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Research 2.0: A useful web
platform for academic
research
Dr. Mahendra K Sahu,
Librarian, GIMS,Gunjupur
Dr.R.K Mahapatra, Principal,
SMIT, Berhampur
Introduction
• With the advent of information technology, the
information scenario has been changed, likewise the
procedure of research.
• Earlier the research scholar used conventional ways
for their research work.
• After the invention of Information & communication
technology the entire process has been reduced.
• Now these days, most of the researchers use the new
technology for conducting research.
• The main purpose of my work is to make aware a
group of individuals interested in research work, in
terms of how they work and how to exploit the web
application for composing their research work.
What is Research 2.0
• Research 2.0 is the
systematic investigation to
discover the new fact, a new
invention by using of web
application.
• It makes conversations
between researchers,
empowers them to talk about
their discoveries and
associate them with others.
Definition of Research 2.0
• According Ben Shneiderman the term Research 2.0
suggests a contrast between traditional ways of
doing science, often denoted Research 1.0, with more
collaborative approaches, and suggests that the new
forms of research will work with web 2.0
technologies.
• Waldrop, 2008, Research 2.0 is not to be confused
with a similar term that has recently been coined
Science 2.0 which is the notion of open science
whereby scientists publish their emerging
experiment results in open, collaborative forums .
• According to Wikipedia ,Research 2.0 is an umbrella
term for the use of web 2.0 tools and principles in
scientific research, often used interchangeably with
research 2.0 but technically includes research in
fields other than science, such as the Humanities.
Why Research 2.0
Research 2.0 creates conversations
between researchers, empowers them to
examine their discoveries and connects
them with others.
Dissemination of information very firstly.
Creating and sustaining research
Collaborations and discovering
Analyzing, processing, publishing
Storing and sharing research data and
information.
Integrating (mash up) people, laboratories,
workplaces,
Information sources together
Advantage of Research 2.0
It helps scientists, researchers and academician to store, organize,
share and discover links to academic research papers.
It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources
i.e., articles, theses, books and abstracts from academic publishers,
professional societies, online repositories, universities and other
website.
It allows researcher to post their thoughts on a common topic using
electronic sticky notes on a shared digital wall.
It enables the researcher to create mind mapping and
brainstorming diagrams online.
It permits users to create professional surveys collect responses,
and analyze the responses of their created surveys easily.
Tools for Research 2.0
There are many web applications are available for different
aspect of Research. The followings are some of the relevant
web application, which helps the researcher to compose the
research work smoothly.
• Google Scholar
• Mendely
• Survey Monkey
• Citulike
• Google Docs
• Zotero
• Bib.Me
• Bubul.Us
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web
search engine provides a simple way to
broadly search for scholarly literature.
From one place, you can search across many
disciplines and sources:, i.e articles, theses,
books, abstracts, from academic publishers,
professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites.
It helps you to find relevant work across the
world of scholarly research.
It also provides citation service, an author
can easily keep track of citations to their
articles
Using Google Scholar for research
Google Scholar Citations provides a simple way for
authors to keep track of citations to their articles.
We can check who is citing our publications, graph
citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.
We can also make profile public, so that it may appear in
Google Scholar results when people search for our name.
It is quick to set up and simple to maintain even if we
have written hundreds of articles and our name is shared
by several different scholars.
We can add groups of related articles, not just one article
at a time; and citation metrics are computed and updated
automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to our
work on the web.
We can even choose to have our list of articles updated
automatically or we can choose to review the updates our
self, or to manually update at any time.
Finding research topic
Mandeley
Mendeley is a desktop and web program for
managing and imparting research papers,
finding research information and working
together on the web.
It is a PDF and reference management
application (accessible for Windows, OS X and
Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social
network for scientists and researchers.
Using mandeley for research
It automatically generate bibliographies
It collaborate easily with other researchers
online
It import papers from other research software
easily
It discover relevant papers based on what you’re
reading
It allows too access your papers from anywhere
online
Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app •
SurveyMonkey
Surveymonkey is an online survey device. It
permits the user to effectively make proficient
surveys. Both free and paying client can outline
reviews, gather responses, and analyze the
responses of survey made by them.
Advantages of Surveymonkey
• It creates surveys online with an unlimited
number of questions.
• It helps user to find patterns in your results..
• All of the data can be downloaded to your
computer for further analysis.
• The results can be exported into Excel to create
graphs.
Using Survey monkey for Research
Access to Unique Population.
Ability to provide access to groups and individuals
who would be difficult, if not impossible, to reach
through other channels.
Access to Unique Population.
Allow a researcher to reach thousands of people with commoncharacteristics
in a short amount of time, despite possibly being separated by great
geographic distances.
Allowing researchers to collect data while they work on other tasks.
Responses to online surveys can be transmitted to the researcher
immediately via email, or posted to an HTML document or database file. This
allows researchers to conduct preliminary analyses on collected data while
waiting for the desired number of responses to accumulate.
No need to key in the data since it allows collecting and analyzing the
responses data using statistical analysis (eg: SPSS).
Cost
Save money by moving to an electronic medium from a paper format.
Eliminating the need for paper and other costs, such as those incurred
through postage, printing, and data entry.
CiteULike
CiteULike is a free web application, which allows
users to save and share citations to academic
papers. Based on the principle of social book
marking, the site works to promote and to develop
the sharing of scientific references amongst
researchers.
CiteULike as research tool
Keep track of journal articles and other texts.
• CiteULike has filled the academic bookmarking niche by
allowing users to collect and organize research links,
manage citation details, and extract bibliographic data
from a web page automatically.
• CiteULike provides a forum for sharing resources for
faculty, fellows, and graduate students also researcher to
engage in more intensive research.
Organizing research.
• CiteULike offers a free signup and lets users install a
bookmarklet so that they can save the relevant articles
from the web with one click. Users can then tag entries and
search their personal library.
• CiteULike is focused on scholarly articles, books, and other research-related
resources. It has some special features, including the ability to export to
BibTeX and EndNote (two reference management tools frequently used in
academia) and the ability to browse through articles by journal title. If the
articles are save from a supported site (e.g., JSTOR), then the citation
details are automatically picked up when the page is saved using the
bookmarklet.
Sharing and collaborating with CiteULike.
• CiteULike offers a group feature that allows a group of people to add/share
articles that they all collectively find useful.
• An academic department or a research team might create a group on
CiteULike, they can collaborating on a large project and share information
within the group members.
Promoting and increasing the visibility of the articles.
• CiteULike help to promote and increasing the visibility of the finding and
research articles to the potential readers.
• Add the article to the personal CiteULike library to share with others, which
helps them discover literature which is relevant to their field or using
CiteULike invite a friend feature..
Google Docs Google Docs is an online word processor, spreadsheet
and presentation editor that enable you to make, store
and impart instantly and safely, and collaborate online
progressively. At once. you can make new reports from
scratch or upload existing archives, spreadsheets and
presentations. There is no software to download, and all
work is put away securely online and might be browsed
from any computer.
Using Google Doc for Research
Multiple authors can edit a document
simultaneously.
Collaborating on documents
• Google Docs is an online tool that enables collaborators
to work in a synchronous environment on a single
research document.
• Rather than passing a research document between
authors, Google Docs allows authors at different
physical locations to work together on the same
document in real time.
• Changes made to the document can be tracked and
attributed.
Creating online survey
• Google Docs have an inbuilt feature of creating online surveys.
• It is free and can collect unlimited responses
• Questionnaire created as a Google form can be distributed and shared using a
• web link (URL) through email to get responses from the target respondents.
• If the researchers have a website, the questionnaire can be easily embed into the
web pages to give it a more professional look and feel.
Analyze data using spreadsheet
• The respondents’ feedback from the survey created using Google form will be
inserted automatically In the Google Docs spreadsheet.
• Researchers can analyze the data from Google Docs spreadsheet.
• The data also can be downloaded in many different file formats, which might be
more convenient for researchers.
• If the data is export as Excel or CSV, it might easily import it back to SPSS and do
advanced statistical analysis of collected data.
Zotero Zotero is a free, simple reference management tool to help
users collect, organizes, cite and offer research sources. It is
the only research tool that automatically senses content in
your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal
library with a single click.
Advantages of Zotero
It annotates and organizes research results, including video.
It saves information about a reference, including author, title,
and other publication information.
It creates libraries and save searches, and share collections
with other people.
It helps to attach files, links, notes, and PDFs to records.Store
a screenshot of a web page.
Export information as formatted citations in word processing
programs (Word, Open Office, Google Docs).
It allows tag and sort records and perform advanced searches.
It also view records in personal collection when offline.
It cites records in any language
Bibme
BibMe is an automated citation creator and bibliography
generator. It can save you loads of time building and
formatting your references, time that is understandably
valuable and would be better served working on your
paper.
Using Bibme for Research
Build a database of your references.
Attach articles to references so that all your research is
in one place.
Store notes with references.
Search references
Cite your sources in your paper with a touch of a button.
Automatically build your bibliograhy (also called works
cited/reference list).
Easily change your citation style if needed(e.g. APA to
MLA, Chicago, etc) .
Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us is a freely available web application, which
empower users to make mind-mapping and
conceptualizing charts on the web.
Bubbl us as a research tool
Create flow charts for grant proposals.
Presenting the ideas of research.
Create a mind map of a brainstorming session
for research planning that can be shared with all
research team members using the collaboration
feature or pasted into a blog or wiki.
Organize sources or notes for a paper or research
article, in order to aid in the writing process and
narrow the focus of each topic.
Conclusion…….
Web application held strong certification to advantage of doing
online research.
It enables researchers to discover the everyday life in new and
creative ways.
The exploration might be totally unremarkable, it could also
be more intuitive and participatory.
The difference between online and offline research could be
exaggerated by the widely use of the internet.
The above discussion aimed to outline some key feature
related to Web application for research work