Did you write the chapters of your dissertation in different documents?
And did you use EndNote to do your citations and references?
If yes, then when you finally merge your chapters into one documents, you will also be able to automatically merge your reference lists all into one!
Here is exactly how to do this, step by step.
Have you created two different EndNote accounts by mistake?
If you've got references in each account and you want to merge them, here is what to do: simply export the references from one account and export them into the other.
The video below shows you exactly how to do that, step by step.
Do you struggle to find documents on your topic?
The good news is that if you have just one relevant paper, then you can use that one to find many others.
Take that one interesting paper and check the following:
Are there other papers written by that author?
Are there interesting papers mentioned in the paper's bibliography?
Has this paper been cited by others?
Then, do the same thing for any paper you've found.
This is called the "snowball technique"... and it can lead you to end up with a huge amount of papers!
So always make sure that the new papers you find are actually directly relevant to your topic before you start researching them...
In the video below, you will see in details how to apply this technique, using EBSCOhost databases and Google Scholar.
Once you've done a literature search and you start looking at the results, you might get surprised...
If you're lucky, most of the results will be actually relevant to your topic.
But very often, this won't be the case.
If most of your results are not actually on the topic you were researching, you can use the following techniques to modify your search:
Searching the literature is not a very straightforward process.
In this video, I explain (in the same way that I do in class) how to do a "good" literature search and I point out good searching habits that you should take on!
Today is the first day of the first term of this academic year so I thought it was an appropriate time to re-open this blog!
For this first post of the academic year, I wanted to wish a warm welcome to all of our new students and encourage them to come and visit us in the library.
Need more incentive?
Here is our new "welcome video", presenting the Tavistock and Portman library and its resources.
There are many reasons why you might not want to use a reference management software like EndNote. Maybe you don't have that many references to include anyway. Or maybe you don't feel like learning to use yet another software.
If that's the case, then you still need to make sure that your citations and your reference list abide by the referencing style imposed by your tutor.
One of those referencing styles is the Harvard Style. At the Tavistock, we use it's Cite Them Right version. And to help you learn how to use it, I've create the video below.
If you're a Tavi student and want to learn more about the Harvard styles (and other information skills), join my Moodle course!
Do you need to do a literature review on a topic in psychological therapies?
Do you need to find an article in the field of psychology?
Then a good tool to use in the bibliographic database called PsycINFO.
Here, I made an extra-short video reminding you how to access it from the library's website.
Are you using EndNote to save your references and write your papers? You should! If you don't do it yet, have a look at my page about EndNote.
After my video on capturing references, here is another one explaining how to change the font of a reference list you created with Cite While You Write.
Cite While You Write enables you to insert citations and a reference list in only a few clicks when you write your papers. They will be formatted in the reference style of your choice (APA, Harvard, etc.) and, here I explain how to change the way it looks by changing its font or giving it a different title.
Enjoy!
Are you using EndNote to save your references and write your papers? You should!
If you don't do it yet, have a look at my page about EndNote.
For those who already do, I did a short video explaining how to capture references in EndNote with a special button...
It should save you tons of time when you find a paper online and there is no other handy way to import the reference!
Although, I have to warn you: always closely re-read the records of your references after importing them that way: mishaps do happen and you want your reference lists to be spotless!
