This text is about the course: 053643 - COMPLEMENTARY DOCTORAL SKILLS - Part 4: Digital (Scientific) Literature, Bibliographies and Bibliometrics (2018/19 edition) and deals, mainly, with the work expected from its students.
The course aimed to introduce PhD Students to the use of Digital Scientific Literature, to train for systematic search within the many available information clusters, to perform quantitative analysis on their results and to organize their references in order to realize interesting literature reviews.
The first lesson introduces The evolution of Scientific Literature (and of the scientist), from the first examples to the first twenty century's journals, then from the starting of the "great business" to the digital revolution, up to now (twenty-five years after the starting of Internet, everything is digital, the scientific publishing is still in a transition/evolution phase).
The second lesson gives suggestions, also at a very practical level, about How to search (and to find) your scientific references and how to (start to) realize a bibliography, starting from the many resources that Politecnico di Milano offers to its students and faculty members and the even more accessible for free, in the web.