I wondered: what is the best way for me to manage all these citations / resources? I'm currently using Connotea. It was made for researchers and scientists, which is why I tried it. Some databases allow me to directly add a citation to Connotea with an "add to" button, while others don't have this option. Those that don't aren't so efficient. Would another citation management tool be easier to use, better serve my purposes, and make sense to me? I have yet to try EndNote.
And then I also wonder, what tags should I use to describe relevant articles? They should be consistent so I can retrieve resources by topic. Right now, my tags are many and varied and lack consistency.
An idea I came up with while reading about literature reviews - I will make an index card for each article I read. On each card, I could write:
- author name
- journal title
- key points/topics
- tags
- by journal title to see which journals are most helpful to me
- by author name to identify experts
- by key points/topics to identify what's been done and where are the gaps - AND where does my research fit within the current discourse?
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