3.9. Aspects related to information literacy
Although publication of scientific articles brings a scientific recognition to doctoral students, we found that
22.5% of students had never drafted a scientific paper, only 13.6% really knew the procedures of writing such a
publication, only 32.9% could often identify relevant sources of information, only 26.4% could limit their search by
date or language, only 14% could verify the credibility of the author, only 17.4% could identify the rules of
intellectual property of a digital document, and finally only 30% could cite references.
In addition, 83.3% of the PhD students had never taken courses in literature search during their undergraduate
studies, and 54.3% did not even know of the existence of such courses. This raises the question of current training
and the real needs of PhD students in their research field: the monitoring and analysis of data, and publication of
STIs.
We interviewed doctoral students in order to discover their opinions about the specifics of training in information
literacy. The results revealed that 62% of students reported that training is related to research processes and annexes
tools, and 38.8% are in favour of training in the process of producing and publishing information.