Library Resources for Doctoral and Masters by Research Students: Useful Tools

Reference Management Software: 

Zotero is a free, open-source reference management software. It allows you to collect citations from sources, organise them, and create bibliographies automatically in various citation styles. Zotero's features include web browser integration, the generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies and integration with Microsoft Word. See IADT LibGuide on Zotero for information on how to download and use Zotero.

Artificial Intelligence: 

In an IADT LibGuide on Artificial Intelligence, the advantages and disadvantages of using AI as part of the research process are outlined. ChatGPT as an example can hallucinate plausible but entirely fictious academic references. AI tools that are useful for researchers seeking to understand what has been published on their subject and how these papers relate to each other, include Connected Papers and Elicit AI:

• Connected Papers is a visual tool that helps researchers and scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work. With Connected Papers, users can search for research papers and get a clear, visual representation of how different papers are interconnected.
• Elicit. Elicit searches across 125 million academic papers from Semantic Scholar

See also the Literature Review Section of IADT Library's AI LibGuide. AI platforms can also be leveraged to generate search strings on a research topic for use on IADT Library databases. See example on the right. AI platforms must be used with AI Literacy and in line with IADT's Academic Integrity Policy. AI tools can include academic content that is not full-text. It is important therefore to search IADT Library databases in the first instance to obtain comprehensive full-text content.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a popular tool for researchers that indexes a wide range of scholarly literature, including articles, theses, and conference papers. It offers advanced search features and citation tracking, which are helpful for gauging the impact of academic work. Google Scholar is free and easy to use. It is important to remember that Google Scholar will comprise references that are not full-text. It is important to search IADT Library databases in the first instance.

LibGuides

IADT Library has a range of LibGuides on topics of relevance to postgraduate research students such as a writing a literature review, referencing and reference management software. There is also a dedicated suite of LibGuides for researchers. See the full list of IADT LibGuides here. Libguides for researchers are available here. It is also possible to consult LibGuides created by other libraries which are produced with a Creative Commons License and are freely available in the public domain. Google a topic of interest and add the word LibGuide and a range of LibGuides from around the world will appear. Examples of useful LibGuides include: the UCD Researcher's Toolkit for Graduate and PhD Students.