Research 2.0: A useful web

platform for academic

research

Dr. Mahendra K Sahu,

Librarian, GIMS,Gunjupur

Dr.R.K Mahapatra, Principal,

SMIT, Berhampur

Introduction

• With the advent of information technology, the

information scenario has been changed, likewise the

procedure of research.

• Earlier the research scholar used conventional ways

for their research work.

• After the invention of Information & communication

technology the entire process has been reduced.

• Now these days, most of the researchers use the new

technology for conducting research.

• The main purpose of my work is to make aware a

group of individuals interested in research work, in

terms of how they work and how to exploit the web

application for composing their research work.

What is Research 2.0

• Research 2.0 is the

systematic investigation to

discover the new fact, a new

invention by using of web

application.

• It makes conversations

between researchers,

empowers them to talk about

their discoveries and

associate them with others.

Definition of Research 2.0

• According Ben Shneiderman the term Research 2.0

suggests a contrast between traditional ways of

doing science, often denoted Research 1.0, with more

collaborative approaches, and suggests that the new

forms of research will work with web 2.0

technologies.

• Waldrop, 2008, Research 2.0 is not to be confused

with a similar term that has recently been coined

Science 2.0 which is the notion of open science

whereby scientists publish their emerging

experiment results in open, collaborative forums .

• According to Wikipedia ,Research 2.0 is an umbrella

term for the use of web 2.0 tools and principles in

scientific research, often used interchangeably with

research 2.0 but technically includes research in

fields other than science, such as the Humanities.

Why Research 2.0

Research 2.0 creates conversations

between researchers, empowers them to

examine their discoveries and connects

them with others.

Dissemination of information very firstly.

Creating and sustaining research

Collaborations and discovering

Analyzing, processing, publishing

Storing and sharing research data and

information.

Integrating (mash up) people, laboratories,

workplaces,

Information sources together

Advantage of Research 2.0

It helps scientists, researchers and academician to store, organize,

share and discover links to academic research papers.

It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources

i.e., articles, theses, books and abstracts from academic publishers,

professional societies, online repositories, universities and other

website.

It allows researcher to post their thoughts on a common topic using

electronic sticky notes on a shared digital wall.

It enables the researcher to create mind mapping and

brainstorming diagrams online.

It permits users to create professional surveys collect responses,

and analyze the responses of their created surveys easily.

Tools for Research 2.0

There are many web applications are available for different

aspect of Research. The followings are some of the relevant

web application, which helps the researcher to compose the

research work smoothly.

• Google Scholar

• Mendely

• Survey Monkey

• Citulike

• Google Docs

• Zotero

• Bib.Me

• Bubul.Us

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web

search engine provides a simple way to

broadly search for scholarly literature.

From one place, you can search across many

disciplines and sources:, i.e articles, theses,

books, abstracts, from academic publishers,

professional societies, online repositories,

universities and other web sites.

It helps you to find relevant work across the

world of scholarly research.

It also provides citation service, an author

can easily keep track of citations to their

articles

Using Google Scholar for research

Google Scholar Citations provides a simple way for

authors to keep track of citations to their articles.

We can check who is citing our publications, graph

citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.

We can also make profile public, so that it may appear in

Google Scholar results when people search for our name.

It is quick to set up and simple to maintain even if we

have written hundreds of articles and our name is shared

by several different scholars.

We can add groups of related articles, not just one article

at a time; and citation metrics are computed and updated

automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to our

work on the web.

We can even choose to have our list of articles updated

automatically or we can choose to review the updates our

self, or to manually update at any time.

Finding research topic

Mandeley

Mendeley is a desktop and web program for

managing and imparting research papers,

finding research information and working

together on the web.

It is a PDF and reference management

application (accessible for Windows, OS X and

Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social

network for scientists and researchers.

Using mandeley for research

It automatically generate bibliographies

It collaborate easily with other researchers

online

It import papers from other research software

easily

It discover relevant papers based on what you’re

reading

It allows too access your papers from anywhere

online

Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app •

SurveyMonkey

Surveymonkey is an online survey device. It

permits the user to effectively make proficient

surveys. Both free and paying client can outline

reviews, gather responses, and analyze the

responses of survey made by them.

Advantages of Surveymonkey

• It creates surveys online with an unlimited

number of questions.

• It helps user to find patterns in your results..

• All of the data can be downloaded to your

computer for further analysis.

• The results can be exported into Excel to create

graphs.

Using Survey monkey for Research

Access to Unique Population.

Ability to provide access to groups and individuals

who would be difficult, if not impossible, to reach

through other channels.

Access to Unique Population.

Allow a researcher to reach thousands of people with commoncharacteristics

in a short amount of time, despite possibly being separated by great

geographic distances.

Allowing researchers to collect data while they work on other tasks.

Responses to online surveys can be transmitted to the researcher

immediately via email, or posted to an HTML document or database file. This

allows researchers to conduct preliminary analyses on collected data while

waiting for the desired number of responses to accumulate.

No need to key in the data since it allows collecting and analyzing the

responses data using statistical analysis (eg: SPSS).

Cost

Save money by moving to an electronic medium from a paper format.

Eliminating the need for paper and other costs, such as those incurred

through postage, printing, and data entry.

CiteULike

CiteULike is a free web application, which allows

users to save and share citations to academic

papers. Based on the principle of social book

marking, the site works to promote and to develop

the sharing of scientific references amongst

researchers.

CiteULike as research tool

Keep track of journal articles and other texts.

• CiteULike has filled the academic bookmarking niche by

allowing users to collect and organize research links,

manage citation details, and extract bibliographic data

from a web page automatically.

• CiteULike provides a forum for sharing resources for

faculty, fellows, and graduate students also researcher to

engage in more intensive research.

Organizing research.

• CiteULike offers a free signup and lets users install a

bookmarklet so that they can save the relevant articles

from the web with one click. Users can then tag entries and

search their personal library.

• CiteULike is focused on scholarly articles, books, and other research-related

resources. It has some special features, including the ability to export to

BibTeX and EndNote (two reference management tools frequently used in

academia) and the ability to browse through articles by journal title. If the

articles are save from a supported site (e.g., JSTOR), then the citation

details are automatically picked up when the page is saved using the

bookmarklet.

Sharing and collaborating with CiteULike.

• CiteULike offers a group feature that allows a group of people to add/share

articles that they all collectively find useful.

• An academic department or a research team might create a group on

CiteULike, they can collaborating on a large project and share information

within the group members.

Promoting and increasing the visibility of the articles.

• CiteULike help to promote and increasing the visibility of the finding and

research articles to the potential readers.

• Add the article to the personal CiteULike library to share with others, which

helps them discover literature which is relevant to their field or using

CiteULike invite a friend feature..

Google Docs Google Docs is an online word processor, spreadsheet

and presentation editor that enable you to make, store

and impart instantly and safely, and collaborate online

progressively. At once. you can make new reports from

scratch or upload existing archives, spreadsheets and

presentations. There is no software to download, and all

work is put away securely online and might be browsed

from any computer.

Using Google Doc for Research

Multiple authors can edit a document

simultaneously.

Collaborating on documents

• Google Docs is an online tool that enables collaborators

to work in a synchronous environment on a single

research document.

• Rather than passing a research document between

authors, Google Docs allows authors at different

physical locations to work together on the same

document in real time.

• Changes made to the document can be tracked and

attributed.

Creating online survey

• Google Docs have an inbuilt feature of creating online surveys.

• It is free and can collect unlimited responses

• Questionnaire created as a Google form can be distributed and shared using a

• web link (URL) through email to get responses from the target respondents.

• If the researchers have a website, the questionnaire can be easily embed into the

web pages to give it a more professional look and feel.

Analyze data using spreadsheet

• The respondents’ feedback from the survey created using Google form will be

inserted automatically In the Google Docs spreadsheet.

• Researchers can analyze the data from Google Docs spreadsheet.

• The data also can be downloaded in many different file formats, which might be

more convenient for researchers.

• If the data is export as Excel or CSV, it might easily import it back to SPSS and do

advanced statistical analysis of collected data.

Zotero Zotero is a free, simple reference management tool to help

users collect, organizes, cite and offer research sources. It is

the only research tool that automatically senses content in

your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal

library with a single click.

Advantages of Zotero

It annotates and organizes research results, including video.

It saves information about a reference, including author, title,

and other publication information.

It creates libraries and save searches, and share collections

with other people.

It helps to attach files, links, notes, and PDFs to records.Store

a screenshot of a web page.

Export information as formatted citations in word processing

programs (Word, Open Office, Google Docs).

It allows tag and sort records and perform advanced searches.

It also view records in personal collection when offline.

It cites records in any language

Bibme

BibMe is an automated citation creator and bibliography

generator. It can save you loads of time building and

formatting your references, time that is understandably

valuable and would be better served working on your

paper.

Using Bibme for Research

Build a database of your references.

Attach articles to references so that all your research is

in one place.

Store notes with references.

Search references

Cite your sources in your paper with a touch of a button.

Automatically build your bibliograhy (also called works

cited/reference list).

Easily change your citation style if needed(e.g. APA to

MLA, Chicago, etc) .

Bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is a freely available web application, which

empower users to make mind-mapping and

conceptualizing charts on the web.

Bubbl us as a research tool

Create flow charts for grant proposals.

Presenting the ideas of research.

Create a mind map of a brainstorming session

for research planning that can be shared with all

research team members using the collaboration

feature or pasted into a blog or wiki.

Organize sources or notes for a paper or research

article, in order to aid in the writing process and

narrow the focus of each topic.

Conclusion…….

Web application held strong certification to advantage of doing

online research.

It enables researchers to discover the everyday life in new and

creative ways.

The exploration might be totally unremarkable, it could also

be more intuitive and participatory.

The difference between online and offline research could be

exaggerated by the widely use of the internet.

The above discussion aimed to outline some key feature

related to Web application for research work