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Literature Survey

G. Phanikumargphani@iitm.ac.in

11.12.2015

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Please note

Literature Survey is not Google

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Outline

1 Literature Survey: Why?

2 Sources of Literature

3 Strategies

4 Publishers

5 Writing it all up

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Outline

1 Literature Survey: Why?

2 Sources of Literature

3 Strategies

4 Publishers

5 Writing it all up

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Literature Survey: Why?

What approaches have others used?

What are the gaps?

What difference are you making?

Novelty in Familiarity and Familiarity in Novelty

Placing in Current Context

Avoiding duplication

Clarification of controversial results

State of the art: extend and build on the work of others.

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Literature survey in the context of thesis

Theses should be based on original research

Unintentional duplication is not acceptable

To gain knowledge of the background work

To establish context of your work

To question, point out anomalies / gaps

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Outline

1 Literature Survey: Why?

2 Sources of Literature

3 Strategies

4 Publishers

5 Writing it all up

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Sources of Literature

Open access

INDEST Arrangement

Your Library subscriptions

Peer sharing sources : ResearchGate, academia.edu

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Sources of Literature

Primary Sources

Periodicals

Research Reports

Conference Proceedings

Official Publications

Standards

Theses, Dissertations

To be published works

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Sources of Literature

Secondary Sources

Compilations

Reviews

Reference Books / Handbooks / Encyclopedia / Dictionaries

Textbooks / Monographs

Indexing and Abstracting services

Tertiary Sources

Directories, Year books, Bibliographies

Lists of secondary sources

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Some terminology

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number: Online publication

Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) Catalogue : Books

Research Information Services (RIS) format: Bibiographic Information

BibTeX (.bib) format: Bibiographic Information

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Awareness

Journal Impact Factor

Citation Index

h-index

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Outline

1 Literature Survey: Why?

2 Sources of Literature

3 Strategies

4 Publishers

5 Writing it all up

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Strategies to search

Keyword search : systematic manual search

Backward chronological search : snowball or back reference method

Forward chronological search : citation based

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Systematic manual search

Abstracting databases

INSPEC and COMPENDEX (EngineeringVillage)

PubMed

MathSciNet

Chemical Abstract (CA) Service

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Backward chronological search

Back references

Identify the latest relevant paper in your area

Look up each of the references listed

Repeat to extend the tree backward

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Forward chronological search

Citations

Identify the citation classic in your area

Look up which all papers refer to it

Find out which of these are well cited

Repeat to extend the tree forward

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Citation Information

Websites

Thomson ISI / Web of Science (isiknowledge.com)

SciFinder (www.cas.org)

Scopus (www.scopus.com)

Scitation (scitation.aip.org)

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Outline

1 Literature Survey: Why?

2 Sources of Literature

3 Strategies

4 Publishers

5 Writing it all up

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Major Publishers

Elsevier

Springer

Taylor and Francis

Nature

Maney Publishing

APS, AIP, ACS, AIChE, TMS, ASM, ACM, IEEE, etc.,

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Online access

ScienceDirect

SpringerLink

InformaWorld

IngentaConnect

crossref.org

prola.aps.org etc.,

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Get others to work for you

Contents subscription

RSS feed subscription

Subscribe to mailing lists

Watch out SIG sites (eg., imechanica.org)

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Outline

1 Literature Survey: Why?

2 Sources of Literature

3 Strategies

4 Publishers

5 Writing it all up

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Thesis / Paper

Numerical / Chronological + Alphabetical

Be aware of style guides for each purpose

Use a reference manager

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Reference Managers

JabRef

EndNote

ReferenceManager

ProCite

Mendeley

Zotero

Comparison of reference management software on Wikipedia

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Acknowledgements

Prof. K. Ramamurthy

Colleagues and Students

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Thank you and all the best!

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