This book is an introduction to academic research and information literacy education with reference book characteristics, and its overall framework is different from other similar books. The author regards literature information retrieval, academic norms and thesis writing as the basic elements of academic research and puts them in the basic category of information literacy education. Starting from the general paradigm of academic research and the basic laws of information literacy education, this book systematically explains the basic knowledge and skills of document information retrieval, and introduces the characteristics and distribution of various documents from a unique perspective, the arrangement and organization rules and usage methods of some commonly used traditional document retrieval tools, as well as the electronic document information retrieval technology. Famous open access resources at home and abroad, the characteristics and retrieval skills of Chinese and foreign classic bibliographic or abstract databases, citation databases and full-text databases, the skills and methods of obtaining original documents, the reasonable use scope of paper documents and electronic documents, the writing norms, writing methods, submission skills and proofreading essentials of academic papers, etc.

This book can be used as a teaching material for undergraduate and graduate students' literature information retrieval and thesis writing courses in colleges and universities, and also as a reference book and guide for researchers, research managers and library and information workers.