Course name: Literature Retrieval and Utilization

Teaching medium: English

A. COURSE DESCRIPTION

Credits:2 credits;

Scheduled Teaching hours:24 Class Hours;

Opening semester:1st Semester.

Course Description: This course is an essential instrumental course to assist professional teaching and scientific research. The course mainly teaches English literatures retrieval and utilization, such as electronic journals, electronic books, dissertations, patents, standards, conference papers and free academic resources online. The course also teaches the journal evaluation indicators. The course focuses on internationally famous retrieval tools: EI/SCI/SSCI/CPCI and journal evaluation tools JCR. through the study of these contents, students are familiar with academic resources in their own disciplines, master keywords retrieval language, master retrieval techniques of different databases, be able to skillfully identify literature types and retrieve required academic resources, be able to identify journal ranks and select suitable journal to submit their articles, and ultimately improve their information literacy, cultivate their concepts of lifelong learning, and lay a solid foundation for literature retrieval for their study and scientific research.

B. METHOD OF INSTRUCTION

This course adopts the methods such as case teaching and practice operation teaching. In the course, the teacher will enumerate many cases of professional topics, teach students how to analyze topics, analyze retrieval steps, implement the retrieval, analyze the retrieval results, adjust the retrieval strategies, carry out the retrieval again, analyze the retrieval results again, and finally get overall and correct retrieval results. There are many practical classes in this course, the teacher will give students some simulation cases, let students enter the databases to carry out their own retrieval. Then under the guidance of the teacher, the students modify the retrieval strategy, and carry out the retrieval again. Through the practice experiences, let students be familiar with the database resources, master the different characteristics and retrieval techniques of different databases.

C.COURSE OBJECTIVES(five or six objectives; general but comprehensive)
Objective 1:Cultivate students' information literacy and establish theconcept of lifelong learning.

Objective 2: Let students understandthe types and characteristics of literatures.

Objective 3: Let students to be familiar with the major databases and other academic resources related their majors.

Objective 4: Let students to master literature retrieval methods and skills.

Objective 5: Let students learn to correctly evaluate and legally use literatures.

D.COURSE TOPICS/UNITS AND DATES

1 The Types and Characteristicsof Literatures

2 Wiley Retrieval and Utilization

3 EBSCO Retrieval and Utilization

4 Science Direct Retrieval and Utilization

5EI Retrieval and Utilization

6Emerald Retrieval and Utilization

7 SCIE Retrieval and Utilization

8 SSCI Retrieval and Utilization

9 CPCI-S Retrieval and Utilization

10 PQDT Retrieval and Utilization

11 E-BOOK Retrieval and Utilization: MyiLibrary,Spring Link and World Digital Library Website.

12 USPTO Retrieval and Utilization

13 JCR Retrieval and Utilization

14 Cambridge Retrieval and Utilization

E. TEXTBOOK(S) AND REQUIRED TOOLS OR SUPPLIES

Textbook (required): Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze. Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.

Textbook (recommended): Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack. Information Retrieval, The MIT Press. 2016.

Supplies and/or tools: The online databases of Jiangsu University Library

F. GRADING PLAN

G. COURSE COMPONENT SPECIFICS

Computer operation1: retrieve literatures in Wiley/Science Direct/EBSCO.

Computer operation2: retrieve literatures in EI/Emerald/SCIE/SSCI/CPCI-S.

Computer operation3: retrieve literatures in PQDT/MyiLibrary/Spring Link/World Digital Library Website /USPTO.
Computer operation4: retrieve literatures in JCR/ Cambridge.