SYLLABUS
Topics*
Examination: 100 Marks (30 MCQs (of 75 Marks) + 5 Descriptive Questions (of 15 Marks) + 10 Internal Marks)
Note:
Topics*
- Introduction to online information sources, tools and techniques
Online search strategy for retrieving scholarly information
Search engines (SEs), meta SEs intelligent SEs
Federated search tools and remote access tools
Academic SEs (Google Scholar) and Subject Gateways
OPAC, WebOPACs, union catalogues and archives
Open data, Full-text open access journals and e-books
Web 2.0 tools, cloud computing and deep web
Electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) databases
Online reference managers
Machine translation
Abstracting and indexing databases
Web tools of academic videos and presentations
Google Alerts, Google Books and Google Drive
MOOCs
Preparing and distributing questionnaires online
Research data analysis using MegaStat and open tools
Compiling automatic bibliography (in APA and MLA styles)
Automatic paraphrasing
Creative Commons and sharing of academic literature
Annotating web resources
Plagiarism detection softwares
Creating unique author/researcher identity number
Citation analysis: Impact Factor
Building strong academic presence online
Written test (at the end of the Course)
*majority of the topics are practical in nature
Examination: 100 Marks (30 MCQs (of 75 Marks) + 5 Descriptive Questions (of 15 Marks) + 10 Internal Marks)
Note:
- The applicants need to have basic knowledge about MS-Office and browsing Internet
- This course is a classroom based Course not Online Course
- We do not have accommodation facility (for the outstation candidates) in our College in Mumbai
- 5th COIST Certificate Programme will commence from 4th Dec. 2017 to 9th Dec. 2017
- Apply Online
- [Admission closes on 18th Oct. 2017]