Establish a research process that sets up the way you will capture and retain the citations, full text of articles, PDFs, or other search results that you find most useful.
- Open a WORD or Google document, or an email to send to yourself.
- DO NOT rely on open tabs or even flash drives. BACK UP YOUR WORK.
- Grab those citations and add to your WORD doc, Google doc, or email to yourself. Most databases also let you email citations directly.
- Also write down keywords that worked (or didn’t) and filters that you used (full-text, peer reviewed, etc.)
- You may want to set up an email address just for your research (tinasresearch@gmail.com) or dust off your BTC email!
- Collect your citations, PDFs, full text links, URLs, or whatever you have gleaned from database searching.
- BE SURE TO DOUBLE CHECK your citation formats before you turn in your paper - computer generated citations can be wrong.
- You CAN print out articles or send the PDF to yourself via email or download to your computer.
- BUDGET YOUR TIME. The references and formatting of your paper will take time, so plan for that!
