Transcript Sharing and building bibliographic capacity in Islamic studies

Sharing and building bibliographic
capacity in Islamic studies - Web tools for
researchers
By David Kilgour
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What I am trying to cover
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What tools are available?
Tools in groups
How an Islamic database might work
Bibliographic capacity in Islamic studies (See
Word references)
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Communication
• Most of us are very familiar with using the web in
our daily lives.
• But have you taken full advantage of the web in
your research?
• This guide covers just a few of the tools that you
might find helpful; all are available via the web;
most are free.
• Click on any link to navigate to the tool.
• Or search for the tool name in your preferred
search engine.
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Personalise - Web 2.0 Tools
Personalise your start page
Keep all your favourite tools and services together
on a personalised home page that can be
accessed from any computer.
• iGoogle
• PageFlakes
• Netvibes
• Webwag
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Collaboration
• Document sharing Google Docs is the most popular tool
for collaboratively creating, storing and sharing
documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.
• Huddle - website for enabling collaborative research
• Various tools – all sorts of social networking tools.
• Other tools include Flowchart, PBworks (wikis),
VoiceThread (presentations), ShowDocument (various
documents).
• For mind mapping try Bubbl.us, Freemind, Mind42 or
Mindmeister.
• Call for papers mainly science & Technology
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Reference management
Discover, organise and share bibliographic reference details
online using
• CiteULike
• Mendeley
• Zotero - Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool
to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your
research sources. It lives right where you do your work—
in the web browser itself
• Connotea
• RefWorks - an online research management, writing and
collaboration tool - is designed to help researchers easily
gather, manage, store and share all types of information,
as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
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References and generate bibliographies
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Yahoo! Bookmarks: Yahoo's bookmark tool
Diigo: Diigo makes it easy to highlight, clip, and sticky-note right on a web
page.
Notefish: Put all of your web research in one simple page with Notefish.
Qipit: Take a photo of notes and documents, and this service will turn it into
a readable, taggable document.
BibMe: Enter books, websites, journals, and other sources into this tool, and
it will automatically create a bibliography for you. They'll even let you choose
between different formats.
Clipmarks: Clip out important pieces of the web using this neat app.
Del.icio.us: Use del.icio.us to organize your bookmarks online, and access
them easily with tags.
Google Bookmarks: With Google Bookmarks, you can keep track of sites and
add your own searchable notes to them.
Wizlite: Highlight the Internet like it's paper.
MyStickies: Sticky note app allows you to put post-its on your desktop, or
perhaps most importantly for researchers, on specific web pages.
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Social networks
Join a professional social network such as
• ResearchGate
• Academia.edu
• Graduate Junction
• LinkedIn
• Or create your own network on Facebook or even
Second Life.
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Web conferencing
With a webcam and microphone distance is no
object: meet fellow researchers or interview
participants using a web conferencing tool such
as
• ooVoo
• Adobe Connect
• DimDim
• Elluminate
• GoToMeeting
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Blog it
Shout about your research as you do it-keep a blog.
Useful for reporting progress, reflecting on your
research and inviting comment on your work.
Blogger and WordPress are both free.
Use micro blogging to highlight key findings and
broadcast milestones achieved: try Twitter
Tumblr, Yammer or Cirip
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Wikis
• Wikis are simple web pages that groups, friends,
and families can edit together
• Maintain a wiki for your research group and let
everybody update it.
• WetPaint and Wikispaces are popular free wiki
tools. Tutorials page
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Searching
• All search engines do not produce the same results.
• Prove it by using Trovando or Turboscout to re-run
searches using multiple search engines; or compare sets
of results directly using Thumbshots ranking.
• Try Yippy for results that are categorised into topics; or
for a more visual presentation of results use Search-Cube,
Quintura or oSkope.
• Limit results to those of a more scholarly nature using
Google Scholar, Intute, Infomine or Scirus; alternatively,
discover the ‘invisible’ web using Oaister or OpenDOAR
Search.
• Search the blogosphere using Technorati
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Searching
• trueknowledge: Get answers to your questions from this
search engine built on knowledge.
• CiteULike: Find academic papers on this site using their
easy search and tags.
• ChaCha: Use this human-powered search engine to find
what you need. You can even use a live guided search
with a real person who will ask you questions to find
exactly what you want.
• PennTags: Search through this user-created catalog to
find articles and other references.
• Footnote: Use this tool, and you'll get access to millions of
original documents from archives to shoeboxes.
• SiteTradr: Find sites that are ranked socially by the
education community on SiteTradr.
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Subject Guides
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http://www.academicinfo.net/subject-guides
http://libguides.com/community.php
http://openjgate.org peer reviewed journals
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=searchArticles
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Building Resource Hubs
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http://www.researchgate.net/
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http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/resources.htm
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Library databases/searching
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Islamic research example
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Islamic Finance Searches
http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgibin/search.pl?term1=islamic+finance&submit=Search&limit=0&subje
ct=All - closing
http://www.trovando.it/default2.asp?q=islamic+finance&Search=Search
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=islamic+finance+site%3Aac.uk&hl=
en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUK315&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=off&tbs=
#sclient=psy&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUK315&source
=hp&q=islamic%20finance%20site%3Aac.uk%20&aq=&aqi=&aql=&
oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=72a27cabded3e8a4&biw=1
280&bih=576&pf=p&pdl=500
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=islamic+finance&hl=en&btnG=Se
arch&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=on
http://www.ipl.org/IPL/Finding?Key=islamic+finance&collection=gen
http://whitepapers.virtualprivatelibrary.net/Scholar.pdf
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Keeping up to date
Feed readers bring information to your desk-top via RSS
feed.
• Check out Google reader, FeedDemon or Awasu
• Awasu is a state-of-the-art feed reader that comes loaded
with features for both casual personal use and
professional, high-powered information management.
Email alerts Receive updates straight into your InBox. Use
Google Alerts to get new results from web searches, join
a professional mailing list on JISCmail or get the latest
table of contents from your favourite journal or publisher
(e.g. Sage)
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The Invisible Web
• OAIster was a project of the Digital Library Production
Service of the University of Michigan University Library
• The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s
not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that
that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the
Great Oracle they see everything. Unfortunately, they
can’t because they aren’t divine at all; they are just web
spiders who index pages by following one hyperlink after
the other.
• The size of the open web is about 174 terabytes. The
Invisible Web is estimated at 91,000 terabytes.
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Research Tools
The Digital Research Tools wiki has a
comprehensive list of tools and resources of
interest to researchers.
Alternatively, some of these might be useful at
some point in your research life:
• Address book: Plaxo
• PDF file editing: PDFHammer or PrimoPDF
• Presentations (sharing): Slideshare
• Website creation: Shutterfly or Google Sites
• Word clouds: Wordle (example below)
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Thanks for listening - Any questions?
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