Using Freeware for research work
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Ideation aspects
Closing notesRetrieval & Application aspectsStorage aspects
Searching aspectsPersonal
Knowledge Management
Srinivasan TatachariUsing IT for Research
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Is there a choice?
• Information is moving to electronic versions• Is there a choice?• Intimidating? Faint-hearted??• Learn new tools?
Personal Knowledge Management
• Stages– Ideation– Search– Storage– Retrieval– Application
• Artifacts– Research papers, Ideas, electronic versions of
books, handbooks, snippets from websites ….
Ideation
• Scribbles, notes• Mind-mapping tools– Helps in abstraction, conceptualization and
collation of ideas– Brainstorming & collaborating– ConceptDraw Mindmap tool
• Blogging ?
Mind Map
Seek & Receive
• You search on-need or receive when ready– Library visits, journals by mail
• Google – the God of search? – Scholar– Sometimes just old Google.co.in
• Other databases: JSTOR, EBSCO …
• Usage of search keywords is ‘key’ to the search!
References -> A to Z of EBSCO
Respective journals’ website
Seek & Receive
• Email subscriptions for notifications – New articles, journals
• E-Mailing lists like those of AOM– Discussions, information sharing
RSS feeds directly from journal sites
Subscribing to RSS
Bloglines.com
MS Outlook 2007
Email/RSS feed from Google Alerts
OR
Google Scholar Alerts using yahoo pipesPipes: Google Scholar RSS/email
Storing
• Print documents – physical archive, highlight– Highlight in PDF (License?)
• Manual classification: Folder structure, Filenames
• Personal Knowledge Management: e.g. KnowledgeTree software – Tag, classify, keywords, type of documents
Store snippets, urls, images… in Evernote
Zotero for Firefox stores citations and others
Endnote – no site wide license!
Retrieval & Application
• B(u)y memory !• Go by manual classification and open each file
to searchOR….
Use desktop search tools: Copernic Desktop Search
Similar to (better than?) Google Desktop
Retrieve snippets from Evernote
Use references from Zotero for citation in Word
RSS feed readers – Bloglines, MS outlook, snackr!
Textflow – collaboration over Word
Closure
• You may need administrative privileges• May not be the best tools/methods available– Free!– Some are experimental – beware of crashes!!
• We could obtain commercial versions
• pptPlex – from Microsoft Labs!
Thanks
Now it would be great if you could share your ideas from your experience/
experiments!!