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Is Google A Right Source For Identifying My Literature Review?

An Academic presentation by Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Phdassistance Group www.phdassistance.com Email: info@phdassistance.com

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In Brief In t r o d u c t i o n L o t of Information Av a i l a b i li t y !

Use of C i t a t i o n t o P erf o rm B a c k w a r d Search of L i t e r a t u r e I n c o g n i t o M o d e For B et t er Results D e f i n i n g K e y w o r d s For Your Search Stay O rg a ni z ed W i t h Libraries Select Related A rt icles For Sources Citation Automation A d v a n c e d Search N o t i f i c a t i o n A b o u t Recent Literature

In Brief

You will find the best literature review for future researchers enrolled in .

In order to identify future research topics, we have reviewed literature review on various topics (recent peer-reviewed studies).

Get provide guidance for performing literature review. You need to understand clear description of the research domain.

Introductio n In academic research, a literature review is considered a vital research process.

Usually, you go with Google for identification or collection of published papers related to your research field.

But, still there lies a confusion whether Google is the right choice to perform literature review or not?.

Here, we clear the doubt whether Google is an appropriate tool for collecting literature review.

While Google search is efficient, there is a customized version for scholars to search academic articles known as Google Scholar.

Lot of Informatio n Availabilit y!

At first, you need to understand clear description of the research domain with identification of repetitive and derivations for the collection of literature using Google scholar.

A search can be performed through typing the research related keyword in the search bar, but there will be countless number of links, which makes it difficult to identify the right link.

Some important sites that can be used are repositories like Google scholar.

For an effective collection of literature, the best practices about valuable tool need to be utilized for search.

Google scholar search provides information about the article in the citation form which is visible in the results page of search engine.

Use of Citation to Perform Backward Search of Literature

Those available links are clickable and it even offers cited sources which have referred those article.

This helps you in identification of resource source utilization.

Through this, you able to gather clear information about the particular article based on this you can conclude whether this can be utilized for your research domain or not.

In academic research it is not great for collecting content related to a particular subject.

Incognito Mode For Better Results

For collecting academic research literature, Google skew results are based on the past results.

At instance, consider going in incognito mode for collecting literature review since searches are not saved.

In incognito mode, your results are not influenced by anything like previous search results.

In collecting review for literature using Google scholar, do not type keywords for your research domain, sometimes it will be helpful and emerging but it leads to repetitive and jumbled results.

Defining Keywords For Your Search

So, you can write what you want to learn in your research, after which you can break those in to chunks or subtopics.

Once the research requirement are classified as subtopics, create keywords and keyword phrases for the framed subtopic.

Based on the academic research, keyword sources are applied to Google scholar for achieving significant results.

You can create your own library in Google scholar and you can save those searched results in library.

Stay Organize d With Libraries

Even, you can build library for specific research topics or field of interest.

Whenever you find an appropriate match for your search, you can store that content in your library, copy the link or you can bookmark those link for later reference.

Google Scholar can be used in specific library when results are collected for specific domain.

Select Articles

Related For Sources

When you search in Google scholar for identification of sources, you can be able to select related articles for your search.

As you expected, additional scholarly resources are gathered for selected results.

To be honest, citing sources and construction of bibliographies or working on cited pages are complex and time-consuming task.

Citation Automatio n

Google scholar includes a larger range of automated process the thing you do is clicking of cite button which appears below each article you just copy those citations alone.

By this way you can complete bibliography of your research domain.

If you use citations for the created library it will be highly effective for creating citations for tracking all sources utilized for selected research article and you can able to do citation as you required.

To retain appropriate and effective literature there is an option in Google that is advanced search features, which enables you to perform filters and other parameter setting for your research.

Advance d Search

For example, if you want an article published between the years 2014 and 2019, you can select this time frame and range.

Even you can specifically mention what kind of resources you want like academic databases, funder articles or university recognized articles.

In case, you require a recently published article which published in an events you can set alert in Google to receive notification about that topic.

Notificatio n About Recent Literature

After reception of notification you can able to gather relevant information about published article and it can be indexed in Google scholar.

Even though Google search is not directly not suitable for selecting literature review, its subordinate Google Scholar can be used as an effective tool.

It can also be accessed manully by typing https://scholar.google.com in the address tab.

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