Friends,
Alas, Ali Ilhan informs me that the LMGTFY web site is a joke. He tells me that it is a site that one can use “For all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question than to google it for themselves.”
Too bad. I must be one of the gullible — Ali being a terrific scholar whose work I much admire, I took his word for it instead of testing it for myself. This violates one of my general rules — always check, no matter what.
Even though LMGTFY doesn’t work as I thought it did, Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL, Ask and DuckDuckGo do. You can use them for yourself, especially the massive resources accessible through Google Scholar.
Everything else in my post was correct. I’ve used and tested the other systems personally.
Academia is a useful web site with a huge selection of scholarly papers, many in full text and some in the published journal format. Academia now includes over 20,000,000 papers:
https://www.academia.edu
ResearchGate is a bit more difficult to use, so I don’t use it that often, but it is worth checking:
https://www.researchgate.net
ProQuest is one of the best and most helpful resources for researchers. Unfortunately, it is generally not accessible to those without access to a good university library with a digital resource collection. You can learn more about ProQuest here:
http://www.proquest.com
The ProQuest Central database allows you to search millions of full-text documents, PhD theses, newspaper articles, peer reviewed journals, and more across a wide range of collections hosted by ProQuest. If you are a PhD student who has not yet used ProQuest, ask your doctoral advisor to help you learn to use it, or visit the university library and ask for help from a reference librarian.
Your library should have a specialist reference librarian who can help you to use the features of ProQuest. It’s always good to ask the specialist librarians for help — their job is helping people who seek information.
Nearly any search you do will take you a few hours. The deeper and better your search, the longer it will take. At the same time, a deeper and more effective search will reduce the time you need for a research project. For example, reviewing the abstracts in a ProQuest search will help you to choose the theses and peer-reviewed articles that will be most useful for you when you download and read them. This, in turn, will save you a great deal of time by eliminating the time spent downloading material you cannot use, and by helping you to exclude material you do not need to read.
These days, free tools give you a great deal of help that would have been inconceivable a few years ago. Those of you who are at universities can access a great deal more. Many ProQuest resources that once required payment are now bundled in the subscription.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| Email [log in to unmask] | Academia http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman | D&I http://tjdi.tongji.edu.cn
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