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Managing Your Literature Review

Managing Your Literature Review. Han van Triest ( 高汉 ). Disclaimer. Disclaimer There are many ways There are many tools I am not affiliated with any of the companies or tools. What is a Literature Study?. An overview of what has been studied More than a summary

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Managing Your Literature Review

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  1. Managing Your Literature Review Han van Triest (高汉)

  2. Disclaimer • Disclaimer • There are many ways • There are many tools • I am not affiliated with any of the companies or tools

  3. What is a Literature Study? • An overview of what has been studied • More than a summary • Groups and organizes results • Identifies room for improvement

  4. When to do a Literature Study? • At the start of a project • At the start of a paper • At the start of a thesis

  5. Why write a Literature Review? • To define and limit the problem • To place your study in a context • To avoid duplication • To evaluate existing methods • We cannot do research alone!

  6. Searching: Where to begin? • Determine your topic • Write a set of keywords • Determine the most relevant search engines • Engineering -> IEEE • Mathematics -> SpringerLink • Medical -> PubMed • Life Sciences -> ScienceDirect • General -> Google Scholar

  7. Searching: Where to begin? • Find a review paper • Keywords: • Review • Survey • Overview

  8. Information Sources • How useful are the following sources? • Journal Articles • Books • Conference Proceedings • Government/corporate reports • Theses and dissertations • Internet • Magazines http://web.pdx.edu/~bertini/pdf/literature_review.pdf

  9. Exclusion/Inclusion • Do not search for everything! • Select a date range • Design a fixed set of keywords • Use advanced search options • Limit your search to specific topics • Limit your search to recent publications • Search in the relevant search engines

  10. Backward Searching • Backward Searching: • Find earlier references • Try to guess the index • First, try specific index • Second, try Google Scholar • Third, try Google

  11. Forward Searching • Backward searching leads to older references • How to find new references? • http://scholar.google.com/ • http://apps.webofknowledge.com • Search on names of authors on this topic

  12. Search on Groups and Authors • What name to search for? • What is the meaning of the author order?

  13. Reading the references • How to read references? • Start with the title • Read the abstract • Look at the images • Read the conclusion • Read the introduction • Scan the references • Scan through the rest of the text • Write a small summary

  14. Managing the references • How to manage these references? • Use a reference manager: • http://www.mendeley.com/ • Write brief summaries • Group similar topics together • Add Tags

  15. Organize your references • Create a concept map • MindJet MindManager • Xmind • ... • Group similar methods/results • Order references logically • Collect Quotes

  16. Start Writing • Write down section titles • Write down keywords in the right order • Group keywords into paragraphs • Add text to the paragraphs • ... And use your reference manager!

  17. Questions?

  18. Links • Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com • Mind Mappers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept-_and_mind-mapping_software • Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com • PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed • ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/ • IEEExplorer: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org • SpringerLink:http://link.springer.com/ • Anki (FlashCards)http://ankisrs.net/

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