Hyperlink tools within normal writing spaces – make hyperlinks to outside files or web pages.Coding – codes can be used to manage thoughts about literature fils, just as they can support work with primary data – see Chapter 7 exercises.Externals in the Sources area, or proxy files representing entities or files you want to write about but physically cannot or do not want to import.Annotations – notes anchored to data segments and listed as hyperlinks centrally see exercise 6.1.To support interpretation, analytic and procedural writing TO SUPPORT INTERPRETATION, ANALYTIC AND PROCEDURAL WRITING AND REFERENCING LITERATURE 10.1.1 GENERAL TOOLS OF USE FOR ALL TYPES OF WORK Look to the online help menu in NVivo for further step by step support. Work requires careful individual experimentation, management and clear use of extra procedures to avoid duplication and over-complication. Given the extensive support for specifically, managing literature in NVivo the export/ import possibilities between many bibliographic software packages and NVivo requires almost tailored support for each researcher’s own circumstances. There is much step by step information in the previous Chapter based exercises which will have relevance here. If you do experiment with every tool try to evolve a judgement about how a selection of them will fit together for you. We provide ideas and principles but limited step by step.

However it is the ‘fitting together’ of all the tools offered for literature review management which itself might be problematic. It is useful to have an overview so that you get a sense of how different areas in the software might fit together in a manageable way to support iterative, interpretive processes generally (and to see how they also might help with managing a literature review). NVivo encompasses a wide range of tools to help you manage literature.

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