web 2.0 for researchers part 1

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ICT For Researcher Part 1

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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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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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 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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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 Fact Finding

ICT in Fact Finding 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 ofthe 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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ICT and Academic Fact Findings (5/8)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

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu

good site for research free

http://www.irma-international.org good site

http://www.webology.org good site
http://scholar.google.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.arxiv.org/http://www.arxiv.org/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.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://www.scirus.com/http://scholar.google.com/


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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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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:

www.lluiscodina.com/AcademicSearchEngines.ppt
http://www.lluiscodina.com/AcademicSearchEngines.ppthttp://www.lluiscodina.com/AcademicSearchEngines.ppt