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Essential Readings for Researchers
The IFIS guide on effective literature searches highlights the importance of a thorough literature review for producing high-quality research. Accordi...
The "Best Practice for Literature Searching" guide, created by Carol Hollier, a former Senior Information Literacy and Outreach Manager at IFIS Publis...
This guide explains how to enhance literature searches using truncation, wildcards, stemming, and lemmatization. Truncation adds symbols like * or $ t...
The Journals Online (JOLs) project, initiated in 1998 under the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI), aims to enhance the visi...
The "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing" document outlines standards established by various scholarly organizations�...
Using Boolean Operators for Literature Searches: Boolean operators are essential tools for refining literature searches, consisting of three main type...
This resource discusses the increasing prevalence of systematic reviews in food science, highlighting concerns about the quality of their methodologie...
The e-learning resource course complements IFIS"s best practice guide, helping students and researchers plan and execute effective literature searches...
The article "The Dangers of Sci-Hub" by Lucy Goodchild discusses the risks associated with using the pirate site Sci-Hub, which provides free access t...
The Industry Researcher"s Guide to Effective Literature Searching is tailored to help industry researchers efficiently navigate vast information resou...
The Scholarly Kitchen is the Society for Scholarly Publishing"s (SSP) blog, established in 2008 to update members on advancements in scholarly publish...
The article emphasizes the importance of indexing in improving the efficiency of research, especially amidst information overload. Indexing allows use...
A systematic review is a structured analysis of existing research that follows strict protocols for identifying, evaluating, and synthesizing studies,...
The 2022 National Ethical Guidelines for Research Involving Human Participants update previous guidelines to address advancements in science, technolo...
The Health Research and Development Information Network (HERDIN) is the National Health Research Repository in the country. It is a one-stop-shop info...
Provides access to over a million bibliographic references from a comprehensive resource of scientific journals in various Regional Indexes Medici: We...
The article "3 Techniques to Focus Your Literature Search" by Carol Hollier discusses three effective strategies for improving literature searches: ph...
The article "5 Free and Legal Ways to Get the Full Text of Research Articles" by Carol Hollier provides strategies for accessing research articles wit...
5 Software Tools for Systematic Reviews: Systematic reviews synthesize scholarly literature to inform decision-making, often involving collaboration a...
The Best Practice for Literature Searching guide from IFIS offers comprehensive, step-by-step instructions for conducting systematic and effective lit...
CADIMA, developed by the Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), is a free online tool supporting systematic reviews, systematic maps, and literature reviews acr...
The article "Can AI Shortcut Your Scientific Literature Search?" by Katy Askew explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific literat...
The Old Dominion University Libraries offer a comprehensive A-Z list of databases tailored to various fields of research, including arts and humanitie...
DistillerSR is a literature review software that uses AI to streamline systematic reviews by automating stages like collection, screening, data extrac...
The EPPI-Reviewer, developed by the EPPI Centre at UCL"s Social Science Research Unit, supports various literature review types, including systematic ...
This article highlights the differences between Google Scholar and FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts) in terms of their search methodologies...
This article reviews the effectiveness of Google Scholar (GS) as a search engine for scholarly content, highlighting its significant limitations. Whil...
The article "How to Avoid Pseudoscience in Food and Nutrition Research" by Natasha Spencer discusses the prevalence and dangers of pseudoscience in fo...
SciELO is an Open Science program that provides free access to national collections of quality journals by its members in the network....
Philippine Health Research Registry is a publicly accessible database of newly approved health research, including clinical trials and non-clinical st...
OSF is a free and open-source research management tool for researchers to plan, collect, analyze, and share their work throughout the entire research ...
PubMed is a freely accessible database of biomedical and life sciences literature that contains over 37 million citations and abstracts. While it does...
The PCHRD has two funding windows for researchers which provides (i) R&D grant for research proposals that are aligned with the National Unified Healt...
Researcher Academy provides free access to countless e-learning resources designed to support researchers on every step of their research journey. Bro...