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MIT OpenCourseWare
Information Exploration: Becoming a Savvy Scholar
Art: Anaconda Company, Reverberatory roasting furnace, 1897 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Prof. Donald Sadoway, Patty Durisin Barbera, Angie Locknar
- Term
- Fall 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 exam · 13 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 3.093 Information Exploration: Becoming a Savvy Scholar, Fall 2006, Prof. Donald Sadoway, Patty Durisin Barbera, Angie Locknar — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Scientific publication Cycle, and What it Means to you as a Student Primary vs. Secondary Sources (e.g. Books and Barton) Evaluation of Information Sources
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Lecture 3: Specific Primary Sources (e.g. Research Articles) How this Fits into Your Scholarly Careers Peer Review Plagiarism in Research
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Lecture 4: Secondary Sources: Indexing and Abstracting Sources (Needed to Find Primary Sources) Demonstration of Vera, Specific Databases (Getting Started and Using and Creating Citations)
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Lecture 5: Demonstration of Specific Databases: Inspec®/Compendex®, Web of Science and What Makes it Different
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Lecture 6: Database Searching - Tips and Tricks Searching for Review Articles Importing Citations into Software like RefWorks
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Lecture 7: Secondary Sources - Handbooks and Encyclopedias
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Lecture 8: More Secondary Sources
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Lecture 9: Special Resources (e.g. Patents) and Grey Literature (e.g. Technical Reports, Conference Proceedings) The Free Web and Web Searching
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Lecture 10: Group Exercise: In-class Searching on Topics in Various Disciplines
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Lecture 11: Discussion of Literature Reviews, what they are and how they are Done
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Lecture 12: Storyboarding Online Tutorial Modules
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Lecture 13: Wrap up Feedback, Class Discussion on What was Learned, How to Improve for the Future Self Assessment
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Donald Sadoway, Patty Durisin Barbera, Angie Locknar, 3.093 Information Exploration: Becoming a Savvy Scholar, Fall 2006.
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