Five Amazing Tools and Websites for Literature Collection and Review
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Research: How much a researcher has to endure for this small word! There is trouble in Poha, and innumerable fine resins have to be cut. Why not? Although the word is small, its important work has reached beyond the blue planet earth to distant planets and stars today. The touch of change in society and civilization is touched by such incredible creations of imagination. The euphoria of ease and relief has come to the civil life. Everything from morning paste to night rest in AC room is the product of this research.
From the Paleolithic age to the present there has been a stepwise evolution in the conduct of research. Speculative literature reviews have also transformed with the modernity of sophisticated AI tools, software and websites. Let's take a look at five such great tools and amazing websites today.
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Science Direct
The first step in literature review is to gather relevant literature or articles in line with the researcher's field of interest. Most researchers and academics prefer Google Scholar or ResearchGate to collect these literatures. But, apart from these there are some other websites which can be quite helpful in collecting research literature. These are sites like SciLit, PubMed or ScienceDirect. Advanced search of these websites will help you to collect excellent field related literature in no time.
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Trusted by Scopus No sign-up is required to use this website. However, you can also sign up and login if you want. Then, you will see the interface. Find the advanced search option. Click on it. A new interface will appear. By inputting various terms, journal name, year or author specified words, you can instantly find recent and most cited field related articles. To make these searches more effective, you can put keywords in quotations, use Boolean operators.
ZLibrary
In addition to literature collection, a researcher needs to read and collect field related reference books. Because it is very important to know about the field of research. This increases the scope of knowledge. A desire to fill the void of the unknown is created. But, the high prices of domestic books as well as foreign books have dampened the interest of many people. However, for them, Z Library has appeared with a vast collection of 12 crore books and 84 crore journal articles for free.
A couple of years ago, the main website of the library was blocked by the American intelligence agency for unknown reasons. However, it has recently made a comeback in a new twist. From here you can download for free all rare books of domestic and foreign price. Get thousands of important articles at your fingertips.
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Notebook of struggle
Suppose you want to research history, traditions and ancient cultures. So, secondary journal articles have to be collected and reviewed for these too. All old documents with sufficient data should be found. Newspapers of that time will also be required. And so, Sangram's Notebook will help you to simplify this impossible task of collection. Here you will find various newspapers including The Hindu, Amrit Bazar, Weekly Bichitra, Daily Azad, Daily Ittefaq and Daily Jugantar published from 1940 or earlier to 2009 in image and PDF format.
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Go to Sangram's Notebook website to collect these magazines. Above you will see many categories. Select the category you like. Select the magazine of the desired year. Click on it. Then, download it very easily.
Scispace
After collecting enough literature and journal articles, start the literature review. Because literature review is a very important step in conducting a good research. Through this a researcher reads previously published relevant articles. Then, find their unsolved research work. And so, this phase of research is not easy at all. One has to spend hours and hours to read and understand these difficult papers. Patience must be shown.
Well, if that is the case, someone will hold and explain the details of these articles. Unsolved research work will be highlighted. So tell me how it will be? Great, right? AI tool Syspace will help you to make the difficult task of reading papers, summarizing or literature review easier.
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Sign up for the first time to use the tool. Then, log-in. After login, a neat interface will appear. On the top right side you will see an option called My Library. Click there. Upload the paper from Jutero, the referencing software extension on your computer or from the computer's own drive. Click on it. will be downloaded. You will see the paper.
You will also see a chatbox on the right side of the paper. Write what you want to know about the paper. In no time he will tell you about it in shocking terms. Above you will find suggestions to ask how many. Just click on any of these to see it. For example, you want to know the abstract of the paper in two lines. Then type or click from the suggestions. Then, watch the fun. Two other such tools are Humata and Explain Paper.
Elicit
Thousands of questions run through the mind of a researcher during or after the literature review. Many websites have to be searched to find answers to these questions. The professor and supervisor have to approach. However, due to the busy schedule, the new moon moon is sometimes difficult to meet with the supervisor. And so, sometimes the answer is found and sometimes not. Then the way? The way is to take the help of AI tools and websites that answer research questions. For example, the AI research assistant tool Elicit will help you find answers to thousands of questions. The tool will find your answer with importance from 175 million articles.
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Sign up with email, name and password to use the tool. The interface will appear. You will see a question box. Entering the question in the box will take you to a new interface as soon as you search. You will see many new things. On the left you will see summaries of the four top cited papers containing your answers. The title of the papers in the middle and the abstract summary on the right. You can customize the appropriate keyword, year, study type, citation, etc. from the filters, sort by and export age at the top right. Even specific papers in your collection can be submitted here to know specifics. Find similar literature here.
Whether it's a literature review or a full-scale research study, these fascinating AI tools and software will perform brilliantly. Interestingly, this research will also contribute to the development of these tools now and in the future. As a result, research work will be more simple, beautiful and enjoyable.