Suppose I decided to solve a particular problem and publish the results. First, I need to know whether the same problem has been solved by some researcher or not. So where to search?
Dear Santosh!
That is the immediate, fundamental utility of bibliographic research...
The classical way to present your work and research is to build your idea, (thesis), and as a second step, to review in literature, what others thought or presented about your subject (anti-thesis), to analyse your own results in view of this, and to present your set of conclusions, considering your innovative proposals and comparative results, with perspectives for further future research on the subject (synthesis).
Depending on your field of research, you can find several online bibliographic research links for search engines, or go to a specialised international library. Visiting in person, the Library of Congress in Washington was tremendously helpful for my research, after a short online search.
The problem is never solved when it expresses spatiotemporal variation?
E.g. Factors that determine phenomenon X differ between years and places......
Dear Santosh!
That is the immediate, fundamental utility of bibliographic research...
The classical way to present your work and research is to build your idea, (thesis), and as a second step, to review in literature, what others thought or presented about your subject (anti-thesis), to analyse your own results in view of this, and to present your set of conclusions, considering your innovative proposals and comparative results, with perspectives for further future research on the subject (synthesis).
Depending on your field of research, you can find several online bibliographic research links for search engines, or go to a specialised international library. Visiting in person, the Library of Congress in Washington was tremendously helpful for my research, after a short online search.
Dear mam Maria Bettencourt Pires,
Thank you for your answer. I work in computational fluid dynamics. So I rely on sciencedirect.com, engineeringvillage2.com, springer, researchgate, academia and google scholar to check whether the problem I intend to solve has already been solved or not. Am I missing any other website or library? Do I need to search anywhere else? Those researchers who are working on computational fluid dynamics please do answer.
How to search that the problem you want to solve is already solved or not?
You can do the following:
Wishing you all the best.
Dear Santosh,
Have you tried the enlarged search engine copernicus.com ? It rapidly searches in every online platform simultaneously, and arranging the results of search in an interactive editable way... It might be helpful.
http://www.copernicus.org
Thank you Vinoo Cameron for your answer. I really feel proud to be an Indian.
You can also visit the sun temple of Konark, Odisha and you will be amazed to see how they could calculate time very precisely with accuracy upto some seconds. There are also certain structures in Rajastan representing 12 zodiacs. They used mathematics to build these structures for astronomical purposes. But sadly very little research is done on this topic.
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