The Research Blueprint - Session 2 : Information Literacy and Ethical Research Practices

This course offers graduate students a structured and comprehensive overview of the academic research and writing process, with a focus on the critical support and services provided by the university library. It is designed to guide students from the initial stages of topic formulation through to the dissemination of their research, while promoting ethical, impactful, and open scholarly practices. This course is a collaborative initiative between two university libraries within the frame of the EELISA consortium. I was designed to support graduate students in understanding the full scope of the academic research and writing process. Through a series of joint and institution-specific sessions, students will gain both foundational knowledge and practical awareness of the resources/tools available at their home institutions. This second session aims to show students how to build an efficient research strategy thanks to the tools and methods promoted by libraries. By the end of this session, students will be able to : -Conduct targeted and systematic literature researches-Critically evaluate sources and manage references efficiently-Demonstrate academic integrity through proposer citation -Use AI tools responsibly in academic writing This training is structured as followed : 1/ Conduct effective literature searches2/ Evaluating and managing resources3/ Academic integrity and citation practices4/ Ethical use of AI in academic writing This data set is composed of the presentation material (45 slides) in PDF format, reusable under the licence CC-BY 4.0.