tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post6873480164232525206..comments2023-05-16T13:46:23.859+02:00Comments on PhD Talk: How to handle a large amount of literatureEva Lantsoghthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-22770377699437603922018-12-21T03:31:27.154+01:002018-12-21T03:31:27.154+01:00Hi there! If you get more experience using Qiqqa a...Hi there! If you get more experience using Qiqqa and want to write a guest post about it, let me know!Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-7545800771605787972018-12-11T21:49:26.099+01:002018-12-11T21:49:26.099+01:00For someone who just started my PhD., this is a gr...For someone who just started my PhD., this is a great read. Very informative. I have tried using Qiqqa software. It has helped me organize the papers very efficiently and gives the option for creating brain maps, linked with the papers.<br /><br />Having said that, I have dealt with less than 300 papers yet. Should see how it works when my library increases. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-78959192438152096992016-06-17T14:40:09.736+02:002016-06-17T14:40:09.736+02:00You can for example add notes and keywords in Endn...You can for example add notes and keywords in EndnoteEva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-31172592038069056342016-06-12T09:36:43.694+02:002016-06-12T09:36:43.694+02:00While reading any phd file you usually highlight t...While reading any phd file you usually highlight the important points from that file. How do you manage this thing as there are number of different papers which you have read and later if you need any particular piece of information then how do you search for that one? Maybe you highlighted that part but you have forgotten in which paper you read that particular info<br /><br />Any idea regarding this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-25485786950060116952015-06-18T23:37:00.059+02:002015-06-18T23:37:00.059+02:00Could you please share with us the links about how...Could you please share with us the links about how o use Nvivo in doing literature review as per your suggestion ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-31524734157595882572013-04-13T19:09:08.595+02:002013-04-13T19:09:08.595+02:00:) Oh well, I tried hard not to procrastinate too ...:) Oh well, I tried hard not to procrastinate too much with your blog, hence didn't go through all the comments... It's a very enjoyable read!<br />V.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-24556320161035551472013-04-04T20:29:34.789+02:002013-04-04T20:29:34.789+02:00Thanks - that is exactly what someone else indeed ...Thanks - that is exactly what someone else indeed suggested in the previous comments, and I've been keeping my hard copies in alphabetical order ever since then :)Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-40300655014422789932013-04-04T18:47:24.214+02:002013-04-04T18:47:24.214+02:00Hi Eva,
Wrt physical filing: Why not file all art...Hi Eva,<br /><br />Wrt physical filing: Why not file all articles alphabetically? It seems to me the easiest solution, and it actually works. In the upper front corner, you want to write down author and year as to find the paper even more quickly.<br /><br /><br />Sry if someone already suggested that, I admittedly didn't work through all the comments. <br /><br />"Admittedly, I print out all my papers (reading on the screen hurts my eyes, and I just am a paper and pencil person), so the physical papers themselves also have to be stored. That system is not as good as my Endnote library - I find myself often going through binders, trying to remember under which keyword I stored the paper I need. Any advice on this would be very much appreciated!"<br /><br />Best<br />V.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-77294035226970962732012-06-05T18:48:09.224+02:002012-06-05T18:48:09.224+02:00Hi Otilia,
Thanks for your input! I also tend to ...Hi Otilia,<br /><br />Thanks for your input! I also tend to go off on tangents and start reading on remotely related interesting topics, but when I have a clear schedule for myself, then things work out much better.<br /><br />Great quote as well :)Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-92197452900758611482012-06-05T16:47:53.775+02:002012-06-05T16:47:53.775+02:00Hi!
Nice approach Eva...my main problem is to sti...Hi!<br /><br />Nice approach Eva...my main problem is to stick to the "plan"..sometimes I go off the rails.. :p <br />I also use the Mendeley Desktop, as Sara. However I generate my bibliography with the same application.. and my papers are organized by main themes/projects (into files) >> first author's last name >> year of publication<br />Well I think the aim is the same, we go in the same direction, by parallel tracks! :D<br /><br />"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.." [Napoleon Hill, american writer]Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05827196505814697620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-10937714587372909652012-04-27T19:56:41.292+02:002012-04-27T19:56:41.292+02:00Hi Sara,
Thanks for your input. Your approach is ...Hi Sara,<br /><br />Thanks for your input. Your approach is similar to what I'm doing now, except for my using EndNote instead of Mendeley...Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-50139160408340664312012-04-27T15:04:10.973+02:002012-04-27T15:04:10.973+02:00Hi everyone,
I use Reference Manager for generati...Hi everyone,<br /><br />I use Reference Manager for generating bibliography; however, handling all the PDFs of papers or whatever is very easy to do in Mendeley Desktop, and it is quite useful also for the writing process, as you can search for a specific concept and all the papers containing it will pop up.<br />I organize my printed papers by First author's last name, after a filtering by year (before and after 2008 in my case).<br />good luck to you all,<br /><br />SaraSara Neveshttp://nl.linkedin.com/pub/sara-raquel-neves/21/799/967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-63164958816129460352011-11-10T20:28:52.827+01:002011-11-10T20:28:52.827+01:00Hi Anon
NVIVO is quite a pricey bit of software :-...Hi Anon<br />NVIVO is quite a pricey bit of software :-( but if you work/study anywhere with a social science or psychology or education dept they may well have a multiple license. Check your institutions software library! You can get a free 30 day trial. <br />I think the mindmap software can do this but the beauty of NVIVO is being able to double click on the node and bring up a whole heap of relevant text - fantastic. I will do a blog on this I promise and I will post the link here when it's done!<br />MosspossAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-89473215752410950832011-11-09T10:15:21.223+01:002011-11-09T10:15:21.223+01:00Do you need to buy NVIVO or can you download a fre...Do you need to buy NVIVO or can you download a free copy of at least part of the package? I have used Freemind which is a little basic but still allows you to create parent and child nodes in a concept/mind map format. The only issue I have found so that is that I haven't worked out how to create links between the different nodes.<br /><br />I think this is a great blog with lots of excellent ideas! Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-57658669569237602402011-11-09T09:50:54.042+01:002011-11-09T09:50:54.042+01:00That's a great idea :)
Thanks for sharingThat's a great idea :)<br />Thanks for sharingEva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-5100432141312045822011-11-09T09:28:38.527+01:002011-11-09T09:28:38.527+01:00Really interesting. I use EndNote but I also use N...Really interesting. I use EndNote but I also use NVIVO to manage my literature. It's really for managing qualitative data but I've also found it works brilliantly for managing literature. I read each paper and created a document for each using author name and year. I then coded each paper by themes (the great thing being you can have parent and child nodes for your themes so you can see where they link). You can just code sections of each document to the relevant theme.<br />500ish papers later, not only did I have typed notes on each, I also had the titles and subtitles of my lit review which were the codes I had created. Worked really well. It was the lady on the NVIVO training course who suggested it but I have now got quantitative research students using it just for this purpose!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-32868547138341819052011-09-15T21:24:39.539+02:002011-09-15T21:24:39.539+02:00Good luck with finalizing your literature review!Good luck with finalizing your literature review!Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-3350302701730132682011-09-14T06:43:58.172+02:002011-09-14T06:43:58.172+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07890436045634993382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-80200353285076530732011-06-21T22:07:10.225+02:002011-06-21T22:07:10.225+02:00Thanks Pete!
I hadn't heard of Foxit before, ...Thanks Pete!<br /><br />I hadn't heard of Foxit before, but I'll look it up and try it out. <br /><br />Good luck on your studies and research too :)Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-53055925572080554502011-06-21T21:30:25.496+02:002011-06-21T21:30:25.496+02:00Hi Eva
Came across your blog through serendipity ...Hi Eva<br /><br />Came across your blog through serendipity while trying to track down some conference proceedings that I needed. I'm currently undertaking an MSc in Civil Engineering, and studying the effective lengths of torsionally braced plate girders.<br /><br />Found your tips really helpful, and thought I'd contribute my own system.<br /><br />Like you, I use Endnote to attach all the papers that I need, and always access PDF's in this way. After a year of continual use, I'd find it incredibly hard to sort out my references and bibliography manually. <br /><br />I also use foxit PDF reader to add bookmarks to all the important points that I need (going through hundreds of codes of practice to find the relevant clause is a nightmare!) Foxit is also useful where figures are on awkward pages, as I can simply cut and paste them around the PDF. And of course, highlighting is absolutely essential. <br /><br />Great blog and advice, keep the posts coming. Good luck with the research : )<br /><br />PeteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-14287746429680032122011-01-25T21:34:16.744+01:002011-01-25T21:34:16.744+01:00I'd be really interested to read about your wo...I'd be really interested to read about your workflow. I never had any more advice here than "you need to make a literature review and publish it as a research report", not even an explanation how our library system works, which I think is quite important information for all graduate students of a university. <br /><br />I think I'll use the alphabetic ordering of my papers. Most of the time I have my Endnote library organized alphabetically as well, and I've noticed that I quite like to have the material of the same author together.<br />The only drawback for this system would be that I'm sorting by first author. Some work (like the background for the modified compression field theory) is published by (in this case) vecchio and collins, but more recent work is PhD student (first author) + the senior authors.<br /><br />Thanks for the good ideas, again!Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-30214601464074675702011-01-25T16:34:44.085+01:002011-01-25T16:34:44.085+01:00This post is a great resource Eva. I may write up...This post is a great resource Eva. I may write up something that details my own workflow -- very similar to yours in a lot of ways. My own workflow is more tied in to LaTeX/BibTeX. <br /><br />Here's another idea regarding paper filing, I can't remember where I heard this before but I think it's a cool idea. Basically, you create your own random indexing structure. It could be something as simple as sequentially numbering them. In Endnote, you document that paper's #, so when you need to look it up, you just go to your file drawer and pull paper 54. Every time you read a new paper, it gets the label n+1 and is added to your archive. This way, you don't physically group papers according to content -- I find it almost impossible to physically organize papers because of content because I often find myself wanting to place papers in multiple buckets.Benhttp://bendeaton.menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-84794360487583177582011-01-25T12:51:09.794+01:002011-01-25T12:51:09.794+01:00Thank you for the ideas! I think I'll go for t...Thank you for the ideas! I think I'll go for the alphabetic ordering.<br />I already use a color code, but all my literature has one code to distinguish it from codes, courses and my own experimental work :)Eva Lantsoghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038354550224140273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-63623414795565997852011-01-25T12:21:00.678+01:002011-01-25T12:21:00.678+01:00I'm very interested in how people store and ma...I'm very interested in how people store and manage all the information they find and generate during PhD research, so thank you for this post! <br /><br />Regarding filing your hard-copy papers: you could file them by author name, as Bex suggests, and/or broadly by theme or strand, colour-coding the folders appropriately. Alternatively, you could tailor-make a searchable (and auto-completing) 'keyword' field in EndNote and tag your EndNote records with the same keywords you associate with your printouts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280650735019731186.post-31590415817702689302011-01-25T09:57:04.493+01:002011-01-25T09:57:04.493+01:00My approach is rather haphazard - I really need to...My approach is rather haphazard - I really need to start being more organised. Thanks for the inspiration!Sara P Robinsonnoreply@blogger.com