How to use NVivo for your Literature Review Part 2

[@lawrencejones9771]

The clips for parts 1 & 2 are nice & concise but tell you all you need to know to get started with using Nvivo for doing literature review. Thanks for posting.

[@tyronebishop1719]

I have been doing my PhD for 5 years and just switched to this method so, thanks a lot!

[@s.m.7446]

Just to say that I am so grateful for this video, it's so useful and informative. I am at the start of my lit review and using Nvivo on my mac will make such a huge difference!

[@alistaircom]

Thank you! Both videos were helpful and directly applicable to my work. Many of the other videos are unnecessarily complex or show far too much detail in areas that are not likely to be used.

[@muhammadabdullahfaheem7668]

Its great to watch this video Dr. Shaw.

[@Belinda-R74]

Thank you for creating this video. Managing my lit review has been a struggle, this is going to make such a huge difference!

[@AlanShawesq]

Belinda Arch, many thanks and good luck with the literature review.

[@queenceloren9835]

THank you so much Dr. Shaw! your videos are very useful esp. for novice researchers like me

[@scpbm]

Great video, thanks. As a researcher with a quantitative background moving to mixed & qualitative methods, this is helpful. Just one question: why do you copy-paste text from pdf files instead of just importing them and code them directly as external sources? Wouldn't it be easier? (If the explanation is in the video and I didn't hear it, my apologies.)

[@maya__hee]

i also would like to know why

[@pakinamahmed514]

In the video, he said that will make the software unstable or cause crush if you are reading hundred of files in your Ph.D., but if you use a small number of files, so uploaded it.

[@RossellaDeFalcoSoleyCelticHarp]

If you use Zotero, you can import the zotero library with pdf attached (also with enndote) - however it indeed got super baggy (NVivo!!!) So I'll try his way now - all in all you will use zotero to get the reference in the end...and reading pdfs on nvivo is not that comfortable

[@lilyblack1979]

@@pakinamahmed514 Damn.. this happens to me. I wish I knew it beforehand. I‘m also using macbook and the nvivo crashes every few minutes and it’s super slow.

[@emilyashcroft1006]

Just started my PhD and this was incredibly helpful to watch! Looking forward to trying this process myself as I am new to the NVivo platform.

[@AlanShawesq]

Good luck Emily, hope it all goes well.

[@fashajohanis698]

Thank you for this informative and easy-to-understand video. Thumb up!

[@noorben9457]

This is very useful. Thank you very much for the efforts. I got used to the background music lol

[@AmeerHamza-bc4fh]

This is all about extracting information from the articles that we considered for the literature review. The next point is, how to organize them and identify a literature gap that has not yet been analyzed. This is the main purpose of doing a literature review. How NVivo can help us identify such gaps? Any graphs, percentage indications or other methods to look this?

[@lbh9993]

Thanks for this, have been trying to figure out how to track so much literature for my dissertation. Only suggestion is to refrain from adding the music. It's distracting and repetitive. You have a soft voice so would be better to just listen to your instructions. Best, lb

[@sianbasenjiowner9705]

clear and useful video - thank you. Short query - is there a reason why you create a document within Sources for coding useful statements rather than importing the PDF and coding that directly?

[@AlanShawesq]

Hi Sian, If you are producing an article for a journal or an assignment then importing a PDF directly should not be a problem. If you are doing your PhD or writing a book then you will need a large volume of PDF documents. This can slow down the processing of your computer (it also depends on your computer). For my PhD read about 600 documents, after uploading the first 75 (approx) PDFs the platform started to struggle. I spoke to QSR International (they wrote the software) about the issue and they recommended that I create a summary. In terms of my work flow I now have a summary of all my key articles which makes it easier to review. Hope that helps.

[@sianbasenjiowner9705]

Hi Alan, that is indeed useful advice - many thanks. I'm a short way through a PhD, but only just now learning to drive Nvivo for the lit review and so forth. Appreciative of your time and assistance.

[@laurajames9925]

thanks Dr Shaw for this video

[@Ymsetjenesta]

Very calm and systematic. Good sound quality...... :) and I actually liked the background music.....but I guess people are different. :)

[@chancesofrain6480]

What is better to use for lit review memos or documents? I mean for keeping references...

[@amyrobinson7567]

You have typed or copied and pasted required quotes and then coded them. Is there a way to, instead of copying and pasting quotes into the field to code, having the article PDF appear there so you can then code pre-highlighted portions?

[@SubhanHamid]

Hi, can you tell me please the specification of the computer you are using in this video as you mentioned that directly importing the pdf file into the sources of nvivo will slow down the process ? The specification I mean here is the processor type or any other part of the machine. Thanks

[@RossellaDeFalcoSoleyCelticHarp]

Thank you this was super helpful. And the music is so-so-so nice!!! :D

[@amaechiogbonna769]

Please, do one needs to import the whole relevant articles from the desktop to Invivo or just texts, sentences or even paragraphs to Invivo before creating nodes.

[@carolmatthews8455]

This was helpful, thanks

[@oselgh1545]

it's very helpful but how to rewrite my sentences

[@lilyke7585]

Thanks for this video but I prefer it without the background music.

[@teresagarcia9320]

Thank you so much, this is so helpful!

[@JSTBlessed]

thanks - very useful

[@Kaspul_Anwar_As]

What kind of NVIVO you used in this conversation?

[@AlanShawesq]

Hi Kaspul, this was based on NVivo for Mac, version 10.2.2 but the principles apply to all other versions. NVivo 12 for Windows does now a different look and feel however.

[@Kaspul_Anwar_As]

I have Nvivo 12, in fact the look is different than yours. And it's a trouble.

[@novita5921]

Very helpful, thank you. But the music is so distracting. Better without music.

[@AlanShawesq]

Pipit Novita, thanks, you’ll be pleased to hear that I have stopped adding background music to my videos 🤓.

[@thaiskycow]

This is really useful but the background music is very distracting

[@clrwhl]

The music in the background is very distracting

[@quranjackson8047]

Lose the background music..it is distracting.

[@thesmithsmaf]

ARGHHH! Stop the music - ruins the great content