Which websites can I search for references when writing a thesis?

No matter at the undergraduate level 、 Master's degree or doctor's degree , Even the professional title evaluation after work , You may all face the need of writing and publishing papers , Need to complete various forms of papers , Such as graduation thesis 、 Journal papers 、 Conference papers, etc .

Ways of searching and sorting out documents in different disciplines 、 In a slightly different way , But the general idea 、 Methods can be used for reference . Students can choose their own methods to apply to thesis writing as needed .

One 、 Search of Chinese Literature
In the initial stage of preparing the paper , Mainly reading Chinese Literature , In addition to academic classics in related fields , The literature review in the master thesis is helpful to understand professional terms faster 、 It is also helpful to speed up the introduction of the subject .
High level Periodicals 、 There will be English abstracts of master thesis , Pay attention to the translation of proper nouns , Provide reference for the next search of English Literature .

Two 、 Search English Literature
Retrieval of English Literature , It is suggested to use English keywords , Some platforms can also search by inputting Chinese, but the accuracy is affected .
China HowNet 、 Wanfang and other platforms provide some English literature retrieval and download functions , However, the amount of English literature is relatively small .

Other commonly used by domestic researchers The Chinese and English search websites are as follows ：

Palm bridge scientific research 【 One stop scientific research service platform 】

· You can not only download Chinese documents here 、 Foreign literature , You can also download Chinese patents 、 Foreign language patents 、 Government science and technology report 、OA The literature 、 Various scientific research resources such as foreign military defense scientific and technological documents
· Zhangqiao scientific research also provides automatic document translation that researchers need most 、 human translation 、 Document format conversion 、 Duplicate papers 、 Include citation reports 、 Science and technology novelty search and other scientific research tools

Small TIPS—— What if we can't find satisfactory literature ？
After determining the general theme direction , You may not be able to retrieve the literature you really need at the beginning , At this time, you can pause the direct search of keywords , Turn to the articles of well-known professors in the field or doctoral theses in similar research directions , See if the references they cite have their own needs ; At the same time, expand the search from the literature cited by others , Find articles related to or similar to your thesis topic .

3、 ... and 、 How to select documents ？
1、 Pay attention to the journal level
Pay attention to the level of the journal where the article is published , The higher the level, the higher the quality of the article , The higher the scientific value .

At present, there are 7 Big core journals （ Or source journals ） Selection system ：
（1） Peking University Library “ Chinese Core Journal ”;
（2） Nanjing University “ Chinese Social Science Citation Index （CSSCI） Source journal ”;
（3） Documentation and information center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences “ China Science Citation Database （CSCD） Source journal ”;
（4） China Institute of science and technology information “ Statistical source journals of Chinese scientific papers ”（ also called “ The core journals of science and technology in China ”）;
（5） Center for literature and information, Chinese Academy of social sciences “ The core journals of Chinese Humanities and social sciences ”;
（6） Chinese society of Humanities and social sciences “ The core journal of Chinese Journal of Humanities and social sciences ”;
（7） Wanfang Data Co., Ltd. is under construction “ China core journal selection database ”.

2、 Pay attention to the publishing time
In most cases, the time of publication is preferred 5 Articles in the year , But professors with important positions in the academic circle 、 The groundbreaking and classic articles published by experts should not be ignored .

3 、 Pay attention to the author's background
In addition to the journal level 、 Time of publication , You can also use a background 、 Background of corresponding author 、 Number of citations 、 The number of downloads and other auxiliary indicators predict the gold content of the article .

4、 Skim the abstract
Whether each article is suitable for its own topic ultimately depends on the content . Retrieved alternative articles , Generally, the summary can be completely displayed . The abstract contains the author's introduction to the research topic 、 Use of methods 、 Case selection , And the summary of the conclusion , It is enough to help us roughly understand the full text , And roughly judge the article and our research direction 、 Relevance of research content , Basically, you can decide whether you need to download the full text for further study .

Four 、 Recommended document management software
After downloading the literature, it involves the problem of sorting , I recommend several practical gadgets for you to sort out the literature in the future .

1、EndNote

EndNote yes SCI The official software of , Support the reference format of thousands of international journals , It can link thousands of databases , At the same time, there is no limit on the number of imported documents . say concretely ,EndNote Support PDF Document import in format ; Support the overall import of folders ; Automatic replacement of documents with the same name ; Support the grouping of imported documents ; You can distinguish between read and unread literature ; Documents can be marked with highlights ; The online database can be searched and downloaded （ Some require permission ）; Support manual adjustment of document quotation format ; Support rapid paper citation ; Support the information statistics of all literatures , Such as year distribution, etc .

2、NoteExpress

NoteExpress It is a professional level document retrieval and management system developed by Beijing Aegean software company , Its core functions cover “ Knowledge gathering , management , application , mining ” And all links of knowledge management , It is a necessary tool for academic research and a good assistant for publishing papers .NoteExpress In some functions, it is similar to EndNote be similar , Such as literature classification import 、 Online database retrieval 、Word Directly import references and so on , There is also a space for taking notes 、 A variety of literature classification methods 、 Automatically match journal information 、 At the same time, it supports the two mainstream writing software of Microsoft and Kingsoft 、 Add from CAJ File extraction information and other functions .


Learn the use of literature collation tools in advance , It will get twice the result with half the effort in future literature reading and collation .

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