The document discusses using personal knowledge management strategies and tools to efficiently conduct research. It outlines stages of ideation, searching, storing, and retrieving information. Several free and commercial tools are mentioned that can help with tasks like mind mapping, searching literature databases, organizing references, storing notes and papers, and retrieving information. The document encourages starting early, being organized, and backing up data for effective personal knowledge management when conducting research.

1. Experiences of Srinivasan Tatachari OB & HR Using Information Technology for Efficient Research Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln

3. Personal Knowledge Management

5. Ideation aspects

7. Mind Map (example Xmind)

8. Searching aspects

10. References -> A to Z of EBSCO Respective journals’ website

12. RSS feeds directly from journal sites Subscribing to RSS

13. FeedDemon

14. MS Outlook 2007

15. Email Alerts from Google Alerts Email Alerts from Google Scholar Hot

16. Storage & Retrieval aspects

18. Store snippets, urls, images… in Evernote

19. MS OneNote

21. Use desktop search tools: Copernic Desktop Search Similar to (better than?) Google Desktop

22. Retrieve snippets from Evernote

23. Zotero for Firefox stores citations, clips, notes, pdf & others Endnote – no site wide license!

24. Use Zotero for citation in Word

25. Mendeley

28. PDF-Xchange – Viewer free

29. Closing notes