II 1 2 /FOREIGN AND LOCAL CITATION DATABASES

 

Purpose
- Making librarians capable of using citation databases in practice
- Getting students convinced of the need to use citation data in modern library practice

Goals
- Learning practical skills in using citation databases
- Presentation of possibilities of using citation databases in taking decisions in specific local circumstances

Subjects
- Description and application of citation databases
- Basic training in using software for retrieval
- Possibilities of acquiring reprints of articles

Teaching Method
Lectures in an electronically equipped classroom with use of videobeam.

Reference Books
- Garfield, Eugene: The Concept of Citing
- Garfield, Eugene: Tayloring the Search
- Šipka, Pero: Use of Bibliographical Bases in Evaluation of Scientific Performance, Physical Culture Faculty Annual Report
- Kosanovic, Biljana and Šipka, Pero: Bibliographical Base for Yugoslav Social Factual Sciences, Measuring in Psichology, Use of Computers, Vol. 2, 1996, ps 85-95

Lecturer: Biljana Kosanovic M.A.

Duration: 1 day (4 lectures)

Date: Saturday, October 13, 2001

The course is intended for:
- librarians in expert thematic and specialized libraries
- librarians who are in a position to retrieve bibliographical-abstract- citation databases
- library-information experts dealing with evaluation and quantifying of individual scientific performances