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No classification or search system, or bibliographic database is neutral. What search results you or your students get and how they are sorted varies.
Event details of Diverse & inclusive searches: Awareness, sources, strategies
Date
20 January 2025
Time
13:30 -14:50
Room
Belle van Zuylenzaal

The most widely used search engines and databases - Google Scholar, Web of Science, etc. - however, have an important commonality: they exhibit a strong bias toward English-language publications from large (read “Western”) publishers and highly regarded journals. This makes relevant but non-mainstream literature less likely to be found, such as non-English publications or work by authors not working in “Western Countries”. In this workshop, these biases will be addressed, as well as ways to perform inclusive searches in search engines and databases.   

After completing this workshop: 

  • you will know what is meant by diverse literature 
  • you will have an understanding of the biases exhibited by the most used classification and search systems, and databases 
  • you will know how to search more inclusively in these search engines and databases 
  • you'll know what other ways there are to find non-mainstream literature 

Workshop instructors:

Stefano Giani & Michèle Meijer 

This workshop is part of the Library Academy for lecturers. View the entire programme here

Universiteitsbibliotheek

Room Belle van Zuylenzaal
Singel 425
1012 WP Amsterdam