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In order to achieve comparability of standards and quality in European higher education there is a need for evaluation and comparisons. This holds true also for the PhD, the third cycle in the educational system. In this paper the authors compare information needs as articulated by a group of Norwegian and Moldovan PhD-students. The objective of the study was to find data to harmonize online PhD Information Literacy Tutorials in Norway and Moldova. The end result will be to develop a new PhD tutorial for Moldova, based on the Norwegian resource «PhD on track», while taking into account the differences, difficulties and barriers in accessing, collecting, using and communicating research information for PhD students in the two countries.
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Landoy, A., Cheradi, N., Repanovici, A. (2014). Moldovan and Norwegian PhD-Students’ Information Needs. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_36
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