A netizen (CHJK) recently left me a message saying: "Teacher Liu, no one on the science network has talked about their own "document management", as Xu's lifelong rookie how to organize and classify documents is very important."Can you tell me about your own experience and how your son managed his literature?Take time to write one. It's a very important topic. My son wrote an article many years ago by a doctoral student at NTU in Singapore: "SCI Thesis Topics and Innovations" (re-transmitted on Feb. 10 last year) about the scientific literature: "Keep looking at the literature and thinking about it.If you want to do this you have to read the literature first! "It's easy to read and think about what you're doing, what you're talking about, what you're talking about, what you're talking about, what you're talking about, what you're talking about, what you're talking about, or what you haven't done."
It is well known that literature plays an important role in scientific research.Because, the world's genius is always very few, they are able to independently raise some far-reaching and world-shocking scientific questions and research results.However, most of us belong to " mortals ", we are the inheritors of the development of science and technology research in a certain direction, is the "ordinary baton" in the scientific research relay.As ordinary members of the scientific research team, we are well aware that scientific research is conducted on the basis of previous research, can "stand on the shoulders of countless predecessors" very satisfied.Literature interpretation is to understand the status of peer research and to put one's own research on the basis of peer research.In my postgraduate guidance, discussion of our research direction of peer literature is one of the main contents.I examine the reading comprehension of the literature in the course of postgraduate study. The first level is to understand what the peer has done through reading the literature.What's the result?This level mainly belongs to the basic content of the professional research process, of course, for the English literature to pass a language barrier.The second level is to be able to evaluate the quality of peer achievements, where is the analysis and judgment of achievements?The third level is to find out the international representative people and their representative achievements, the research direction and the major scientific and technical problems, which are the basis of your achievements.Generally speaking, as a qualified Ph. D. graduate student, he should reach the third level in literature reading ability and level.Although the level of literature reading may not be entirely positively correlated with the level of doctoral dissertation, for most people there should be some degree of positive correlation between the two.Therefore, I say that a young man with a good "documentary concept" is an important indicator of his suitability for scientific research, especially basic research.To highlight the importance of this concept, we call out the slogan "Documents are the life of scientific research".
Science and technology literature management and utilization is a big topic, I do not necessarily talk about good, can only say a little experience.In my experience, there are two main approaches to scientific and technological literature: first there is quantity (wide reading), then there is quality ( intensive reading) and correct handling of "summary literature and specialized literature".For the former, it is emphasized that reading must first be quantitative, because quality is impossible without quantitative.A researcher is always eager to retrieve high-quality literature as soon as possible, but it is hidden in a massive literature database.If "speculation" is used, or luck, only a few important or high-quality literature can be found occasionally.To illustrate this, I once wrote in a blog post that a wise man may have more information than a less intelligent man, 20, or even a little more, but it is impossible for a "human" to read 100, 200, or even more.No matter how smart a person is, he is only a little more intelligent (or understanding), but also limited.Because the information contained in the dozens of literature he read could not contain the information contained in hundreds of literature.The more literature you read, the more likely you are to encounter high-quality literature.Of course, this is one of the most common ways to read and analyze and manage literature.When a researcher reaches a certain level, there is a diversity of literature choices and reading styles.
As a young "scientific researcher", it is very important to set up a "document database" in "document management".I have not done enough myself, mainly involving two categories: one is the "document history database"."Evolution" is a term for "historical archives", which refers to archives that record the history of a unit or enterprise, or technological development, in the order of publication of documents."Literature evolution" includes classical literature and development process literature.In the process of "documentary evolution" of your research direction, you will understand the development of this research direction in a comprehensive way, is the basis for you to become a research bull.When we listen to some great people talk about his scientific research, we are often shocked by his thorough understanding of this direction.This is actually the inevitable experience and result of the success of the bullies.Of course, building their own "document history database" is not enough.Because, "document evolution database" document material mainly embodies a research direction development process.For example, I once had a bibliography of geoscience on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau edited by the research group of the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Geology.
On the basis of "document evolution database", a more important "key document database" should be established.Establishing a database of key documents is difficult for a young person who has just entered a research direction because it requires a certain amount of scientific accumulation to accurately identify the importance of a document.As mentioned above about "three levels of literature understanding", if in the first level can only belong to "document evolution", to the second or third level to accurately analyze and judge the importance of literature, so as to establish "key literature database".Therefore, the process of establishing "document evolution database" and "key document database" is actually accompanied by a research direction of research content and development process.The establishment of two literature databases is a process of tracking a research direction or field. It is a process of starting point without ending point, which is accompanied by timely and continuous analysis of peer research results.When you're ready to re-search the literature before submitting the results, you should regret that your so-called "innovative results" are just a repetition of others' results.I see that if there is a peer-reviewed paper in the literature of the annual application's National Fund Book of Basis, it will increase the impact score of my review of the application.
Nowadays, electronic literature provides us with great convenience for scientific and technological literature management.Recall that more than 30 years ago, we read paper literature. Document management can only use cards. I still keep a box of document cards as a souvenir.When I visited the library's periodical library every week, I had to record it in a single notebook to avoid double-checking again.At present, facing a large number of literature databases, including magazines, conferences and monographs, dissertations, patents and some video CD-ROMs, it is necessary to establish some rich and convenient literature databases.In the past, we could only record the title of the literature, but now we can set up a full-text literature database at the same time.The management of some very specialized literature databases is relatively simple, but the establishment of some multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary literature databases is quite complicated.As long as we take the establishment of "document management database" as an indispensable part of our scientific research, we will establish our own high-quality "document database" in the process of literature study.