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    12 types of biases

    12 types of biases

    In this slide, there could be as many as 12 types of biases that information user could fall victim when dealing with information.

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    Fallacies (Logic) Cognition Selectivity (Psychology)
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    5 Levels of research output

    5 Levels of research output

    The way you put ideas together reflect your level of understanding about the issue you have inquired in your research, which, is what your professor looks for when she/he assess your work. In this slide, it introduces 5 level of research output and note the differences between different sentences, and the depth of idea you could get.

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    Research -- Methodology Report writing Academic writing
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    Check the essentials using AAOCC

    Check the essentials using AAOCC

    In this slide, it introduces AAOCC, a way to identify bad information that helps people carrying out to filter information.

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    Web sites -- Evaluation Information literacy
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    Education encyclopedia

    Education encyclopedia

    A subject encyclopedia contains articles (some short, some long) on the theories, events and thinkers that sum up the available literature about a discipline. Articles are arranged in alphabetical order.Indexes in the back of the encyclopedia can help you to determine if the encyclopedia contains an article on your topic, or if your topic is covered within an essay on a related topic. In this slide, here are some examples of subject encyclopedias that may available in your university library.

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    Encyclopedias Education Encyclopedias dictionaries
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    Finding an appropriate law review or journal for your paper

    Finding an appropriate law review or journal for your paper

    In this exercise, learners are required to find the statement that best describes the publications or the type of law review and journal and match them up.

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    Information resources Legal research
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    Further personal competencies and skills

    Further personal competencies and skills

    Apart from subject domain knowledge, there are some personal competencies and skills that learner may want to develop in university. The personal competencies and skills include, critical thinking, evaluating definitions, evaluating arguments, evaluating news & media, evaluating scientific studies, evaluating disagreement, and evaluating statistics & graphs.

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    Critical thinking Media literacy Journalism -- Social aspects Information literacy Press criticism
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    GeRDI – A Generic Research Data Infrastructure

    GeRDI – A Generic Research Data Infrastructure

    The advent of data intensive science has fueled the generation of digital scientific data. Undoubtedly, digital research data plays a pivotal role in transparency and re-producibility of scientific results as well as in steering the innovation in a research process. However, the main challenges for science policy and infrastructure projects are to develop practices and solutions for research data management which in compliance with good scientific standards make the research data discoverable, citable and accessible for society potential reuse. The talk will present GeRDI - the Generic Research Data Infrastructure - which is such a research data management initiative targeting long tail content that stems from research communities belonging to different domains. It provides a generic and open software which connects research data infrastructures of communities to enable the investigation of multidisciplinary research questions.

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    Science -- Data processing Research -- Data processing Information storage retrieval systems
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    How to evaluate legal information

    How to evaluate legal information

    You have learned that it is necessary to evaluate legal information. And you have also learned some evaluation criteria. In this exercise, learners are required to match the legal information together.

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    Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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    Law journal list and ranking of law journals

    Law journal list and ranking of law journals

    One may try to publish in the best law review or journal as much as possible for various reasons, such as getting a teaching job. Journals are normally ranked by rates of citation, prominence of authors,reputation, etc. In this presentation, there are various law review and journal lists, some provide ranking information. The ranking is based on the mechanism adopted by the respective system.

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    Law -- Periodicals Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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    Law submission guides

    Law submission guides

    In this presentation, it explain three areas: (1) Law journals submission and ranking, (2) Information for submitting articles to law review & journal, and (3) Submission of law student articles for publication.

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    Law -- Periodicals Scholarly publishing Authorship Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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