Research - organisation, reading and notetaking

Research - organisation, reading and notetaking

by Andreas Jonsson -
Number of replies: 2

Hi All - 

Though I would pose the question of tools or methods that people use for keeping organised with their research when I comes to managing reading material and making/keeping notes. 

Personally, I've come across something called Zotero that really helps with keeping reading material all in one place. It can be installed on more or less any device and a Chrome plugin allows for easily adding research papers or online books or articles to its library. Any other solutions out there?

I rarely take paper notes but haven't really found a great way to organise notes for research etc. Slowly getting my head around Notion which might be a solution but would be keen to hear how others manage this. 

In addition, other than searching Google Scholar, what other ways have you found in digging out suitable and related academic papers etc? Have had some luck with a website called Research Rabbit but there's probably other good places out there?

Sorry, lots at once perhaps but thanks in advance.

Andreas

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Re: Research - organisation, reading and notetaking

by Lorna Doyle -
Hi Andreas

I can't answer your questions but I wanted to say thanks for sharing. I had never heard of the tools you have mentioned and I wish I had known of them when I was completing my thesis - makes me wonder why the university i studied with didn't signpost us to them.

Lorna
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Re: Research - organisation, reading and notetaking

by Carol Hart -
I use RefWorks to keep my readings together - it allows me to jump back to the original material. The issue with using Google Scholar is that you may come across a resource that looks good, but you can't access it because it belongs to another university. Make sure that you link GS to your own institution. As an academic librarian, I'd encourage you to make use of library resources, print and electronic - use your library's resource discovery tools, speak to your librarian. We're usually pretty helpful creatures!