor Thesis (TFG) and Master Thesis (TFM)

The Bachelor Thesis (TFG) (12 credits in Sociology, 18 credits in Communication Sciences) verifies the student's ability to apply the knowledge obtained during their years of study.

The Master Thesis (TFM) verifies the knowledge acquired during their specialized training.
Students who are going to do the Bachelor Thesis (TFG) or a Master Thesis (TFM), have specific needs (databases, bibliographic managers, information searches ...) that require a more specific and specialized training.

In the event that you have any other need for more specific training, discuss it with the library staff

Teaching and research staff and PhD students

On its part, doctoral students and University teachers need specialized help in the development of their research work: journals with impact indexes, how and where to publish, sexenios of research, ORCID ..., from the library, in collaboration with libraries of other centers, courses are periodically conducted to provide teachers and researchers with the resources and skills necessary to optimize the visibility of their scientific production.

We also collaborated with the University Center for Educational Training and Innovation (CUFIE) in the realization of a Training Plan in Digital Competences that last year included courses as:     

  • Strategies to increase the visibility and impact of research results     
  • How to search and use the information to elaborate the doctoral thesis