Literature Survey for Research

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Prof.

K

P

Mohandas

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Definition

Documentationof

acomprehensivereviewofthe

publishedandunpublishedworkfrom

secondarysources

in

the

areasofspecificinterest

totheresearcher

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pointsarepresented: 1.Sourcesfor literaturesurvey. Conventional

sources

Digitalsources. 2.Libraryservices ournals differenttypes Transactionpapers Categoriesofpapers,full,short,surveyetc 3.Impactfactor&ratingofjournals 4.Internetresources Commonsearchengines Googlescholar andothers 5.Skillsfor quicksurvey

6.Preparation

of

survey

papers

Dos

and

Donts

7.Updatinginformation 8.OpeneducationalResources(OER) 9.OthersourceslikeHinduarticles 10 Learningmaterialsontheweb

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Sourcesforliteraturesurvey

CONVENTIONALSOURCES

Libraryservices

Books

JournalsCurrentjournals

Bound(back)volumes

NewspapersMagazines

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MoreConventionalsources

Conference Proceedings Doctoraltheses

Masterstheses

Governmentpublications

Financialreports

Etc.etc

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Digitalsources

Internet andworld

wide

web

(www)

LibraryDatabases

Searchenginesofdifferenttypes

Online

journals

Correspondence

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LIBRARYSERVICES

Books Informationgenerallynotuptodate

Bookscontainmaterialpublished510

yearsearlier.

Idealforlearningbasics

Notveryusefulforresearchonnewtopics

Researchreports

&

monographs

exception

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Numberofjournals large .

IEEEalone

publishes

144 ournalsunder 4 technicalsocieties

Specializedjournals

Interdisciplinarytopics

Others IEEJournals

ASMEJournals

nst tut on

o

ng neers

ourna sIETEJournals etc

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Journals

Current

journals

Forthosewhoarealreadydeepintoresearch

Bound (back)volumeshelpsinseeingthe

historical

developmentof

the

topic

Toknowthestateoftheart

Problemtolocatewhichjournalsforwhat?

Propercatalogues

essential

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Typesofjournals

Simple

elementary

information

for

publiceg.IEEEspectrum,Newslettersetc

Magazinesandpopularsciencearticles

e,g.IEEE

Magazines,

Scientific

American

etc

writtenbyeminentresearchersinasimple

style startingwithbasicstocurrentstate

andsuggestions

for

future

research

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Transactionpapers

Typical

research

publications Outcomeoftheresearchforadegree orpartofit.

Workdoneovertwotothreeyearscompressedintoa

five

or

six

printed

pages. eg nnermaynotma emuc outo t none

reading

mayhavetobereadtounderstandthecurrentwork.

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Categoriesofpapers

Some

journals

have

categories Fullpapers significantresultsexperimental

ortheoreticalobtainedoveryears.

Shortpapers

slightly

less

significant

Technicalnotes&correspondence

commentsorminorextensionson

earlierpublished

papers

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Pagerestriction

by

publishers

Usuall themaximumnoof a esallottedfora a er

is

decided

by

the

editorial

board

based

on

cost

of

printingcharges

Shortpaper:12fullpages

Editors&reviewerstrytheirbesttorestrictasubmittedfullpapertobecompressedasshortpaper

Shortpaper

to

technical

notes/

correspondence

etc

Somejournalsaskforpagechargesifthenoofpagesof

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Survey/Invitedpapers

Many

journals

bring

out

Special

issues

on

selected

topics, idealforresearchersasstartingpoint

Eminentresearc ersint eareaareinvite tocontributetosuchissues asguesteditorsandauthors

.

Severalarticlesstartwithbasicissues,workdonetilldateandmayevensu estpossibledirections

forfurther

research.

ProceedingsofIEEEpublishessuchpapersoften

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RATINGSOFJOURNALS Veryoftenjournalshavetoberatedbysomeparameter.

Reputedjournalshaveathoroughreviewprocedure

Thereviewers arechosencarefullyfromamongtheactive

researchersin

the

area.

n essama or tyo t erev ewersrecommen publication,(withoutseriousadverseremarksfromothers)the papersarenotacceptedforpublication.

Veryoften

one

or

two

revisions

are

required

for

final

acceptance

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INDEX

Impact

Factor

is

generally

considered

as

a

standard

/

quality indicatorofjournals.

sca cu a e say n200 as =

A =thenumberoftimesarticlespublishedin2006and

200were

durin

2008

cited

b

indexed

ournals

B =thetotalnumberof"citableitems"publishedin2006and2007. (otherthaneditorialsreviews,notesetc)

Theseare

published

by

Thomas

Reuters

every

year

for

large

numberofjournals (6228journalsin2007aboveIm actFactorof0.00

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Criticism&

validity

of

IF

Theimpact

factor

could

not

be

reproduced

in

an

independentaudit

Theimpactfactorreferstotheaveragenumberofcitationsperpaper, butthisisnotanormal

impactfactor isnotavalidrepresentationofthisdistributionandunfitforcitationevaluation.

n

es or

erm

espec a y

n

ecase

o

owimpactfactorjournals manyofthecitationstoa

certainarticlearemadeinpaperswrittenbytheauthor(s)oftheoriginalarticle

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PersonalObservation

Very

few

science

and

technolgy articles

appear

to

have

impactfactorof2orabove(2007records)

Mosto t ejourna swit ig IFare ea t an bilogical sciencesrelated.

OurjournalsinvariablyhavealowImpactfactora li t .!!!!!

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Collectionandstorage

Proper

documentationorbookkeepingessentialfor

quickretrieval

of

information

onecardforonepaperwithauthors,title,

ournalnames

vol.

nos

and

a es

briefcontentsorabstract

Digitaldatabases,fastersearchusingkeywords

Researcherscan

create

asimple

data

base

with

MsAccess oranyotherrelationaldatabasewiththe

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DigitalDatabasestructure Category :Book/Journal/Thesis/Magazine/General

Yearofpublication:Date(ifavailable),Month,Year

ut or s : max mumt ree

Nameofpublication:

RelevantPages:from to

Briefabstract: textmaximum100words

Thiswill

help

in

organizing

data

author

wise,

chronological,topicwiseetcusingsimple

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INTERNETSOURCES

Search

using

search

engines

and

keywords Correctuseofkeywordsleadstopointed

in ormation

Wrong

keywords

bring

redundant

information oos ngt ecorrectone cu tan t me

consuming

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Locatingthepapersonly

Some

times

search

yields

onlytitlesauthorsandabstracts

fulltextonnominalpayment

hardcopy

from

current

journals

or

back

volumes

interlibraryserviceslikeINSDOChelpful

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Commonsearchengines

Google

and

Google

scholar http://www.google.com/ forgeneralpurpose

search

http://scholar.google.com Orhttp://scholar.google.co.in/

technicalandscientificsearch

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Googlescholar helpsin

What

is

Google

Scholar?GoogleScholarprovidesasimplewaytobroadlyy .

peerreviewedpapers,

, ,

articlesfromacademicpublishers,

,

preprintrepositories,

.

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Googlescholar

Features

of

Google

Scholar Search diversesourcesfromoneconvenientplace

Find papers,abstractsandcitations

Locate the

complete

paper

through

your

library

or

on

t ewe

Learn aboutkeypapersinanyareaofresearch

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OtherSearchEngines 1Sl No Name Webaddress

1 All the web all the time http://www.alltheweb.com/

2 Direct hit htt ://www.directhit.com/

3 Excite http://www.excite.com/

4 File search http://www.filez.com/ n same ttp: www. n same.com

6 Go TO http://www.goto.com/

7 HotBot http://www.hotbot.com/

8 Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com/ 9 InternetSleuth http://www.isleuth.com/

. .

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OthersearchenginesSlNo

Name Webaddress

11 LookSmart http://www.looksmart.com/

12 Lycos http://www.lycos.com/

13 Netsca e Portal htt :// uide.netsca e.com/

14 Netscape search http://www.home.netscape.com/home/

15 Webcrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/

a oo p: www.ya oo.com

17 Askjeeves http://www.askjeeves.com/

18 SavvySearch(words dictionaries) http://www.savvy.search.com/

19 DogPille http://www.dogpile.com/

20 Mp3 search http://www.mp3.lycos.com/

21 Goo le search eneral htt ://www. oo le.com/

22 Google scholar search for scientific

literature

http://scholar.google.co.in/

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SearchforbooksSl No Details Webaddress

1 Amazon www.amazon.com

2 Bibs s www.bibs s.com

3 Library of Congress www.lcweb.loc.gov

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SOMESKILLSFORQUICKSURVEY

Reading

and

scanning

a

paper

Timerestrictionsforcompletereading

Howtoscan apaper?

Titles

and

authors

from

familiaritySectionheadings

Introductionandconclusion

Abstracts

Subsections

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PREPARATIONOFSURVEYPAPERS

Overview

in

a

paper

form Helpsin understandingthetopic

inchronologicaldevelopment

better

understanding

the

contribution

of

earlierresearchersandresearchgroups

avoidsduplication/reinventingthewheel

Developsthe

skill

in

writing

apaper

in

concise

form

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SomeDosandDonts Always

note

downwhatyouhave

read

or

seen Alwayskeepanotebookorwritingpadandpen

wit you

Notedowncompletereference&locationsothat.

Organizeyourdocumentationoccasionally

Prioritizeimportant papersandreadagain

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SomeDonts Nevercopypastefromonesoftcopyintoyour

papereveninliteraturesurvey

Searc enginescan etect copyingnow

Itiscalledplagiarismandsomedayyouwillbe

Read,understandandthensummarize

andcorrect

your

paper,

dont

do

all

on

the

terminal

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UPDATINGINFORMATION Havingcollectedinformationtilladate,howdowe

remainupdated?

Present ayinternetprovi esmanywayso up atinginformation

RSSfeedsofdifferenttypes

VideoandAudiotutorials

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RSSFeeds RSS:ReallySimpleSyndicationor

RichSiteSummary

isafamilyofwebfeed formatsusedtopublish

frequently

updated

workssuch

as

blog entries,

news

ea nes,au o,an v eo nas an ar ze orma .AnRSSdocument(whichiscalleda"feed","webfeed,or"channel" includesfullorsummarizedtext lus

metadata suchas

publishing

dates

and

authorship.

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Asourceofinformationontools TheHinduDailycolumns

ITTrendsformerlywrittenbyAnandPart asarat y

NETSPEAKbyJMurali

vesawea t o n ormat onon

Gettingregularupdatesfromfrequentedwebsites

a e

o

con en s

rom

ourna s

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earn ngma er a s

on

we

http://www.youtube.com/user/stanforduniversity

NationalProgramme onTechnologyEnhancedLearnin (NPTel)

Home

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

http://www.ignouonline.ac.in/sakshat/vod/nptelflash

7/

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OpenEducationalResources Forteachersandstudents,theweboffers largenumber

ofresources

for

teaching

&

learning.

one to:

Download se

Modify

Redistribute resourcesfromthenet

Thisis

against

the

monopolistic

policy

of

software

giants

likeMicroSoft formakingprofit

verygoo examp e s w pe a

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TypesofOpenresourcesavailable Completecoursewareonspecificsubjects

includingcourseplanandanimatedvideos

Open oo st atcan e own oa e an rea ,sometimesprintingapersonalcopymayaskfor

Somesitesprovidetextbooksfreeofcostevenforprintingpersonalcopies.

Curriculumcontent

and

awide

variety

of

learningandteachingmaterialswhichcanbeown oa e an use ya .

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SomeinternetsitesforOERGeneralinfo:http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook (

Openbooks:

ttp: www. atwor now e ge.com

http://ck12.org/flexr/

http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/home/

htt ://www.theassa er.or

Curriculum:

http://www.ocwfinder.org/

http://curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Webhome

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