6/6/2020 Introduction to Research - - Unit 4 - Week 2: Literature Survey, Experimental skills

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Unit 4 - Week 2: Literature Survey, Experimental skills

Course outline
Assignment 2
How does an NPTEL
online course work? The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on 2020-03-11, 23:59 IST.

Week 1: Group Assignment submitted on 2020-03-11, 22:30 IST

Discussion on Research
Note: More than one answer may be right. Partial marks awarded if only some of the correct answers are selected. No marks awarded
Week 1: Overview of if even one of the wrong answers is selected:
Research
1) Which of the following is generally acceptable while publishing an article in a journal? 1 point

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Week 2: Literature Survey, Replicating relevant figures from another article

Experimental skills Replicating own published text from another article
Replicating relevant equations from another article
Overview of Literature
Survey (unit? Replicating relevant tables from own published articles
unit=12&lesson=13) No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Literature Survey using
Accepted Answers:
WebofScience (unit?
Replicating relevant equations from another article
unit=12&lesson=14)
2) Which of the following is always true for an open access journal? 1 point
Literature Survey using
Scopus (unit?
Such journals are not peer reviewed
unit=12&lesson=15)
Articles in such a journal are freely available for download
Writing Up (unit?
unit=12&lesson=16)
Such journals charge for publication of an article
Such journals are of dubious reputation
Tutorial on using BibTeX
with LaTeX to add Yes, the answer is correct.
references to a document Score: 1
(unit?unit=12&lesson=17) Accepted Answers:
Articles in such a journal are freely available for download
Tutorial on using Microsoft
Word with Bibliographic 3) Which of the following is the most reliable source to identify original research in a particular topic? 1 point
Sources (unit?
unit=12&lesson=18) Articles in archival peer reviewed journals
Reviews in encyclopedia
Tutorial on using Microsoft
Word with endnote entries Compilations in handbooks
(unit?unit=12&lesson=19) Abstracting services
Experimental skills (unit? Yes, the answer is correct.
unit=12&lesson=22) Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Quiz : Week 2 Practice
Articles in archival peer reviewed journals
Assignment (assessment?
name=109) 4) Which of the following can be used to redirect the browser to the web page associated with the article? 1 point
Quiz : Assignment 2
International Standard Book Number
(assessment?name=119)
International Standard Serial Number

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Week 2 Feedback : Universal Decimal Classification

Introduction to Research
Digital Object Identifier number
(unit?
unit=12&lesson=120) Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 3 - Data analysis Accepted Answers:
and Modelling skills Digital Object Identifier number

5) Which of the following indices convey the reputation of an author with regard to publication of articles? 1 point
Week 4: Technical
presentation and writing h-index
h5-index
Week 5: Creativity in
Journal impact factor
research
SJR ranking
Week 6- Intellectual Yes, the answer is correct.
property Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Week 7- Design of h-index
Experiments
6) Which of the following strategies of search fetches you the latest article based on a particular research topic? 1 point

Week 8- Department Keyword search

specific discussions
Citation based search
Back reference based search
Text Transcripts
Affiliation based search
Transcripts Book No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Download Videos Accepted Answers:
Citation based search

7) Which of the following is NOT an free / open source for scholarly articles? 1 point

arxiv.org
researchgate.net
sciencedirect.com
semanticscholar.org
Y h i

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Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
sciencedirect.com

8) What kind of tools are the following: Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote and RefWorks ? 1 point

Word processing tools for scientific articles

Search engines for scholarly articles
File management tools
Citation management tools
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Citation management tools

9) Which of the following is NOT a recommended practice to identify publications that need to be listed under references of an article? 1 point

Relevant publications actually referred to

Latest publications by the editor of the journal
Original publications in the topic of the article
Own publications referred in the article for further details
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Latest publications by the editor of the journal

10) Which of the following is NOT a necessary feature to be considered while listing the bibliogaphic details of a reference? 1 point

Bibliographic details are in the format prescribed by the journal

The reference is cited in the article
Referred article is freely available on the internet
Bibliographic details have redundacy to help locate the reference
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:

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Referred article is freely available on the internet

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