30 Tools & Resources for Academic Research

Merriam-webster defines "research" as "careful or diligent search; studious inquiry or examination; the collecting of information about a particular subject". It's not easy to conduct academic research, so here we round up 30 tools that will facilitate your research. Read More...

How to write a superb literature review

Literature reviews are important resources for scientists. They provide historical context for a field while offering opinions on its future trajectory. Creating them can provide inspiration for one’s own research, as well as some practice in writing. But few scientists are trained in how to write a review — or in what constitutes an excellent one. Even picking the appropriate software to use can be an involved decision (see ‘Tools and techniques’). So Nature asked editors and working scientists with well-cited reviews for their tips. Click here view more.. 

Open Research Europe

European Commission launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020.

Open Research Europe will give everyone, researchers and citizens alike, free-of-charge access to the latest scientific discoveries. It directly addresses major difficulties often associated with publishing scientific results, including delays and barriers to the re-use of results and high costs. The platform is an optional service for Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 beneficiaries so that they can comply with their funding requirements for immediate open access, at no cost to them

More information about Open Research Europe  

How to find the right journal for your research (using actual data)

The right journal helps your research flourish. It puts you in the best position to reach a relevant and engaged audience, and can extend the impact of your paper through a high-quality publishing process. Read more

Find research papers: five tips every researcher should know

Finding the relevant research in your field is critical to a successful research project. Unfortunately, it can be one of the hardest, most time-consuming challenges for academics. The research ecosystem is a sprawling, ever-changing landscape. Each field has a rich and divergent history, and new avenues for investigation are springing up every day.  Read More..

CORE - Aggregator of open access research papers

CORE provides free and seamless access to millions of research articles aggregated from thousands of Open Access data providers, such as repositories and journals.

CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers.

CORE currently contains 194,976,417 open access articles, from thousands and over tens of thousands of journals, collected from 10,135 data providers around the world.  More Details..

Open Access Library (OALib)

Open Access Library (OALib) search engine features free access to 2,011,936 academic articles. And this number is estimated to increase in the near future. Main mission is to provide free research articles to scholars around the world. Besides searching, OALiB also provides the following services: publishing, indexing and depositing.

Open Access Library (OALib) consists of:

• the Search Engine, based on a database with metadata of Open Access (OA) papers

• the Journal with OALib Articles,

• the Index with metadata entries of external OA journal articles,

• the Repository with own OALib PrePrints as well as external preprints and postprints, all stored in one of the 322 OALib Disciplinary Repositories.

OALib is currently hosting links and metadata to more than 4,370,168 open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All full text articles from your search results are free to download. More Details..

Covid 19 Research: Quick Links

• World Health Organization

• Govt. of India

• Govt. of Karnataka

• ICMR

Research Resources :

Databases and journals links to find scholarly articles about COVID-19

• IEEE

• JSTOR

• JGATE

• ProQuest

• Google Scholar

• Springer Nature

• Wiley Online Library

• Taylor & Francis

• Elsevier

• NDL

• Research Gate

• SSRN

• Open Knowledge Repository, Word Bank

• Pub Med

• arXiv

• medRxiv and bioRxiv

• DOAJ

• Oxford Academic

• IIT Council

• Indian Journal of Medical Research (Special issue on Coronavirus)

• IIM Visakhapatnam

ResearchGate

ResearchGate is an academic social networking site designed to facilitate access to academic research and collaboration between researchers. It was founded in 2008 by a group of scientists, and has quickly grown to become the biggest networking site of its kind, with over 11 million users worldwide. More details..

Google Scholar: the ultimate guide

Google Scholar (GS) is a free academic search engine that can be thought of as the academic version of Google. Rather than searching all of the indexed information on the web, it searches repositories of publishers, universities or scholarly websites. More Details...

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

SSRN is a platform for the dissemination of early-stage research. From its initial focus on the social sciences in 1994, SSRN has grown to become the most interdisciplinary service of its kind, representing disciplines across the full research spectrum, including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. SSRN is instrumental both as a starting point for students and faculty in the research process, and as a place to communicate their findings at an early stage, prior to publication in academic journals. More Details..

Top 5 Papers, based on downloads from 06/14/2020 to 06/21/2020

Library and Information Science Dissertations and Theses

Best Reference Sources for Doctoral and Master's Dissertations and Thesis in Library and Information Science; LIS Ph.D. and MLIS Thesis and Dissertations. Read More..

Using Zotero with Google Docs

Zotero is a Free and Open Source reference management software. Reference management software is a time-saving tool for the academic community, especially for research scholars, to save time while dealing with references. Zotero is a user-friendly reference management software. Now Zotero can work with Google Drive documents. Many advantages for research scholars with Google Drive and Zotero. Google Drive gives free cloud storage and a word processing tool. Users can insert the citations direct to Google Drive documents. Both citations and thesis documents would be safe at cloud storage. Here is the documentation of using Zotero with Google Drive.

https://www.zotero.org/support/google_docs

Three tips to save hundreds of hours writing research papers

A well-referenced manuscript is central to sound, robust research. The problem is that organizing, adding and formatting your bibliographic information can take a lot of time, which is a scarce resource for academics. More...

Shodhganga : Repository of fulltext online PhD theses

Shodhganga (http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in) is a repository of fulltext theses available on free & open access which has grown to a formidable size of about 2.70 lakhs and Shodhgangotri (http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in) is with 7600+ Synopses (MRPs/PDF/Post Doc)

Click here view Alliance University Phd theses

Open Access Thesis and Dissertations

• Shodhganga

• Open Access Theses and Dissertations(OATD)

• Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (NDLTD)

• OpenThesis

• British Library (EThOS) 

• PQTD (ProQuest Open)

• EBSCO Open Dissertation

Free Research Databases of EBSCO

• EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

• GreenFILE is a free research database covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. It provides thousands of open access full-text records from scholarly, government and general interest sources. 

• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a free research database for library and information science studies. LISTA provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books, research reports. It is EBSCO's intention to provide access to this resource on a continual basis.

• Teacher Reference Center : A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals

Hunt down the right research papers: five tips every researcher should know

Finding the relevant research in your field is critical to a successful research project, and yet it can be one of the hardest, most time-consuming challenges for academics. The research ecosystem is a sprawling, ever-changing landscape. Each field has a rich and divergent history, and new avenues for investigation are springing up every day. More..