Understanding Systematic Literature Review

Dear All, 

We are delighted to inform you that Department of Library & Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur has organised a special online lecture series “Anveshan: An Online Lecture Series in LIS for Research Scholars." The 10th lecture in the series was held on 9th August 2025 (Saturday) from 03:00 to 04:30 PM via Google Meet. Prof. Shriram Pandey, Professor & Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, was invited as the resource person and delivered a lecture on the topic “Understanding Systematic Literature Review.”

The programme commenced with a welcome address by Prof. Akhandanand Shukla, DLIS, CUTN, followed by a brief introduction to the programme, the department, its faculty members, and the resource person. 

In his lecture, Prof. Pandey highlighted the growing importance of systematic review papers and their increasing demand in scholarly publications across various domains. He emphasised that systematic reviews are fundamentally different from bibliometric studies and require collaboration and subject expertise. He outlined the purpose of systematic reviews and discussed common mistakes in literature reviews, such as adopting a “pick and choose” approach from a single database, organising literature solely in chronological, reverse chronological, or thematic order, and relying on a single database or dataset to identify research gaps. Further, he explained the key benefits and challenges of systematic reviews, noting their role in identifying prolific authors and establishing relationships among research contexts—something traditional reviews often fail to achieve. He clarified the differences between a literature review, a systematic literature review, and a meta-analysis, and discussed various types of literature reviews and review methods. 

Prof. Pandey stressed that a literature review is a journey from the known to the unknown, making it essential to adopt the correct methodology. He demonstrated various sources of data for systematic reviews, including bibliographic databases, websites, journals, and books. He explained how to develop a search strategy using synonyms, abbreviations, and Boolean operators, and presented the standard format of a systematic literature review paper. He particularly stressed the adoption of the PRISMA methodology, which he described in detail. Additionally, he discussed methods of data extraction and analysis, including descriptive analysis and literature classification, and outlined the sequential steps for conducting systematic reviews. He also shared examples of both paid and free tools useful for this process. Towards the end of the session, Prof. Pandey gave a practical demonstration of conducting a systematic review. During the question-and-answer session, participants raised queries about the limitations of keywords in titles and the restrictions of search results in open-access databases, which he addressed comprehensively.

The lecture was coordinated by Prof. Akhandanand Shukla, DLIS, CUTN, and attended by 48 participants. Dr. K. G. Sudhier, Assistant Professor, shared his insights on the topic and delivered the formal vote of thanks. Ms. Komal Sahu, Senior Research Fellow, served as rapporteur for the programme.

The glimpses of the program is given below: 

Department thanks to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen Prof. Shriram Pandey on the important aspects of literature review.

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.

Research Dimensions of Semantic Web

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 eighth online lecture in the series was organised on 15th July, 2021 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM through Google Meet. Prof. Aditya Tripathi, Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi has been invited as resource person and he delivered a lecture on "Research Dimensions of Semantic Web". 

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.

Presentation started by giving brief account on the historical development of the present day Web environment. Features of early Web browsers such as LYNX were also mentioned. Later he discussed the changes happened to the Google browser and introduced the terms like class, entities, relationships, objects, properties etc. in the cyberspace. Here the discussion was mainly concentrated on the properties of cyberspace. Just like in the real world, cyberspace also contains objects and these are conceptualized into categories based on their properties. He gave the example of searching the word “knife” in Google in different situations. The intention for searching this particular term will be different in different situations, which can be understood by human but not always by machines. This is the main reason for retrieving huge amount of unwanted irrelevant results while searching. Later he described the way in which knowledge or objects are represented in cyberspace. After explaining these foundational ideas, he listed the features of Semantic Web. According to him, Semantic Web is a Web of actionable information. It is an extension of the present Web in which information is given in well-defined structure. Further, the architecture of Semantic Web was discussed in detail. Here each and every component in different levels of hierarchy were enumerated. Terms such as URI, Unicode, XML, RDF, RDF Schema, Ontology etc. were introduced and their properties were described. All these were considered to be areas for extensive research. A brief description on Ontologies and Taxonomies were also given. The main aim of the Ontology research is to study entities and their relationships. Insight on some Ontology languages such as OWL (Web Ontology Language), RIF (Rule Interchange Format), and SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) was also made. At the end of the presentation, the promises of the Semantic Web such as its ability to represent information in a more categorized way, hyperlinking facilities, ability to bring more reliable and trusted information and ability to pipe in the useful data from multiple sources were discussed. Also, interesting areas in which further research can be conducted were demonstrated. A few questions were asked and those were answered very well by the speaker. Dr. K.G. Sudhier gave a brief summary of the entire lecture.

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. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks delivered by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree. Mr. Abhijith B., Junior Research Fellow, 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 Prof. Aditya Tripathi on some technical aspects of Semantic Web.

Thanks.

Review of Literature in Research and Finding Research Gap

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 seventh online lecture in the series was organised on 24th June, 2021 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM through Google Meet. Prof. Rabinarayan Mishra, Former Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl has been invited as resource person and he delivered a lecture on "Review of Literature in Research and Finding Research Gap". 

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.

Prof. Rabinarayan Mishra started his lecture by highlighting the importance of describing statement of the problem in research. According to him, first and foremost step in research is defining the research problem, for that it is important to find the research gap in the existing literature. He explained all aspects related to literature review, types, components, properties and methods of identifying literature and process of finding research gap including the source and authenticity of the literature collected.

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 30 participants. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree. Ms. Bhavya K. P., Junior Research Fellow, 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 Prof. Rabinarayan Mishra on one of the important aspect related to research.

Thanks.

Literature Search and Review of Literature in Research

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 sixth online lecture in the series was organised on 10th June, 2021 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM through Google Meet. Dr. Rupak Chakravarty, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh has been invited as resource person and he delivered a lecture on "Literature Search and Review of Literature in Research".

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. Rupak Chakravarty started his talk stating the difference between literature search and literature review. According to him, a literature search is a never-ending process, it’s important to consult various sources to know the background of the study. He explained the literature search cycle and search strategy, components of literature review, various steps of completing a literature review including synthesis and writing; and the importance of critical analysis in literature review. He emphasized the need to proofread thoroughly before submitting your literature review. Finally, he discussed some important tools that would help while carrying out research work.

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 29 participants. Dr. K. G. Sudhier, Assistant Professor of the department, shared his views about the talk. The lecture session ended with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. V. K. Dhanyasree. Mr. Suman Barath P., Junior Research Fellow, 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 Prof. Rupak Chakravarty on literature search and review of literature in research.

Thanks.