FYI@Librarian: ICT Tools for Smart Research

Saturday, February 17, 2018

ICT Tools for Smart Research

ICT Tools for Smart Research

Information Technology plays an important role in every domain of today’s world. Even Government of India also promoting the “Digital India” campaign which is based on IT tools.

Research can be defined as a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding:

Purpose of Research

To Develop Tools

· To Develop Services & Facilities

· To Take Managerial Decision

· To Know You Users

· To Improve Services/ Tools/ Facilities

· To Accommodate Change

(Courtesy | Dr. (Prof) Rajendra Kumbhar @ How to Write Project Reports, Ph.D. Thesis and Research Articles)

To carry out Smart Research we should be aware some of the important ICT (Information & Communication) Tools which can be used to do a good research.

For creating the awareness about the IT tools in Smart Research a National Level Workshop was organized on a theme “Information Technology for Smart Research” dated 14^th & 15^th February 2018 at D.B.J College Chiplun.

I was invited as one of the Resource Person for session on “Smart Research with Innovative Tools & Apps”.

Nearly 75 delegates were registered for the said workshop, mainly they are Teaching Faculty, LIS Professional & Management Students.

The other dignitaries which were invited for the said workshop they are:

· Dr. Dharmaraj Veer for Key Note Address & Chief Guest of Workshop

· Dr. Sachin Shashtri – Resource Person for INLIBNET N-LIST e-Resources and Its Effective Use”

· Dr. Madhukar Shewale – Resource Person for Plagiarism: Concept, Importance, and Application in Research

· Mr. Santosh Chaturbhuj – Resource Person for Creating Citation Index, H-Index & Impact Factors of Journals

· Dr. Nandkishor Motewar – Resource Person for Mendeley: A Reference Management Tool

· Mr. Kiran Dhandore – Chief Guest for Valedictory Function

About my session @ Smart Research with Innovative Tools & Apps

The session gave hand’s on different IT tools for Smart Research such as:

Google Tools

· Google Advance Search

· Google News

· Google Alert

· Google Customize Search Engine

PKM Tools

· Google Desktop Search

Cloud Tools

· Google Drive

Online Questionnaire Tools

· Google Forms

· Type Forms

MHRD Tools

· National Digital Library of India

· E-Pathshala

· Virtual Labs

· Talk to Teacher

· Spoken Tutorial

Other Tools

· Shodhganga@INFLIBNET

· IIT Bombay Spoken Tutorial Project – FOSS

I hope all the delegates had enjoyed the session.

On behalf of all Guest & Resource Persons I must thanks to Mr. Sudhir More Librarian of D.B.J for inviting us and organizing such skill based workshop which is need of an hour.