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!
