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Experiences of
Srinivasan TatachariOB & HR
Using Information Technology for Efficient Research
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
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Is there a choice?
• Information is moving to electronic avatars• Is there a choice?• Intimidating? Faint-hearted??
• Solution:– Personal Knowledge Management
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Personal Knowledge Management
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Personal Knowledge Management
• Stages– Ideation– Search– Storage– Retrieval– Application
• Artifacts– Research papers, Ideas, electronic versions of
books, handbooks, snippets from websites ….
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Ideation aspects
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Ideation
• Scribbles, notes• Mind-mapping tools– Helps in abstraction, conceptualization and
collation of ideas– Brainstorming & collaborating• E.g. Xmind Mindmap tool
• Blogging/Twittering/Facebooking ?
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Mind Map (example Xmind)
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Seek & You shall Receive• You search on-need or receive when ready– Library visits, journals by mail
• Google – the ‘God’ of search? – Scholar– Sometimes just old Google.com
• Research databases: JSTOR, EBSCO …
• Journal websites
• IIMB library assistance
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References -> A to Z of EBSCO
Respective journals’ website
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Serendipitous Receive
• Email subscriptions for notifications – New articles, journals
• Online First / New issue Print
• E-Mail lists like those of AOM, COGNET– Discussions, information sharing
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RSS feeds directly from journal sites
Subscribing to RSS
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FeedDemon
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MS Outlook 2007
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Email Alerts from Google Alerts
Email Alerts from Google Scholar Hot
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Storage & Retrieval aspects
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Storing
• Print documents – physical archive, highlight– Highlight in PDF (License?)
• Manual classification: Folder structure, Filenames– Tag, classify, keywords, type of documents
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Store snippets, urls, images… in Evernote
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MS OneNote
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Retrieval & Application
• B(u)y memory !• Go by manual classification and open each file
to searchOR….
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Use desktop search tools: Copernic Desktop Search
Similar to (better than?) Google Desktop
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Retrieve snippets from Evernote
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Zotero for Firefox stores citations, clips, notes, pdf& others
Endnote – no site wide license!
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Use Zotero for citation in Word
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Mendeley
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EndNote
• Commercial Referencing tool• Not available on all desktops
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Other tips
• Autohotkey– Automatically search for highlighted word in any
application from google and scholar website!
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PDF-Xchange – Viewer free
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Closing notes
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• Start early– Be organized– Be efficient– Save Paper
• Backup data regularly (esp. laptops)• You may need administrative privileges for
desktop• May not be the best tools/methods available– Free!– Some are experimental – beware of crashes!!
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Thanks
Contact for specifics:srinivasant07@iimb
It would be great if you can share your ideas from your experience/ experiments!!