General aims

• To make the participants familiar with the contents and facilities of the most important social science databases
• To train the participants in the use of the social science databases as an integrated element in academic problem-based learning focusing on political science

Specific aims

• To demonstrate the databases of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Web of Science, Scopus and others and to introduce the bibliographic and fulltext content, criteria for inclusion, search facilities, special points of interest

• Via hands-on, questions and answers, excersises and discussions to train the use of social science databases and in particular how to do a systematic search, how to plan a search strategy, how to evaluate search results etc.

Instructors

Karen Prehn, Head of Library, Institute of Political Science, University of Aarhus and  Filip Kruse, Senior advisor, subject specialist in the social sciences, State and    University Library