This document discusses Research 2.0 and various web applications that can be used to aid the academic research process. Research 2.0 utilizes web 2.0 technologies to enable more collaborative research approaches. It describes tools like Google Scholar, Mendeley, SurveyMonkey, CiteULike, Google Docs, Zotero, BibMe and Bubbl.us that can help with tasks like literature searches, reference management, online surveys, collaboration, and organizing ideas. These applications allow researchers to more easily store, share, discover and analyze information online in order to smoothly conduct and disseminate their work.

1. Research 2.0: A useful web platform for academic research
Dr. Mahendra K Sahu, Librarian, GIMS,Gunjupur
Dr.R.K Mahapatra, Principal, SMIT, Berhampur

2. Introduction
•With the advent of information technology, the information scenario has been changed, likewise the procedure of research.
•Earlier the research scholar used conventional ways for their research work.
•After the invention of Information & communication technology the entire process has been reduced.
•Now these days, most of the researchers use the new technology for conducting research.
•The main purpose of my work is to make aware a group of individuals interested in research work, in terms of how they work and how to exploit the web application for composing their research work.

3. What is Research 2.0
•Research 2.0 is the systematic investigation to discover the new fact, a new invention by using of web application.
•It makes conversations between researchers, empowers them to talk about their discoveries and associate them with others.

4. Definition of Research 2.0
•According Ben Shneiderman the term Research 2.0 suggests a contrast between traditional ways of doing science, often denoted Research 1.0, with more collaborative approaches, and suggests that the new forms of research will work with web 2.0 technologies.
•Waldrop, 2008, Research 2.0 is not to be confused with a similar term that has recently been coined Science 2.0 which is the notion of open science whereby scientists publish their emerging experiment results in open, collaborative forums .
•According to Wikipedia ,Research 2.0 is an umbrella term for the use of web 2.0 tools and principles in scientific research, often used interchangeably with research 2.0 but technically includes research in fields other than science, such as the Humanities.

5. Why Research 2.0
Research 2.0 creates conversations between researchers, empowers them to examine their discoveries and connects them with others.
Dissemination of information very firstly.
Creating and sustaining research
Collaborations and discovering
Analyzing, processing, publishing
Storing and sharing research data and information.
Integrating (mash up) people, laboratories, workplaces,
Information sources together

6. Advantage of Research 2.0
It helps scientists, researchers and academician to store, organize, share and discover links to academic research papers.
It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources i.e., articles, theses, books and abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other website.
It allows researcher to post their thoughts on a common topic using electronic sticky notes on a shared digital wall.
It enables the researcher to create mind mapping and brainstorming diagrams online.
It permits users to create professional surveys collect responses, and analyze the responses of their created surveys easily.

7. Tools for Research 2.0
There are many web applications are available for different aspect of Research. The followings are some of the relevant web application, which helps the researcher to compose the research work smoothly.
•Google Scholar
•Mendely
•Survey Monkey
•Citulike
•Google Docs
•Zotero
•Bib.Me
•Bubul.Us

8. Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources:, i.e articles, theses, books, abstracts, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
It helps you to find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
It also provides citation service, an author can easily keep track of citations to their articles

9. Using Google Scholar for research
Google Scholar Citations provides a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles.
 We can check who is citing our publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.
We can also make profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for our name.
It is quick to set up and simple to maintain even if we have written hundreds of articles and our name is shared by several different scholars.
We can add groups of related articles, not just one article at a time; and citation metrics are computed and updated automatically as Google Scholar finds new citations to our work on the web.
We can even choose to have our list of articles updated automatically or we can choose to review the updates our self, or to manually update at any time.
Finding research topic

10. Mandeley
Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and imparting research papers, finding research information and working together on the web.
It is a PDF and reference management application (accessible for Windows, OS X and Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social network for scientists and researchers.
Using mandeley for research
It automatically generate bibliographies
It collaborate easily with other researchers online
It import papers from other research software easily
It discover relevant papers based on what you’re reading
It allows too access your papers from anywhere online
Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
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11. SurveyMonkey
Surveymonkey is an online survey device. It permits the user to effectively make proficient surveys. Both free and paying client can outline reviews, gather responses, and analyze the responses of survey made by them.
Advantages of Surveymonkey
•It creates surveys online with an unlimited number of questions.
•It helps user to find patterns in your results..
•All of the data can be downloaded to your computer for further analysis.
•The results can be exported into Excel to create graphs.
Using Survey monkey for Research
Access to Unique Population.
Ability to provide access to groups and individuals
who would be difficult, if not impossible, to reach
through other channels.

12. Access to Unique Population.
Allow a researcher to reach thousands of people with commoncharacteristics in a short amount of time, despite possibly being separated by great geographic distances.
Allowing researchers to collect data while they work on other tasks.
Responses to online surveys can be transmitted to the researcher immediately via email, or posted to an HTML document or database file. This
allows researchers to conduct preliminary analyses on collected data while waiting for the desired number of responses to accumulate.
No need to key in the data since it allows collecting and analyzing the
responses data using statistical analysis (eg: SPSS).
Cost
Save money by moving to an electronic medium from a paper format.
Eliminating the need for paper and other costs, such as those incurred
through postage, printing, and data entry.

13. CiteULike
CiteULike is a free web application, which allows users to save and share citations to academic papers. Based on the principle of social book marking, the site works to promote and to develop the sharing of scientific references amongst researchers.
CiteULike as research tool
Keep track of journal articles and other texts.
•CiteULike has filled the academic bookmarking niche by allowing users to collect and organize research links, manage citation details, and extract bibliographic data from a web page automatically.
•CiteULike provides a forum for sharing resources for faculty, fellows, and graduate students also researcher to engage in more intensive research.
Organizing research.
• CiteULike offers a free signup and lets users install a bookmarklet so that they can save the relevant articles from the web with one click. Users can then tag entries and search their personal library.

14. •CiteULike is focused on scholarly articles, books, and other research-related resources. It has some special features, including the ability to export to BibTeX and EndNote (two reference management tools frequently used in academia) and the ability to browse through articles by journal title. If the articles are save from a supported site (e.g., JSTOR), then the citation details are automatically picked up when the page is saved using the bookmarklet.
Sharing and collaborating with CiteULike.
•CiteULike offers a group feature that allows a group of people to add/share articles that they all collectively find useful.
• An academic department or a research team might create a group on CiteULike, they can collaborating on a large project and share information within the group members.
Promoting and increasing the visibility of the articles.
•CiteULike help to promote and increasing the visibility of the finding and research articles to the potential readers.
•Add the article to the personal CiteULike library to share with others, which helps them discover literature which is relevant to their field or using CiteULike invite a friend feature..

15. Google Docs
Google Docs is an online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enable you to make, store and impart instantly and safely, and collaborate online progressively. At once. you can make new reports from scratch or upload existing archives, spreadsheets and presentations. There is no software to download, and all work is put away securely online and might be browsed from any computer.
Using Google Doc for Research
Multiple authors can edit a document simultaneously.
Collaborating on documents
•Google Docs is an online tool that enables collaborators to work in a synchronous environment on a single research document.
•Rather than passing a research document between authors, Google Docs allows authors at different physical locations to work together on the same document in real time.
• Changes made to the document can be tracked and attributed.

16. Creating online survey
• Google Docs have an inbuilt feature of creating online surveys.
•It is free and can collect unlimited responses
•Questionnaire created as a Google form can be distributed and shared using a
•web link (URL) through email to get responses from the target respondents.
•If the researchers have a website, the questionnaire can be easily embed into the web pages to give it a more professional look and feel.
Analyze data using spreadsheet
•The respondents’ feedback from the survey created using Google form will be inserted automatically In the Google Docs spreadsheet.
•Researchers can analyze the data from Google Docs spreadsheet.
•The data also can be downloaded in many different file formats, which might be more convenient for researchers.
•If the data is export as Excel or CSV, it might easily import it back to SPSS and do advanced statistical analysis of collected data.

17. Zotero
Zotero is a free, simple reference management tool to help users collect, organizes, cite and offer research sources. It is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click.
Advantages of Zotero
It annotates and organizes research results, including video.
It saves information about a reference, including author, title, and other publication information.
It creates libraries and save searches, and share collections with other people.
It helps to attach files, links, notes, and PDFs to records.Store a screenshot of a web page.
Export information as formatted citations in word processing programs (Word, Open Office, Google Docs).
It allows tag and sort records and perform advanced searches.
It also view records in personal collection when offline.
It cites records in any language

18. Bibme
BibMe is an automated citation creator and bibliography generator. It can save you loads of time building and formatting your references, time that is understandably valuable and would be better served working on your paper.
Using Bibme for Research
Build a database of your references.
Attach articles to references so that all your research is in one place.
 Store notes with references.
Search references
Cite your sources in your paper with a touch of a button.
Automatically build your bibliograhy (also called works cited/reference list).
Easily change your citation style if needed(e.g. APA to MLA, Chicago, etc) .

19. Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us is a freely available web application, which empower users to make mind-mapping and conceptualizing charts on the web.
Bubbl us as a research tool
Create flow charts for grant proposals.
Presenting the ideas of research.
Create a mind map of a brainstorming session for research planning that can be shared with all research team members using the collaboration feature or pasted into a blog or wiki.
Organize sources or notes for a paper or research article, in order to aid in the writing process and narrow the focus of each topic.

20. Conclusion…….
Web application held strong certification to advantage of doing online research.
It enables researchers to discover the everyday life in new and creative ways.
 The exploration might be totally unremarkable, it could also be more intuitive and participatory.
The difference between online and offline research could be exaggerated by the widely use of the internet.
The above discussion aimed to outline some key feature related to Web application for research work