Or (more likely) the lit and this practice will stay in Mendeley as a result. Now the highlights will display but they will not be integrated into the programme architecture and all the work and ideas in those notes are left behind – to be re-created slowly and repetitively one-by-one via copy and paste. This student has made extensive notes in Mendeley and understandably wants to import those as well as the PDFs. And it’s those barriers and steps to remove them that are the focus of this extended blog post.Īnd to show I’m not just making this up here’s an example – from a presentation on NVivo for lit reviews by Silvana di Gregorio at the NVivo Lancaster event: The result is disappointment, and frequently a decision to stick with current practices due to these barriers. “OK so I can import the reference info and the documents – can I import the notes I’ve made?” Unsurprisingly therefore… the following question always comes up: But it is essential to consider and account for this recognition of the potential is always in the context of, and in relation to, existing practices of managing, highlighting, annotating and summarising literature. This is often seen as rather novel, however, the potential is typically recognised pretty quickly especially when contrasted with the limits on classification, grouping search and retrieval of notes made in current ref management software. When I’m teaching PhD students and research staff about making an informed choice and then using CAQDAS effectively, I draw on these experiences to strongly advocate for the sense and power and potential of undertaking the lit review in a CAQDAS package. As prep for a job interview I used the ATLAS.ti app to look at connections between my PhD work and the work related to the research and the research team – I didn’t get the job (though I came close 2nd and got useful feedback) but I did get to write it up and begin building connections with ATLAS.ti’s training programme ) Part 2) The most frequent questions about importing literature Ken Riopelle’s experiments with the mobile app ). A few blog posts starting to appear (e.g. I didn’t ven think of importing literature – but by the time I came to writing up and was desperately searching through my PDf notes made in Endnote x7 and finding the search function to be very (very) poor I was frustrated by my inability to seamlessly link my annotations and their groupings via codes from my empirical work with the theoretical ideas I’d already written a lot of notes on and highlighted extensively in Endnote.Ĭome the end of my thesis and in subsequent work – especially with the launch of the ATLAS.ti iPad app as a great PDF reader I started to engage with literature reviews. The focus in books and articles and tutorials was on working with empirical data using varying shades of Grounded Theory-derived and/or thematic-orientated approaches to analysis. Now, my background is as an ATLAS.ti user so this trend still seems relatively recent to me – it wasn’t even on my radar when I was setting out on my PhD thesis in 2012. This may be rather “old news” for those working with NVivo (available since version 9, released 2010) or MaxQDA (available since v11, released in 2012) but it is relatively recent for ATLAS.ti (version 8, released 2016) and for some seems a strange departure – this software is for empirical data isn’t it? We have Reference management software for managing literature and notes on that don’t we? Well – yes, and no – and this blog post explores some of the crossovers, continuities and contested spaces between these two major types of research support software for unstructured data. It’s evident that a key area where CAQDAS software is having an impact on research practices is in literature reviews. ATLAS.ti 22 is certainly leading the way with amazing features right now! More details in this article from ATLAS.ti. 5 years on from this post and the latest update from ATLAS.ti has finally brought this feature in… Gamer changer? I think so.
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