Information Sources and Research Methodology

Code:

MHP007

Acronym:

FIMP

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in History and Heritage

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MHP	17	MHP - Study Plan	1	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

. to help students gain awareness of the need to establish a research path that allows to develop and structure the individual work project during the master course
. to provide technical, methods and tools for information search
. to ssess the information production contexts (agents, circumstances and temporal variations)
. to assess levels of information
. to distinguish intent and information - expectations, limits and potential sources
. to contribute to the final drafting of the work project 

Learning outcomes and competences

- To develop documentary and bibliographic research skills in Social and Human Sciences, particularly in historiographic research. - To provide tools, techniques, and methods for information research. - To promote the practical application of those methods and research techniques in actual research practice. - To be familiar with some data source in a context of historical research

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Definition of research paths and access to information
2. From documents, to information, to knowledge
3.Typology of the institutions which produce documentation
4. 4.1 Normative sources 4.2. diplomatic sources.4.3. Sources in central and peripheral administration 4.4 Regional and local sources 4.5. Press  4.6.Oral sources 4.7. Iconographic sources 4.8. Literary sources. 4.9. Cartography as a source 4.10. Landscape as a source
5. Some tipologies.

Mandatory literature

AZEVEDO, Carlos A. Moreira; AZEVEDO, Ana Gonçalves de – Metodologia Científica. Contributos práticos para a elaboração de trabalhos académicos, Porto, Ed. Autor, 1994
BELL, Judith – Como realizar um projecto de investigação: um guia para a pesquisa em ciências sociais e da educação. Lisboa: Gradiva, 1997
CAMPOS, Fernanda Maria – A inovação no saber disponível: bibliotecas e novos suportes de informação. “Leituras. Revista da Biblioteca Nacional”. Lisboa, s. 3, 1 (Outono), 1997, p. 207-211
CUNHA, Isabel Ferin – Contra a fragmentação: da informação ao conhecimento. “Leituras. Revista da Biblioteca Nacional”. Lisboa, s. 3, 1 (Outono), 1997, p. 75-83
DE KETELE, Jean-Marie – Méthodologie du recueil d’informations : fondements des méthodes d’observation, de questionnaires, d’interviews et d’étude de documents, Bruxelles, De Boeck Université, 1991
DEVLIN, Keith – Info-senso. Como transformar a informação em conhecimento. Lisboa: Edição Livros do Brasil, 2000
FENTRESS, James; WICKHAM, Chris, Memória social. Novas perspectivas sobre o passado, trad. port., Lisboa, Teorema, [1994]
MAGALHÃES, José – O leitor da biblioteca digital: utopia e realidade. “Leituras. Revista da Biblioteca Nacional”. Lisboa, s. 3, 1 (Outono), 1997, p. 61-66
MARCIL, Claude, CHIASSON, Robert – Comment chercher: les secrets de la recherche de l’information, Québec, Editions Multimondes, 1992
MIRANDA, José A. Bragança de – A virtualização do arquivo. “Revista da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas”. Lisboa, 9, 1996, p. 85-117
PORTUGAL, Idalina ; FREIRE, António Manuel – Inovação. Pesquisa bibliográfica . “Leituras. Revista da Biblioteca Nacional”. Lisboa, s. 3, 1 (Outono), 1997, p. 235-250
RIBEIRO, Fernanda – O acesso á informação nos arquivos. 2 vols. Porto, 1998 [Dissertação de doutoramento policopiada]
SILVA, Armando Jorge - Inovação nas bibliotecas para o século XXI. . “Leituras. Revista da Biblioteca Nacional”. Lisboa, s. 3, 1 (Outono), 1997, p.117-140
SOUZA, Ruth Marcelino da Motta ; FONSECA, Ana Lúcia Reis – A Internet na arquivologia: o uso da rede mundial na disseminação da informação arquivística. “Cadernos de Trabalhos Científicos”. Salvador da Bahia, 1,1 (outubro), 2000, p. 43-56

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes:lectures and discussion of some topics. Tutorials: Class reflection and discussion of individual research projects. Oral presentation of projects and intermediate stages of work. PL: Working in libraries and archives: practical exercises on bibliographic and documentary research focusing on several typologies of documentary institutions.

keywords

Humanities > Information science > Archivistics
Humanities > Information science > Documenttion
Humanities > History > History of social sciences
Social sciences > Communication sciences > On-line information services
Humanities > Information science > Library science

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho escrito	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	72,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Trabalho laboratorial	30,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are required to attend at least 75% of all teaching/learning modalities. Students who, due to special circumstances (which are always to be communicated to uc teachers), can not participate in 75% of the sessions, should combine, in a timely manner, ways of substituting oral participations for written participation.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final mark is calculated by the weighted average of the mark obtained in the paper, student participation in OT and TP sessions and the outcome of the exercises carried out in PL sessions, according to the following formula: TOTAL= 60% T1 + 40%EX 
T1critical analysis of a monograph of local and regional character, or thematic nature: to analyze and criticize the search paths of information, the sources used, and their use and methodological treatment.

EX: some exercises to be done in the sessions applied to information research that will be used in the individual project to carry on in the master

Examinations or Special Assignments

Applicable according to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Internship work/project

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Student wishing to improve their marks must follow the assessment procedures laid down for this course unit, having to repeat or retake only the assignment(s) for which they were unable to obtain a satisfactory mark.