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INFORMATION LITERACY CLASSES
- Literacy Programme is an Information Literacy Skill Class conducted by UiTM Library.
- Depending on the modules chosen, the workshop will run for about two hours.
- Participants can conduct the class in person or online. However, face-to-face instruction is only possible up to each UiTM Library's maximum IT Centre capacity.
- It is recommended that faculty members schedule this session for their students, particularly those who are conducting literature searches for their studies.
- We will justify the content's complexity and scope based on our audience's needs or your requests.
- The majority of the courses addressed involve teaching, research, and the learning process. Basic to advanced modules are among them.
- There is no cost associated with taking the classes.
- Book a session from MyKM Portal. Menu Services > eKKM Booking Class
Module Offered
Course Outline
LSC 100: Introduction to Library System
In this module, the participant will be shown services and facilities available from the UiTM Library portal, and how to access resources by using the library system. Users will also be able to identify suitable information resources for their assignment/research writing.
Module Overview
- Introduction to UiTM Library Portal.
- Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
- My Account.
1~2 hours
LSC 101: Introduction to PTAR Electronic Resources
An introductory class for students and researchers to introduce library digital services as one of the library's collections. This class assists students and researchers in identifying relevant and suitable online resources for their assignment/research.
Module Overview
- Electronic Question Paper System (EQPS).
- Electronic Books (eBooks).
- My Knowledge Portal (My KM Portal)
- UiTM Institutional Repository (UiTM IR).
- PTAR Public Repository
1~2 hours
LSC 102: Online Database for Literature
This module focuses on types and features of databases subscribed by UiTM. It demonstrate hot to access articles using online database by specific subject area. participant will learn search strategy and technique to locate relevant resources.
Module Overview
- Article search from Online Database.
- Information searching strategy from Online Database.
2 hours
LSC 200: Advanced Literature Search 1 (SCOPUS)
In this module, help the participant in completing their research work. The aim of this module is to introduce a peer-reviewed and citation database that produces high-quality articles for their research.
Module Overview
- Search and analyze a topical area in Scopus
- Find hight-impact titles in Scopus
1~2 hours
LSC 201: Advanced Literature Search 2 (WoS)
Help participant in completing their research work. This module introduced a citation database that highlight most published author's works, highly cited publications, as well as authors' geographic distributions. all within the field of research.
Module Overview
- Demonstrate a topic search in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection.
- Find authors who publish the most.
- Find high-impact titles using Journal Citation Report (JCR)
2 hours
LMS 300: Reference Management Software - Endnote
Endnote is a software package designed to help partcipants organize citations and create bibliography endnote to help researchers.
Module Overview
- Adding references: manual entry, export citations/ references from online databases.
- Working with references styles/ Bibliographic templates.
- Working with MS Word - Inserting citations (in-text citations) and managing bibliographies.
2 hours
LMS 301: References Management Software - Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager that help participants organize their research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
Module Overview
- Adding references from PDF files, manual entry, export citation / references from online databases.
- Importing and organizing documents in Mendeley library.
- How to generate citations, as well as create bibliographic information in MS Word.
2 hours
LMS 302: Easy Write with Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word offers a set of tools and automated functions that can help writing a thesis. From this module, the participants able to produce draft templates systematically and efficiently in producting quality thesis.
Module Overview
- Easy Write with MS Word (part 1) - Demonstrate and produce a zero-draft template.
- Easy Write with MS Word (part 2) - Understand thesis formatting with customized styles.
2 hours
LSA 400: Writing and Publishing
This module emphasize the guidelines and procesures set by publishers to publish an article and ethics in publications.
Module Overview
- Writing guides for authors.
- Guides to getting published
2 hours
LSA 401: Open Access for Scholarly Publication
This module elaborates about Open Acess for scholarly publications, as well as how Open Access can help partcipants in their research works.
Module Overview
- Open Access for Scholarly Publication (part 1) - Overview of Scholarly Publishing and Open Access publications.
- Open Access for Scholarly Publication (part 2) - Steps and techniques in publishing articles in Open Access.
2 hours
LSA 402: Google Scholar & Google Drive
This module explores relevant works across the world of scholarly research. It also addresses Google Drive as platform to overcome the limitation of file format for sharing and storing also provide online backup service.
Module Overview
- Google Scholar for Research - Functions and features of Google Scholar; difference between Google and Google Scholar; search and identify relevant resources for specific research topic; using My Citations features and functions in Google Scholar.
- Google Drive - Introduction to Google Drive, its functions and features.
