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Methodological Literacy of Doctoral Students – An Emerging Model

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Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice (ECIL 2013)

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The goal of the paper is to describe methodological literacy based on the concept of information literacy as information practice. This qualitative study models the information practices of doctoral students. A model of methodological information literacy and recommendations are presented in which closer work with basic concepts and visualization of knowledge are emphasized. Final recommendations include improvement of skills in information synthesis. The findings can be mapped as new services of community information gateways. The model can help improve interactions in digital libraries.

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Library and Information Science, Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jela Steinerová

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Esther Grassian  & Diane Mizrachi  & 

  3. University of Stirling, UK

    Ralph Catts

  4. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

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Steinerová, J. (2013). Methodological Literacy of Doctoral Students – An Emerging Model. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Špiranec, S. (eds) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. ECIL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_18

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