Back to: Paper 1 Unit 2: Research Aptitude (शोध अभिवृत्ति)

Lesson 4.1

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

• The term ICT is generally accepted to mean all technologies that combined, and allow people and organizations to interact in the digital world.

General applications of ICT

Applications of ICT have many effects on research. They can be classified into three categories which include:

1. ICT application in pre-data analysis

1. Literature Search, Article Availability, Thesis and Dissertation Availability
   Shodh Ganga
   Google Scholar
   Microsoft Academic Search
   SSRN (Multi-disciplinary online repository of scholarly research)
   Elsevier
   Indian journals
   JSTOR
   Springer
   Wiley online library
2. Literature Tracking
   Mendeley
   Nvivo
3. Data Collection
   Google forms
   Survey Monkey

2. Applications of ICT in data analysis

1. Quantitative data analysis
   • Statistical Package for social science (SPSS)
   • Microsoft Excel
   • R
   • MATLAB
2. Qualitative data analysis
   • Nvivo
   • SPSS text Analysis

3. Application of ICT in post-data analysis

1. References and Bibliography Compilation

• EndNote
• Zotero
• Mendeley

2. Article and Thesis / Dissertation’s Discussion

• Academia.edu
• Researchgate
• Application of ICT in post-data analysis

3. Plagiarism Detection & Grammar Correction

• Grammarly
• Duplichecker
• Turnitin

4. Journal Manuscripts Submission

• Elsevier
• Wiley
• Sage Publication