How do I... - Friday 26 April 2019
An easy way to read the daily national and international press!
Did you know you could use Factiva and Europresse for an article search on a topical subject ? You can also use it to read the daily international press, without having to run a search?
Europresse
To consult the daily press on Europresse, it's easy! Once connected to Europresse, click on "PDF Section" in the top menu.
When you arrive on this page dedicated to the daily press,...
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How do I... - Wednesday 03 April 2019
7 go-to resources for quality video content
Need to find a video to illustrate a concept? Want to use a news broadcast as an example? Can’t find that conference everybody’s talking about?
You may find what you are looking for among the K-lab resources, and in particular the Médiathèque Numérique and the Coursera MOOCs.
In addition to the resources offered by the K-lab, we have selected 7 resources for you to browse when looking for videos: covering a wide range of topics or ultra specialized, these resources focus on quality of form and substance.
1. Xerfi Canal
You know Xerfi for its studies and market reports… discover its video channel! Xerfi Canal interviews experts, CEOs, and politicians on all...
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Comment faire... - Monday 25 February 2019
Assess your impact in the academic world: article citations
Reseachers are very meticulous as plagiarism is a key issue: as soon as they use an article (or a book, a congress intervention, etc.) in their research, they quote it.
This means that they put it in their article bibliography, which lists all the documents they used to write their paper.
Indeed, an article provoking interest, setting off reactions and proven useful to other researchers will be cited in articles.
Years after years, quotations have become an emblematic sign of academic success and recognition. To have your own work cited many times shows how frequently it has been used by others. It demonstrates that your work is important in the scientific world.
Numbers are even more reliable when they are consolidated in indicators. In the 1960s, the idea of calculating...
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How do I... - Monday 14 January 2019
3 tips for better Google searches
Google is pretty straighforward to use but also brings up many, many results, sometimes making it hard to find relevant information. However a few little tricks can help you make better and quicker searches.
1. Use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase, like “sustainable development” or “IT costs”. They force Google to search for the whole word chain and not each word separately. See the difference when searching for google in libraries and “google in libraries”: the first brings up results on computer science, the second on the use of Google in libraries: not the same, huh?
Quotation marks are also useful when searching for a book or article title, or any document for that matter. And of course it also works in...
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How to find... - Tuesday 06 November 2018
Royalty-free pictures and videos
This highlight will cover copyright as it is defined by French law. American Copyright (©) cannot be applied in France. It is very different from the French “droit d’auteur”, but it can be used to identify the entity that needs to be contacted to get the authorization to use copyrighted material.
Pictures
There are two types of rights you need to know and respect:
- the author’s copyright: the picture is protected if its originality is proved.
- the subject’s rights:
- if the persons can be recognized (ie if they are not part of a crowd), you need to make sure they have signed an authorization to use their image in the precise context you want to use it in.
- if the picture contains some type of creation (a building for example) that is protected by copyright : you need to make sure...
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