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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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