Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
G. Phanikumar
gphani@iitm.ac.in
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Please note
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Outline
Sources of Literature
Strategies
Publishers
Writing it all up
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Sources of Literature
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Sources of Literature
Open access
INDEST Arrangement
Your Library subscriptions
Peer sharing sources : ResearchGate, academia.edu
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Sources of Literature
Primary Sources
Periodicals
Research Reports
Conference Proceedings
Official Publications
Standards
Theses, Dissertations
To be published works
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Sources of Literature
Secondary Sources
Compilations
Reviews
Reference Books / Handbooks / Encyclopedia / Dictionaries
Textbooks / Monographs
Indexing and Abstracting services
Tertiary Sources
Directories, Year books, Bibliographies
Lists of secondary sources
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Some terminology
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Awareness
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Strategies to search
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Abstracting databases
INSPEC and COMPENDEX (EngineeringVillage)
PubMed
MathSciNet
Chemical Abstract (CA) Service
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Back references
Identify the latest relevant paper in your area
Look up each of the references listed
Repeat to extend the tree backward
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Citations
Identify the citation classic in your area
Look up which all papers refer to it
Find out which of these are well cited
Repeat to extend the tree forward
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Citation Information
Websites
Thomson ISI / Web of Science (isiknowledge.com)
SciFinder (www.cas.org)
Scopus (www.scopus.com)
Scitation (scitation.aip.org)
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Sources of Literature
Strategies
Publishers
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Major Publishers
Elsevier
Springer
Taylor and Francis
Nature
Maney Publishing
APS, AIP, ACS, AIChE, TMS, ASM, ACM, IEEE, etc.,
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Online access
ScienceDirect
SpringerLink
InformaWorld
IngentaConnect
crossref.org
prola.aps.org etc.,
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Contents subscription
RSS feed subscription
Subscribe to mailing lists
Watch out SIG sites (eg., imechanica.org)
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Sources of Literature
Strategies
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Thesis / Paper
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Reference Managers
JabRef
EndNote
ReferenceManager
ProCite
Mendeley
Zotero
Comparison of reference management software on Wikipedia
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Acknowledgements
Prof. K. Ramamurthy
Colleagues and Students
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