First year - Entry level

This is an entry level online training to the services and resources, both IT and information from the Library/CRAI, aimed at new students joining the UPF. The content of the course is as follows:

1. Digital competence and the Library and IT

  • What is digital competence and what is it for? 
  • What is the Library / CRAI? 
  • The Campus Global and the Aula Global
     

2. IT services addressed to students

  • Computer rooms, MyApps and printing 
  • Wireless Network: Eduroam
  • E-mail for students 
  • Office tools: Office 365 and Google suite 
  • Digital identity 
  • Laptops loans service, audio-visual equipment loan service and reservation of technical spaces

3. How to find information resources

  • Contextualize topic and Identify the keywords 
  • The UPFinder 
  • The recommended bibliography 
  • Loan, requests and renewals
  • Subject guides 
  • Evaluate the resources found 
     

4. Tools and resources to write an academic paper

  • Writing the paper: structure and writing techniques 
  • Create and share content 
  • Plagiarism and copyright 
  • How to cite the selected resources and citation styles 

 

  • To understand the physical and virtual spaces of the Library and IT
  • To know where to find the services and resources of the Library and IT. 
  • Get to know and start using the technological and audiovisual resources of the UPF. 
  • Get to know and get started in the use of the virtual learning platform. 
  • To identify the information needs: recognize the need to use information to develop academic activities. 
  • To recognize the basic terminology: database, catalog, citation, etc. 
  • To learn to distinguish between different ways of responding to information needs: selecting the appropriate resources in any format (printed, electronic, video, etc.) with the support of the teaching staff and / or library staff. 
  • To know how to establish strategies to find and access information: use the catalog efficiently, access the full text of electronic resources, locate the documents on the shelf, use the loan service, find the recommended bibliography, and know the subject guides and the main Internet search engines. 
  • To be aware that you must compare and evaluate the information: discern authorship, if it is updated and the tendency of a resource.
  • To be aware that the information must be used in an ethical way and avoiding plagiarism. 
  • To learn the most suitable citation style according the students subject field 

 

 

 

Please note: 

Self-teaching in IT skills is recommended to obtain the intermediate level ACTIC certificate during the 2nd or 3rd year of your degree.

This certificate will improve your CV!

 

Over the first weeks of the first trimester in a subject agreed with those responsible for the studies.

2nd/3rd/4th year - Intermediate level - Support for writing your degree final project (TFG)

This is an intermediate level online training in the Library/CRAI services and information resources useful and necessary for writing your Degree final project (TFG).  The content is as follows:

1. Information resources 

  • The UPFinder and the CCUC 
  • The Subject guides and the specialized databases 
  • Google Scholar 
  • Identify the gaps or excess of the retrieved information  
 

2. Using the information according to copyright and personal data protection

  • What is copyright? 
  • Plagiarism, how to avoid it 
  • How to cite the selected resources and citation styles 
  • Open access and Creative Commons licenses
  • What is personal data, how to process it and how to protect it

3. Bibliography management: Mendeley 

  • What is Mendeley? 
  • How to import references 
  • Insert citations and create the bibliography 
  • Share documents and references 

4. Tools to manage and share information  

  • Manage your tasks, data and documents 
  • Present the results 
  • Create and manage your personal space: social networks 
  • What is digital identity? 
  • Privacy and security on the Internet 

You can access the complete material in your Aula Global.

  • To use the advanced utilities of the subject databases appropriately: save and reuse searches, alert services, etc. 
  • To identify gaps in the recovered information 
  • To evaluate and compare the results among more than one database 
  • Have a clear understanding of what copyright is and the importance to beware whith the reproduction of content from others, in order to avoid plagiarism 
  • To identify the publication in open access and the Creative Commons licenses 
  • To use the bibliography manager Mendeley efficiently for writing the Degree final project (TFG) bibliography 
  • To be aware that you must manage your own digital identity  

 

Important!

 

Self-training in IT competences is recommended to obtain the advanced ACTIC certificate: the advanced level requires the certification of at least two competences chosen by the candidate from the following: dealing with written information, dealing with graphic, sound and image-based information, dealing with numerical information, dealing with data and content presentation. You must have first attained the intermediate certificate.

This certificate will improve your CV!

In your Degree final project (TFG) or in another subject agreed upon with the head of studies.