E-Resources, Literature Search and Reference Management

E-Resources, Literature Search

and

Reference ManagementBy

V. Sriram

Chief Librarian, Centre for Development Studies

Thiruvananthapuram, IndiaThiruvananthapuram, India

[email protected]

Two Day Workshop On Research Methodology in Social Sciences

Postgraduate and Research Department of Political Science,

Sree Narayana College, Kollam, India

30 & 31 January 2015

E-Resources in Social Sciences

Tips for Managing Literature

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Two Day Workshop On Research Methodology in Social Sciences, S.N. College, Kollam, India. 31st January 2015

e- Resources

Journal Databases

Statistical Databases

Theses and Dissertations

Courseware

Archives

Information Portals


JSTOR

http://www.jstor.org

A trusted archive of important scholarly journals from many disciplines. At present hosts full text contents of around 4900+ journals and e-books in Political Science.

Subscription based service.


Wiley Online Library

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

An excellent collection 137 good quality journals in the area of Political Science from Wiley Blackwell Publishers


OUP Social Science Journals

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/

Working with prestigious scholars, societies, and associations, such as the Harvard University, The National Association of Social Workers, and The World Bank, the OUP Social Sciences Collection encompasses some of the highest quality journals across the social sciences; including an exceptional and diverse selection in economics and finance.


Cambridge Journals

http://journals.cambridge.org/

The Cambridge Journals Online provided by the Cambridge University Press contains 42 journals in Politics and International Relations.


Springer

The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The

http://link.springer.com/

The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The Social Science Journals collection of Springer consist of 251 journals.


Project MUSE

Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration

http://muse.jhu.edu/

Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration between the John Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

Today it is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. The Political Science Journal Collection contains 38 journals.


Annual Review

Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual

http://www.annualreviews.org/

collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused disciplines

The Annual Review of Political Science, in publication since 1998, covers significant developments in the field of Political Science including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.


EconLit

http://search.ebscohost.com

As the most reliable full-text source for economic research, this database contains all of the indexing available in EconLit in addition to full text for hundreds of journals including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives). This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in economics & finance and volume and issue browsing is available for all full-text journals.


DOAJ

http://doaj.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory

that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Provides more than 10000 journals in all subjects.


PLOS One

http://www.plosone.org/

PLOS One is a top quality open access, peer-reviewed

journal. Currently it contains 342 articles in Political Science and 13943 articles in Social Sciences


Open J-Gate

http://www.openj-gate.com

Open J-Gate is a database of journal literature, indexed from 5659 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.


Census of India

The Indian Census is the most credible source of information on Demography (Population characteristics), Economic Activity, Literacy and Education, Housing &

http://www.censusindia.gov.in/

and Education, Housing & Household Amenities, Urbanisation, Fertility and Mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Language, Religion, Migration, Disability and many other socio-cultural and demographic data since 1872.


Economics and Statistics Department - Kerala

http://www.ecostat.kerala.gov.in/

The Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Government of Kerala is the nodal agency for collection, compilation, analysis of statistics relating to various sectors of Kerala Economy. Major Divisions relate to Agriculture, Economic Census, ASI, IIP, Labour, Housing, NSS, VS, Sample Registration, Prices, State Income, Computer Division.

No payment, free resource.

Login Required


EPW RF India Time Series

http://www.epwrfits.in/index.aspx

In ITS, datasets have been structured under 14 modules. Such as ASI, Agricultural Statistics, Financial Markets, State Domestic Product and Banking Statistics and so on.

This initiative has the broad objective of aiding and promoting research on Indian economy and financial markets and targeted to benefit particularly students, research scholars and the academic community both in India and abroad.


National Accounts Statistics

http://mospi.nic.in


NSS Survey Reports

All the reports and publications are in portable data format

Works better in Internet Explorer

http://mospi.nic.in


RBI Database on Indian Economy

Through this website (DBIE), data are mainly presented as time-series formatted reports. These reports have been organized under sectors and

http://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=home

organized under sectors and sub-sectors according to their periodicities. Reports can be saved as excel sheets for further analysis.


UN Statistics Division

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm

The Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. It compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries’ efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems.


World Bank Open Repository

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/

WBOKR is the central repository of The World Bank. All

resources hosted are available online for free access.

More than 18000 publications are available.


EThOS

http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

Electronic Thesis Online Service

This is a single point access to all theses produced by UK Higher Education

provided by The British Library. It harvests e-theses from the institutional

repositories and digitizes paper theses from participating institutions.

Login required

Restricted Access – Some items are downloadable


Open Thesis

http://www.openthesis.org/

Open Thesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other

academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.


Shodhganga – A reservoir of Indian theses

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers.

Presently hosts around 18000 theses from different universities in India


Academic Earth

http://academicearth.org

Video Lectures from World’s Top Scholars

Academic Earth is a user-friendly educational eco-system that gives

internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with

and learn from full video courses and lectures from the World’s leading

scholars.


IMF Podcasts

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/podcast.aspx

Audio Lectures from World’s Top Economists

IMF economists and other experts discuss key economic and financial issues of the day.


YouTube

https://www.youtube.com


MIT Open Courses –Political Science

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/

Open courseware of Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In each course syllabus, readings, assignments, and study materials are available for download.

All courses are free to access and learn.


edX

https://www.edx.org

EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from the world’s best universities, colleges and organizations. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and many other universities. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT.

Currently 67 courses are offered by various institutions in the area of Social Sciences.


MPRA

http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/

This repository is intended to disseminate research papers of social

scientists who want to make their work freely available through the RePEc network but are not affiliated with any institution that provides that furtherance. The work will be made available through EconPapers, Ideas, Economists Online and other services.


New Economic Papers

http://nep.repec.org/

NEP is an announcement service which filters information on new

additions to RePEc into edited reports.


SSRN

www.ssrn.com

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid

worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

It currently hosts more than 1 Lakh papers in Political Science


BLDS

http://blds.ids.ac.uk/

One of the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe. These unique holdings, built up over 40 years, consist of approximately one million items. Over half the collection originates from developing countries. BLDS provide a number of services to remote users, enabling access to the collection and staff expertise.


eldis

http://www.eldis.org/

A gateway to global development information on international

development issues. Provides free and easy access to materials on developing countries ...


e Social Sciences

http://www.esocialsciences.org

e-Social Sciences provides a region-focused repository and a new

and yet evolving publication space for easy and quick dissemination of scholarly work that can be a space for discourse among researchers, policy makers and the civil society.


Research Resources for the Social Sciences

http://socsciresearch.com/

Provided by McGraw Hill – Ryerson

Started in 1994 as a project in support of a graduate methods seminar.

A Portal for Social Sciences


Managing Literature

Topic selection – Subject Area, geographical location, period

Systematic gathering of sources:

Using proper tools to gather literature – Google Scholar, Journal Databases, Bibliographies …

Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes, comments, and making it error freeand making it error free

Organizing by topic, subject, research area…

Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval

Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.

While writing:

Insert the citation and bibliography in the desired citation style


Zotero

Free – Open Source

Platform independent

Works Offline and Online

Over 6700 referencing styles

www.zotero.org

Over 6700 referencing styles

Data Sharing

26 fields

34 Types of Sources

Linking full text / pdf

Integration with MS-Office / Open Office


Firefox - Installation


Zotero - Installation


Open Zotero


Collecting References


Adding items


Organizing items


Drag & Drop Items


Notes


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