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The document discusses various ICT tools that can be used for different aspects of research, including: 1. Search engines and databases to search for relevant literature and research papers. 2. Tools to share datasets and code like GitHub and Open Science Framework. 3. Platforms to connect with other researchers like ResearchGate and Academia. 4. Digital libraries providing free access to books, documents and resources. 5. Simulation tools and virtual labs for experiments. 6. Writing and collaboration tools for drafting papers and managing references.

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The document discusses various ICT tools that can be used for different aspects of research, including: 1. Search engines and databases to search for relevant literature and research papers. 2. Tools to share datasets and code like GitHub and Open Science Framework. 3. Platforms to connect with other researchers like ResearchGate and Academia. 4. Digital libraries providing free access to books, documents and resources. 5. Simulation tools and virtual labs for experiments. 6. Writing and collaboration tools for drafting papers and managing references.

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ICT

Assignment: Different ICT Tools for Research

Introduction:
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an umbrella term that
includes any communication device or application, encompassing: Radio, Television,
Cellular Phones, Computer and Network-hardware and software, Satellite systems and
so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as
Videoconferencing and distance learning.
The role and application of ICT in research work can be broadly divided into 4 major
areas-
1. Communication
2. Information Sharing
3. Simulation
4. Evaluation

ICT Tools for Research


There are thousands of digital tools for researchers to help them through their journey
to find an interesting fact. Covering details of each tools is beyond the scope of the
paper. So, I have covered the most important tools which help the researcher in
exploring the literature, content curation, share data and code, connect with others,
tools required for data collection and evaluation, writing and publishing the paper.
Search Engine and Research Papers
Google/Bing/Yahoo and many other search engines help the researcher to find useful
and relevant contents. This also helps us to explore the millions of thesis and already
published articles and keeps us up -to -date with the latest happenings in our area of
interest.
Below are important Online Tools to explore millions of research article across the
globe:

● Google Scholar: Provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature


across disciplines and sources.
● Microsoft Academic Search: Find information about academic papers, authors,
conferences, journals and organizations from multiple sources.
● Science Scope: Innovations in the exploration of papers and authors.

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● ResearchGate: It is the professional network for scientists and researchers.
Over 15 million members from all over the world use it to share, discover and
discuss research.
● Biohunter: Portal with literature search, date statistics, reading, sorting,
storing, field expert identification and journal finder.
● edu- is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company’s
mission is to accelerate the world’s research.
● SSRN: Multi-disciplinary online repository of scholarly research and related
Cmaterials in social sciences.
● DeepDyve: Provides simple and affordable access to millions of articles across
thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Content from the world’s leading
publishers including Reed Elsevier, Springer, Wiley- Blackwell and more.
● Wiki Journal Club: Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in
medical research.

Shared Dataset & Code

● Databank- Analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time


series data on a variety of topics.
● Google – It periodically releases data of interest to researchers in a wide range
of computer science disciplines.
● GitHub – Online software project hosting using the Git revision control system.

● Open Science Framework – Gathers a network of research documents, a version


control system, and professional content.
● gov.uk – The British government’s official data portal offers access to tens of
thousands of data sets on topics such as crime, education, transportation and
health.
● gov. – The USA govt.’s official data portal offers access to tens of thousands of
data sets.
● gov.in – Open Govt. Data (OGD) platform India- is a platform for supporting
open Data initiative of Govt. of India. The portal is intended to be used by Govt.
of India Ministries/Departments to publish datasets, documents, services, tools
and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase
transparency in the functioning of Govt. and also open avenues for many more
innovative uses of Govt. Data to give a different perspective.
● Code Ocean - Cloud-based computational platform which provides a way to
share, discover and run published code.

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● Peer Evaluation – Open repository for date, papers, Media coupled with an
open review and discussion platform.
● Org – Offers open government data from US, EU, Canada CKAN, and more.

● Finance – Google 40 years’ worth of stock market data, updated in real-time.

● You can also use https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch to search the


required data set.

Connect & Communicate with experts and researchers

● Academia – A place to share and follow research and researchers.

● Net – Online platform for professional networking and sharing of knowledge


in life sciences.

● Open Science Framework – Gathers a network of research documents, a


version control system, and collaboration software.

● ResearchGate – Social network for researcher.

● AcademicJoy – Sharing research ideas and story in research and innovation.

● Experiment – Crowdfunding Platform for Scientific Research.

● Linkedin – Connect with people in your area of interest.

● Thinkable – Platform to mobilize knowledge and fund breakthrough ideas.

● ScienceOpen – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate


scientific information.

● Communication tools – web-ex, skype, TeamViewers, anyware.

Free Digital Library

● The Digital National library of India is a project under the Ministry of


Human Resource Development, India. The objective is to integrate several
national and international digital libraries in one single web-portal. The NDL
provides free access to many books in English and the Indian languages.
● Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies,
software, music, websites, and more. The internet Archive offers over
12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of
550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone.

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● The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of
India has launched a National Repository of Open Educational Resources
(NROER). The development of it has been a combined effort of the
Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Government of India, the Central Institute of Educational
Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training and
Metastudio, which is the platform that hosts the Repository.
● The ultimate goal of the Open Library is to make all the published works of
humankind available to everyone in the world. While large in scope and
ambition, this goal is within our grasp. Achieving it will require the
participation of librarians, authors, government officials and technologists.
● ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader.
You can randomly browse for an ebook through the most popular titles,
recommendations or recent reviews for visitors. There are 21,282 eBooks
available here and they’re all free!
● GetFreeBooks is a free ebooks site where you can download free books
free. All the ebooks within the site are legal downloadable free ebooks.

Simulation/Lab and Project management

Internet of things is coming to laboratories and connecting instrumentation


to the internet allowing us to perform experiments from anywhere in the
world.
● Virtual Labs project is an initiative of MHRD, Government of India under
the aegis of National Mission on Education through information and
Communication Technology (NMEICT). This project is a consortium activity
of twelve participating institutes and IIT Delhi is coordinating institute. It is
a paradigm shift in ICT-based education. For the first time, such an initiative
has been taken-up in remote-experimentation.
● Lab Suit – Inventory Management, orders Management, materials Trade-In,
Price Comparison.
● Life technologies Lab Management Tool – Management tool for lab
equipment and services.
● LiveLabSpace – Collaborative research tool that lets you plan experiments,
replicate outcomes and generate research papers.

Write & Publish research papers

Various online available writing tools are the needs of researchers. Tools are
required to store and manage references, collaborations across labs and

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continents, Collaborative writing tools & track of the modifications done
by others to the manuscript.
● CitationStyles – Find and edit CSL citation styles

● Papers – helps you collect and curate the research material that you’re
passionate about.
● Zotero – helps you collect, organize, cite and share your research sources.

● Draft – Version control and collaboration to improve your writing.

● Typewrite – A simple, real-time collaborative writing environment.

● ScienceOpen – Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate


scientific information.

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