Use of Software in research - Part 1

Which of these is NOT a purpose of conducting a Literature review?

• To know methodology

• To collect samples

• To generate an idea

• To improve self knowledge

Literature review is done only at the beginning of a research project.

• True

• False

Which of these is an example of secondary literature?

• Magazine article

• Research paper

• Clinical trial data

• Patent

Reference chasing and Tracking citations come under which method of literature search?

• Protocol driven

• Personal knowledge

• Offhand discovery

• Snowballing

Typing in "bank" will retrieve results like: bank, banks, banking, bankers, bankruptcy. This is an example of...

The shaded portion represents the results obtained if we use which Boolean Operator?

• AND

• OR

• NOT

• None of these

The Boolean operator 'OR' is used to retrieve a set in which each citation contains at least one of the search terms.

• True

• False

If I want to find papers on protein ft6v only in viruses (red portion) which search will get my result?

• Protein ft6v OR virus NOT plant

• Protein ft6v OR virus OR plant

• (Protein ft6v AND virus) NOT plant

• (Protein ft6v OR virus) NOT plant

Which of these search engines is meant for searching for papers even in other languages?

• MS Academic

• Semantic scholar

• Pubmed

• WorldWideScience

Which of these is a numbered referencing style?

• APA

• IEEE

• Oxford

• Harvard