Virtual self-training courses

Get to Know Your Library: Want to discover what the Libraries offer?

Sign up for the Escape Room: Save the Library. Complete 9 missions with challenges and puzzles to explore all the services and resources available to you in a fun way. This course is designed for first-year students.

• Estimated duration: 1 hour
• Course language: Catalan
• Registration: Get to Know Your Library

The aim of this course is to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively select, evaluate, and use information for your academic work. You will find guidance on how to search for information, an overview of the key sources, tools for organising and citing bibliographic references, as well as other useful resources.

• Estimated duration: 7 hours
• Course language: Catalan
• Registration: Tools and Resources
• To take the course in Spanish or English, please request it via Pregunt@.

A publicly accessible and free platform for the databases of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the USA. It is the most relevant bibliographic resource in the fields of biomedicine and related sciences, including all health sciences such as psychiatry and psychology, as well as related life sciences. This course teaches how to efficiently use this database to maximise its potential for research and study.

• Estimated duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Course language: Catalan
• Registration: PubMed

This course teaches you how to use Web of Science and Scopus effectively, maximising their potential for research and study. These are two multidisciplinary databases that enable thematic searches and the consultation of bibliometric indicators. Currently, they are among the most significant resources for bibliographic and bibliometric information.

• Estimated duration: 2 hours
• Course language: Catalan
• Registration: Web of Science & Scopus

An open-source social reference manager linked to a cloud-based user account, offering the following features:

• Store and manage bibliographic references.
• Create bibliographies.
• Automatically insert citations into texts.
• Share collections with other users.

It is a highly useful tool for undergraduate dissertations, master’s theses, PhDs, and similar academic projects.

How to Access

1. Download the software.
   Visit the official Zotero website to download the software, available for PC, macOS, and Linux, along with other tools and add-ons.

2. Create a cloud account.
   Register on Zotero Register to create an account and synchronise your library with the cloud.

This enables you to access the same account from multiple devices: at home, the library, the campus café, etc.

Course Information

• Estimated duration: 4 hours and 30 minutes.
• Course language: Catalan.
• Registration: Zotero.
• To take the course in Spanish or English, please request it via Pregunt@.