Forensic science Responsible for investigating crimes and/or examining evidence that may be presented in a court of lawTo achieve this they include a wide range of disciplines; Hence, we should not limit our search for knowledge to one tool,” noted teacher Mercedes Cabello Ruiz, Library Coordinator, “Dr. Valentin Gomez Farias »United Nations University School of Medicine.
With the aim of listing the various sources of information available (by subscription or open access) for the Forensic Sciences area, on May 30, the final session of “Course 5 of Virtual Courses: Learning to Access and Use Information with a Library System” was dedicated to this topic.
In the activity sent by Facebook Live And YoutubeYese provided an overview of the classifications of different information sources, and a guide to the steps to follow to get better search results. “You first define the research problem, then review relevant secondary resources, examine existing works for reference, and finally formulate keywords,” said Professor Cabello Ruiz.
He illustrated this by taking a detailed tour of the range of available options, including thesaurus, specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, physical and digital libraries, catalogs and databases, forensic science community websites, and scholarly journals, including Internet resources. From each of these sources, national and international examples are given, incl There were many references to the resources of the university itself and those of the student community. Full and free counseling is available through UNAM’s remote access service.
“Once the research has been successfully conducted, the next question is how do we evaluate the information to determine if it is useful for our purpose?” comment. So, Provide some tips that can help the student to discern the reliability of the existing dataReview the publication’s currency, documents cited, and writing quality, as well as checking for the existence of an ISBN and the author’s and/or publisher’s commercial reputation.
Before concluding, the speaker makes space for Think about the bad habits you often have in the use of information: “Copying and pasting without citation tops the list, followed by plagiarism, and consulting sites of questionable authenticity, believing that everything published on the Internet is true, and in recent years, not going to libraries and not using specialized collections.”
The transmission concluded with the invitation of Mr. Javier Diaz Castorena, Head of the Digital Medical Library, to visit this and all the courses of the fifth cycle in https://bibliotecas.facmed.unam.mx/cursos/.
Azeri Portillo