Searching and Review Tools in Research: A Practical Approach

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organised a special online lecture series Anveshan: Online Lecture Series in LIS for Research Scholars. The ninth online lecture in the series was organised on 22nd July, 2021 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM through Google Meet. Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj, Assistant Librarian, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya has been invited as resource person and he delivered a lecture on "Searching and Review Tools in Research: A Practical Approach".

The program commenced with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, CUTN Thiruvarur followed by a brief introduction about the resource person.

Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj started his talk with a brief introduction to Push and Pull information seeking technologies and elaborated on it through a virtual experience using Google Scholar and other academic search engines. Dr. Yuvaraj expressed his concern over how the advanced features of Google Scholar is not being used to its full potential and educated the participants on these features like labeling the documents, adding documents to “My Library” etc. through a live demonstration. He went on to explaining about various Google Chrome extensions like Core Discovery, Endnote Click, Google Scholar Button, Scholarcy etc. He gave a hands-on training session on adding these extensions and using them to the right potential. Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj then moved on to the literature review techniques using Citation Gecko and Inciteful.xyz. He demonstrated the functioning of these techniques through a live practical session. He carried on by talking about literature review through artificial intelligence wherein he discussed about various OSS for literature review through artificial intelligence which include ASReview, Fastread, Abstrackr etc. He concluded the lecture with a detailed demonstration of ASReview. An active Q&A session took place thereafter.

The lecture was coordinated by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 26 participants. Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associate Professor and Head shared his insights on the topic. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks delivered by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree. Ms. Nayanthara S., Research Scholar, worked as rapporteur in the program.

The glimpses of the program is given below:

Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen Dr. Mayank Yuvaraj on practical aspects of literature review.

Thanks.