This document discusses exploring literature through digital technologies and skills. It notes that literature review is an essential part of the research process. It then discusses problems with traditional literature collection methods and how digital skills can help address these problems by allowing remote access and organization of literature. Various digital tools, techniques, and resources for conducting literature searches are outlined, including search engines, databases, collaborative platforms, and organizing tools like literature review matrices.

1. Reviewing Literature Through Digital
Technologies
Prof. vandana punia,
dean Faculty of Education ,
Human Resource DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
GURU JAMBESHWAR UNIVERSITY OF S&T HISAR HARYANA

2. Review of literature
 Indispensable part of Research Process
 Research starts from Literature Review and ends
with Literature Review.
 Literature constructs a sound background of any
research and main task is to build an argument, not
a library.
 Arguments are based on solid, enriched and strong
references with high citations.

3. Review of literature
 A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources
(such as books, journal articles, and theses) related to a
specific topic or research question.
 A literature review presents the current knowledge
including substantive findings as well as theoretical and
methodological contributions to a particular topic.
 Reviewing the research literature means finding,
reading, and summarizing the published research
relevant to your question.

4. PROBLEM STATEMENT
 Why we should explore literature through Digital
Skills?
 Reminding old days while collecting literature
through visiting libraries.
Wastage of Time and Energy
Wastage of Money and Other Resources
Difficulties in organizing the whole litarture
Others

5. Focus of the Talk
Collection of Resources
 Using Search Engine
 Using Collaborative
Professional Development
 Citation Mining
 Using Database

6. Conducting A Successful Literature Search:
 Keywords
 Searching Tools or Searching Techniques
 Type of literature

7. Digital resources , Digital skills and
Technologies
 refers to any resource, which is in digitized
form and can be read & scanned by means of
electronic media.
 do not require separate space in a library as
these can be stored in a computer locally or
remotely.
 Digital literacy as ‘the ability to find, evaluate,
utilize, share, and create content using
information technologies and the Internet.

8. Online or Offline tools and services such
as apps, websites.
Digital tools and services
Digital devices:
PCs, Macs, Chrome books,
laptops, iPads, and Surface
Tablets.
Digital technology
term used to describe those digital
applications, services and resources
which are used to find, analyses, create,
communicate, and use information in a
digital context.

9. Planning your RESEARCH
 Identifying key terms
 Planning how terms will be combined and
entered
 BOOLEAN
 Join some Collaborative Platforms
 Keeping a record of your researches

10. SEARCH TECHNIQUES
(GOOGLING TECHNIQUES):
 Boolean Operators
AND: Containing all terms [Example:
Creativity AND Intelligence
OR: Containing any of the terms
[Example Creativity OR Intelligence]
NOT: Containing certain words in
search [Example: Creativity NOT Innovation]

11.  Exclude words from search: To exclude or
eliminate results containing certain word.
 Google phrase search: Google considers the exact
word in exact words in exact order without any change.
 Search for a specific site; A site: You can search a
specific site for your desired information.
 Use “DEFINE: It is concerned with learning the
meaning of a word.
SEARCH TECHNIQUES
(GOOGLING TECHNIQUES):

12.  Search By File Type: Information can be searched
through file type of any kind ( pdf, doc, xls, ppt, rtf,
etc. by these hints.
 filetype:pdf[Keyword]
 Filetype:doc [Keyword]
 Filetype:ps[Keyword]
 Filetype:xls[Keyword]
 Filetype:ppt[Keyword]
 Filetype:rtf[Keyword]
SEARCH TECHNIQUES
(GOOGLING TECHNIQUES)

13. Using Collaborative Professional Development Platforms
 ResearchGate: ResearchGate is a European
commercial social networking site for scientists and
researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions,
and find collaborators. https://www.researchgate.net/
 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
 Academia Education: Academia.edu is an American
commercial social networking website for academics. It
began as a free and open repository of academic journal
articles and was awarded a . ... The site was launched in
September 2008.

14. Educational Search Engines and Databases
 National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
 Shodhganga
 Proquest
 Scopus
 Web of Science
 PubMed
 Indiajournal.com : https://www.indianjournals.com/
 Kavita kosh

15. Google’s image search
 Pixabay
 Pexels
 Freerange
 Flickr
 FreeImages
 Unsplash

16. Educational Search Engines and Databases
:
 Educational Resources Information Center
(ERIC) ..
 Lexis Web. ...
 Science Direct
 Microsoft Academic (MA) ...
 iSeek Education. ...
 JSTOR
 EBASCO

17. Organization of Resources
 Literature Review Matrix
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AHj8Y
KoVovMIih10nvDFv4P_xX7fpar/edit?usp=sh
aring&ouid=117488405969686240750&rtpof
=true&sd=true
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/19HKFobgT62
NCa6iD9HCfxMyduL4iI_fp/view?usp=sharing