Identifying different sources of scientific and technical information. Ethical and legal use and handling of information. Defining an information need. Searching, retrieval and filtering techniques of information. Strategies, approaches, and tools to perform a literature review. Techniques to optimize information search. Management methods (organize-find-monitor) for gathered and created information. Dissemination and valorisation of relevant information. Implementation of monitoring activities. Principles of critical analysis of a scientific article. Application to the student's own project.