SWOT Analysis or SWOT Matrix describe about the Strength (S), Weakness(W), Opportunity and Threat (T). This article try to cover following point about the SWOT analysis.
Q 1 What is SWOT analysis?
Q 2 What are the Element of SWOT?
Q 3 Why researchers use SWOT analysis?
Q 4 In which discipline Researcher use SWOT analysis?
Q 1 What is SWOT analysis?
SWOT analysis (or SWOT matrix) is a strategic planning technique used to help a person or organization identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business competition or project planning or new innovative service or improve any existing.
Elements of SWOT
Strength: –
Strength are Advantages, plus existing Resources of individual, groups, Team, institutions, Organisation.
Weakness:-
Weakness are the disadvantage and Limitations of individual, groups, Team, institutions, Organisation
Opportunity: –
Opportunities indicated as positive forces/ Area of Improvement +Avail the chances to explore the expansion out of the box.
Threat:-
Threats are the negative forces external trouble or obstacle in progress.
SWOT Matrix
Strength and Weakness are internal Factor
Opportunity and threats are external factor
Strength and opportunity are positive forces
Weakness and Threat are negative forces
Q 2 Why do researchers use SWOT analysis?
Researcher uses SWOT analysis in any decision-making situation or planning initiative
1. SWOT uses in like commercial organizations, Business enterprises, governmental units, and individuals.
2. SWOT analysis may also be used in creating a recommendation during a viability study/survey.
3. SWOT analysis may also be used in pre-crisis planning and preventive crisis management.
In short summary SWOT analysis use in Strategic Planning, Matching and converting/Competitive advantages, Corporate planning and Marketing.
Q 4 In which discipline Researcher use SWOT analysis?
SWOT analysis use in the Academic discipline of Social Science, Business administration, Economics, Management and marketing disciplines.
This article is about the Electronic Journals its format, characteristics, advantage and disadvantages.
1. What is an Electronic Journal?
Electronic Journals are the source of information provide the research based content to its audience.
Intellectual content journal provide access via electronic transmission through digital devices i.e., Desktop, Laptop, Tablets, LED, iPad, Cell phone and etc ( Roes, 1996)
It also refers as e-Journals, Online Journals, electronic serial, Electronic editions
2. What are the different format of Electronic Journals?
1. Open Access
2. Closed Access or Subscribe Journal
Open Access Journals
Open access journals provided full-text content to its reader free under the licenses of creative common 4.0 for the none commercial use and cite with specific sources.
DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) is an example of open Access of journal. It provides free open access site near about 16,000 plus peer reviewed journal are indexed where you can read, download the electronic journals freely.
2. Closed Access or Subscribe Journal
Closed Access and Subscribed Journals are not free available users/institution have to pay to get access to the full-text Journals.
All the commercial publisher like journals published by renown publisher Taylor & Francis, Web of Science, Wiley, Ovid, Oxford, Cambridge, Emerald and etc. are the example of closed access journal.
3. What are the Characteristics of the Good Electronic Journal?
E-Journal be Peer reviewed.
E-Journals have good editorial and expert’s team of the subject field.
3. Should be indexed in major databases indexing bibliographical databases i.e., Web of Science, JCR, CrossRef, Scopus, EBSCO, and etc.
4. Should have an Impact Factor.
5. E-Journal published by the renowned publisher and reputable publishers. Wiley, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, Elsevier, Sage, Cambridge, Oxford, JStore and etc.
4. What are the advantage of Electronic Journals?
1. Electronic journals allow for more speed in the scientific communication process.
2. Electronic articles are not limited in size.
3. it is possible to add experimental data, software, and even multimedia extensions like simulations.
4. An articles can be linked with the body of scholarly literature.
5. There is a promise of a more open peer review process.
6. Electronic journals demand no library space nor shelving costs nor can they be stolen from the library.
7. Electronic journals are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
8. Electronic journals can easily be merged with alerting services
5. What are the disadvantage of Electronic journals?
1. Back issue removed from the databases and websites without any notice to the customer.
2. Difficult to Access backfile sometimes it is not accessible for more than 5 years or more.
3. Computer, Mobile Screen reading affect your eyesight and other health issues.
4. Institutional Access Journal article cannot read off Campuses
5. Chance of Virus and Cyber-attacks to journal website.
6. Discontinue of a journal subscription libraries does not have any back up of subscribing period journal
Electronic Journals
Electronic Journals are the source of information provide the research based content to its audience.
Intellectual content journal provide access via electronic transmission through digital devices i.e., Desktop, Laptop, Tablets, LED, iPad, Cell phone and etc.
It also refers as e-Journals, Online Journals, electronic serial, Electronic editions
2. What are the different format of Electronic Journals?
1. Open Access
2. Closed Access or Subscribe Journal
Open Access Journals
Open access journals provided full-text content to its reader free under the licenses of creative common 4.0 for the none commercial use and cite with specific sources.
DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) is an example of open Access of journal. It provides free open access site near about 16,000 plus peer reviewed journal are indexed where you can read, download the electronic journals freely.
2. Closed Access or Subscribe Journal
Closed Access and Subscribed Journals are not free available users/institution have to pay to get access to the full-text Journals.
All the commercial publisher like journals published by renown publisher Taylor & Francis, Web of Science, Wiley, Ovid, Oxford, Cambridge, Emerald and etc. are the example of closed access journal
3. What are the Characteristics of the Good Electronic Journal?
E-Journal be Peer reviewed.
E-Journals have good editorial and expert’s team of the subject field.
3. Should be indexed in major databases indexing bibliographical databases i.e., Web of Science, JCR, CrossRef, Scopus, EBSCO, and etc.
4. Should have an Impact Factor.
5. E-Journal published by the renowned publisher and reputable publishers. Wiley, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, Elsevier, Sage, Cambridge, Oxford, JStore and etc.
4. What are the advantage of Electronic Journals?
Electronic Journal advantages are discussed(Hahn et al., 1999).
1. Electronic journals allow for more speed in the scientific communication process.
2. Electronic articles are not limited in size.
3. it is possible to add experimental data, software, and even multimedia extensions like simulations.
4. An articles can be linked with the body of scholarly literature.
5. There is a promise of a more open peer review process.
6. Electronic journals demand no library space nor shelving costs nor can they be stolen from the library.
7. Electronic journals are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
8. Electronic journals can easily be merged with alerting services
5. What are the disadvantage of Electronic journals?
1. Back issue removed from the databases and websites without any notice to the customer.
2. Difficult to Access backfile sometimes it is not accessible for more than 5 years or more.
3. Computer, Mobile Screen reading affect your eyesight and other health issues.
4. Institutional Access Journal article cannot read off Campuses
5. Chance of Virus and Cyber-attacks to journal website.
6. Discontinue of a journal subscription libraries does not have any back up of subscribing period journal
Hahn, S. E., Speier, C., Palmer, J., & Wren, D. (1999). Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Journals. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 5(1), 19–33. doi:10.1300/j109v05n01_03
Keefer, A. (2001). Electronic journals, scholarly communication and libraries.
Roes, H. (1996). Electronic journals: A short history and recent developments. Trabajo presentado en International Summer School on the Digital Library, Tilburg, Holanda. Consultado el, 15.
Boolean searching is based on an algebraic system of logic formulated by George Boole, a 19th century English mathematician. In a Boolean search, keywords are combined by the operators AND, OR and NOT to narrow or broaden the search.
Types of Boolean Operator
There are three Boolean operation AND OR and NOT. It is always type and donate with capital letter.
Functions of Boolean operator
AND OPERATOR
Narrow search results tell the database that ALL search terms must be present in the resulting records Example: cloning AND humans AND ethics
The purple triangle in the middle of the Venn diagram below represents the result set for this search. It is a small set using AND, the combination of all three search word.
OR OPERATOR
Broad and Expand the Search Term Locate in and retrieve if found any Single Result connect two or more similar concepts (synonyms)Example: cloning OR genetics OR reproduction
All three circles represent the result set for this search. It is a big set because any of those words are valid using the OR operator.
NOT OPERATOR
Refine the Term se NOT in a search to: exclude words from your search
Narrow your search, telling the database to ignore concepts that may be implied by your search terms
Example:Â Football NOT Soccer
Advantages of Boolean Operator
1. Helps in literature Search
2. It support to build search strategy in different search engine or database i.e. Google scholar, PubMed, CINHAL and etc.
3. Save the time of users
4. Find out adequate number of literature
5. Refine filter and narrow and broader and expanded
Cite This Article
Ali, MY (31 Mar 2021). Boolean Operator for searching literature.
An information source is a person, thing, or place from which information comes, arises, or is obtained
Information Sources
An Information Source is a source of information for somebody, i.e. anything that might informs a person about something on provide knowledge to somebody. Information sources may be observations, people speeches, documents, pictures, organizations etc.
What are the three different Types information Sources and their Example?
There are three types of information Sources
1) Primary Sources
Primary sources are created as close to the original event or phenomenon as it is possible to be. For example, a photograph or video of an event is a primary source.
Original written works like poems, diaries, court records, interviews,
Original Research findings fieldwork survey, Theory and experiment
Primary sources there are three main dimension
Original Documents
Creative Works
Relics and Artifacts
Diaries
Art works
Pottery
Speeches
Novels
Decorative arts
Correspondence
Poetry
Clothing
Interviews
Music
Buildings
Manuscripts
Architectural drawings/plans
Textiles
Government Documents
Photographs
Needlework
News film footage
Film
Archival Materials
Autobiographies
2) Secondary Sources
Secondary Sources are accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. They are interpretations and evaluations of primary sources. Secondary sources are not evidence, but rather commentary on and discussion of evidence
Examples
Bibliographies
Biographical works
Commentaries, criticisms
Conference proceedings
Essays or reviews
Histories
Literary criticism such as journal articles
Magazine and newspaper articles
Monographs, other than fiction and autobiographies
Reprints of art works
3) Tertiary Sources
A tertiary source presents summaries or condensed versions of materials, usually with references back to the primary and/or secondary sources
A tertiary source presents summaries or condensed versions of materials, usually with references back to the primary and/or secondary sources.
In other words it provides information about the information.
Examples
Almanacs
Abstracts
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Handbooks
Library Catalogue
What are usage of Information sources?
1. To help out in research evidence
2. To help out in literature review
3. To provide guidance right source of Information
5-minutes information channel episode #9, In this episode I talked about artificial intelligence tools use in libraries.
What is Artificial Intelligence ?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans.
Artifical Intelligence is an emerging Technology used in professional field (Medicine, Surgery, Health Sciences, Automobile, Engineering, Climates, Industries, Economics, Business, Pharmaceutical and Others)
Similarly Artificial Intelligence reached in libraries, different tools of artificial intelligence used in the libraries i.e. Most populars are
1) System Experts
2) Natural Language Processing
3) Pattern Recognition
4) Robotics
5) Big Data
6) Data Mining
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Research Knowledge and Information 