The document provides guidance on accessing and exploring academic knowledge, emphasizing the importance of understanding search engines and utilizing various search strategies for effective research. It outlines different types of academic search engines and offers tips for optimizing search results, including the use of specific keywords and operators. Additionally, it introduces the alert mechanism service that notifies researchers about new relevant content based on selected search terms.

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Accessing & Exploring
Knowledge
Lecturer NABEEL SALIH ALI

2. Contents
Alert Mechanism
Patent Search
Searching Skills
Academic Search Engines
Research Process

3. RESEARCH PROCESS
Identify Area Of Study
Literature Review
Research Methodology
Analysis and Results discussion
Conclusions and Recommendations
RESEARCH
PROCESS

4. RESEARCHER WITH ICT SKILLS
skills
for IT
Managing Research
Materials
Presenting Result
Structuring Research
Materials
Communicating and
Collaboration
Statistical Analysis
Software
Knowledge Disseminating
Other Related Tools
Accessing and Exploring
Knowledge
Academic Writing

5. Accessing and Exploring Knowledge
 Nowadays, by the merging of the internet and the
advancement of information technology, information
can be accessed at any time anywhere.
 Thus, it's up to the researcher to find and rearrange
the content to fit with their needs. Research materials
either in the form of paper proceeding, journal and
books is uploaded continuously on the internet.
 The “internet tool” will help researcher customize the
information that suited to their needs. This tool
always refers to the search engines and alert
mechanism while accessing and exploring the
information.

6. Accessing and Exploring Knowledge
A good researcher should know the characteristics and
the ability of the search engine used for finding their
research materials. Below is several tips use to
understand the search engine in a better way.
1. Using the search engine, it tells us about the
information sources where to locate the research
materials.
2. Type of materials will tell us the extensions of the
downloaded document. This gives the idea about the
reader/player of such document extensions such as
pdf, doc, ps and others. The example below shows
the readers for each extension:

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3. Types of retrieved documents will tell either the
documents are free from open access, subscription
based or for references only.
4. Topology of materials will gives us an idea about the
downloaded document for further reference notations.
The possible references could come from book, patent,
thesis, dissertation, journal articles or conference
proceeding.
5. The significance of the materials is also provided by the
search engines. The best example in this case is shown
by the number of the cited document for the
materials. Therefore, to search the research materials as
stated above, researcher need to be familiar with the
academic search engines.

8. Web Address of Academic Search Engines
OnlineWeb AddressAcademic Engine
Freehttps://scholar.google.comGoogle Scholar
Subscribehttp://www.sciencedirect.comScience Direct
Subscribehttp://clarivate.com/product/web-of-
science/?utm_source=false&utm_medium=false&
utm_campaign=false
Web-of-Science
Subscribehttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jspIEEE Xplore
-http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Academic (Microsoft)
Freehttps://doaj.org/Directory of Open Access
Journal (DOAJ)
Freehttp://sci-hub.cc/Russian Database
Freehttps://www.library.cornell.edu/CORNELL UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
Freehttp://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-
etds?gclid=Cj0KEQiAwMLDBRDCh_r9sMvQ_88B
EiQA6zuAQxjOPpnPhBJ0T9myqePcx-
cvXFZTalowpWbs9-XUNwUaAqFj8P8HAQ
Network Digital Library for
Thesis and Dissertations
(NDLTD)

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20. How to Search Well?
A
Please use the right keyword. Probably
you might use different keyword with
similar meanings
B
Know how to narrow or expand your
search
C
How to focus when you get too many
results

21. Accessing and Exploring Knowledge
 The researchers can continue their search with Google
Scholar by using the following tips:
A. Enter search keywords by priority example:
condition, monitoring, “condition monitoring”.
B. Only ten search terms allowed, while the rest will be
ignored.
C. General words like 'a', 'to', 'for', 'the' and others will
be ignored.
D. Use the + operator that the resulting results include the
word example: “condition monitoring”
+maintenance.

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E. Use the - operators so as to make the search results
do not include the word example: “condition
monitoring” –maintenance.
F. Use the phrase '' ” aims to search two keywords
simultaneously example: ''condition monitoring”.
G. Use the OR operator aims to discover either one of the
keyword in the search example: condition OR
monitoring.
H. Use the AND operator aims to find two keywords in the
title simultaneously example: condition AND
monitoring.

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I. Use the operator intitle: aims to search in a website
which contains specific keywords condition monitoring
example: intitle:”condition monitoring”.
J. Use the operator filetype: ppt aims to find only files
with "ppt" extension. Else such as doc, xls, pdf and
etc. example: “condition monitoring” filetype:ppt.
K. Use operator author: aims to search the author
named Nabeel example author:Nabeel.
L. Use custom range to find article publish in any
predefined year example Since 2013, Since 2012 or
Custom Range.

24. Patent Search
 Other approach to get idea about the research is
looking at the previous intellect property information.
This will give researcher an insight about what is going
on in a particular area especially while producing
product. For that purpose, here is several address, the
research can start with:

25. Patent Search

26. Use Alert Mechanism
 Alerts mechanism is a content change detection and
notification service, offered by search engine (provided
by Google Scholar, Scopus, etc.) that automatically
notifies users when new contents matches a set of
search terms selected by the user and stored by the
alert service. Normally, the notifications are sent
through email.

27. The process of Alert Mechanism
Find the keyword
Click to alert function
Enter your email
Create Alert
Mechanism

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