E-Resources, Literature Search and Reference Management by V. Sriram. In Two Day Workshop On Research Methodology in Social Sciences Postgraduate and Research Department of Political Science, Sree Narayana College, Kollam, India on 31 January 2015

1. E-Resources, Literature Search
and
Reference Management
By
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, IndiaThiruvananthapuram, India
vsrirams@gmail.com
Two Day Workshop On Research Methodology in Social Sciences
Postgraduate and Research Department of Political Science,
Sree Narayana College, Kollam, India
30 & 31 January 2015

2. E-Resources in Social Sciences
Tips for Managing Literature
Reference Management - ZoteroReference Management - Zotero
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3. e- Resources
Journal Databases
Statistical Databases
Theses and Dissertations
Courseware
Archives
Information Portals
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S.N. College, Kollam, India. 31st January 2015

4. JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals from many
disciplines. At present hosts full text contents of around
4900+ journals and e-books in Political Science.
Subscription based service.
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5. Wiley Online Library
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
An excellent collection 137 good quality journals in the
area of Political Science from Wiley Blackwell
Publishers
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6. OUP Social Science
Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
Working with prestigious scholars, societies, and
associations, such as the Harvard University, The
National Association of Social Workers, and The World
Bank, the OUP Social Sciences Collection encompasses
some of the highest quality journals across the social
sciences; including an exceptional and diverse selection
in economics and finance.
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7. Cambridge Journals
http://journals.cambridge.org/
The Cambridge Journals Online provided by the
Cambridge University Press contains 42 journals in
Politics and International Relations.
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8. Springer
The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The
http://link.springer.com/
The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The
Social Science Journals collection of Springer consist of
251 journals.
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9. Project MUSE
Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration
http://muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration
between the John Hopkins University Press and the
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Today it is a leading provider of digital humanities and
social science content for the scholarly community. The
Political Science Journal Collection contains 38 journals.
Two Day Workshop On Research Methodology in Social Sciences,
S.N. College, Kollam, India. 31st January 2015

10. Annual Review
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely
collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual
http://www.annualreviews.org/
collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual
Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused
disciplines
The Annual Review of Political Science, in publication since 1998,
covers significant developments in the field of Political Science
including political theory and philosophy, international relations,
political economy, political behavior, American and comparative
politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.
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11. EconLit
http://search.ebscohost.com
As the most reliable full-text source for economic research, this
database contains all of the indexing available in EconLit in addition to
full text for hundreds of journals including the American Economic
Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review,
Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives).
This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in
economics & finance and volume and issue browsing is available for all
full-text journals.
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12. DOAJ
http://doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory
that indexes and provides access to quality open access,
peer-reviewed journals.
Provides more than 10000 journals in all subjects.
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13. PLOS One
http://www.plosone.org/
PLOS One is a top quality open access, peer-reviewed
journal. Currently it contains 342 articles in Political
Science and 13943 articles in Social Sciences
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14. Open J-Gate
http://www.openj-gate.com
Open J-Gate is a database of journal literature, indexed
from 5659 open access journals, with links to full text at
Publisher sites.
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15. Census of India
The Indian Census is the
most credible source of
information on Demography
(Population characteristics),
Economic Activity, Literacy
and Education, Housing &
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
and Education, Housing &
Household Amenities,
Urbanisation, Fertility and
Mortality, Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes,
Language, Religion,
Migration, Disability and
many other socio-cultural and
demographic data since
1872.
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16. Economics and Statistics
Department - Kerala
http://www.ecostat.kerala.gov.in/
The Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Government of Kerala is
the nodal agency for collection, compilation, analysis of statistics
relating to various sectors of Kerala Economy. Major Divisions relate
to Agriculture, Economic Census, ASI, IIP, Labour, Housing, NSS,
VS, Sample Registration, Prices, State Income, Computer Division.
No payment, free resource.
Login Required
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17. EPW RF India Time Series
http://www.epwrfits.in/index.aspx
In ITS, datasets have been structured under 14 modules. Such as
ASI, Agricultural Statistics, Financial Markets, State Domestic Product
and Banking Statistics and so on.
This initiative has the broad objective of aiding and promoting
research on Indian economy and financial markets and targeted to
benefit particularly students, research scholars and the academic
community both in India and abroad.
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18. National Accounts
Statistics
http://mospi.nic.in
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19. NSS Survey Reports
All the reports and publications are
in portable data format
Works better in Internet Explorer
http://mospi.nic.in
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S.N. College, Kollam, India. 31st January 2015

20. RBI Database on
Indian Economy
Through this website (DBIE),
data are mainly presented as
time-series formatted reports.
These reports have been
organized under sectors and
http://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.
rbi?site=home
organized under sectors and
sub-sectors according to their
periodicities. Reports can be
saved as excel sheets for further
analysis.
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21. UN Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/defa
ult.htm
The Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global
statistical system. It compile and disseminate global statistical
information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities,
and support countries’ efforts to strengthen their national statistical
systems.
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22. World Bank Open
Repository
https://openknowledge.w
orldbank.org/
WBOKR is the central repository of The World Bank. All
resources hosted are available online for free access.
More than 18000 publications are available.
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23. EThOS
http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
Electronic Thesis Online Service
This is a single point access to all theses produced by UK Higher Education
provided by The British Library. It harvests e-theses from the institutional
repositories and digitizes paper theses from participating institutions.
Login required
Restricted Access – Some items are downloadable
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24. Open Thesis
http://www.openthesis.org/
Open Thesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other
academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization,
and collaboration tools.
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S.N. College, Kollam, India. 31st January 2015

25. Shodhganga – A reservoir of
Indian theses
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for
research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available
to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has
the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs
submitted by the researchers.
Presently hosts around 18000 theses from different universities in
India
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26. Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org
Video Lectures from World’s Top Scholars
Academic Earth is a user-friendly educational eco-system that gives
internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with
and learn from full video courses and lectures from the World’s leading
scholars.
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27. IMF Podcasts
http://www.imf.org/externa
l/pubs/ft/survey/so/podcas
t.aspx
Audio Lectures from World’s Top Economists
IMF economists and other experts discuss key economic
and financial issues of the day.
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28. YouTube
https://www.youtube.com
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29. MIT Open Courses –
Political Science
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses
/political-science/
Open courseware of Department of Political Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In each course syllabus, readings,
assignments, and study materials are available for download.
All courses are free to access and learn.
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30. edX
https://www.edx.org
EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from
the world’s best universities, colleges and organizations.
Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and
many other universities. EdX is a non-profit online
initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT.
Currently 67 courses are offered by various institutions
in the area of Social Sciences.
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31. MPRA
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/
This repository is intended to disseminate research papers of social
scientists who want to make their work freely available through the
RePEc network but are not affiliated with any institution that
provides that furtherance. The work will be made available through
EconPapers, Ideas, Economists Online and other services.
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32. New Economic Papers
http://nep.repec.org/
NEP is an announcement service which filters information on new
additions to RePEc into edited reports.
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33. SSRN
www.ssrn.com
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid
worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed
of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social
sciences.
It currently hosts more than 1 Lakh papers in Political Science
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34. BLDS
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/
One of the largest collection of economic and social development
materials in Europe. These unique holdings, built up over 40 years,
consist of approximately one million items. Over half the collection
originates from developing countries. BLDS provide a number of
services to remote users, enabling access to the collection and staff
expertise.
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35. eldis
http://www.eldis.org/
A gateway to global development information on international
development issues. Provides free and easy access to materials on
developing countries ...
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36. e Social Sciences
http://www.esocialsciences.org
e-Social Sciences provides a region-focused repository and a new
and yet evolving publication space for easy and quick dissemination
of scholarly work that can be a space for discourse among
researchers, policy makers and the civil society.
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37. Research Resources for the
Social Sciences
http://socsciresearch.com/
Provided by McGraw Hill – Ryerson
Started in 1994 as a project in support of a graduate methods seminar.
A Portal for Social Sciences
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38. Managing Literature
Topic selection – Subject Area, geographical location, period
Systematic gathering of sources:
Using proper tools to gather literature – Google Scholar,
Journal Databases, Bibliographies …
Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes, comments,
and making it error freeand making it error free
Organizing by topic, subject, research area…
Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval
Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.
While writing:
Insert the citation and bibliography in the desired citation style
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39. Zotero
Free – Open Source
Platform independent
Works Offline and Online
Over 6700 referencing styles
www.zotero.org
Over 6700 referencing styles
Data Sharing
26 fields
34 Types of Sources
Linking full text / pdf
Integration with MS-Office / Open
Office
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40. Firefox - Installation
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41. Zotero - Installation
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42. Zotero - Installation
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44. Open Zotero
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45. Collecting References
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46. Collecting References
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47. Adding items
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48. Organizing items
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49. Drag & Drop Items
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50. Notes
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51. Tags
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52. Searching Items
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53. Zotero – Word Add - in
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54. Insert Citation
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55. Insert Bibliography
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56. Create Zotero Account
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57. Zotero Login
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58. Synchronize
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59. Settings
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60. Backup
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