Research Guide

Research Guide:-

Reference Management Tool:

• Mendeley (Widely used in Science)
• Zotero (Widely used in Humanities and Social Science)

More: Cornel University Library site

Patent Literature:

• WIPO ( International and National Patent Collections )
• USPTO (US Patent database)

Assessing Journals, Articles and Author Influence:

How does one recognize that approximately is of good academic worth? Traditional processes, such as peer review, impact factors, and the reputation of the journal, continue to be hallmarks within the academic community.

• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) (Based on Scopus database from Elsevier)
• Google Scholar Metrics
• Eigen factor (Based on Web of Knowledge database)

Academic Search Engine:

• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
• Google Scholar
• Microsoft Academic Search

Scientific Information:

• SciCentral
• SciDevNet

Encyclopaedia of Life – (Information and pictures of all species known to science).

Open Access Scholarly Archive:

• Core (Single gateway to search open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide)
• arXiv (Oldest and largest preprint archive of Physic , Math, Stat, Comp. Sc. and Quantitative Biology )
• INSPIRE (High Energy Physics)
• SAO/ NASA (Astrophysics Data)
• BioRxiv ( Preprint archive of Biology, Started in 2013 by Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory)
• Faculty of 1000 biology (Biological Science)
• Science Central (Centralized Institutional repository harvester of DBT & DST)
• Chemical Science Repository (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• Open DOAR (Directory of Open Access repository)
• HINARI ( Access to Research in Health Programme)

Open Course ware & MOOC:

• E-pathshala (From UGC- INFLIBNET)
• MIT Open Courseware (From MIT, USA)
• NPTEL (From IISC & IITs)
• OER Commons
• Open Education Consortium
• Coursera (725 Courses from 110 leading University around the World)
• edX (228 Courses from world’s leading university)