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RMT: Research Methods Training

Stage 1 in: Final project and Dissertation

Lecture 3: Literary Search and Scientific Paper Reading and Writing Sources of Information

As research aims to add to the world's body of knowledge, researchers must be aware of the existing body of knowledge for the area in which they work It is therefore important that the researcher knows how to search for that data and has the ability to read, understand, and interpret it.

Thus, one of the most important issues when conducting research is the ability to search for meaningful information in the vast world of data that surrounds us.

With the invention of the Internet and the WWW, much more information is available to us than at any other time in history. This is a blessing, but it also poses a problem – how the proper and relevant information can be found.

The frontiers of the world's body of knowledge are not documented in text books, but rather in:

2 Remember that reading this kind of literature is important in identifying a problem that is academically credible. If the problem in which you are interested is not discussed in the academic literature, you should probably conclude that it is your definition of the problem that is at fault. Knowing how to access the information is thus the first step in research. By now you should know how to do this, having taken the self-paced "Information Literacy Resource". If you haven't taken it by now then it is strongly suggested that you do it as soon as possible, overlapping it with the current course or even taking a break from this training and the "DS" course until you have done so (of course, you will notify your DA if you do this).

A helpful guide to the "Best Search for Your Information Need" is found at (Best Search, 2006).

Library Training Module

By now you should have taken the Library Training Module self-paced course and be well acquainted with its units (Library Training Module, 2015):

Unit 1: Library Foundations Unit 2: Searching for E-Resources

Unit 3: Referencing and Plagiarism Unit 4: Your Subject Area: Computing

Unit 5: Research and Study Skills

All of the above have to do with the subject matter of this seminar. In case you have not

taken it yet or have not worked through all the units, we suggest that you stop reading this lecture at this point and complete the missing parts of the Library Training Module which is found at the Library. Links to additional instructions and tutorials are listed in the DS Template.

Literature Search

The following is a short description of Literature Search which complements (but does not replace) the above mentioned Library Training Module.

3 You can search for literature through many different sources, such as: Literature Sources, Databases and Search Engines (of publishers, literature DBs and Web Search Engines). The questions you should ask are "what am I trying to find out?" and "what type of information do I want to find?" Is it an overview of a subject area? Is it an answer to a specific question? Or is it just a specific document? Define why you need this information and how quickly do I need it: if immediately then try the Internet, if in a day maybe the library will help or if it in a week then you can use the inter Library Loans.

Sources for literature on the Internet are freely available collections, publishers' websites and databases and literature databases.

Interrelation of Sources

 Authors submit paper to conference/journal for peer review

 If accepted, paper is revised by the authors and submitted to conference/journal editor  The paper is processed to bring it into the publisher's format (typesetting/layout)

 The paper is then - included in the publisher's database, - made available on-line via the publisher's website, and

- possibly published in printed form (not necessarily in that order)

 Literature databases - collect the bibliographic information from several publishers, and

- add additional information (references with links, citation index) - link back to publisher for full-text of papers