Research
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
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
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..
Friday, July 10, 2020
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..
Thursday, July 9, 2020
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..
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Covid 19 Research: Quick Links
Research Resources :
Databases and journals links to find scholarly articles about COVID-19
- Open Knowledge Repository, Word Bank
- Indian Journal of Medical Research (Special issue on Coronavirus)
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
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..
Monday, June 29, 2020
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..
Saturday, June 20, 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..
Saturday, June 6, 2020
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_docsWednesday, May 27, 2020
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...
Friday, May 15, 2020
Trial Access to Grammarly software
Grammarly is an online automated proofreader. It scans texts and checks for proper use of grammatical rules, spelling, word usage and punctuation.
Please Note: Your @edu credential verification has been activated and an activation email will be sent to the user's institutional email ID once he/she registers. Users may at times get this in Spam/Junk Folder due to mail setting - users are advised to check the spam folder in case the link is not received in the INBOX.
Registration Process :-
Set up access for the users, please follow the below steps:
Step 1: Go to www.grammarly.com/edu (mandatory to sign up for this URL)
Step 2: Click on Join Your Organization button, fill up the self-service form. Ensure that users are registering from their respective official email id (@alliance.edu.in)
Step 3: After clicking signup, an activation email will be sent to the user's institutional email ID.
Step 4: Kindly Verify the activation mail from Grammarly.
Once registered, users will land on the 'Grammarly Editor, ' which is easy to use and can be explored by the user.
The MS Word Plugin can be downloaded from the support page after registration from the link https://www.grammarly.com/office-addin/windows, the same user ID and Password credentials will grant access to use the Plugin for users.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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
Monday, May 11, 2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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
Monday, April 20, 2020
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..
