e-resources, literature search and reference management
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E-Resources, Literature Search
and
Reference ManagementBy
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, IndiaThiruvananthapuram, India
Two Day Workshop On Research Methodology in Social Sciences
Postgraduate and Research Department of Political Science,
Sree Narayana College, Kollam, India
30 & 31 January 2015
E-Resources in Social Sciences
Tips for Managing Literature
Reference Management - ZoteroReference Management - Zotero
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e- Resources
Journal Databases
Statistical Databases
Theses and Dissertations
Courseware
Archives
Information Portals
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JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals from many disciplines. At present hosts full text contents of around 4900+ journals and e-books in Political Science.
Subscription based service.
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Wiley Online Library
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
An excellent collection 137 good quality journals in the area of Political Science from Wiley Blackwell Publishers
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OUP Social Science Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
Working with prestigious scholars, societies, and associations, such as the Harvard University, The National Association of Social Workers, and The World Bank, the OUP Social Sciences Collection encompasses some of the highest quality journals across the social sciences; including an exceptional and diverse selection in economics and finance.
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Cambridge Journals
http://journals.cambridge.org/
The Cambridge Journals Online provided by the Cambridge University Press contains 42 journals in Politics and International Relations.
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Springer
The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The
http://link.springer.com/
The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The Social Science Journals collection of Springer consist of 251 journals.
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Project MUSE
Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration
http://muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration between the John Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Today it is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. The Political Science Journal Collection contains 38 journals.
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Annual Review
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual
http://www.annualreviews.org/
collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused disciplines
The Annual Review of Political Science, in publication since 1998, covers significant developments in the field of Political Science including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.
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EconLit
http://search.ebscohost.com
As the most reliable full-text source for economic research, this database contains all of the indexing available in EconLit in addition to full text for hundreds of journals including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives). This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in economics & finance and volume and issue browsing is available for all full-text journals.
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DOAJ
http://doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory
that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Provides more than 10000 journals in all subjects.
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PLOS One
http://www.plosone.org/
PLOS One is a top quality open access, peer-reviewed
journal. Currently it contains 342 articles in Political Science and 13943 articles in Social Sciences
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Open J-Gate
http://www.openj-gate.com
Open J-Gate is a database of journal literature, indexed from 5659 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.
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Census of India
The Indian Census is the most credible source of information on Demography (Population characteristics), Economic Activity, Literacy and Education, Housing &
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
and Education, Housing & Household Amenities, Urbanisation, Fertility and Mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Language, Religion, Migration, Disability and many other socio-cultural and demographic data since 1872.
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Economics and Statistics Department - Kerala
http://www.ecostat.kerala.gov.in/
The Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Government of Kerala is the nodal agency for collection, compilation, analysis of statistics relating to various sectors of Kerala Economy. Major Divisions relate to Agriculture, Economic Census, ASI, IIP, Labour, Housing, NSS, VS, Sample Registration, Prices, State Income, Computer Division.
No payment, free resource.
Login Required
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EPW RF India Time Series
http://www.epwrfits.in/index.aspx
In ITS, datasets have been structured under 14 modules. Such as ASI, Agricultural Statistics, Financial Markets, State Domestic Product and Banking Statistics and so on.
This initiative has the broad objective of aiding and promoting research on Indian economy and financial markets and targeted to benefit particularly students, research scholars and the academic community both in India and abroad.
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National Accounts Statistics
http://mospi.nic.in
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NSS Survey Reports
All the reports and publications are in portable data format
Works better in Internet Explorer
http://mospi.nic.in
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RBI Database on Indian Economy
Through this website (DBIE), data are mainly presented as time-series formatted reports. These reports have been organized under sectors and
http://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=home
organized under sectors and sub-sectors according to their periodicities. Reports can be saved as excel sheets for further analysis.
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UN Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
The Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. It compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries’ efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems.
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World Bank Open Repository
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
WBOKR is the central repository of The World Bank. All
resources hosted are available online for free access.
More than 18000 publications are available.
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EThOS
http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
Electronic Thesis Online Service
This is a single point access to all theses produced by UK Higher Education
provided by The British Library. It harvests e-theses from the institutional
repositories and digitizes paper theses from participating institutions.
Login required
Restricted Access – Some items are downloadable
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Open Thesis
http://www.openthesis.org/
Open Thesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other
academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.
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Shodhganga – A reservoir of Indian theses
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers.
Presently hosts around 18000 theses from different universities in India
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Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org
Video Lectures from World’s Top Scholars
Academic Earth is a user-friendly educational eco-system that gives
internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with
and learn from full video courses and lectures from the World’s leading
scholars.
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IMF Podcasts
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/podcast.aspx
Audio Lectures from World’s Top Economists
IMF economists and other experts discuss key economic and financial issues of the day.
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YouTube
https://www.youtube.com
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MIT Open Courses –Political Science
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/
Open courseware of Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In each course syllabus, readings, assignments, and study materials are available for download.
All courses are free to access and learn.
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edX
https://www.edx.org
EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from the world’s best universities, colleges and organizations. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and many other universities. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT.
Currently 67 courses are offered by various institutions in the area of Social Sciences.
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MPRA
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/
This repository is intended to disseminate research papers of social
scientists who want to make their work freely available through the RePEc network but are not affiliated with any institution that provides that furtherance. The work will be made available through EconPapers, Ideas, Economists Online and other services.
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New Economic Papers
http://nep.repec.org/
NEP is an announcement service which filters information on new
additions to RePEc into edited reports.
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SSRN
www.ssrn.com
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid
worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
It currently hosts more than 1 Lakh papers in Political Science
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BLDS
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/
One of the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe. These unique holdings, built up over 40 years, consist of approximately one million items. Over half the collection originates from developing countries. BLDS provide a number of services to remote users, enabling access to the collection and staff expertise.
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eldis
http://www.eldis.org/
A gateway to global development information on international
development issues. Provides free and easy access to materials on developing countries ...
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e Social Sciences
http://www.esocialsciences.org
e-Social Sciences provides a region-focused repository and a new
and yet evolving publication space for easy and quick dissemination of scholarly work that can be a space for discourse among researchers, policy makers and the civil society.
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Research Resources for the Social Sciences
http://socsciresearch.com/
Provided by McGraw Hill – Ryerson
Started in 1994 as a project in support of a graduate methods seminar.
A Portal for Social Sciences
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Managing Literature
Topic selection – Subject Area, geographical location, period
Systematic gathering of sources:
Using proper tools to gather literature – Google Scholar, Journal Databases, Bibliographies …
Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes, comments, and making it error freeand making it error free
Organizing by topic, subject, research area…
Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval
Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.
While writing:
Insert the citation and bibliography in the desired citation style
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Works Offline and Online
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Over 6700 referencing styles
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26 fields
34 Types of Sources
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Integration with MS-Office / Open Office
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