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TediousTaskHelpFilter: For a project I'm working on, I manually went through 4000+ article abstracts from a literature database and classified articles as either target articles or irrelevant articles (with broad classification for why the article was irrelevant). My advisor has indicated that it's standard practice for me to do this same search on a database that will, overwhelmingly, give me many repeats from my last search. As this is nowhere near the only thing on my plate, I'd like to optimize this task. Is there any computer-based solution to eliminating the repeats in hits between these two databases? [more inside]
posted by Keter on Nov 10, 2011 - 5 answers

How do you take a big, long term project and break it into reasonable chunks? What's your process? [more inside]
posted by SNWidget on Oct 11, 2011 - 11 answers

After being out of school for a few years I'm now back for my graduate degree. It's taking some getting used to, and one of my final projects is a group literature review where we each take one aspect of our larger topic (universal accessibility of information resources) and look at a smaller facet of it. I'm struggling a little to wrap my head around the format of a literature review, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice / or links to guides for writing one effectively. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Nov 28, 2010 - 4 answers

How do you organize research so that you can synthesize it later while writing your literature review? [more inside]
posted by SNWidget on Jul 21, 2010 - 16 answers

How do I figure out who the primary sources are for specific areas of research in a cross-disciplinary field? [more inside]
posted by canine epigram on Oct 15, 2009 - 6 answers