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Information & CommunicationInformation & CommunicationTechnology Tools for ResearchTechnology Tools for Research

Prof. K. VenugopalanProf. K. Venugopalan

ML Sukhadia University, UdaipurML Sukhadia University, Udaipur


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Information and Communication

Technologies for Researchers

Researchers daily life

Accessing Knowledge base

Collecting and analyzing data

authoring, publishing, and preservinginformation


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ICT Equipments & Connectivity

Access to:

Desktop or laptop computer Latest PC /Lap top with OS (MS Windows XP, MS windows Vista,Windows 7, Linux )

Internet Access (Network connectivity (LAN): Cable or Wi-Fi, useraccount

Antivirus software (Norton, Quick heal etc)

Web browser (internet Explorer, Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox) Word Processing Software: MS Office, Star Office

PDF viewer (Adobe Reader )

E-mail account (google, Rediffmail,Yahoo or E-mail address in thedomain of your institution mlsu.ac.in)

Pen drive(flash drive)


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Computer Operation

How to switch on and start a computer

Explore, search, save,print operations

Operate MS Office

Use of a Browser

Contact person for help


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Some basic concepts Internet: Interconnection of various networks

spread all over the world using a specialprotocol called TCP/IP

internet: Interconnection of networks

Intranet :An intranet is a private computernetwork that uses Internet technologies to

securely share any part of an organization'sinformation or operational systems within thatorganization


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Some basic concepts A domain name is an identification label that

defines a realm of administrative autonomy,authority, or control on the Internet, based on

the Domain name system

Top level domains : com, org, ac, edu, res, govetc.

Country top level domain: com.in, ac.uk

www.mlsu.ac.in


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Internet ToolsWorld Wide Web: Interlinked Hypertext documents contained in the

Internet.

Hypertext: text displayed on computer with references to other textsthat can be easily read.

A web browser is an application software for retrieving,presenting, and traversing information resources on the worldwide web Web

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters usedto identify a name or a resource on the Internetthttp://mlsu.ac.in/phdadmission09/Final%20Attendance%20TH.p

dfAny organization or a person can be visible to Internet throughweb pages

Home page: The first page from where link begins


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Internet Tools E-mail: Electronic mail

e-mail address: [email protected]

Ftp (file transfer protocol): to upload ordownload files from remote computer

ftp://www.mlsu.ac.in/phdrules.pdf

Telnet: to connect to remote computer

and other hundreds of tools like chat, blog,finger etc.


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Using Search Engines

A web search engine is software designed to

search for information on the world wide web. The search results are usually presented in a

list of results and are commonly called hits.

The information may consist of web pages,images, information and other types of files


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Google: Most popular Search Enginewww.google.com

Search box : where queries can be put

Some basic facts

Every wordmatters. Generally, all the words youput in the query will be used. There aresome exceptions.

Search is always case insensitive. Searchingfor [ new york times ] is the same as searchingfor [ New York Times ].

With some exceptions, punctuation is ignored (thatis, you can't search for @#$%^&*()=+[]\ andother special characters).


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How google works Google runs on a distributed network ofthousands of low-cost computers and cantherefore carry out fast parallel processing

Google has three distinct parts: Googlebot, a web crawler that finds and fetches

web pages.

The indexer that sorts every word on every

page and stores the resulting index of words ina huge database.

The query processor, which compares yoursearch query to the index and recommends thedocuments that it considers most relevant.


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Google works


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How Google works


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Important tips about search Words that are commonly used, like 'the,'

'a,' and 'for,' are usually ignored

Synonyms might replace some words inyour original query. (Adding + before aword disables synonyms.)

Punctuations not ignored: $,+, _


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Search Tips

Keep search termsimple.

Use the words that are most likelyto appear on the page

Describe what you needwith as fewterms as possible.


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Advance Search contain ALL the search terms you type in contain the exact phrase you type in

contain at least one of the words you type in

do NOT contain any of the words you type in

is written in a certain language

is created in a certain file format

was updated within a certain period of time contain numbers within a certain range

within a certain domain, or website


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Advance Search + operatorIf a common word is essential to getting theresults you want, you can include it by puttinga "+" sign in front of it. (Be sure to include aspace before the "+" sign.) Ex: Star WarsEpisode +I

~ operator

If you want to search not only for your searchterm but also for its synonyms, place the tildesign (~) immediately in front of your searchterm.

how to search for food facts and nutrition and

cooking information ~food ~facts


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Advance search OR search

To find pages that include either of two searchterms, add an uppercase OR between theterms.

vacation london OR paris

Numrange search

DVD player $50..$100

Phrase search ("") : Exact words

"Alexander Bell" will miss Alexander G Bell


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SearchSearch within a specific website (site:)iraq site:nytimes.com

Terms

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Fill in the blanks (*): If you include * within aquery, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a

placeholder for any unknown term(s) and thenfind the best matches.

Google *


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Advance search


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Accessing Knowledgebase Library catalogue: a list of all the books or resources of a

library

Manual or Computerised

Search books: title,subject,author,year,keywords etc.

Internet

Books : www.amazone.com

Journals: journals home pages

Electronic journals : full articles can be downloaded

Google scholar: searching scholarly literature


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Online searching Archives:An archive is a collection of historical records, as

well as the place they are located

Repositories: Repositorycommonly refers to a locationfor storage, often for safety or preservation.

Wiki: A website that allows the easy creation and editing ofany number ofinterlinked web pages via a webbrowser using a simplified markup language ora WYSIWYG text editor.

http://en.wikipedia.org : Free encylopedia millions of pages


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Tips for use of Internet Create e-mail address in institution domain as well as

google/ yahoo

Host your personal webpage giving your researchinterests,resources etc.

Join social networking sites facebook

Join conference alerts, journal article alerts of your area

Spend time to find out institutions & people working yourarea and contact them

Keep track of journals, archives, repositories, data sources

If anything you want to know search wikipedia

Believe only resources from academic world or provided byacadmecians


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