SHSS - PDEV - Search research literature effectively: Start

Research is Conducted by:

Associations | Businesses | Charities | Governments | Individuals (people)  | Institutions (universities, think tanks, etc.) | Pressure groups | Trade Unions  

►    Information is Generated from:

Research  |  Critical evaluations  | Interperative work

►   Information from, on, or about Research is Communicated  via:

Anthologies | Blogs | Books (monographs) | Book chapters | Conference Papers |  Emails | Journals |  Journal articles | Lectures | Letters | Meetings | Newsletters  | Newspapers | Reports | Seminars |  Textbooks  | Theses | Tweets

► Information from, on, or about Research is Organized  in:

Article Databases | Bibliographies | Data Repositories |  Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Library Catalogs

Scholarship as an activity = thinking systematically

• Systematic questioning
• Searching
• Looking  deep and long =  Scrutinizing -   詳細地檢查

Integration (making intellectual connections) between  ideas, theories, & experience = key to good scholarship

• Applying a method from one area to another
• Place a situation or phenomenon into larger theoretical framework
  • Drawing elements from different theories into a synthesis
  • Make new insight
• Re-examine existing knowledge based on new or more recent development

(Hart 1998, p 8-9)

Things to think about...

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man [sic] will turn over half a library to make one book.”

― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2  by John Boswell - (Project Gutenberg edition)

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and the backs of books in libraries.' 

― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2  by John Boswell - (Project Gutenberg edition)

Sourced from here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/22191.Samuel_Johnson

Search & Research are different ¹. As developing scholars, you will need to do both.

• Know the answer or have a "hoped for answer"? = Search
  • How many "left behind" children are there in China
• Don't know the answer; not sure of the question? = Research
  • What are the factors that lead "left behind" rural children in China  to have better or worse educational outcomes than those living with parents?
     

1. Wilkinson, Lane. (2014, July 15). Is research inquiry? [blog post] . Retrieved from: https://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/is-research-inquiry/

Click on any of the six steps on the Research Life Cycle infographic below to explore corresponding tools recommended for you that promote open science research. 

Note: 

1. The lists of tools are not exhaustive and are updated on a regular basis. When selecting tools for inclusion, as far as subscription model is concerned, we prioritize on highlighting tools that are free/freemium and open source, or those that HKUST already has a subscription. The tools are listed in alphabetical order.
2. The six phases in the research life cycle are constructed based on Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman's work on "Innovations in Scholarly Communication" under a CC-BY 4.0 License.