WorksheetsUse of Software in research - Part 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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...
(a)
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
Which of these is an author-date referencing style?
AMA
IEEE
Oxford
Harvard
In the given reference, the text in yellow represents:
Journal Name
Topic name
Field of research
Part of the title
In the given reference, the text in yellow represents:
Page number
Volume
Year
Issue
Which of these is NOT a free referencing software?
Zotero
Mendeley
Endnote
Refseek
Zotero has similar features as Mendeley except that
It does not support Google Docs
It cannot annotate pdfs
It does not create bibliography
It does not work offline
