Comprehensive Report on Academic Resources for University Learners

This report examines various resources available to university students for academic purposes, focusing on their benefits and drawbacks. It explores resources like ResearchGate, Google Books, Google Scholar, and digital libraries, along with the use of dissertations. The report provides a detailed analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of Google Scholar, digital libraries, and ResearchGate. The report concludes that there are varied types of resources accessible for academic purposes that are beneficial for learners when they utilize them effectively. The report emphasizes the importance of using these resources to gain knowledge, enhance learning, and improve academic performance.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
Resources for academic related purpose......................................................................................2
Advantages and disadvantages of three resources used for academic purpose...........................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In order to gain high scores and become topper in universities students seek to find out
the best resources which they can use for getting knowledge and enhance their learning more
than previous. The current study is based on resources utilize by individual learner for academic
related purpose. This report will evaluate assets for academic reasons and justified their pros as
well as draw backs
MAIN BODY
Resources for academic related purpose
In order to gain knowledge and understand new concept students are able to utilize
different types of resources available for them in market which is quite beneficial for academic
related purpose. Here, few resources discussed below-
Research gate-
It is consider as one of the best learning and education resource used by many students to
comprehend something new and different related to academic purpose. (Kunda and Wirth, 2018)
It is consider as social networking site utilize for learners where researchers and scientists share
their personal experience, knowledge and answer all the questions asked by any one in effective
manner. With this resource individual can stay up to date with very current research and post
requests for investigation findings on particular topics. It is professional network for experienced
holders, over 17 million individuals from all over the world utilize it to discuss, share and
discover knowledge. It allow to share publications, access millions more to publish data which is
quite beneficial for students where they can gain more knowledge about topic in which person
are interested within it. It provide chance to everyone for asking questions and getting their
answers, students can ask their queries about anything related to academic purpose and get
solutions. They also can share updates about present task and keep up with latest investigation or
research that given them more knowledge.
Google books-

It is very difficult to find information about specific subject for learners to complete their
assignment and gain more knowledge about it. Google Books is another resource suitable for
students; it is the best research tool they can use to learn. Its initiative has been hailed for their
power to cater unprecedented access to what may become biggest online structure of human
knowledge & advertising democratization of data (Nagaraj and Reimers, 2018). Google
estimated that there were about 130 Million distinct subjects in the whole world and also stated
that it intended to scan all of them. It is in form of online services from Google Inc, which
searches full text of magazines and books that Google has scanned, transformed to text utilizing
optical character gratitude and stored in their digital database. Students find appropriate book
online for academic purpose and discover new ones that interest them it works just like web
search. When learners find a book or novel with content that contains a match for their search
terms or words, they will link to it in their search outcomes.
Google scholar-
Along with the above resources used for academic purpose, Google scholar is another
resource students can used for obtaining more info about particular topic related to their study. It
is freely available we search engine that indexed whole text and Meta data of scholarly literature
across an array of promoting disciplines & publishing formats. It caters a common way to widely
search for scholarly literature (Yu, Chae and Chang, 2016). From one area, students can find
across many sources and disciplines: theses, court opinions, books, articles and abstracts from
academic publishers, online repositories, professional societies and other web sites. It is an
academic search engine suitable for students as it helps them to collect a lot of info about study
or specific subject. It gathers research papers and academic related topics from all over the web
also including non peer and grey literature reviewed reports & papers. It permits individual to
find appropriate and relevant work across the globe of scholarly research. It cater different types
of data which is suitable for student or it can say for academic purpose where a lot of journals
available.
Digital Library-
Being capable to find and utilize resources which back up individual study or offer varied
interpretations of their study area is an important aspect of learning and studying. Mostly

students need to be aware of where to look for data, how to access it and how to utilize it. A
document can be easily altered or forget, especially on internet where anyone can promote
anything. Thus, it is therefore essential to use decision when deciding which documents to use in
context of academic purpose (Rafi, JianMing and Ahmad, 2019). It is digital collection or
repository where people can gather data online. It consider as online database of digital objects
that can include video, text, audio, still images and other digital media formats. Online content
may be stored by students locally or accessed remotely via computer or other devices networks.
In addition to storing content, this resource caters means for searching, organizing and retrieving
data contained in set. It varies immensely in scope & size and can be used as well as maintained
by learners or teachers. There are many reasons why people use and want digital libraries; it may
be make research easier for student or tutors. It solves increasingly most required preservation
issues.
Dissertations-
All the resources are used for academic purpose by students or new learners that are
outcome an individual research while in education as well as graduate programme. Dissertations
are written under directions and review of an academic committee but are not included referred
publications & peer reviewed. It is the best resource individual can utilize to get in depth info
and data that is essential for their study. As it permits learners present their findings in response
to proposition or question that they select themselves. Through previous dissertations student’s
can collect data and understand how to conducts research on specific topic. Academic term is
used to describe things that relate to work done in college, institutes and universities especially
act which includes learning, reasoning and studying more than technical or practical skills. Here,
academic purpose refer to students learning for gaining knowledge at institutes, for which
students used varied types of resources to gather data in effective manner. By using dissertations
available at online or offline sources students can enhance their existing knowledge and improve
learning skills more than before.
Advantages and disadvantages of three resources used for academic purpose
Basis Advantages Disadvantages
Google scholar This is one of the best and most
appropriate resources utilized for
On the other hand, it can be said that
Google scholar coverage is huge

academic purpose. It permit
individual to search specifically for
scholarly literature, including theses,
technical reports, peer-reviewed
paper, abstracts and books
(Muscanell and Utz, 2017). One of
its advantages is that it leads to
thousands of relevant scholarly
articles in seconds which save time
of learners and money as well.
Students face many issues while
searching for relevant data that they
can use for completing their
research. It has a good search
interface similar to Google so it
simple and easy to utilize. It
includes a list of references under
each source that individual can use
to find out the actual info which
make them able to learn and gain
more knowledge. Next to each page
list is cited by link, learner can click
on this link shows Google citation
analysis all pages considering to
actual one listed are defined.
ranging but not widespread, it can be
investigate source but must not be
the only method individual can use.
It does not cater criteria for what
makes their outcomes scholarly. The
results are often vary in worth and it
is up to students to identify which of
results are appropriate for their
academic purposes. It does not
permit learners to limit outcomes to
either full text materials or peer
reviewed or by discipline. It does not
cater notice when their materials are
updated and also could not inform
about new study materials. Citation
tracker within this resource is quite
difficult to use and inappropriate. It
analyzes that Google scholar is not a
full text database that affects learner
study and its learning as well. Most
info in this source are journal articles
citations not articles in their wholly.
Digital library It can be said that this resource is
also beneficial along with the above
one for academic purpose. It gives
learners possibility to get different
types of content (Rafiq and
Warraich, 2019). Therefore, as
Along with benefits, digital library
has some drawbacks that affect
learning and students study.
Digitalization violates copy right
regulations as thought content of one
person can be freely share by other

undergraduate they can design their
own pathway throughout their
learning procedure. It helps
education and research as well as
key abilities such as information
literacy. It consider as collection of
digital resources that can be used
and accessed from anywhere. Digital
library is learner centric that means
that students can access a huge rang
of digital content through utilize of
digital devices such as tablets,
computer, laptops and smart-phones.
With this resource individual can
study whenever and wherever they
want as it open 24/7 hours.
Therefore, person can benefits from
libraries flexibility and engage with
own content without being bounded
by physical library opening times.
without his acknowledgement. So
one difficulty to conquer for digital
libraries is way to distribute data or
knowledge. Another disadvantage of
this resource is speed of access. As
more and better computer are
connected to Internet their speed of
admission reasonably minimize.
When new technology will not
evolve to solve issue then in the
internet will be full of error content.
While using other resource students
face fewer issues, but with digital
library they need to invest a lot to
keep their infrastructure up to date
for example cost of software and
hardware, as well as leasing
communication circuits is usually
very high.
Research gate It has some research and specific
features which are beneficial in
context purpose. Research specialist
uploads their publications and
research outcome which aids learner
access their study despite journal
fees (Halevi, Moed and Bar-Ilan,
2017). They can direct their queries
about specific top through research
gate. Students obtain updates on
publications coming from
On the other side, it claims to have 3
million users but it is not clear how
many of these are active accounts
that are updated and maintained
continuously. Quick trawl of Exeter
members reflects that many accounts
contain only few members of
publications and many appear could
update for limited time period. Some
of its members have complains about
unwanted email spamming. It

connections and other source that are
quite beneficial. Researchgate is
better for connecting with
experienced person and has a feel of
open access. It is free to join and
recently has about 3 Million users
mostly in sciences. It connects
learners around selected
specialization and topics these can
be select or edited at any time by
individual. By getting membership
students can follow and track
research these of others in their area.
Researchers upload copied of their
investigation and members can use it
as to enhance their knowledge.
regarded as one of the most effective
academic networking sites for
learners or scientific community, but
still it have some drawbacks that
directly impact on learners learning.
A high journals affect factor
indicates that research published in
that Journals are mostly well cited
but does not have a direct connect on
quality of individual theses. One of
the biggest disadvantages of this
resource is that it allow only those
people who become its members to
collect data from varied sources and
learn about something new and
current research topics.
CONCLUSION
From above analysis it has been concluded that there are varied types of resource
accessible used especially for academic purpose that are beneficial for learners when they utilize
it in effective and systematic manner for getting knowledge regarding their subject or topic.
Furthermore, it has been summarized that researchgate, digital library and Google scholar
provide many benefits to learner which they can gain to enhance current knowledge.

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