Mélissa Mefleh- LIS Specialist

For a better research, you should do all this advice👨‍💻👌.

1- Put a date to complete the research: can help you to be more punctual and motivated✏📅


2- Get a good overview of the subject: to be more aware about all the studies and information about the topic.


3- Choose relevant sources: to get independent, Reliable, Accurate & Comprehensive information.🔍📚📑📋💻


4- Have a research question in mind : this is the most important part in research because that is why research is made.❓


5- Working towards an answer to your research question: to get the results of research.📋💡


6-Plan, collect and organize your notes and data: to facilitate your work and to save time⏳



7- Cite all the sources: to be more specific and to respect copyright.


8- Know all the resources(Print, electronic...) to have more types of information and more references📚📰📑👨‍💻


9- Ask for help: go to the library: Because librarians are always here for your questions👩‍🏫


10- Bring your research up to date: Pay attention of the publication date of the source: to get recent information.✔



11- Be satisfied of the end of your research: because satisfaction is the key of success.✌

○ Without Information there's nothing!💡
But you should know how to:🔍
▪collect▪locate▪use▪classify▪evaluate▪protect▪storage
All the information and data💻
That's why we talk about "Information Science"👌.

○ Information Science = is an interdisciplinary branch of science= related to the Information, Information management, Information literacy& Information ethics & Research, technology...🔍💻📚📰.


💡 For any Tips and Knowledge and helps about Research, Libraries, Technology, and all the Ethics about it...👌👩‍💻 You can follow my page and send your questions by DM (Direct Message) or you can contact me via email :
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With all social media, we receive a lot of information about a specific subject. This is the case today with CORONAVIRUS! .

DON'T PANIC you must: ▪ Always check the sources of information: it must be reliable and relevant from special and scientific sites👌.

▪Read and do some research in specific sites and scientific databases related to this medical subject 🔍📚💻.

▪Don't trust FAKE NEWS! .

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance" ~George Bernard Shaw.

In every research or project, it's very important to cite and use references.📑✏💻 .

==> kindly find the reasons and the importance of citations & references.

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When you have a research🔍 you need to have different sources of information (Books, articles, Journals...)📖🗞💻



And to be more professional, it's very important to know how to cite a source and how to use the list of sources in the end of research📋✏



But first you should know some differences between "Citation" and "Reference"💡

○ Citation ==>

-Specific source.
-Used in the body of the text.
-Represented by the name of author and the date or the number of range.


Example: (Hugo,2014, p.8) ; (1) .

○ Reference ==>

-List of sources.
-Used at the end of the work.
-Represented by the name of author, title of source, date, numbers of pages, volume, number, publishers, link... .

Example: Bergadaà, M., Masson, C. .(2011). Le plagiat academique. HEC. Retrieved fromhttp://responsible.unige.pdf




NOTE: all the citations in the text should be listed at the end of work.

Students and researchers should know one of the important step in research: "Evaluating Information Sources"🔍✏📰📚📑💻 .


==> 5 factors to evaluate Information sources👩‍💻:


1- Authority:

It's important to know ==> .
• The Author (person or organization)
•Qualifications of the author(experience, education...) .
• The Publisher (website, personnal blog, journal, commercial publisher...)



2- Quality&Accuracy:


The information should be well research ==>
• Information should be verifiable in another source.

• The sources should have references , citations, bibliography, footnotes.
• The Information must be based on observations, analyses, interpretations and conclusions.



3- Purpose&Audience:


Researchers should know==> •The purpose of the sources (Provide information, adversting or marketing...)

• The audience of the sources (academic researchers, public, students...)



4-Objectivity:
•Evaluate if the sources contain opinions or facts.

• Does the author provide more than one point of view?



5- Date:
•Information recent? Time of publication? 💡

To be a good researcher you should know all the steps of research👌👩‍💻




1- Identify the subject by: • answering 5 questions about the subject : ❓
- Who?
-What?
-How?
-Why?
-Where?


• Using Keywords related to the subject ⌨




2- Locate the resources and select the documents and relevant sources.📚📰📑🗞💻



3- Extract the best Information related to the subject.🔍



4- Analyse , evaluate(the date, author, importance of publication...) and synthesize the Information selected.




5- Revise, present and transfer the Information in the best way according to the standards and ethics of Information (citations, Bibliography, copyright...) .

Research = New information, New ideas, New way of thinking, New knowledge, New research studies, New methodologies...🔍👩‍💻

Without Information there's nothing!💡
But you should know how to:🔍
▪collect
▪locate
▪use
▪classify
▪evaluate
▪protect
▪storage
All the information and data💻
That's why we talk about "Information Science"

"Research is creating new Knowledge" - Neil Armstrong.