ICT for Researchers

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ICT dalam Penyelidikan

Burairah Hussin, PhD

Centre of Advanced Computing Technologies (C-ACT)

Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat Dan Komunikasi

Universiti Teknikal [email protected]

burairahhussin.blogspot.com
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Who is a researcher

A researcher is somebody who performsresearch, the search for knowledge or in generalany systematic investigation to establish facts.Researchers can work in academic, industrial,

government, or private institutions.

Scientist, Postdoctoral Researcher, ResearchAssistant, Research Associate, ResearchSupervisor, Research Student

(Wikipedia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research


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Reasons for Doing Research

Chris Freeman and Peter Tyrer, Royal College of Psychiatrists


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Information Communication

Technology (ICT)

ICT consists of hardware, software, networks, and

media for collection, storage, processing,

transmission, and presentation of information

(voice, data, text, images)

Information & Communication Technology Sector Strategy Paper of the World Bank Group,

April 2002, http://info.worldbank.org/ict/ICT_ssp.html


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(Luecke and Katz (2003) - "Innovation.is generally understood

as the successful introduction of a new thing or method . . .

Innovation is the embodiment, combination, or synthesis of

knowledge in original, relevant, valued new products,

processes, or services.

Innovation in ICT

WHAT IS INNOVATION


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Factors Affecting the Use For ICT For

Research

Visualization

Methodology Expansion

Computational Intensity Across DisciplinesProblem Oriented Context


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Relationship between ICT Innovation

and Research (1/2)

ICT can be used to improve the quality ofacademic publications, (Camussone, 2010) technological improvements (due to the Internet and

the web 2.0)

new theoretical frameworks (e.g. open innovation,open access initiatives, and crowd-sourcing)

It should differs from conventional way of doingacademic publications

ICT implementation in this view should affectedthe structure of university and process to attainacademic publications.


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Relationship between ICT Innovation

and Research (2/2)

The growing usage of the Internet, Web 2.0applications, and the diffusion of open andcollaborative paradigms, is raising concerns on

the traditional model of producing, evaluatingand disseminating scientific/academicknowledge.

Software can be used for quality assurance,evaluating the relative originality ofmanuscript. (Carlson,2005)


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What should A Researcher Do?

Academic Publications

Journal

Book Section

Monograph

Conference or Workshop Item -> Proceeding

Book

Thesis Patent


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What is Web 2.0 and Social Media?

Web 2.0 is a way of thinking about how knowledge is

created, shared, managed, and leveraged using

technology.

Social media are web and mobile tools used for sharing

and discussing information.


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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Web 1.0 was about reading Web 2.0 is about writing

Web 1.0 was about owning Web 2.0 is about sharing

Web 1.0 was about companies Web 2.0 is about communities

Web 1.0 was about home pages Web 2.0 is about blogs

Web 1.0 was about portals Web 2.0 is about RSS and syndication

Web 1.0 was about taxonomy Web 2.0 is about tags and folksonomy

Web 1.0 was about Netscape Web 2.0 is about Google

Web 1.0 was about wires Web 2.0 is about wireless

Web 1.0 was about dialup Web 2.0 is about broadband

Adapted from www.joedrumgoole.com


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Web 2.0 Sites

Source: http://www.go2web20.net/


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Academic Writings Reasoning

(4 Wives sharing 1Husband) Subject content knowledge

Why to be publish?

What to be publish?

Where to Publish?

When to be publish? How to get it publish?

Knowledge related to general academic publication issues

How many/years Impact Factor/Indexes


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Perkembangan ICT

Perkembangan pesat ICT menyebabkanbanyak perubahan berlaku dalam cara hidupmanusia.

Kita adalah generasi terakhir tamadun masalampau dan kita adalah generasi pertamatamadun baru. Garis pemisah antara tamadundahulu dan tamadun sekarang ialah komputerdan internet (Tengku Azman Syarifuddeen,1990)


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How ICT play a role?

The design, development and deployment of ICT Systems

in the 21st Century, Drs. Hans Goedvolk
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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The essential quality of ICT literacy is that

it encompasses more than the basic fact-

finding strategies, academician so

confidently use, and engages them in thehigher order thinking necessary for

academic success.- Professor, Alexius Smith Macklin, Purdue University


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Researcher Need in Information

Literacy

ICT in Fact Findings Accessing and exploring knowledge


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Researcher Need in Networking

ICT in Data & EvidenceCollections Reflecting


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ICT in Communications Communicating and

collaboration

Researcher Need in Communication


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Researcher Need in Disseminating

ICT in Academic Writings Academic Publications

Presenting Result


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ICT and Academic Fact Findings (1/8)

Researcher need to know the characterization of

the search engine.

Information sources

Kind of documents

Types of retrieved documents (access)

Google vs Google scholar


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ICT and Academic Fact Findings (2/ 8)

Researcher need to know where are the

research materials?

Universities (.edu sites)

Research centres (NASA, RAND, etc.)

Journal and book publishers

Library collections

Digital repositories (e-prints, e-books, etc.)

etc


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Researcher need to know the typology of documents

Web pages (and any kind of documents: pdf, word, ps)

Articles (open access and subscription-based access)

Academic works (dissertations, thesis, report)

Patents

Books

References (abstract, not the full text document, only

the bibliographic reference)


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Output: Types of Retrieved Documents

Free (web pages, open access peer review journalarticles, etc.)

Free if you are in the campus or connected to thecampus network(articles of the peer review journal thatare subscribed by your University)

Not free: by paymentbecause the journal is notsubscribed by your university (articles of the peer

review subscription-based journal) References only(not the document: you have to find out

the full text document by other ways)



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The main Academic-Search Engines Google Scholar(Google)

scholar.google.com

Scirus (Elsevier)www.scirus.com

Academic(Microsoft)http://academic.research.microsoft.com

Network Digital Library for Thesis and Dissertationhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search

Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ)

http://www.doaj.org Cornell University Library

http://www.arxiv.org
http://scholar.google.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-searchhttp://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://scholar.google.com/


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Why archive?

online articles are more highly cited

because of easier availability"

Steve Lawrence, Nature (2001) vol 411,

no. 6837, p.521.


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How to Search Well

Know what youre looking for.

Choose the best databases.

Know how to narrow or expand your search.


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How to focus when you get too many results

Use Advanced Search

Searching: Abstract Title Subject

Phrase Searching(with quotes)

Using and


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What to do when your search comes up empty

Ease up! You might be using too many search limits (e.g. date,

title, type of study).

Truncation

e.g. build* = build, building, buildings

Using or with parentheses ( )


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ICT in Academic Writings (1/3)

What lessons can we learn from the past?

Typing pools


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What is the innovation? Word processors



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What is the innovation? Tools for managingresearch materials

Mendeley

www.mendeley.com showtime

Endnote

www.endnote.com

MS OFFICE

Collaborate with your document

http://www.mendeley.com/http://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/Mendeley%20slide.pptxhttp://www.mendeley.com/http://www.mendeley.com/http://www.mendeley.com/http://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/Mendeley%20slide.pptxhttp://www.mendeley.com/


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ICT in Data & Evidence Collections (1/4)

Innovation ? Tools for measuring good journals

Choosing a good journal increases the chance forour paper to be read and referred as manyresearchers usually refer to the top journals orproceedings.

There are many indicators of good journal havebeen developed in recent years. It has beenfound that all of these indicators are correlateclosely with each other


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Innovations ?Journal Publication MeasuresIndexes Database

Journal Impact Factor (JIF)Data source: ISI Web of Science

Can be found in: Journal Citation Reportssubscription required (example)

Scimago Journal Rank (SJR)Data source: Scopus

Can be found at: http://www.scimagojr.com/free (example)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)Data source: Scopus

Can be found at: http://www.journalindicators.com/free

Eigenfactor score (ES) and Article Influence Score (AIS)Data source: ISI Web of Science

Can be found at: http://www.eigenfactor.org/free

http://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/Indexes%20Database.pptxhttp://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/jcr.pptxhttp://www.scimagojr.com/http://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/scimagojr.pptxhttp://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/JCR-page.pptxhttp://www.journalindicators.com/http://www.eigenfactor.org/http://www.eigenfactor.org/http://www.journalindicators.com/http://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/JCR-page.pptxhttp://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/scimagojr.pptxhttp://www.scimagojr.com/http://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/jcr.pptxhttp://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/Indexes%20Database.pptx


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Innovations ? Findings Good Conferences

Conference ranking by the Australian CORE (COmputing Research andEducation)

http://core.edu.au/index.php/categories/conference%20rankings

IEEE Conference Calendar

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/conferences/home

ACM Conference Calendar

http://www.acm.org/conferences

Academic Research (free)

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ (example)
http://core.edu.au/index.php/categories/conference%20rankingshttp://www.computer.org/portal/web/conferences/homehttp://www.acm.org/conferenceshttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/academic%20research.pptxhttp://localhost/var/www/apps/conversion/tmp/scratch_1/academic%20research.pptxhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://www.acm.org/conferenceshttp://www.computer.org/portal/web/conferences/homehttp://core.edu.au/index.php/categories/conference%20rankings


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Innovation? Where are you in academic world?

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com (free)

Publish or perish Download this software from

http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm and Download andinstall Publish or Perish in your computer (free)

Academic Research (free)http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

Scopus (subscribe) http://www.scopus.com

http://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/http://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htmhttp://www.harzing.com/pop.htm


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Innovation? Tools for plagiarism check

Plagiarism is a big sin in academic world.

Turnitin www.turnitin.com(subscribe)

Viper (download this software and install)

www.scanmyessay.com (free)
http://www.turnitin.com/http://www.scanmyessay.com/http://www.scanmyessay.com/http://www.turnitin.com/


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ICT in Communications (1/2)

How you communicate?


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ICT in Communications (2/2)

ResearchGate (free)

ResearchID (free)


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Tools for save and locate your files

In order to ensure that our files in secure andable to open anywhere, we may save it usingInternet accessible application such as Dropbox.

Dropbox is a free service that lets us bring ourdocuments anywhere and share them easily. Youmay download it:

Dropbox (download this software and install)

www.dropbox.com (free)
http://www.dropbox.com/http://www.dropbox.com/


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Tools for English grammar checker

We can check our English grammar using:

whiteSmoke (download this software and install)

www.whitesmoke.com (free/subscribe)

ginger (download and install)

http://www.gingersoftware.com/(free)
http://www.whitesmoke.com/http://www.whitesmoke.com/http://www.whitesmoke.com/http://www.whitesmoke.com/http://www.whitesmoke.com/http://www.whitesmoke.com/


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Conclusion

How ICT knowledge's complement academic

publications.

How ICT skills being used in academic

publications.

Understanding new technologies in academic

publications.


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The African Story

When a gazelle wakes up in the morning, it knows that it has to run fast,faster than the lion or else it will not survive the day.When the lion wakes up, it too knows that it must run fast, faster than the

weakest gazelle or else it will starve and die.It doesnt matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, youbetter be running

Datuk Profesor Emeritus Ir Zawawi Ismail


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The Discoverer

It is not the strongest of the species that

survives, nor the most intelligent that

survives. It is the one that is mostadaptable to change.


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References:

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