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Discussing the possibilities of usage of modern information technology in academic research. Prepared by Dr.K.Natarajan http://siddhadreams.blogspot.com
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Dr.K.Natarajan
“siddhadreams”
Secure a good amount of space (at least 50GB) in Your Laptop/PC for your Academic activities
Dump all of your searches/collections in the same Drive/folder
Categorize with major titles
Prefer a search engine or your computer like Google Desktop Search, Copernic Desktop Search etc.
Let it index all your collected dataAfter indexing completed use it as your own
internetSince the data are collected by you the
results will be most relevant for your query.
Google scholar is an excellent tool for researchers which will show results only from the field of research
Also you can search within the online discussion groups using Google groups search
Find popular and reliable web resources related to your research and place your query there at first instance.
You may use website grabber tools which will download all the content from the website and make them usable offline. (It may fill your Hard disk)
Books like Encyclopedia, Glossary are most useful
E-books are reliable documents
E-books could be vast source of references when they are indexed in your PC’s search engine
Get updated with Amendments in guidelines / SOPs
Get updated with the research topic using services like Google alerts
Search for Geo tagged imagesIt facilitates the exact place where the image
has been taken
Search for images labeled for commercial reuse
Get images from open source like wikimedia, archive.org etc…
Get translated/original version from the source sitefor better understanding
Use Google translate (Though its not a reliable source)
Research gate is the best easy to use social network of scientists
Join in online forums and discussion groupswhere you can find what is going on virtually
Watch articlesKeep an eye on articles you want by using this
featureCreate books
Create book of articles you like as get them as pdf document
Evaluate what you find on the webThe data you got may be
Out of date Distorted or biased Simply untrue Commercial
when you find information on the internet always consider the following: Who wrote it? Who is this written for? Is it scholarly material? Are references given? Is the material biased? Does the author belong to an organisation with
an interest in presenting only one side of the case?
Do the links take you to biased sites? ‘not found’ pages?
What’s the timeline of the information?
At last get your research article published in an open access journal.
Ensure your article has been indexed by Various Indexing services like Pubmed, DOAJ etc.
As you got resources from the internet so you have to give your work back to it.
It will be useful for millions of researchers /scholars throughout the world.
Let the papers talkMake us papers as presentations and upload them
to sites like Authorstream, Slideshare etc.Don’t let the papers as papers
Millions of research works are sleeping in papersLet your work useful for common public in
someway.
Contact [email protected] for queries/suggestions/corrections
This presentation is prepared with pure guiding tendency, content dealt here are for information purposes only and not meant for Advertisement /promotion of any products of any organization.
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